Agenda

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The Dutch division of the World Wildlife Fund, WNF, will present the 2011 Cleantech Star award and we will get to hear the awardee company present.

Throughout the day, engage with emerging and market leading companies holding significant promise in the clean technology space. Innovations across the full spectrum of clean technologies will be represented.

Cleantech Goes Corporate: Opening Thoughts From the Conference Chair

Speaker: Richard Youngman, Managing Director, Europe & Asia, Cleantech Group

Diary of a Cleantech Traveller: Food for Thought for the 2010's

Speaker: Nicholas Parker, Chairman, Cleantech Group

Into a Third Decade of Cleantech Investment: Experiences and Perspectives on Corporations in Cleantech

Speaker: Nancy Floyd, Founder and Managing Director, Nth Power

The Energy Opportunity in India De-mystified: What Western Companies Could Do to Take Advantage

Speaker: Mr.  R. Chandrasekar, Group CEO, IT Power

Connect with leading companies and investors in the cleantech space.

Corporations have been picking off the low-hanging fruit to reduce their carbon and environmental footprint. Things get harder from here. To make the material differences we are all after, innovations are in big demand. In this session we have gathered together companies united by their interest in new, recyclable, and sustainable materials - albeit from different perspectives. What have they done, are doing, would like to be doing? What external innovations are they scouting for to make a difference?

Moderator: Sheeraz Haji, CEO, Cleantech Group

Airlines are increasingly attracted to the use of biofuels as a drop-in substitute for traditional aircraft fuel as they come under increasing pressure to curb consumption from rising oil prices and government regulation. Innovative biofuel companies have also been taking a more considered look at the steadily-growing $150 billion global jet fuel market. Meet various aviation biofuel stakeholders as they discuss the innovation, opportunities, and challenges to the jet biofuel market.

Moderator:  Stephen Marcus, Analyst, Cleantech Group

Hosted By: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

CEOs from 6 cleantech companies present and pitch their proposition, in search of future capital and/or strategic partners.   In the last decade, companies chosen by the Cleantech Group to present at Cleantech Forums have gone on to secure over $2 billion in financing.  The companies in this session are actively engaged with corporations, and most are seeking a Series B venture round.  See the full list of Entrepreneur Showcase companies.

Moderator: Erwin Burth, Head of CleanTech Partner Program Europe, Autodesk

Hosted By: Autodesk

Interact and engage with leading innovators, investors and corporate leaders in the cleantech space.

It is all too easy to lose perspective in today's information-overloaded, media-hyped and twitter-enabled world. It's too easy to think it's all a mess and in cleantech specifically, that no one is 'winning'. We disagree. There are companies making remarkable progress, solving big problems in an economically successful way, even some creating exits for investors. We wished to showcase some of these stories as a prelude to our Cleantech Awards, and to set an optimistic tone for the evening.

Moderator: Richard Youngman, Managing Director, Europe & Asia, Cleantech Group

Forum attendees are invited to relax and enjoy themselves at a combination networking reception and strolling dinner following the day's activities. Guests will be taken on canal boats from the hotel to a memorable reception in an old church. Be prompt the boats won't wait!

Throughout the day, engage with emerging and market leading companies holding significant promise in the clean technology space. Innovations across the full spectrum of clean technologies will be represented.

The lighting solutions of tomorrow are about more than efficient bulbs. Advanced IT and networking technology is integrating every aspect of a building’s electricity use, including lighting, which accounts for 30 percent of energy use in commercial buildings. Opportunity abounds for incumbents and newcomers alike.

Moderator: Dr Jos Peeters, Managing Partner, Capricorn Venture Partners

Hosted By: Capricorn Venture Partners and GDF-Suez

Connect with leading companies and investors in the cleantech space.

All corporations are looking for new markets and new growth areas. Many are aiming to be a winner in the provision of energy efficiency services in the residential sector. This session explores what different corporations from different backgrounds are doing in Europe, with some insight from further afield too, around home energy management.

Moderator: Alex Betts, Managing Partner, Climate Change Capital Private Equity

Hosted by:  Climate Change Capital

The Carbon Trust has many years of experience in bringing fast-moving, low carbon innovation (fleas) and large corporates (elephants) together to bring clean technologies to market sooner, at lower cost and greater scale. The objective of this workshop is to share those experiences through case studies, to provide insights on different approaches that have been used, and hear what has worked and what has not. Case studies will cover a number of different approaches, technologies, start-ups and corporates including ABB, DONG Energy and Rhodia. All delegates are welcome.

Hosted by: The Carbon Trust

"Exits, exits, exits: 2011 is all about exits" - We have heard from GPs loud and often! Exits are the critical roadblock in realising returns and giving investors' confidence and greater proof of the solidity and sustainability of the cleantech investment theme. What better way to bring this Forum to a climax, in the city whose trading heritage brought about the world's first stock exchange, than with an insightful look at the state of the M&A and IPO markets today, and speculation as to where they are going.

Moderator: Dr. Christoph Spiering, Partner, Noerr LLP

Hosted By: Noerr LLP