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FountainBlue is fortunate to partner with speakers, sponsors, volunteers, co-marketing partners, and others as we work together to support clean energy entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and beyond. Below is a list of oppourtunities to work with us.
Become involved:
Attend one of our events and/or join the community. You will meet people who may be able to help you, and may have experienced exactly the kinds of challenges you're undergoing. Plus you'll have opportunities to assist other quality people in the network. Visit our community section for more information.
Become part of the program:
If you are an investor or an successful serial entrepreneur or intrapreneur, participate on one of our upcoming entrepreneurs' forumsas a speaker. Share your wisdom. Build your network. Send us an e-mail volunteering to participate in one of our upcoming events.
Get Support:
If you are undergoing challenging business obstacles, bring your challenges to an upcoming event and connect with people who are going through similar challenges, and others who can advise you on how to overcome the obstacles, or connect you with those who can help you. It's likely that someone would be willing to lend an ear, lend a hand, or share some advice.
Spread the Word:
If you have attended an event and felt your time was well spent, spread the word to quality people in your network and be an ambassador. Together we are stronger.
If you found value in the content from our previous programs, forward the notes to others in your network who would also benefit from the information, with proper acknowledgment to FountainBlue and the respective speakers. Knowledge is power!
Partner with Us:
If you are involved with another organization in the valley serving clean energy entrepreneurs and executives, we welcome you to become a cross-marketing partner. See below for a current list of partners and directions on how to become a cross-marketing partner.
After you have been a cross-marketing partner, let us know if you would like to partner more closely with us to jointly produce events, or to have us participate in an advisory board, steering committee or SIG. See below for a list of organizations with whom we closely partner.
If you are interested in reporting on clean energy trends, request a press pass to one of our upcoming clean energy events.
We welcome other ideas for partnerships.
We are grateful to the 2010 FountainBlue Clean Energy Sponsors!
Cross Marketing Partners
At FountainBlue, we believe that reciprocal promotion between quality partners serving a common audience will benefit everyone. We therefore are happy to promote events from our cross marketing partners listed below, and also invite their members to pay discounted partner rates to attend our own events.
We welcome you to e-mail us if your organization is running a Silicon Valley event of interest to clean energy entrepreneurs. We will e-mail you about whether we will include you event in our weekly event recommendation newsletter, and request that you forward an invitation to our next clean energy event to your network, offering the partner rate.
Founded
in 1979, Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA), formerly known as
Asian American Manuafacturers Association, is Silicon Valleys largest and most
established non-profit organization dedicated to the Asia American high-tech
community. Having deep roots and a wide reach in the local Silicon Valley
community and across Pacific Rim countries, as well as a proven track record of
success as a Silicon Valley-based organization, AAMA expanded into China by
launching chapters in Beijing and Shanghai to better serve as the bridge
between Silicon Valley and Asia. Each chapter hosts events to localize
the effort to promote business relationships and works closely with Silicon
Valley headquarters to ensure members realize the maximum benefit of the
organization.
AltaTerra Research is a
research consultancy specializing in sustainable business and the commercial
marketplace for clean technology solutions. Through research reports,
executive events and advisory services, AltaTerra helps forward-looking
organizations improve resource-efficiency in their operations and capitalize on
new 'green' market opportunities. From our headquarters in Silicon Valley, we
have been serving a global base of corporate, institutional, and government
clients since 2007.
Founded
in 1999, ASP is the only not-for-profit professional association dedicated to
advancing thought and practice in strategy development and deployment for
business, non-profit and government organizations. ASP provides opportunities
to explore cutting-edge strategic planning principles and practices that
enhance organizational success and advance members' and organizations'
knowledge, capability, capacity for innovation, and professionalism.
Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Entrepreneur Meetup
http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1637/about/
The mission of the
Cleantech Open is to find, fund, and foster the big ideas that address todays
most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges.
