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Clean-Tech Investor Summit

by Darren

The Clean-Tech Investor Summit is a meeting for technology companies that have a responsibility for being “green”. Green is becoming more that just the latest buzz-phrase for many in the corporate communities and this year’s summit shows a roster of tech heavyweights taking part.

The Summit is recognized as the premier event for networking with the
clean-tech industry’s earliest movers and foremost visionaries. This year’s
agenda includes entrepreneurs, policy leaders, and corporate officers whose
companies are increasingly looking to play crucial roles in developing
technologies, enabling markets, and bringing new opportunities to scale.
BP, Cisco Systems, and Wal-Mart will be among the corporations represented.

Agenda highlights also include:

— Elon Musk, Chairman of Tesla Motors and SolarCity and founder of PayPal
and SpaceX, who will engage in a fireside chat with Technology
Partners’ Ira Ehrenpreis, the Clean-Tech Investor Summit Chairman.

— John Podesta, Chief Executive Officer, Center for American Progress and
former Chief of Staff to President Clinton, who will give an insider’s
view of federal energy policy.

— Dan Reicher, Director of Climate and Energy Initiatives at Google.org
and former U.S. Assistant Energy Secretary, who will discuss
breakthrough opportunities in clean energy and the role of Google in
advancing clean-tech development.

— Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy and Jeff Sterba, CEO of PNM Resources
are expected to have a candid conversation about renewable energy and
smart grid technologies.

— Dan Kammen, professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley and
Christine Ervin, former president and chief executive officer of the
U.S. Green Building Council, will give insider views, along with other
panelists, on the carbon trading and green building markets.

The Clean-Tech Investor Summit takes place on February 6th and 7th., 2008.

For more information: Clean-Tech Summit