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The Cleantech Symposium


The Ernst & Young Cleantech Symposium addresses the opportunities and challenges in building a market-leading company.

The Cleantech Symposium is an exclusive networking event to address the needs of company executives evaluating Cleantech opportunities, both on the supply side (energy producers & distribution) and the demand side (energy efficiency, energy management). View the agenda for the 2007 Cleantech Symposium, which was held Nov. 14-15. (pdf, 361K).

The Symposium is focused on building value and understanding market dynamics: partnering, financing, and public policy developments.

Participation is targeted at Cleantech stakeholders (by invitation only) to facilitate peer-to-peer dialog and networking. Participants in the 2007 Symposium included:

  • Ron Miller, CEO, Aventine Renewable Energy
  • Jim Lyons, Chief Energy Engineer, General Electric
  • Peter Corsell, CEO, GridPoint
  • Martin Tobias, CEO, Imperium Renewables
  • Pramod Reddy, Proctor & Gamble
  • Rick Vaccari, VP Mergers & Acquisitions, Sempra Energy
  • Brian Robertson, President, SunEdison
  • Michael Goguen, Partner, Sequoia Capital
  • Anup Jacob, Partner, Virgin Green Fund


Clean technology companies face unique, industry specific challenges in their partnering, financing and growth activities. The Cleantech Symposium provides a content-rich forum to address these issues.

The Symposium offers the opportunity to meet with prospective corporate partners, including representatives from the following industries:

  • Utilities
  • Oil & Gas
  • Automotive
  • Consumer Products
  • Technology
  • Biotechnology


Agenda topics for the 2007 Symposium included:

  • Cleantech financing strategies, including incentives
  • Expectations of the green corporate customer
  • Building the “win-win” corporate partnership
  • Important Cleantech policy developments
  • Cleantech sub-sector specific issues


The Cleantech Symposium provides an intimate, invitation-only program for leaders of clean technology companies to learn, network and exchange ideas.

Who should participate

  • Incumbents: Corporate development, strategy and other executives of large corporations interested in Cleantech developments
  • Innovators: Cleantech CEOs and executives
  • Investors: VC, private equity and board members
  • Policy makers / influencers: Governmental officials, government relations managers and NGO representatives
  • Academics: Representatives of research institutions, university labs and technology transfer officials


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Partnering — through one-on-one sessions with industry leaders

Financing — project finance, private equity and capital markets

Public policy — government incentives and regulatory developments


How will public policy impact Cleantech?

Public policy challenges to the development of clean technologies are the focus of the latest in our series of Cleantech Matters (pdf, 2,525K) reports. Keep current with biographies of key players, interviews, and the perspective of venture capitalists. Also find out what you need to know about the US national laboratory system, how to partner with them, and what investors and companies should expect, as well as a summary of our recent cleantech round table.
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