Here’s what
we’re thinking.
A Call for Consolidation
It’s a tough decision, and with each passing year, it only gets more difficult: which cleantech conferences should we attend? Which will offer the most interesting panel discussions? The most innovative technologies and thinkers? The best connections? Which are worth traveling to?
There’s the World Renewable Energy Forum here in Denver. That’s easy enough. And the Cleantech Open Conference and NREL Industry Growth Forum are musts for us. But there’s also the Cleantech Group’s annual conference, Cleantech 2012, CleanEdge and Greentech Media events, the Global New Energy Summit and many others. Expos for the green building industry, for smart grid…
2010 Cleantech Open
For five years, the Cleantech Open has been on a mission ”to find, fund, and foster the big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges.” For the past two of those years, Posit Partners has been an in-kind sponsor, providing one-on-one consulting and webinar instruction for companies in the annual business competition. This year, we were honored to attend the 2010 Cleantech Awards Gala in San Jose, to see in person how 18 startups positioned themselves to attract support.
The contestants’ technologies ran the gamut from biodegradable fire suppression technology to algorithms that can predict…



