Cleantech is
thriving!
The industry’s leading deal-making summit, the
Cleantech Forum, now in its 12th year, put on a very strong event March 11-13,
2014 (Twitter #CFSF14) with over 1000 attendees and an impressive long roster
of speakers at the beautiful San Francisco Nob Hill Landmark Hotel, The
Fairmont.
We, at the Sustainability Silicon Valley Organization were very happy to join our colleagues to discover through this venue and its thought leaders, how we see an Accelerating System Change toward a Decentralized Future. Delegations from 22 countries were represented here. The Italians were encouraging Silicon Valley investors and leaders to visit them and see their innovations from a country with a long tradition in science and technology, going back to the Renaissance era of Leonardo daVinci and the Roman Era. And the Japanese leaders were strongly sincere in their desire for more collaboration with the United States in their clean tech efforts and recovery from disasters with March 11th during this conference marking the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. We heard from many of our world's innovation incubators. Here in the U.S., California is striving to meet carbon emission reductions through the Global Warming Bill. Some among many countries leading the clean tech charge were Israel with over 1000 clean tech companies, Sweden who will be home to the Cleantech European Forum in May, Hong Kong, Mainland China improving sustainable development and the Netherlands with cutting edge technology in water. Also participating for international partnership were Canada, Korea, Holland, among others.
Congratulations to
The impressive exhibitor and speaker list of the entire conference can be found here http://events.cleantech.com/sanfrancisco/
One of the
largest breakout sessions was on Energy Storage on Tues. afternoon. All
who attended heard about ideas on how they could store their solar and other
energy, then use this energy on demand to do peak shaving, demand response and
save money at peak utility prices. One approach among over 50 in the industry
was compressed air to create heat energy by Steve Crane, CEO of Light Sail
Energy. Everyone was inspired at this entire conference and speakers
presented to a packed crowd of corporate executives, entrepreneurs and the
sector’s most influential investors.
We can all envision a bright sustainable future to positively affect climate change with all of our collective efforts in an ever changing world, hopefully for the better. At Sustainable Silicon Valley Org., our mission is to work together toward a healthy environment, a vibrant economy and a socially equitable community in Silicon Valley and throughout the world. Please visit us at our Water Energy Smart Technology (WEST) Summit in October (details to be announced soon). where we will explore pioneering a green economy, the Need, the Opportunity and the Challenge!
We can all envision a bright sustainable future to positively affect climate change with all of our collective efforts in an ever changing world, hopefully for the better. At Sustainable Silicon Valley Org., our mission is to work together toward a healthy environment, a vibrant economy and a socially equitable community in Silicon Valley and throughout the world. Please visit us at our Water Energy Smart Technology (WEST) Summit in October (details to be announced soon). where we will explore pioneering a green economy, the Need, the Opportunity and the Challenge!
Blog post by Rose Gabriele, Sr. Advisor, Sustainable Silicon Valley Org
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