The Cleantech Open
has established itself as the leader in developing clean technology startup
entrepreneurs addressing these challenges. Since its inception in 2006, 125
promising teams have availed themselves of the Cleantech Opens one-of-a-kind
hands-on workforce development, nurturing, and funding programs, with
impressive results:
Cleantech Open Alumni have raised
over $130M in private capital,
80% remain economically viable
today, and
500 new clean technology jobs have
been created, with an additional 700 new jobs anticipated by the end of
2009.
The
Environmental Business Cluster (EBC) is a non-profit clean energy and
environmental technology commercialization center in San Jose, CA. The
Environmental Business Cluster assists emerging clean energy and environmental
technology companies in reaching the market. The Environmental Business Cluster
provides business assistance programs and aids in the formation of technology
partnerships and industry networks. During our 15 years of experience, the
Environmental Business Cluster has helped more than 150 businesses
commercialize and market their products.
With her Silicon Valley journalistic experience and Cambridge
credentials, Fresh Dialogues host Alison
van Diggelenbrings a unique global perspective to the
green sector.
Going
Evergreen works with communities across Silicon Valley and beyond to embrace
change, value diversity, and create tomorrow by its actions today. Actions
range from the adoption of renewable forms of energy, to enhancing energy efficiency
and productivity, to adopting clean, reliable, affordable energy technologies,
and to improving the reliability and efficiency of electricity generation and
delivery. Find out how to get your community involved by visiting www.goingevergreen.org.
Gratitude
Gourmet is the place to discover new gourmet foods, drinks, restaurants, farmer's markets,
store, and events. Check out
my blog for the latest
news, and signup for my weekly e-newsletter!
Many of you know that food choices have a significant impact on greenhouse gas
emissions and our Oceans.
The United Nations Climate Change Report
states that animal agriculture causes more greenhouse gases (GHG) than
transportation: 18 percent of worldwide GHG. UK
hospitals are now cutting meat to cut carbon, and Ghent, Belgium is going vegetarian once a week. The medical
journal, The Lancet, recently published health and climate benefits by reducing livestock
production by 30%. Check out Bon Apptit Management's Online Food Carbon Calculator in my interview with Bon
Apptit's CEO. Water use is also an important consideration; it takes 1000
liters of water to produce 1 liter of milk. If we can change a light bulb, we
can change our food practices to help our planet and our health today.
Greentech
Media is an integrated online media company designed to deliver the
highest-quality content in the industry, whether it is research, news or
critical networking events. Greentech Media is headquartered in Cambridge,
Mass., with operations in New York City, San Francisco and Munich. For more
information, visit greentechmedia.com.
The Hewlett-Packard Alumni Association is an
independent association of more than 17,000 former HP employees. You are
eligible to join the HPAA if you were formerly a regular, direct employee of HP
or have a defined HP termination date.
Members assist each other, expand their
professional and personal networks, and re-establish contact with former
colleagues... helping each other with life after HP.
The Intel Alumni Network was founded in 2007 by a
group of alumni volunteers to help former Intel employees stay connected and to
be of help to one another.
We enable professional networking, professional development, reconnecting with
friends, and staying in touch via social activities and our members-only social
network.
We are not formally associated with Intel Corporation, but encourage
collaborative ties with Intel and its current employees.
MIT
Club of Northern California (MITCNC) is the premier regional alumni/ae
club of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The club offers numerous resources in
entrepreneurship, career development, and professional networking in the Bay
Area. In addition, the Club provides many opportunities for social interaction
between MIT alumni/ae as well as alumni/ae from similar university clubs.
The
Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs (OPEN) Silicon Valley was launched in
2001. OPEN is a voluntary, not-for profit organization dedicated to the
promotion of entrepreneurship and leadership in the Pakistani-American business
community. Established in Boston in 1998, OPEN has chapters in Boston, Houston, New York, Chicago, Silicon Valley, and Washington DC.
