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Save the Date! GoingGreen will take place September 15-17, 2008 at Cavallo Point in San Francisco, CA.
GoingGreen is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth. Green technology innovators are transforming the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, and resource recovery establishments. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities. At GoingGreen our editors will also honor the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the GoingGreen 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our “CEO Showcase.”
Who Attends
Seven hundred greentech CEOs, business development officers, eminent researchers, venture capital and private-equity investors, and leading members of the press and blogging community will attend GoingGreen Thousands of webcast viewers from over 100 countries will also tune in and interact with the program. Executives attend GoingGreen to identify and debate emerging trends, build high-level relationships and create new business opportunities.
Click here to buy your ticket to GoingGreen at the lowest possible rate.
If you have feedback on our program or would like to suggest speakers or panel topics, contact:
Ed Ring
ed@ecoworld.com
GoingGreen 2008 Program & Invited Speakers:
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Registration hours 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
6:00 pm Welcoming Remarks from Hosts:
Nicole Biggart, Dean, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
John Rennie, Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American
Ed Ring, Editor, EcoWorld
Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn
6:30 pm GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies
Co-Moderator: Packy Kelly, Partner, Silicon Valley VC Practice, KPMG
Co-Moderator: Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn
Co-Moderator: Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn
7:00 pm Opening Night Keynote:
Introduction: TBD
TBD
7:45 pm AlwaysOn Reception
Callippe Terrace
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Registration hours: 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
8:00 am Solar Energy Breakthroughs
The most abundant and renewable resource of all, solar energy, stands poised to move from potential to reality - making energy scarcity a thing of the past. Photovoltaic power, solar thermal power, and solar architecture - both at the utility scale and in distributed applications - are all on the cusp of being commercially competitive. Which solar companies and technologies are closest to rapid expansion, and how quickly can solar energy grow to produce a significant share of global power?
Moderator: David Edwards, Analyst, Morgan Stanley
John Woolard, CEO, Bright Source Energy
Participants: TBD
8:45 am CEO Showcase:
Participants: TBD
Following this showcase the CEOs will be in the Surfbird Room for 30-minute
demos and Q&A
.
9:00 am Abundant Clean Green Water
Every year, technologies to totally recycle water at a building and municipal scale are getting better and more affordable. Drip irrigation and other water-efficiency innovations promise to greatly reduce the quantity of water necessary for commercial agriculture. And desalination capacity, using dramatically improved technologies, is growing faster than ever. What technologies and companies are going to guarantee the world enters an era of water abundance?
Moderator: John Rennie, Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American
Participants: TBD
9:45 am CEO Showcase:
Participants: TBD
Following this showcase the CEOs will be in the Surfbird Room for 30-minute
demos and Q&A
10:00 am The Agricultural Revolution
From high-rise agriculture to genetic engineering to enlightened, knowledge intensive advances in agronomy, food production is on the brink of being cleaner and more productive than ever. Who are designing organic pesticides, livestock that require fewer inputs of hormones & antibiotics, hydroponic farms that use waste water and solar energy to grow food in warehouses, high-technology to expand locally grown food production? What companies and technologies are at the forefront of delivering this new and greener green revolution in agriculture?
Moderator: TBD
Participants: TBD
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Next Generation Biofuel
Will new plants and growing techniques combined with cost-effective cellulosic extraction methods increase biofuel yields per square mile per year from 5,000 to 50,000 barrels? Will biofuel be produced in a tank, using growth cultures of genetically modified algae? Will biofuel come from factories with minimal footprints, or from extremely high yields on cropland? What is the future of biofuel, who is driving that future, and when is it going to get here?
Moderator: TBD
If you are an executive, entrepreneurial CEO, business development officer in greentech, or an investor or I-Banker playing in the venture-backed company space, this is an event you can't afford to miss.
Click here to buy your ticket to GoingGreen now and take advantage of the "AO Insider" 10%-off ticket rate before it expires. If you do not want to pay online or want to inquire about group rates, please call Kathy Osweiler at 415.751.0170 to order by phone or email her at kathy@alwayson-network.com.
We look forward to any input you have as we put together our program and hope to see you at GoingGreen in September at UC Davis!
