The 5th Annual Clean Energy Venture Summit
A Backwards Glance at 2010
Source: blog.teamearth.com
Last year we publicised the 4th annual Clean Energy Venture Summit (CEVS), which hosts a competition for start-up companies specialising in clean-energy technologies. The companies were given seven minutes each to audition their technologies in front of a panel of judges made up of cleantech experts and top tier venture capitalists and angel investors. The goal was to have their technologies included in Austin’s $29M smart-grid/smart-home Pecan Street demonstration project, backed by the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the City of Austin.
The five winners were aided with series A through series B financing stages and the winner, Ener-G-Rotors, has since been named one of the top 10 US companies, making new energy technologies ideal for military customers. The honour was announced by the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization, a Texas nonprofit organisation.
Urban Times and Apple Energy Group co-produced this 7-minute insight into the CEVS 2010:
As the keynote speaker John Hofmeister, the ex-CEO of Shell Oil gave his valuable insights into the future of clean energy. He emphasised the problems to overcome and conditions necessary to replace the 20th century energy infrastructure with that of a post-carbon 21st century infrastructure. Here it is:
A Forwards Leap into 2011
The Austin Clean Energy Incubator and Austin Energy (two of the CEVS’s primary sponsors) recently announced the 5th Annual CEVS and the Cleantech Open Regional Judging & Awards, scheduled for September 28-29, 2011 at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center in Austin, Texas. The Clean Energy Venture Summit has now become the premier cleantech business plan competition and educational conference in the Southern United States.
This year, the CEVS is also partnering with the Cleantech Open, a nationwide seed-stage business plan competition, to showcase new technologies developed by South Central US companies in the areas of Air, Water, and Waste; Energy Efficiency; Green Building; Renewables; and Smart Power. Eleven companies have been selected and will be mentored by local industry experts until the Summit, where judges will select 2-3 regional finalists to compete in the Cleantech Open Finals in November. The Cleantech Open regional finalists will each receive prize package worth at least $20,000. Excitingly, this year there will be two keynote speakers; Kevin Skillern, Managing Director of Venture Capital GE Energy and Bob Metcalfe, Founder of 3Com, Partner at Polaris Ventures.
Registration
Register for the CEVS, 2011 and take part in carving out a better future!
| When | September 28-29, 2011
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| Where | AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center 1900 University Avenue Austin, Texas 78705 |
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