GoingGreen Silicon Valley 2010
Where Green Entrepreneurs Take on Big Business
Oct 12th - 14th, 2010
The Golden Gate Club, Presidio, San Francisco, CA
The Golden Gate Club, Presidio, San Francisco, CA
Co-Presented by Morgan Stanley
GoingGreen West is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth. Green technology innovators are transforming trillion dollar industries - and the solutions they are delivering not only promise to clean up pollution and restore ecosystems, but also to bring abundance and prosperity to everyone on earth. In fundamental areas, water, energy and land, resource abundance is just around the corner, through the power of technology and free markets. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities. At GoingGreen West, our editors will also honor the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty top CEOs will also pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase."
Over 100 speakers, Including
John Melo
CEO, Amyris Biotechnologies
CEO, Amyris Biotechnologies
Joe Laia
CEO, MiaSole
CEO, MiaSole
Reyad Fezzani
CEO, BP Solar
CEO, BP Solar
Ira Ehrenpreis
General Partner, Technology Partners
General Partner, Technology Partners
Trends and Topics
- Infrastructure & Green Cities
- Solar & Storage Solutions
- Water Supply & Treatment
- Greening the BRIC
- Biochemicals at Scale
- Clean Fossil Fuel & Nuclear
- Smart Grids & Smart Buildings
- Genomics & Enabling Tech
- Mass Produced Green Cars
The Program
Last updated on 10/20/2010 at 10:19am
- 06:00 pm
Stage 1Opening Remarks- Host: Tony Perkins, Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn
- 06:10 pm
Stage 12010 GoingGreen 100 Award Winners and Overall Winner Presentation- Co-Host: Tony Perkins, Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn
- Co-Host: David Miller, Partner, KPMG
- Dan Yates, CEO, OPOWER
- Sean Harrington, Head of West Coast, OPOWER
- Jon Sakoda, Partner, NEA
- 06:30 pm
Stage 1AlwaysOn--KPMG GoingGreen Survey Results- Host: David Miller, Partner, KPMG
- 06:45 pm
Stage 1Is Cleantech Investing Sustainable?Click here to see videos of this panel
What sectors of cleantech investing are genuinely stimulative? If accelerating our global emergence from overwhelming levels of public and private debt depend on broad-based economic growth, will "green job" creation truly offset job losses if consumers and businesses pay more for energy and other resources? What clean technologies are robust investment opportunities, relatively invulnerable to potentially massive shifts in environmentalist and political priorities?
- Moderator: Dallas Kachan, Managing Partner, Kachan & Co
- Jeff Byron, Commissioner, California Energy Commission
- Stephan Dolezalek, Managing Director and Group Leader, Cleantech, Vantage Point Venture Partners
- Ray Rothrock, Partner, Venrock
- Brian Steel, Vice President, Corporate Development, PG&E Corporation
- 07:30 pmAlwaysOn Opening Night Cocktail Reception
- 07:30 amBreakfast
- 07:30 amRegistration
- 08:30 am
Stage 1 - 09:00 am
Stage 1The Evolution of GreenClick here to see videos of this panel
The transformation to a clean and sustainable civilization encompasses every imaginable technology and industry. With the initial momentum of the favored green sectors slowed by economic reality and political reassessment, what cleantech sectors quietly advance, relatively immune to transient trends? In addition to energy and transportation, how is clean technology creating opportunities in water, agriculture, construction, infrastructure and waste management? How are enabling technologies in materials sciences and genomics catalyzing these opportunities?
- Moderator: J. Hovey Kemp, Partner, Goodwin Procter
- Anup Jacob, Partner, Virgin Green Fund
- Kevin Genieser, Managing Director, Head of Clean Energy Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
- Marc van den Berg, Managing Director, Vantage Point Venture Partners
- Raj Atluru, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- 09:45 am
Stage 1Presentation: The State of the Cleantech Industry- Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner, Technology Partners
- 10:00 am
Stage 1The Solar SolutionClick here to see videos of this panel
In theory, no other renewable energy has the potential of solar - with petawatts of solar energy caressing the earth every day. But intermittencies, storage and transmission investments, along with just amortizing the installation costs, leave solar still dependent on subsidies. How can system integration, simplified installation, and advancements in storage and solar collector technology make solar energy truly competitive? Will biotechnology be the source of the next generation of cheaper and more efficient solar collectors? What is the solar solution?