Northern California/ Pacific Northwest
Grant Gunderson
grant@alwayson-network.com
916.217.0427
Ryan Brenner
ryan@alwayson-network.com
650.346.4726
Southern California
Marc Sternberg
marc@alwayson-network.com
Dan Grindlinger
dan@alwayson-network.com
917.428.1773
Eastern USA
Noah Gellman
noah@alwayson-network.com
mobile 310.351.5671
Jennifer Slatkin
jennifer@alwayson-network.com
Erin Elton
erin@alwayson-network.com
714-474-4761
Participants: TBD
11:30 - 1:00 pm Buffet Lunch - in the Surfbird Room
11:45 am CEO Showcase:
Participants: TBD
Noon Keynote
Following this showcase the CEOs will be in the Surfbird Room for 30-minute
demos and Q&A
Noon Keynote
TBD
12:45 pm CEO Showcase:
Participants: TBD
Following this showcase the CEOs will be in the Surfbird Room for 30-minute
demos and Q&A
1:00 pm The Carbon Offset Windfall
Whether we have carbon taxes, carbon trading, or both, the magnitude of the potential transfer of wealth will be unprecedented in the history of civilization. Where are these funds going and where should they go? Should the emphasis be on averting climate change or adapting to climate change? Should the funds be used to fund infrastructure for megacities, to reforest the tropics, or for an assortment of worthy projects across the board?
Moderator: Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co.
Participants: TBD
1:45 pm CEO Showcase:
Participants: TBD
Following this showcase the CEOs will be in the Surfbird Room for 30-minute
demos and Q&A
2:00 pm Next Generation Fossil Fuel
Coal, petroleum and natural gas currently provide 80% of the world's energy. Reserves of heavy oil could easily triple the quantity of recoverable petroleum - coal is abundant - natural gas reserves may be far greater than currently proven. Will fossil fuels be utilized in clean, green ways? Can CO2 be turned into an inert, non-toxic solid, usable for building materials or fertilizer? What affordable and feasible solutions are there, and what companies are driving this transition?
Moderator: TBD
Erik Straser, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Participants: TBD
2:45 pm CEO Showcase:
Participants: TBD
Following this showcase the CEOs will be in the Surfbird Room for 30-minute
demos and Q&A
3:00 pm The Smart, Green Megacity
Over half the world's population now lives in cities, and even as human population stablizes, migration to urban centers will cause cities everywhere to experience rapid growth. What technologies and practices inform the creation of cities with millions of inhabitants from scratch? How will they manage energy, water, food, shelter & transportation?
Moderator: TBD
Ray Rothrock, Managing General Partner, Venrock
Dickson Despommier, President, Vertical Farm Technologies, LLC
Participants: TBD
3:45 pm Break
4:00 pm The New Automotive DNA
Not just ultra-clean, ultra-efficient and cradle-to-cradle recyclable, but also smart and safe, the automobile is in the middle of its greatest transformation since the first Model T rolled off the assembly line in 1908. Series hybrids, all-electric commuter vehicles, cars that have collision avoidance and climate control systems, cars that have energy interties with smart homes - who are the innovators today, and what are they about to deliver?
Moderator: TBD
Howard Levine, CEO, Venture Vehicles
Ray Lane, Managing Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Henrik Fisker, CEO, Fisker Automotive, Inc.
Participants: TBD
5:00 pm Reception @ Mission Blue
Stroll through the "Auto Garden."
Auto Garden Participants: TBD
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Registration hours: 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
8:00 am The Integrated Building
Structures of tomorrow will harvest water and energy, using some, storing some, sending surplus into the grid, drawing from the grid to make up deficits. These structures will use recyclable, non-toxic materials, efficiently managing all energy with fully integrated electrical and thermal management systems. What innovations are here today; what companies are driving the prices down and the performance up?
Moderator: TBD
Moderator: TBD
Participants: TBD
8:45 am CEO Showcase:
Participants: TBD
Following this showcase the CEOs will be in the Surfbird Room for 30-minute
demos and Q&A
9:00 am Energy Storage Innovations
Forget about distributed power and intermittant sources of power such as solar and wind without energy management and energy storage. What stationary and mobile storage technologies are becoming commercially viable, and what companies are working on delivering these innovations?
Moderator: TBD
Moderator: TBD
Participants: TBD
9:45 am CEO Showcase:
Participants: TBD
Following this showcase the CEOs will be in the Surfbird Room for 30-minute
demos and Q&A
10:00 am Green Nanotech & Synthetic Genomics
A mutually reinforcing renaissance in nanotech, biotech, and information technology is creating new applications in energy, remediation, and industrial chemicals. Synthetic genomics is enabling an amazing new substrate, potentially creating genetically engineered hydrocarbons, radically more efficient more photovoltaic cells; this is another revolution. Who's leading the charge, and what's coming next?
