FountainBlue

FountainBlue's Clean Energy Entrepreneurs' Forum

Topic:           Clean Green Transportation Machines

Date & Time: Monday, July 6 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Location:       Silicon Valley Bank’s Kellogg Auditorium, 3005 Tasman, Santa Clara

Cost:            $20 members, $25 partners, $30 general

$40 for membership and event admission

Audience:      Clean Energy Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs & Investors,

No Service Providers Please

Registration:  http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=162512 by Friday, July 3 at noon, no exceptions please. Late and on-site registration is $40 – does not include membership.

Clean Green Transportation Machines The Clean Tech Open’s description of the transportation category includes transportation and mobile technology applications that improve fuel efficiency, reduce air pollution, reduce oil consumption or reduce vehicle travel. This month’s panelists will speak on clean energy transportation solutions: from efficient batteries to fuel cells to bio-based transportation fuels and information technology solutions integrated with transportation vehicles. Our panelists are:

• Facilitator Lafe Vittitoe, Relationship Manager, Silicon Valley Bank
• Panelist Ann Chan, Director, California Programs, Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP)
• Panelist Brad Mattson, Partner, Vantage Point Venture Partners
• Panelist John Suh, General Motors
• Panelist Elise Zoli, Partner and Clean Tech Chair, Goodwin Procter LLP

Our presenting entrepreneurs are:

• Panelist Neil Maguire, VP of Business Development, Imara
• Panelist Fraser, Smith, CEO, ElectraDrive 
• Panelist John Zajac, CEO, Zajac Motors

FountainBlue offers networking, education and support for entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley by conducting monthly entrepreneurs' forums for high tech and life science and clean energy entrepreneurs. These monthly lunch meetings are designed to share successes and challenges in a safe environment, focused on helping fellow members run and grow their entrepreneurial ventures.

About Our Entrepreneurs' Forums

FountainBlue's Clean Energy Entrepreneurs' Forums are open to clean energy entrepreneurs & their teams (such as staff members, advisers, board members or investors) with a wide range of entrepreneurial experience, at various stages of growing or supporting a new or existing entrepreneurial venture. In general, the program topics for the first six months of the year are focused on securing funds for clean energy organizations while the topics for the second six months of the year focus more on executing and running a business. For notes on previous sessions, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/resources/entrepreneursnotes.html.

• Renewable energy—solar, wind, bio-energy, and environmentally-friendly hydroelectric technologies;
• Energy efficiency and demand response—electricity end-use, buildings and grid applications;
• Environment-enhancing technologies—advanced flue gas clean-up, ultra-low emissions generation such as fuel cells, environmental remediation, and exceptionally efficient generation; and
• Enabling technologies—power electronics, storage, low-loss cables and wires, sensors and instrumentation, control systems, materials and manufacturing technology, and integrated clean energy applications.

Who Is Invited

Please note that we help ensure the quality of the program by strictly restricting attendance to entrepreneurs and investors only, no service providers, except for presenters and sponsors, which are limited and by invitation only.

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