As the
worlds largest talent and career management consulting firm, Right Management has been a
leading provider of workforce solutions since 1980. We help our clients win in
the changing world of work by designing and executing workforce solutions that
align talent strategy with business strategy. Right Management helps
organizations build leadership capability, retain valued talent and increase
the strength of their talent pool, while improving the effectiveness of their
workforce. We partner with organizations in creating and implementing a talent
management strategy to proactively develop, redeploy and transition employees
to meet changing market and workforce needs.
San Jos
State is conveniently located on 154 acres in downtown San Jos, midway between
San Francisco and the Monterey/Carmel area at the sunny southern end of San
Francisco Bay, and is easily accessible from area freeways. From its beginnings
as a normal school that trained teachers for the developing frontier, SJSU has
matured into a metropolitan university offering more than 134 bachelor's and
master's degrees with 110 concentrations.
Located
between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford
University is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching
institutions.
Leland and
Jane Stanford founded the University to "promote the public welfare by
exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization." Stanford
opened its doors in 1891, and more than a century later, it remains dedicated
to finding solutions to the great challenges of the day and to preparing our
students for leadership in today's complex world.
The Sun
Microsystems Alumni Association (SMAA) was established in November 2001. Since
then, the organization has grown to more than 4,400 members. Worldwide in
scope, the organization consists of former employees of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
and its acquisitions. The SMAA provides a community for former Sun employees to
network and share best practices. An independent organization, the SMAA is not
affiliated with Sun Microsystems, Inc. The objectives of the SMAA are to: Provide
a community for former Sun employees to network, Provide a valuable set of services
to its members, and Be recognized as a premier corporate alumni association.
SV Cleantech is a
network of emerging students, entrepreneurs, and professionals
driven and passionate about promoting clean technology, renewable energy, and
sustainability. Our diverse disciplines include Business, Green
building development, Entrepreneurship, Engineering, Design, Environmental
Studies, Computer Science, and beyond.
Our goal is to help
build a more sustainable future. We help facilitate this by helping
cleantech-driven student groups promote their cleantech innovations to the
community. We are actively looking to create co-branding community partnerships
to expand our network of those working towards a more sustainable future. We
were founded in 2006 as a wholly-owned not-for-profit division of Silicon
Valley Holdings. http://svcleantech.org
The Silicon Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA) is an
organization that was founded to address the needs of Product Managers, Product
Marketing Managers and other professionals working within the Product
Management field. Our mission is to provide Product Management
professionals with networking, training and career acceleration opportunities. Through
monthly speaker meetings, quarterly workshops and quarterly networking and
social events, SVPMA helps Product Management professionals to be more
effective in both day-to-day work as well as managing their overall careers.
The US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC) was formed in 2008 by a group
of leading business, technology, academia, and government policy groups
in the US and China. Its mission is to establish a collaborative
platform to find ways to support each other in the urgent search for a
global solution for combating global warming, energy security, and
environment pollution.
VSVN
is the fastest growing professional organization in the nation focused on
entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and inventors in the Vietnamese high-tech
industry. VSVN
is the leading hub for networking and doing business with Vietnamese
professionals around the world.
Wharton Club of Northern California
Partnerships Beyond Cross-Marketing and Single Event Cross-Promotion
FountainBlue is pleased to partner with and support other associations and organizations in support of high-tech, clean-energy and life science decision-makers within and outside of Silicon Valley. We believe that informing our respective communities of our events and activities better support both entities.
FountainBlue is pleased to support the many fine organizations across Silicon Valley with their clean energy efforts, beyond our cross-marketing support. We are currently:
Doing a FountainBlue Clean Green MashUp, as part of the August 19 Green Software UnConference held at the Computer History Museum.
As Chair of the Emerging Business Track for VLAB, and as a member of the Executive Committee for VLAB, we support all VLAB EBT planning, community and SIG events. http://www.vlab.org/article.html?aid=185
Let us know if you would like us to:
Make speeches and presentations to other organizations on clean enery related topics.
Assist you in launching a clean energy series for your organization.
Assist in refining or creating a program for your membership.
