Invite to CEN webinar on "How to Benefit from Working with NREL"

[Alison]

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From: Clean Economy Network <Clean_Econ...@mail.vresp.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:56 AM
Subject: Invitation to 11-10 CEN Executive Briefing
To: wis...@gmail.com



Due to the tremendous number of positive responses we have received
from our members about the Executive Briefing program, we are
delighted to extend this benefit to the entire membership through the
end of 2010. We encourage you all join us as Executive Members in 2011
in order to take advantage of future opportunities to interact with
business and policy leaders in the clean economy.

COMMERCIALIZATION AND DEPLOYMENT OF CLEANTECH:

HOW TO BENEFIT FROM WORKING WITH NRELWednesday, November 10, 2010 at
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT / 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Register here to receive instructions to join the briefing

Clean Economy Network welcomes its members to a virtual roundtable of
expert panelists who will help elucidate the many ways cleantech
companies can engage with and benefit from working with the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Speakers include:
Bill Farris, VP of Technology Transfer and Commercialization, NREL
Martha Symko-Davies, Manager, DOE Solar Incubator Program at NREL
Steve Hane, Founder and CEO, Ampulse (NREL industrial partner)
Rick LeBlanc, CEO, Skyfuel (NREL industrial partner)
Joel Serface (moderator), CEN Board Member and former NREL
Entrepreneur in Residence with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Summary:

For more than 30 years, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL) has been the key US center for research, development, and
deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
Its innovations have fueled the global solar and wind markets with
innovations that have transformed and scaled the industry and created
leading companies such as First Solar.

But NREL is more than just about technologies — it helps companies
integrate, test, and deploy; it leads the nation in analysis of
geographies and policies to help scale these technologies; and it
advises utilities, cities, and states on how to rapidly and
intelligently deploy these solutions. With more than 350 active
industrial partnerships (40% of these with start-ups), management of
EERE’s Energy Innovation Portal, and the only Department of Energy
laboratory that has a substantial contractual mission to support
commercialization, NREL is in a prime position to help move the
cleantech industry move forward.

Unfortunately, working with national laboratories can be an
intimidating endeavor. CEN will examine how companies can work with
NREL and benefit from partnering with them. This call will include
case studies and program discussion from leaders within NREL and
companies who have benefitted from their relationships with the
laboratory.

Register here to receive instructions to join the briefing

Questions? Send an email to Chris Dally

If you are interested in finding out more about CEN’s Executive
Membership program and receiving invitations to briefings in the
future, please visit http://cleaneconomynetwork.org/join-network.






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