- Moderator: Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner, Technology Partners
- Reyad Fezzani, CEO, BP Solar
- Tom Tiller, CEO, Abound Solar
- Anand Kamannavar, Venture Capital Associate Investment Manager, Applied Ventures
- 10:00 am
Stage 2CEO Showcase Presentations - 10:45 am
Stage 1CEO Showcase Presentations- Host: Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
- Mike Rocke, Vice President, CoolPlanetBiofuels
- Roy Horgan, Co-Founder, SolarPrint
- 11:00 am
Stage 1The Supply Side of WaterClick here to see videos of this panel
Along with reuse, water abundance can be achieved through developing innovative, low-footprint storage technologies, from rainfall run-off cisterns to massive aquifer development to harvest run-off from seasonal floods. Also promising to deliver fresh water abundance is desalination technology - now responsible for over 2% of all water withdrawals worldwide. How can developing new sources of water through run-off harvesting and ocean water desalination combine with reuse and treatment technologies to solve the challenge of water scarcity. What companies are working to deliver these solutions, and where are the opportunities for investors?
- Moderator: Laura Shenkar, Founder & Principal, The Artemis Project
- Amol Deshpande, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- Fatemeh Shirazi, Microvi Biotech , President
- Scott Jackson, Managing Partner, Telesto Consulting Group
- 11:00 am
Stage 2CEO Showcase Presentations- Host: Lafe Vittitoe, Director, Entrepreneur Services Group, Silicon Valley Bank
- Pat McIntrye, CEO, ET Water Systems
- Larry Silverman, Chairman, GridPlex
- Maura McCarthy, Co-Founder, Blu Homes
- Tom Hough, CEO, Evatran
- Kaveh Memari, CEO, Renew
- 11:45 am
Stage 1CEO Showcase Presentations- Host: Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
- Christophe Schilling, CEO, Genomatica, Inc.
- Andrew Parish, CEO, Wavebob
- 12:00 pmLunchLunch Sponsored by: Silicon Valley Bank
- 01:00 pm
Stage 1Keynote- Kevin Skillern, Managing Director, Venture Capital, GE Energy Financial Services
- 01:30 pm
Stage 1 - 02:00 pm
Stage 1Petrochemicals vs. BiochemicalsClick here to see video of this panel
The mandate to adopt clean and sustainable resource solutions is balanced by an equally important mandate to, at the least, double global energy production, and in general, resource consumption, within the next generation. With the cumulative reserves of coal, oil and gas sufficient to last another 200 years, even at much higher rates of extraction, can new technologies deliver clean, affordable energy and other resources from these conventional sources? Can new technologies deliver bio-based alternatives that themselves are clean and affordable? Who, what, when?
- Host: Marianne Wu, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
- Mike Hart, President & Founder, Sierra Energy
- Bob Cavnar, CEO, Luca Technologies
- Christophe Schilling, CEO, Genomatica, Inc.
- Mike Rocke, Vice President, CoolPlanetBiofuels
- Jim Long, Chairman, Aurora BioFuels
- Deborah Boyd, CEO, Re3 Group
- Neal Gutterson, CEO, Mendel Biotechnology
- 02:00 pm
Stage 2CEO Showcase Presentations- Host: Lafe Vittitoe, Director, Entrepreneur Services Group, Silicon Valley Bank
- Jim Loughrey, President, LINK Corporation/SwitchGenie
- Priscilla Burgess, CEO, Bellwether Materials
- Ken Johnson, CEO, Intigreen Technologies
- 02:45 pm
Stage 1CEO Showcase PresentationsClick here to see video of Mendel Biotechnology
Click here to see video of Re3 Group
Click here to see video of LiveFuels
- Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
- Neal Gutterson, CEO, Mendel Biotechnology
- Dr. Debbie Boyd, CEO, Re3 Group
- Dave Jones, COO, LiveFuels
- 03:00 pm
Stage 1Generation III+ Nuclear EnergyClick here to see video of this panel
The diversity and promise of so-called "3rd-plus" generation nuclear reactor designs is exemplified by the dozens of credible start-up nuclear technology companies, as well as in-house programs funded by major vendors. How is the emerging next generation of nuclear power technology different from previous designs? What scales can the new nuclear power plant designs operate at, how is waste dealt with, how do they address proliferation and other security concerns? How cost competitive are the latest nuclear energy technologies? Does modern nuclear energy technology have the potential to be a major disruptor to the global energy economy?- Moderator: Steven J. Comen, Partner, Goodwin Procter
- Matthew Trevithick, Partner, Venrock
- John Grizz Deal, CEO, Hyperion Power Generation Inc.
