Leverage new government funding

Cleantech Forum® XXIII in Boston, September 8-10 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, will have a strong focus on governmental programs given that worldwide governments have pledged billions of investment capital to clean technologies.

Themed The Second Cleantech Investment Boom: Aligning Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Government Stimulus, this year’s East Coast Cleantech Forum in Boston will assemble CEOs, investors, scientists, policy-makers and other industry pioneers to drive demand and open cleantech markets.

• Explore latest developments in climate change and resource scarcity driving markets for clean technologies
• Measure the current global economic climate and its relationship to cleantech
• Gain access to capital and industry pioneers
• Network and learn from cleantech pioneering innovators, corporates and investors
• Connect with industry insiders

Keynote speaker: Matt C. Rogers, Senior Advisor for Recovery Act Implementation, U.S. Department of Energy Rogers oversees the U.S. DOE’s disbursement of energy-related stimulus funding. He reports to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and will offer insights at the Cleantech Forum into how the cleantech sector can best interface with the U.S. government to access billions in DOE funding. Rogers was formerly leader of McKinsey’s North American Petroleum Practice and was an advisor to the Obama presidential transition team. Previously, Rogers was Senior Partner in McKinsey & Company’s San Francisco office where he helped establish their clean technology practice.

Other speakers include:
	Matt C. Rogers Senior Advisor for Recovery Act Implementation U.S. Dept. of Energy		Joseph Stanislaw Senior Advisor, Energy & Resources Deloitte		Tom Cain Managing Partner SAIL Venture Partners
	Neal Dikeman Partner Jane Capital		Dennis Costello Managing Partner Braemer Energy Ventures		Chuck McDermott General Partner RockPort Capital
	Hull McKinnon Principal Altira Group		Leonard Schlesinger President Babson College		Jonathan Rhone CEO Nexterra Systems
	Stanley Kowalski III Chairman FloDesign		Kelly Warner CEO Deerpath Energy		R.J. Lyman Partner Goodwin Procter Investor
	Jim Paull Founder Stellaris		Mark Donohue Clean TechnologyEntrepreneur-In-Residence Babson College		Scott Smith U.S. Clean Tech practice leader Deloitte
	Dan Goldman Executive Vice President GreatPoint Energy		Tom Carbone CEO Nordic Windpower		Mitch Tyson CEO Advances Electron Beams
	Tom Mennino Mayor City of Boston		Terry Yosie President and CEO World Environment Center		Pat Cloney Head of Bus. Dev. Mass. Gov.’s office
	Marianne Wu CEO Mohr Davidow Ventures		Michael Meehan CEO Carbonetworks		Jamie Kiggen Senior Managing Director Blackstone
	David Marcus CEO General Compression		Vicky Sharpe, Ph. D. President and CEO Sustainable Development Technology Canada		Scott Voss Principal HarbourVest Partners, LLC
	Andy Hirsch Partner Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati		Jim Gordon President Energy Management Inc		John Danner CEO Northern Power
	Christina Lampe-Onnerud CEO Boston Power		John Mizroch Counsel Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati		Jonathan Guerster CEO Groom Energy

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The three day Cleantech Forum XXIII Boston features:

• Discussions on the challenges cleantech entrepreneurs and innovators face navigating government loan guarantee programs
• Stimulus and Policy Workshop
• Developments in the emerging markets of India and China
• Opportunities to interact with CEOs of professional investor-selected cleantech growth companies looking for advice, capital, partners, customers and talent – a hallmark of Cleantech Forums
• An Entrepreneurial MasterClass clinic
• Presentation of a new Cleantech Product Innovation award, and
• Multiple tracks, with sessions exploring latest developments in carbon, industrial energy efficiency, biomass, CPV, infrastructure opportunities and challenges, next generation wind, waste to energy, energy storage and more

Who should attend Cleantech Forum XXIII?

Investors:

• Limited partners & investment banks
• Venture capitalists, angels, corporate and institutional investors
• Hedge fund and private equity managers
• Project financiers and asset managers

Industry leaders and influencers:

• Corporate energy and sustainability executives
• Cleantech entrepreneurs
• Utility and industry executives
• Professional service providers such as lawyers, accountants and consultants
• Governments, economic development councils, policy makers, scientists and researchers

Seven years of global market leadership

Cleantech Forum XXIII Boston is one of the Cleantech Group’s five premier events each year across North America, Europe, China and India. The Forums provide insight, investment opportunities and unparalleled networking for the world’s leading investors, growth companies and global corporations.

Join us in Boston, site of the American revolutionary tea party, as the industry forges the next clean technology revolution.