E3 2009 features panel sessions that address the changing environment
faced by Green businesses. E3 panel discussions are designed to give you access to noted industry professionals while providing a forum to discuss the issues that can make or break your business.

View a complete list of speakers, moderators & panelists.

Morning Panels (11:15 - 12:30)

Materials Matter – Sustainable Resource Management Solutions

While recycling efforts have been proven to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, society is calling for further solutions that maximize energy and material recovery.

This panel will discuss how current and future opportunities for residential and industrial waste management will reduce the amount of waste in landfills domestically and abroad.

Jim Poss, founder of BigBelly Solar, will serve as a moderator for this exciting panel, which features professionals on the cutting edge of sustainable material management.

Green Entrepreneurship – From Ideas to Exits

Ecological entrepreneurs are driven not only by profit but environmental and social concerns. Despite the current economic conditions, the environmental solutions are needed now more than ever before. This panel will discuss what motivates and influences green entrepreneurs along with opportunity recognition and the exit strategies for today’s green startups.

Marketing & Selling In The Energy Industry

By and large the greatest opportunities for MBA’s in the cleantech industry exist in the marketing and selling of clean technologies. Panel members will discuss the challenges and opportunities that exist in the renewable energy marketplace, as well as how products are bought, sold and traded.

Afternoon Panels (2:45 - 4:15)

Green IT & Energy Efficiency – How Innovation in Policy & Technology Shapes Energy Consumption

While exciting technologies such as wind and solar make headlines and shape landscapes, energy efficiency (EE) has quietly proven itself to be the most powerful and cost effective solution in meeting the nation’s energy needs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with US annual revenues estimated to be approximately $300 billion. Panelists will discuss technology breakthroughs in green IT, advances in energy efficiency policy and implementation, and areas where EE is likely to accelerate in the coming years given climate and energy drivers as well as new proposals coming out of the Obama Administration.

A New Era in Environmental Policy – What the Obama Administration Means to Green Business

Beginning in 2009 and beyond, energy transformation in the United States will accelerate dramatically. How will new legislation at both the federal and state level impact clean energy businesses? Are there specific technologies or market segments that will benefit more than others? What are the key price signals that will spur the greatest change in behavior-and the largest increase in innovation? Panelists will discuss these questions in the context of recent and pending energy & environmental legislation.

Cleantech Venture Capital - A Phoenix Rising From The Ashes

The credit crunch and the unexpected fall in the price of fossil fuels have put pressure on the clean technology industry and caused a rapid deceleration of project financing opportunities. This panel will discuss the current status of venture capital in clean technology and how it will be affected by investment from the federal government.