- Jay Surina, CFO, NuScale Power
- 03:00 pm
Stage 2CEO Showcase Presentations - 03:45 pm
Stage 1Keynote- Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- 04:00 pm
Stage 1Greening the BRICClick here to see video of this panel
Burgeoning Brazil, reemerging Russia, emerging India and China - within these four nations are nearly three billion people, with vast resources, experiencing rapid economic growth. How they develop, and what choices they make, will have a decisive impact on the direction of humanity and the fate of the environment. What green technologies will they adopt? What green mandates will they embrace? What opportunities are there for cleantech in what will soon be the largest markets in the world?
- Moderator: Craig Lobdell, Director, KPMG
- Marianne Wu, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
- Joe Dews, Think Equity LLC, Managing Director
- Michael Dorsey, Managing Partner, The Westly Group
- Anand Kamannavar, Venture Capital Associate Investment Manager, Applied Ventures
- Todd Kimmel, Partner, Mayfield Fund
- 04:00 pm
Stage 2CEO Showcase Presentations- Host: Lafe Vittitoe, Director, Entrepreneur Services Group, Silicon Valley Bank
- Chris Erickson, CEO, Climate Earth
- Amjad Huda, CEO and Co-founder, Free Space Solar
- Ryan Hanley, CEO, SmartSense
- Steve Edelson, President, FogBusters
- Jessica Alter, CEO, Formative Labs
- Thomas Barry, CEO, Green Ocean Products
- 04:45 pm
Stage 1Interview- Interviewer: Mark Fischetti, Editor, Scientific American
- Vinod Khosla, Managing General Partner, Khosla Ventures
- 05:15 pm
Stage 1Mass-Production Green VehiclesClick here to see video of this panel
There is an abundance of innovative new technology vying to be the solution for the clean vehicles we so desperately need. Which of these will be economical and therefore scalable for mass production and mass consumption -- the extended range EV (a "series-hybrid"), a 100% EV with a swappable battery, a quick-charge EV, something natural gas-powered, fuel cells or what? What infrastructure? What fuels? What conversion efficiencies? And what other changes by consumers, manufacturers, and the supply chain will be required?
- Moderator: Dain DeGroff, Founding Partner, Triangle Peak Partners
- Kevin Czinger, CEO, CODA Automotive
- Mike Rocke, Vice President, CoolPlanetBiofuels
- Larry Fromm, Vice President, Achates Power
- Naoki "Nick" Sugimoto, Principal, Honda Strategic Venturing
- Simon Saba, CEO, SABA Motors
- 06:00 pmAlwaysOn Reception
- 07:30 amBreakfast
- 07:30 amRegistration
- 08:30 am
Stage 1 - 09:00 am
Stage 1Financing the Green 21st CenturyClick here to see video of this panel
How do you finance renewables in an economic environment of tight credit and lower prices for conventional energy? How can next-generation infrastructure upgrades using clean technology - not just in energy, but in water, transportation and construction - secure viable financing while still delivering solutions that create a net benefit for consumers instead of an additional economic burden? Is the expectation of some sort of climate or energy legislation holding up investment in energy technology? What emerging energy technologies are so competitive they can emerge regardless of government assistance?
- Moderator: John Gimigliano, Partner, Energy & Sustainability, KPMG
- Langley P. Eide, Vice President, Global Technology Equity Capital Markets
- Trae Vassallo, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
- Jon Sakoda, Partner, NEA
- Peter O'Rourke, Senior Advisor to the Executive Director, Loan Program Office, U.S. Department of Energy
- 09:45 am
Stage 1Presentation: The Mythology of Green Building- Jennifer Fonstad, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- 10:00 am
Stage 1Inside the Meter: The Intelligent BuildingClick here to see video of this panel
The utility meter has grown up - it can monitor and record energy use, with built-in wireless communications and control. Within the structure, each electric circuit is monitored and controlled by the smart meter, as are all major appliances, which are equipped with IP addressable control and communications suites. What opportunities does this present the high-tech industry?