Moderator: TBD
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Clean Energy Options
Along with solar energy and biofuel , there is wind energy, ocean energy, enhanced geothermal energy, thermal convection energy, and a host of variations on these themes. There is also the nuclear fission option, with nuclear technologies safer than ever. Eventually there may be nuclear fusion. And hydropower, from run-of-river green systems to deep water reservoirs, is still experiencing significant growth. How will these options develop, and which of them will step up alongside solar energy to replace fossil fuel?
Moderator: TBD
Steven Parry, Partner, NGEN Partners
Participants: TBD
11:30 - 1:00 pm Buffet Lunch - in the Surfbird Room
Noon Keynote:
TBD
1:00 pm Panel
description of panel
Moderator: TBD
Moderator: TBD
Participants: TBD
1:45 pm CEO Showcase: TBA
Participants: TBD
Following this showcase the CEOs will be in the Surfbird Room for 30-minute
demos and Q&A
If you are an executive, entrepreneurial CEO, business development officer in greentech, or an investor or I-Banker playing in the venture-backed company space, this is an event you can't afford to miss.
Click here to buy your ticket to GoingGreen now and take advantage of the "AO Insider" 10%-off ticket rate before it expires. If you do not want to pay online or want to inquire about group rates, please call Kathy Osweiler at 415.751.0170 to order by phone or email her at kathy@alwayson-network.com.
We look forward to any input you have as we put together our program and hope to see you at GoingGreen in September at UC Davis!
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Important GoingGreen Information:
GoingGreen Brand Sponsor Program
Sponsors gain brand exposure and communicate their leadership positions to GoingGreen's attendees through a powerful combination of video commercials, e-marketing campaigns, print advertising, on-site material distribution and signage, and program exposure. Brand sponsorship is open to technology, service and investment firms, and high-end consumer brands.
To find out how your company can join GoingGreen's distinguished group of sponsors, contact:
Northern California/ Pacific Northwest
Grant Gunderson
grant@alwayson-network.com
916.217.0427
Ryan Brenner
ryan@alwayson-network.com
650.346.4726
Southern California
Marc Sternberg
marc@alwayson-network.com
Dan Grindlinger
dan@alwayson-network.com
917.428.1773
Eastern USA
Noah Gellman
noah@alwayson-network.com
mobile 310.351.5671
Jennifer Slatkin
jennifer@alwayson-network.com
Erin Elton
erin@alwayson-network.com
714-474-4761
CEO Showcase Opportunity
Fifty top CEOs will have the opportunity to present their market strategies and business partnering objectives on the main stage at GoingGreen. Qualifying companies are either public or privately held and ideally come from one of the following industry sectors:
For detailed information on the CEO Showcase opportunity please contact:
Grant Gunderson
grant@alwayson-network.com
916.217.0427
Ryan Brenner
ryan@alwayson-network.com
650.346.4726
Noah Gellman
noah@alwayson-network.com
646.237.3881
Group Ticket Rates
If you want to order your ticket by phone or inquire about group rates, contact Michelle Hughes at 415.367.9538 ext 103 or michelle@alwayson-network.com.
GoingGreen Hotel Information
Cavallo Point
The Lodge at the Golden Gate
601 Murray Circle . Fort Baker
Sausalito, Ca 94965
www.cavallopoint.com
Please phone the hotel directly to secure your reservation and reference AlwaysOn GoingGreen for the reduced group rate of $329.00.
Call (415) 339-4700 by August 19, 2008 to reserve your room. Rooming block closes on August 19, 2008.
Solar Energy
Biofuel & Agriculture
Clean Energy (not solar or biofuel)
Energy Storage Systems
Energy Management, Smart Grid & Energy Efficiency
Water Technology & Water Management
Biofuel & Agriculture
Clean Energy (not solar or biofuel)
Energy Storage Systems
Energy Management, Smart Grid & Energy Efficiency
Water Technology & Water Management
Green Materials, Green Buildings, Green Nano/Micro-Tech
Green Automobiles & Transportation
Clean Manufacturing & Clean Products
Resource Recovery & Waste Management
Green Automobiles & Transportation
Clean Manufacturing & Clean Products
Resource Recovery & Waste Management
