FountainBlue's Entrepreneurs' Forum offer networking, education and support for high-tech, clean-tech and life- science entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley. Each group meets monthly over lunch to share successes and challenges on a pre-set theme, moderated by experienced colleagues, in a safe environment, focused on helping fellow members run and grow their entrepreneurial ventures. These luncheon roundtables are open to entrepreneurs & their teams with a wide range of entrepreneurial experience, at various stages of growing or supporting a new or existing entrepreneurial venture.
Clean Energy Entrepreneurs include:
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.
High Tech Entrepreneurs include:
Hardware, including semiconductors, communications including wireless networks, telephony
Software, including Web and internet, software as a service, open source, etc.,
Media Convergence, including telephony, wireless, etc.,
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs include:
Medical devices, including therapeutic devices and diagnostic tools
Drug delivery - Pharmaceuticals and other drug delivery
Bio-nano, etc.,
For more information about event schedules and topics, click on the individual links for the events. For sponsorship and partnership information, e-mail us at info@FountainBlue.biz and request a time to meet. For speaking opportunities, please attend an event and e-mail a suggested topic of interest to the audience.
For details about our upcoming forums for clean-energy, high-tech, and life science entrepreneurs, click on the links for the individual forums.
Register for any upcoming entrepreneurs' forum by visiting
Pre-Registration Options: We are pleased to offer Acteva and PayPal payment options for each of our events. Although the base price is the same for both options, the fee is slightly less for the PayPal option, although you will only be able to sign up for the current upcoming event using the PayPal option, and you will not be asked for a self-introduction or for a burning question using the PayPal option. Pre-Registration Deadlines: Online registration closes at noon the night before for a Tuesday-to-Friday event and on Friday the week before for a Monday event. Please do not ask for pre-registration rates when you are registering on-site. Thank you. On-Site Registration: Limited on-site registration may be available for a fee of $30 for entrepreneur events, $40 for Transitions and When She Speaks events, and $50 for Leadership Edge Workshops. We strongly encourage pre-registration. Please do not ask to pay the pre-registration fee on-site. Thank you. Confirmation: A confirmation e-mail will be sent a couple of days prior to the event. Cancellations and Refunds: Although we do not offer refunds, we are pleased to transfer your ticket to another event or to another professional. We appreciate it if you would inform us at your earliest convenience if you are no longer able to attend so that we can plan our food and space accordingly. Corporate Packages: Corporate packages are available for our Leadership Edge events (5 tickets for $150) and for our When She Speaks events (10 tickets for $100). Use the Acteva registration option to order these corporate packages. What If the Deadline is Passed? If you really would like to pay the discounted pre-registration rate and to ensure your seat AND the deadline is past, feel free to visit our web site and select the PayPal option. But please do not over-use this option (as it's more work for us) and please pre-register at least 2 hours prior to the event itself, or you will be charged on-site registration fees.
Professional Standards for Event Attendees
Consistent with its mission to support high-integrity, high impact professionals, FountainBlue encourages all attendees to adhere to the highest professional standards. We ask that you do the following to support these standards, which benefit us all:
Registration: Please pre-register for FountainBlue events to help us better manage the registration process and to ensure an appropriate amount of space and food for everyone. Please let us know if you have registered and are no longer able to make it. Arriving at the meeting: We respect everyone's time by starting and ending our meetings on time, so please plan accordingly. Please notify us prior to the meeting if you need to arrive late or leave early, and if you must be delayed due to unavoidable circumstances, please enter the room with the minimum of disruption. Dress Code at the meetings: Business casual is fine, but show your professionalism, good sense and good judgement by dressing in a professional manner. Cell Phones: Please set your cell phones to mute so that it does not interrupt our conversations at our events. If you must take a call during a meeting, please quietly excuse yourself to take the call. Extraneous Conversations: Please refrain from extraneous conversations, particularly when events are filmed.
Tell, Don't Sell Policy:
We encourage everyone to network and connect with others, and tell others about their products, services, company, passions, etc., But there's a fine line between telling and selling and we hope that all our event attendees will respect that fine line. No Service Providers: Our entrepreneurs' forums are not intended for service providers and we ask you to respect that policy, for the benefit of all.
We thank you for your support and cooperation and look forward to seeing you at an upcoming event soon.
