Cleantech Entrepreneurs Conference

Photos by Jan Michael Hesse, EcoSummit

This conference covers a range of topics including grants, intellectual property, support schemes, venture capital, corporate venture support, accessing different markets, crowd funding.

Cleantech Entrepreneurs Conference in Lecture Room

10.00am Opening Keynote: the Ecoisland Story David Green, Ecoislands Partnership

Transfer to conference rooms

Chair: Peter Bance, Octopus Investments

10.20am Current grants landscape Olaf Swanzy, PNO Consultants

Presentation is HERE

10.50am The Benefits of Protecting your IP - Patents as Business Tools John Chettle and David Paton, Venner Shipley LLP

Presentation is HERE

11.15am DECC Innovation Fund Ian Ellerington, DECC

11.40am Accessing major markets with clean technologies

Chair: Energy Jeremy Harrison, Eon

Panel: ICT Kevin Farrar, IBM

Facilities Victoria Hughes, Vinci Facilities

Public Sector Jake Ronay, Greater London Authority

Automotive - Ricardo Simon Arbuthnot, Ricardo - AEA

Industry/Energy Adam Morton, Rolls Royce

12.30pm Morning End Keynote Address: Addressing Market & Regulatory Failure towards a Sustainable Future Peter Boyd, Carbon War Room

Find Peter’s interview HERE: Avoiding 2 degrees is Impossible Without Business

12.45pm Exhibition

Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings

Lunch break

2.00pm Chair: Clennell Collingwood, TTP Ventures

What corporate ventures can provide:

Chair: James Mawson, Global Corporate Venturing Journal

Panel: Cedric Latessa, Aster Capital

Richard Nourse, Greencoat Capital

David Aitken, Carbon Trust GE Fund

Leo Poll, Philips

2.50pm NPL Technology Innovation Fund

Presentation is HERE

3.10pm Venture Capital outlook:

Chair: David Ward, MTI Ventures

Panel: Jim Totty, Sustainable Investment Technologies

Alex McCracken, Silicon Valley Bank

Bill Barber, Intesa San Paolo

Arun Jayadev, Wellington Partners

Rene Savelsberg, Chrysalix SET

4.00pm Crowdfunding Karen Darby, CrowdMission

Presentation is HERE