Industry Events

Upcoming Industry Events

The EBC mission is to provide entrepreneurs with the resources, contacts and experience they need to commercialize their technology. Hence, the EBC has developed partnerships with organizations among the leading Clean Energy and Environmental Tech associations and academia, as well as events & news providers, all focused on delivering business opportunities, education, marketing services, and many other resources to the EBC clients.

EBC Members gain market visibility and/or event discounts to partner events. Please contact Erika Kula at erika@prescienceintl.com for further details on these events or to become a partner.

14th Annual Corporate Venturing & Innovation Partnering - February 6-8, 2012, Newport Beach, CA
This annual event provides corporate investors with strategies to gain a competitive advantage through corporate venturing and innovation initiatives. Capturing innovation is at the top of the corporate agenda for global growth and an important lever to increase profitability and market share. Corporate venturing is a vehicle used by corporations to capture innovation, provide a window for acquisitions and an opportunity for strategic partnerships.

2011: Year in Review - February 7, 2012, Palo Alto, CA
2011 was a confusing year, full of good and bad news. VCs invested roughly $26B, up from $23B in 2010, but VC fundraising was only roughly $14B, so the VCs invested $12B more than they raised in 2011 and $10B more than they raised in 2010, an unsustainable model. Three of the top 4 sectors in 2011 - cleantech, biotech, and medical devices - all face major obstacles and spark much skepticism from many investors. The VC market is in disequilibrium...it cannot stay like this. Will 2012 be better, worse, or the same as 2011?

What's Hot & What's Not for 2012 - February 8, 2012, Palo Alto, CA
Why are we in this hand basket, and where the heck are we going!? Yes, it's the season to take a look at trends in technology, startups and investing across the complete spectrum - Next Generation, Internet, Clean Tech, Life Sciences, Technology & Media- and peer as far as we can into the future to forecast what might be coming down the pike towards us.

2012 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards - February 14-16, 2012 - Long Beach, CA
Now in its 3rd year, the Excellence in Renewable Energy Award Program strives to recognize the significant developments, the cutting-edge advancements and the people who help move renewable energy into an ever-increasing role in the planet's energy future. All winners in all categories are announced at the Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo in Long Beach, CA.

2012 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit - February 27-29, 2012, Washington DC
This event is designed to bring together key players from across the energy ecosystem – researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives, and government officials – to share ideas for developing and deploying the next generation of clean energy technologies. The Summit's unique combination of leaders makes it the perfect forum for developing energy solutions that will enable America to out-innovate our global competitors.

2012 Solar Leadership Summit - March 7 - 8, 2012, San Jose, CA
Join SolarTech on March 7th and 8th at The Hayes Mansion in San Jose, CA for the Fourth Annual Solar Leadership Summit. This high-impact event brings together hundreds of experts in the solar industry to further develop market-directed solutions to accelerate solar's permanent place in the U.S. energy mix. To receive a $300 discount use the code "EBCS2012" at registration.

GLOBE 2012 - March 14-16, 2012 - Vancouver Canada
You are invited to GLOBE 2012, one of the most important industry events on energy & environment. Cleantech & urban sustainability will also be prominently featured in the conference and trade fair. Take advantage of the thousands of qualified visitors from Asia, Europe, North & South America, and Oceania. Special rate for Cluster members: free access to the trade fair & reduced access to the conference ($995). Contact carine@globe.ca for registration procedure.

Cleantech Forum San Francisco - March 26 - 28, 2012, San Francisco, CA
The theme of this event is "The Power of Global Partnerships." The Cleantech Forum is a leading cleantech investment event that brings together investors, senior executives, entreprenuers, policymakers, and scientists. Highlights of the San Francisco event include: Insights and research highlights from Cleantech Group analysts, Visionary speakers and expert panelists, Networking cleantech executives, investors, policy makers and innovators, and Previews of new companies and technologies. To receive a $300 discount use the code "friends_of_EBC" at registration.

Global New Energy Summit - April 9-11, 2012 - Colorado Springs, CO
The 4th Annual Global New Energy Summit (www.globalnewenergysummit.org), being held April 9-11, 2012 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, is designed as an annual retreat of energy thought leaders. Over 500 attendees and participants represent the key disciplines of science, industry, policy and finance. Conversations and panelists will address opportunities and hurdles across the complete energy spectrum.

University Research & Entrepreneurship Symposium 2012 - April 18, 2012, Cambridge, MA
URES is an invitation-only one-day conference established to bring world-class research universities to Boston to showcase them before a group of New England's top entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The event will feature breakthrough technologies in three focus areas - information technology, life sciences and clean energy.

YPE International Summit - April 23-25, 2012 - Las Vegas, NV
The event will feature panel discussions and presentations by YPE members from around the world on such vital energy issues as the world oil supply, shale, renewable energy, career issues and funding new energy projects. Confirmed speakers include YPE members from the American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. the India Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization, Pemex, the University of Southern California and the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

TechConnect World Summit & Innovation Showcase - June 18 - 21, 2012, Santa Clara, CA
The TechConnect World is the world's largest multi-disciplinary multi-sector conference and marketplace of vetted innovations, innovators and technology business developers and funders. The TechConnect World houses four world-class technical events focused on advancements in Nanotech, Microtech, Biotech, Cleantech and the technology overlap between these converging domains. As technologies commercially mature from the purely research stage, they are advanced into the TechConnect Summit and partnering programs in which IP and Early-stage companies are reviewed and selected by our board of corporate and investment partners.

Utility Technology Challenge & Awards - June 2012 - Santa Clara, CA
Now in its third year, CTSI will host the Challenge in partnership with Fraunhofer TechBridge with Department of Energy support. The three organizations will award up to $100,000 in pilot-test funds by the Challenge committee for the top ranked companies. CTSI seeks companies and technologies, from around the globe, focused on cleaner and more environmentally sustainable energy solutions. The technologies with the best balance of stage of development, potential impact, cost and ease of implementation will be selected to present at Clean Technology 2012, CTSI's annual event held in Santa Clara in June of 2012.