- Moderator: Jeff Hagan, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Canaccord Genuity
- Warren Hogarth, Partner, Sequoia Capital
- Jennifer Fonstad, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- Drew Clark, Partner, IBM Venture Capital Group
- Paraic O'Toole, CEO, Automsoft
- 10:45 am
Stage 1Keynote- Jonathan Silver, Executive Director, U.S. Department of Energy, Loan Programs Office
- 11:00 am
Stage 1Outside the Meter: Upgrading the Power GridClick here to see video of this panel
The electric power grid is going to be smarter, more efficient, and more secure than ever. This massive upgrade will take decades and create opportunities for myriad high-tech innovations, from monitoring and communications suites for transformers and other substation devices, to new and cleaner transformer technologies, to new conducting materials to improve efficiency, to new energy storage and management systems to accommodate distributed and intermittent new sources of energy generation. What is the landscape of this huge and diverse new demand for innovative clean technologies?
- Moderator: Russ Landon, Managing Director, Head of Clean Technology Group, KeyBanc Capital Markets
- Paul De Martini, CTO & VP, Strategy, Cisco Systems
- Kate Brass, Ecomagination Program Manager, GE Energy
- Justin Label, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
- 11:45 am
Stage 1CEO Showcase PresentationsClick here to see video of Achates Power
Click here to see video of Sierra Energy
Click here to see video of Automsoft
Click here to see video of DHS
Click here to see video of Ether2
- Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
- David Johnson, CEO, Achates Power
- Mike Hart, President & Founder, Sierra Energy
- Paraic O'Toole, CEO, Automsoft
- Frazer McKimm, CEO, DHS
- Jonathan Gael, COO, Ether2
- 12:30 pmLunch
- 01:30 pm
Stage 1 - 02:00 pm
Stage 1Innovations in Water Treatment & ReuseClick here to see video of this panel
There is no shortage of fresh water, just a shortage of technologies to cycle wastewater back upstream for continuous reuse. What new advances in nanotechnology and biotechnology are yielding water treatment solutions that are cost-effective and yield treated water that is cleaner than spring rain? What companies are pioneering these breakthroughs?
- Moderator: Jacques Benkowski, Venture Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
- Andres Wydler, CEO, RealGreen Power, Inc.
- Henrik Skov Laursen, Executive Director, Grundfos Water Technology Center
- Ariel Lechter, CEO, Clean Technologies
- 02:45 pm
Stage 1CEO Showcase PresentationsClick here to see video of Conderos
Click here to see video of Mango Materials
Click here to see video of Stramit USA
- Host: Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
- Harry Hirschman, CEO, Conderos
- Molly Morse, CEO, Mango Materials
- Rory Faber, CEO, Stramit USA
- 03:00 pm
Stage 1The Green BackboneClick here to see video of this panel
Underneath and facilitating every comfort of civilization is the backbone of infrastructure. Massive civil engineering projects - pipelines, refineries, freeways, railroads, airports, canals, aqueducts, power plants, transmission lines, water treatment plants - today these all incorporate the latest clean and sustainable technologies, as the world's infrastructure is retrofit and expanded. What clean building blocks are already joining this supply chain - from cement to bioplastics - and what new technologies are they looking for?
- Moderator: Quentin Falconer, National Cleantech Coordinator, Silicon Valley Bank
- Marc Porat, Chairman, Serious Materials, ZETA Communities and CalStar
- Brent Constantz, CEO, Founder, Calera Corporation
- Rao Mulpuri, CEO, Soladigm, Inc.
- Ullas Naik, Managing Director, Globespan Capital Partners
- 03:45 pm
Stage 1CEO Showcase Presentations- Host: Ed Lambert, SVP and Silicon Valley Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
- Matt Scullin, CEO, Alphabet Energy
- Simon Saba, CEO, SABA Motors
- 04:00 pm
Stage 1Cleantech and EnvironmentalismClick here to see video of this panel
What defines the cleantech industry and do cleantech priorities differ from environmentalist priorities? What is cleantech? Where in the cleantech continuum do you classify clean coal, oil or gas, or 3rd+ generation nuclear power? What about genomics and nanotech? Are these clean and sustainable technologies? Even wind and solar energy have an environmental footprint - many solar projects are stopped in their tracks by environmentalist lawsuits. How can cleantech address the challenge to create clean, sustainable resource abundance in the world, yet conform to environmentalist expectations? Is this possible? What clean technologies are both cost-competitive, clean and sustainable, and also environmentally correct?
- Moderator: Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner, DBL Investors
- Tom Kloc, KPMG, Partner
- Scott Elrod, Vice President, Director of Hardware Systems Laboratory and Cleantech Innovation Program, PARC
- Ralph Cavanagh, Co-Director Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
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• Laurel Inn - 1.2 mi from The Golden Gate Club
• Hotel del Sol - 1.6 mi from The Golden Gate Club
• Hotel Drisco - 1.3 mi from The Golden Gate Club
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