Dear European Chamber Members,
As you may remember, last November the FACCSF and GABA organized a
joint event with the Cleantech Open Forum to introduce our local European members to the contingent of about 20 European cleantech start-ups who participated in the Global Cleantech Forum in San Jose. The event was a bit last minute so we did not get many of you to participate.Last year, the winner of the top prize ($200,000 plus a series of in-kind services) was a French-American company, based in the Bay Area:PowWow Energy:
https://www.powwowenergy.com/learnMore/
This year, we are starting early and have already met with the Cleantech Open Global Forum organizers in January. We plan a afternoon and evening get together for our interested local cleantech European members to meet and greet this year's European competitors. This event is targeted for November 12th, the eve of the Cleantech Global Forum event.
Please keep this date open on your calendars so we can have you all participate in this event.
The Cleantech Open starts in May not only in the US but also around the world as the companies prepare and compete in several US regions and other parts of the world and the semi finalists come from all over to participate in the finals in San Jose in November. In California, recruiting is going on now through the entry Deadline, May 1st. If you think that some of your members might be interested in participating in this great program.
http://www2.cleantechopen.org/
Below, you will find a series of events you can choose to share with your members who cannot only enter the competition or consider participating as mentors. The Cleantech Open would also like to get information about the European Chambers events that they can in turn share with their alumni, sponsors, supporters and current entrants so they can benefit from our events as well.
For example, we will invite Cleantech Open Alumni and other members to participate in the Business Booster series so they can learn and benefit from them.
This is an opportunity to promote European Chambers events to the greater Cleantech (or MainTech as it has been recently referred to) of the Bay Area.
I hope you will participate. Let me now if you have any questions. Best regards, Chloe
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Subject: New Events! Cleantech Open Speaker Series Updates
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Date: Thu, March 20, 2014 8:30 am
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| | | Join us for our speaker series! | | | Hear from cleantech industry thought leaders & learn about our program for early-stage cleantech entrepreneurs. | | Over the next several weeks, The Cleantech Open will hold a series of engaging events featuring thought leaders in a variety of fields related to cleantech entrepreneurship.
All are welcome to join us! Cleantech entrepreneurs will learn how to accelerate their cleantech startups with our 2014 Business Accelerator. If you don’t have your own cleantech company, you'll have the opportunity to network, learn from our speakers and learn more about becoming involved with The Cleantech Open. New events are added weekly, so stay tuned! | | | Preview of Upcoming Events | | | | | Event Summaries & Registration | | | Designing for Impact - Beyond the Tech of Cleantech March 25 | Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Palo Alto
Ted Howes will talk about how the design of business models, brand, strategy, and product can determine the ultimate success of your enterprise. Ted is the former Executive VP of Innovation at Cleantech Group, Director of Consumer Products at BSR, and Global Lead of Sustainability / Energy at IDEO. He has led work across the energy ecosystem from cleantech startups to utilities to the DOE.
| | | Clean Energy & Climate Change! April 2 | Impact Hub, San Francisco
Join us for networking and an engaging conversation of global climate change and the role clean energy will play in tackling the defining challenge of this generation. Network with a diverse group of energy professionals, entrepreneurs and others passionate about addressing climate change. We are working to secure notable speakers for this event which we will announce in the coming week.
| | | Entrepreneurship & Energy: Assorted Tales NEW! April 8 | CITRIS, Berkeley
You will gain insights from several of The Cleantech Open Class of 2013 in two discussion panels, including a set of women entrepreneurs. Hear the startup tales and lessons learned from entrepreneurs who have pivoted, launched crowd-funding campaigns and attempted to secure funding to save the world. The experiences are varied and enlightening - a must attend event for would-be energy entrepreneurs.
Speakers include:
- 3DFabTech, Bao Tran – A Portfolio Approach
- Akwamag, Tuyen Vo – Launching with a Crowd
- ICE911, Dr. Leslie Field – A Dot-org in a Dot-com World
- Emergin, Bril Wang – Nano Materials to Effect Change
- Empower Yu, Dr. Laura McIntosh – Pivoting from Greentech to Grandma
- EZ Green, Gayathri Raghavendra – Lessons Learned in Building Efficiency
- Graphene Technologies, Matt Bishop – The Challenge of Being Upstream
- New World Machines, Sasha Mazo – A Cooler Way to Cool Down; Cooling Powered by the Sun
| | | Building a Bio-Economy! April 15 | LBNL's Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville
In this event, co-hosted by the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit & Joint BioEnergy Institute, Blake Simmons, Vice-President, Deconstruction Division of LBNL's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), will speak about the research and scale-up of biorefinery. In addition, David Smernoff, CEO of Heliobiosys, will tell you about their innovation in reducing the cost of sugar feedstock. Heliobiosys was one of the 2013 Cleantech Open Accelerator companies. David will also speak about how the Cleantech Open mentors helped them along in their building their business.
| | | | | 2014: The Year of the Battery NEW!
April 23 | Workspace Fremont, Fremont
This talk is centered on taking battery storage from bottleneck to breakthrough. With lessons learned from the solar industry, competition from within the US as well as from Korea, Japan and China, and the emergence of the occasional gigafactory, battery innovators are looking for ways to differentiate and thrive. Rick Wilmer, CEO of Leyden Energy, will talk about the rapid innovation challenge in the battery industry. Based in Fremont, Leyden Energy is developing solutions for high energy density and high power density applications. Jeff Anderson, Executive Director of CalCharge and Managing Director of CalCEF will provide an overview and the latest updates on CalCharge programs to stimulate a California energy storage cluster, as well as an update on the anticipated Battery University.
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