AWEA's Wind Energy Fall Symposium (Event)

AWEA's Wind Energy Fall Symposium will be held in Carlsbad, California on November 14 and 15, 2012. This exclusive, high-level event sets the stage for sharing successes, strategies, and lessons-learned with your wind industry peers. Giving you the information and tools you need to operate in a complex and global marketplace, the AWEA Wind Energy Fall Symposium's educational program will outfit you with a competitive edge to advance your organization and enhance your career. This year's program includes sessions that address not only industry trends and innovations, but teach you how to best communicate wind energy's benefits to external audiences —both steadfast and skeptical.

Every fall, the AWEA Wind Energy Fall Symposium sets the stage for sharing successes, strategies, and lessons-learned with your wind energy industry peers. This exclusive, executive-level event is one of the only venues where AWEA’s committees, working groups, and Board of Directors convene face-to-face – it’s a “Who’s Who” of those who are driving the wind energy industry forward.

This year, the symposium is called "Executive-Level Networking, Education, and Collaboration Realigning for Success, Realigning for the Future." It will feature expert speakers who will discuss recent challenges the industry is facing, what these uncertain times mean for the future of wind energy and your business, and how best to realign your thinking and strategies to emerge from this period even more successful.

Top-tier educational programming arms you with information, industry trends, and innovations you need to operate in a ever-changing marketplace – giving you a competitive edge to advance your organization and enhance your career.

General Session Speakers will be Political Analyst and Commentator Paul Begala and Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer

Participate in:

• Educational programming that will give you the competitive edge to advance your organization and career
• In-depth discussions with key industry leaders in a relaxed and intimate environment
• Superior peer-to-peer after-hours networking events
• And much more!

For more information and to register click here.

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VERGE @ Greenbuild (Event)

The VERGE event will be held on November 13 and 13 at The InterContinental San Francisco, 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, California. VERGE brings together business innovators, entrepreneurs, and leading public officials to illuminate the opportunities for radical efficiencies created through technology advancements in energy, buildings and transportation. As explained by Steve Avadek of CitiGroup, "VERGE was the most valuable conference I have attended."

Why you should attend Verge:

• Discover the future of sustainability. Learn about radical new efficiencies in buildings, energy, and transportation.

• Understand the trends. See how disruptive technologies and financial innovations are creating new opportunities. 

• Meet the new leaders. VERGE features innovators in business and the public sector who are reshaping the way we shop, travel, work, and live. 

• Connect with innovators. VERGE is about forging the right connections. You'll have ongoing opportunities throughout the event to connect with thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, and suppliers in this rapidly growing sector. 

• Explore the new ecosystem. VERGE explores company engagement in a vast web of relationships to exploit convergence, from industry standards to employee engagement to NGO partnerships.

For more information or to register click here.

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Toronto Greenhouse Green Business Strategy Summit 2012 (Event)

Expert panels, a facilitated workshop and case studies along with insightful keynotes from accomplished executives combine at GREEN BUSINESS STRATEGY SUMMIT 2012 on November 8th, 2012 at One King West Hotel in Toronto, Canada to provide the foundation for a tangible business strategy that you can implement immediately.

Global investment in "clean" technology is exploding, the world’s largest corporations have embraced environmental sustainability and your customers are making purchasing decisions based on how "green" your products or services are. What is your strategy?


Opening Keynote: The Original Cleantech Investor

Nicholas Parker - Chairman, Cleantech Group LLC, Parker Venture Management Inc, Corporate Knights Media Ltd, WaterTAP Corp.

Nicholas Parker is Chairman of the Cleantech Group - the market-leading research company that introduced the cleantech concept to the investment and business community in 2002, and Parker Venture Management, his private investment and advisory business. Previously Nicholas accumulated over 15 years experience starting and investing venture funds worldwide through limited partnerships, family offices, corporate funds and endowments. During this time, he pioneered the first "sustainability" driven private equity funds and participated in one of the first solar IPOs. In the 1990s, he also founded, built and sold an environmental finance firm. He’s advised economic development agencies, major corporations and institutional investors, spoken at most major industry events and been quoted by the leading media publications

Nicholas has authored or edited more than ten publications related to cleantech, finance and international business, starting with Investing in Emerging Economies in 1993. He’s currently Chairman of Corporate Knights Media, the Blue Economy Initiative, and the WaterTAP Corporation, as well as on several boards, including Government of Singapore Energy and Cleantech Advisory Panel and the Canadian Centre of Excellence for Commercialization of Research. From 2003-08, he was Chairman of E+Co, the award-winning investment company for clean energy enterprises in developing countries.

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