SVASE & Environmnetal Business Cluster Present: What is the Future of CleanTech?

Agenda
6:00-7:00pm: Networking and hors d'oeuvres
7:00-8:15pm: Panel Discussion and Q&A
8:15-8:30pm: Additional Networking

The climate change and energy policy bill winding its way through the U.S. Congress shows a new federal eagerness to build a renewable energy future, but what specifically to build where is still up for debate. Massive arrays of photovoltaic panels harnessing desert sun & wind turbines on otherwise seemingly worthless land are the clichés of clean energy. Having reportedly spent nearly $60 million last fall just advertising how awesome his plan was, in July T. Boone Pickens huge wind farm was scrapped!

Like solar panel farms, wind farms tend to be out in the middle of nowhere. To get the electricity from the middle of nowhere to the middle of somewhere, transmission lines have to be strung. As far as Pickens' Mesa project was concerned, the Public Utility Commission in Texas had a plan to invest $5 billion in transmission lines, but the lines wouldn't have gone all the way out to the Mesa project. Whoops! And this seems to be the trend throughout the continental USA.......
So, between the credit crisis, falling oil and natural gas prices, and a general decrease in energy demand due to the state of the economy, what is the future for Clean Technologies once touted as the savior of the world?
Join our panel of experts for a lively and opinionated debate on this timely topic!

• Is this just a temporary blip on the radar?
• Will world economics relegate CleanTech to the sidelines for the foreseeable future?
• How can the CleanTech sector interface with the U.S. government to access DOE stimulus funding?

Speakers
Dan Rubin, General Partner, Alloy Ventures
Alex Kinnier, Partner, Khosla Ventures
Dylan Steeg, Director, Intel Capital
Gordon K. Ho, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
Wayne Hedden, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Moderator: Christopher Moran, Vice President, General Manager, Applied Ventures

Speaker bios

Dan Rubin, General Partner, Alloy Ventures
Daniel I. Rubin joined Alloy Ventures in 1999 after a 15-year career in business development, marketing and sales at leading technology companies. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in semiconductors, cleantech, and software-as-a-service. Operating experience: Before becoming a venture capitalist in 1999, Dan was a successful technology entrepreneur and also held a variety of executive-level sales, marketing and business development jobs in the IT industry. In 1991, he was a co-founder of Artisan Components and served as the initial VP of sales and marketing. He was the VP of business development through the company's initial public offering in 1998. The company was later acquired by ARM Ltd. for $1 billion. Prior to Artisan Components, Dan worked at semiconductor capital equipment company Ultratech Stepper in many roles, including director of product marketing and managing director of Asian operations. He received a BA in Physics from Pomona College (1982). Current board seats: Dan serves on the board of directors of CiraNova, Ensenda, Molecular Imprints, Gradient Design Automation, Integrated Materials, Teradici, IPExtreme, and Integrated PhotoVoltaics. He is a board observer at Ellie Mae.

Alex Kinnier, Partner, Khosla Ventures
Alex is working to speed up the next industrial revolution, focusing on solar energy utilization, thermal efficiency, energy conversion devices, energy storage, and biofuels. Over the past 10 years, Alex has successfully created, launched, and grown a variety of technology and household products. As a Group Product Manager at Google, Alex built the Agency display advertising team and created Google's next generation third party serving and targeting system. As part of this effort Alex was a leader of the $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick. On the consumer side of Google's business, Alex earned an Executive Management Group award for leading the product response to Microsoft's IE7 browser launch that significantly increased Google's search share. In Brand Management at Procter & Gamble, Alex leveraged a forgotten technology and led two award winning marketing campaigns to build his brand to $80 million in sales. And, in Product Development at Procter & Gamble, Alex led the development and launch of three new-to-the-world Febreze products that helped the brand achieve sales of over $400 million in 50 countries in 24 months. Alex also knows the joy and pain associated with starting a venture from scratch. In 2002, Alex began in Cleantech, founding Ocular Technologies to commercialize enhanced efficiency evaporators utilizing a proprietary monolayer coating that improved air conditioning performance. The challenges of commercializing components of a larger system controlled by an entrenched industry provided Alex with a learning experience that informs his investing. Growing up outside of Philadelphia, PA, Alex earned a BS in Chemical Engineering with honors from Lehigh University and later an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School. He lives with his wife and daughter in the San Francisco Bay area and can be reached at ak@khoslaventures.com.

Dylan Steeg, Director, Intel Capital
Dylan joined Intel Capital in 2000. Prior to Intel Capital, Dylan was an engineer within Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group and led teams which developed equipment, processes and metrology systems that were proliferated throughout Intel's network of microprocessor fabrication facilities to enable Intel's C4 Flip Chip manufacturing capability. Dylan is board observer for SpectraWatt, BlueShift Technologies and an undisclosed portfolio company in the lithography sector. As part of Intel Capital's Portfolio Management team, Dylan managed numerous exits. Dylan is a Kauffman Fellow, holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University and a MBA from the Columbia Business School.

Gordon K. Ho, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
Gordon K. Ho is a partner in the Cooley Godward Kronish Business department and head of the Firm's Clean Technologies practice. He joined Cooley Godward Kronish in 1997, and is resident in the Palo Alto office. Mr. Ho practices corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on the formation, financing and general representation of emerging growth companies, and the representation of investors involved with such companies. He counsels public and private company clients in the full range of corporate and securities matters, including public and private financing transactions, employee incentive programs, mergers and acquisitions, strategic corporate relationships, executive hiring, SEC reporting and compliance, and corporate governance. Mr. Ho counsels companies in a wide range of industries, including clean technologies, life sciences, semiconductor, software, and telecommunication. Mr. Ho received his J. D. in 1997 from the University of San Francisco, where he served as Business Editor of the U.S.F. Maritime Law Journal. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis in 1993 and received a B.S. in Managerial Economics. Mr. Ho is a member of the State Bar of California and the American Bar Association. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Environmental Business Cluster, a non-profit clean energy and environmental technology commercialization center located in San Jose, and C4CUBE, a non-profit, privately funded business incubator located in Reno, NV, that assists in the development of early stage businesses. Mr. Ho is also an advisor to the TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Cleantech Special Interest Group (SIG). He also serves on the executive team of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA), a leading Silicon Valley technology business network focused on promoting the success of U.S. and Asian technology enterprises.

Wayne Hedden, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Moderator: Christopher Moran, Vice President, General Manager, Applied Ventures
October 2005, responsible for the development and management of Applied Ventures' investments in early stage, privately held companies. Most recently, Mr. Moran served as vice president and division general manager of the Applied Materials Mask Products Division. Prior to that, Mr. Moran was vice president of Corporate Marketing from 1999-2005. Since joining Applied Materials in 1984, Mr. Moran has held a number of positions in division management, product management and marketing. He also served as general manager of the Metal Etch Division, Etch Product Business Group, and held a variety of engineering and product management positions. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Moran served as a member of the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft Co., and Atari Computer Corporation. Mr. Moran received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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