We have been attending cleantech events for over a decade, and it pays to know which ones are valuable and which ones, well, are not. Here are 2010's top events. If you're in cleantech, you shouldn't miss these.
Friday, September 17, 2010 to Friday, September 17, 2010
This conference provides case studies and advice to help drive competitive differentiation with individual products and supply chain capability, with particular focus on consumer products and high-tech products. Questions addressed include:
This event gathers speakers from leading companies and experts to share their experiences and insights.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/events/live/greening-the-supply-chain/
Thursday, April 29, 2010 to Thursday, April 29, 2010
Information and communications technologies could enable emissions reductions 15 percent below current amounts by 2020, the Climate Group has predicted. Whether you?re in a corporation wanting to learn about best green IT practices or an entrepreneur looking for your next venture, GreenNet in San Francisco is a must-attend event that will allow you to take away the best ideas and meet contacts and thinkers in this space. After a sold-out successful first event in 2009, GreenNet is back in April 2010. Get your ticket now!
Monday, April 12, 2010 to Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Sweeping climate-change legislation awaits action in Washington as growing numbers of customers want to know what companies are doing to protect the planet. Clean technologies are reaching scale, and new environmental issues?water, carbon finance, and geo-engineering?arise all the time. Every business leader now needs to understand how corporate America can become more sustainable. Join us to explore our theme: How can business profitably help solve the world?s big environmental problems? Brainstorm: GREEN offers an unparalleled, high-level networking opportunity. The participants are diverse?CEOs and senior executives of Fortune 500 companies, government policymakers, leading thinkers, investors, and environmental activists. The program will include one-on-one interviews, debates, informal breakout sessions, and ample time for mingling.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 to Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Wall Street Green Trading Summit is the longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. Launched in 2002 by Peter Fusaro, The Wall Street Green Trading Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the practitioners and the leaders of tomorrow. Hear it here first! The Wall Street Green Trading Summit VIII is the ?one-stop shop? to come up to speed on the latest developments in Green Trading and Finance.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 to Thursday, March 4, 2010
This is an extraordinary time for the emissions markets. The long term future of the markets is at a critical juncture, with the Copenhagen summit yielding an Accord but revealing long-term rifts, and the US Congress still haggling over a possible emissions trading scheme. There is a compliance need to 2020 in the EU. The CDM is undergoing its own upheaval, and national or regional targets to limit CO2 could still be upgraded if international negotiations are finally successful this year, or downgraded if not. Intergovernmental trading has grown, but at the same time attracted controversy.
Are these emissions trading mechanisms the right ones? How can they be scaled up? Where is the clever money headed?
The timing of our conference is perfect. By March 2010, the dust will have settled after Copenhagen, the Accord will be fleshed out with targets and the road to Mexico mapped out. There could be progress in the US and reforms to the CDM. Whatever happens next, we need to start posing the questions on a new era for emissions markets.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 to Friday, February 26, 2010
Now in its 8th year, the annual Cleantech Forum series returns to San Francisco over February 24-26th, 2010 at The Palace Hotel and will bring together 1,000 industry leaders ushering in new forms of financing for scale and innovation, for a broader set of global demands and new business models. Attend Cleantech Forum XXVI themed "Taking Cleantech to Scale", and gain a competitive advantage as large corporate incumbents and governments worldwide play an increasing role in financing and scaling cleantech. Learn about the new business models and markets that a maturing cleantech sector is creating.
Attendees have access to first-hand accounts from the new companies appearing, the new funds investing and corporations looking for partners.
http://cleantech.com/cleantechforum/sanfrancisco10/index.cfm
