Special Invitation: The New England Venture Summit – December 9, 2015 – Hilton Boston Dedham
2GreenEnergy is pleased to announce its sponsorship and invite you to attend the 2015 New England Venture Summit presented by youngStartup Ventures.
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New England Venture Summit
December 9, 2015 | Hilton | Boston Dedham
Where Innovation Meets Capital
Friends,
Come meet, interact and network with more than 500 VCs, Corporate VCs, angel investors, investment bankers and CEOs of early stage and emerging growth companies at the prestigious New England Venture Summit being held on December 9th, 2015 at the Hilton in Boston Dedham.
Whether you’re a startup seeking capital and exposure, or an investor seeking new deals, The New England Venture Summit presented by youngStartup Ventures – is one event you won’t want to miss.
A highly productive full-day venture conference, the New England Venture Summit is dedicated to showcasing VCs, Corporate VCs and angel investors committed to funding early stage and emerging companies.
This exclusive summit will feature a distinguished line up of more than 40 Investors on interactive panels; presentations by more than 50 companies seeking funding, and high-level networking opportunities.
Partial list of VCs confirmed to speak include:
John Albright, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Relay Ventures
Mark Austin, Venture Partner, Bright Capital
Brandon Avrutin, Partner, Rethink Education
Marty Bauer, Managing Director, The Iron Yard
Maria Berkman, Director, Broadview Ventures
Sim Blaustein, Principal, BDMI Fund
Ilya Breyman, Managing Director, Talent Equity Ventures
Nat Brinn, Principal, Vital Venture Capital
Dan Burstein, Managing Director, Millennium Technology Value Partners
Andy Clapp, Managing Partner, Arctaris Capital Partners
Daniel Colbert, Managing Partner, North Energy Ventures
Iain Cooper, Manager Corporate Venturing, Schlumberger Technology Investments
Mackey Craven, Partner, OpenView Partners
Brendan Dickinson, Principal, Canaan Partners
AJ Dye, Investment Manager, Delta Electronics Capital
Skyler Fernandes, Managing Director, Simon Venture Group
Doug Fisher, Partner, Interwest Partners
Jason Fuller, Principal, New Enterprise Associates
Stan Fung, Managing Director, FarSight Ventures
Dan Gebremedhin, Senior Associate, Flare Capital
Arjun Goyal, Associate, 5AM Ventures
Ed Greer, Manager, Dow Chemical Company
Alejandro Guerrero, Co-Founder, General Partner, Technicolor Ventures
Sven Harmsen, Principal, BASF Venture Capital
Laurence Hayward, Investment Partner, Independence Equity
Jeff Haywood, Principal, Spectrum Equity
Pete Henig, General Partner, Greenhouse Capital Partners
Henrik Holland, Venture Principal, Shell Technology Ventures
Shamez Kanji, General Partner, North Hill Ventures
Kara Kohlenberg, Vice President, Promus Ventures
Justin Kulla, Principal, Weld North
Ian Lane, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners
Tom Luby, Senior Director, New Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Boston Innovation Center
Jim Macdonald, Managing Director, First Analysis
Murray McCaig, Managing Partner, ArcTern Ventures
Ezra Mehlman, Vice President, Health Enterprise Partners
Vincent Miles, Partner, Abingworth
David Miller, Executive Managing Director, Clean Energy Venture Group
Mark Miller, Managing Director, Good Harbor Partners
Julian Moncada, Analyst, Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Girish Nadkarni, President, ABB Technology Ventures
Christian Noske, Investment Principal, BMWi Ventures
Geoff Pardo, Partner, Gilde Healthcare Partners
Pedro Torres Picon, Managing Director, Quotidian Ventures
Mike Powell, General Partner, Sofinnova Ventures
Gopal Rajaraman, Investment Professional, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
Tom Rand, Managing Partner, Arctern Ventures
Mike Rehberg, Senior Investment Manager, Dow Venture Capital
Riley Rodgers, Associate, Arctaris Capital Partners
Michael Staton, Partner, LearnCapital Venture Partners
Ned Stringham, Managing Director, 42 Ventures
Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners
Reese Schroeder, Managing Director, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
Kate Shillo, Director, Galvanize Ventures
Jeremy Sohn, Venture Partner, MPM Capital
Lutz Stoeber, Investment Director, Evonik Venture Capital
Julia Taxin, Vice President, Grotech Ventures
Tibor Toth, Managing Director of Investments, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Sonali Vijayavargiya, Founder and Managing Director, Augment Ventures
Patrick Walsh, Director, Intel Capital
Brien Walton, Chief Investment Officer, Jefferson Education Fund
Kristina Wang, Analyst, F-Prime Capital Partners
David Ward, Managing Partner, MTI Ventures
Jan Westerhues, Venture Partner, Robert Bosch Venture Capital
Troy Williams, President & General Manager, Macmillan New Ventures
Keith Witek, Managing Director, AMD Ventures
Lucy Yu, Senior Associate, Rethink Education
Greg Zaic, Principal, NMT Capital
Chris Zock, Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Partners
2GreenEnergy has made special arrangement for our network to receive a special discount of 10% off the existing “early bird” rates.
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In addition to providing access to leading Investors, the conference will feature more than 50 pre-screened early stage companies seeking capital, and hardcore networking.
This conference will be attended by the best people in the industry. Please register early to avoid disappointment.
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A select group of 50 Top Innovators from the BioTech, Life Sciences, CleanTech, Edtech and Technology sectors will be chosen to present their breakthrough investment opportunities to an exclusive audience of Venture Capitalists, Private Investors, Investment Bankers, Corporate Investors, and Strategic Partners.
The deadline for presenting company applications is November 5th, 2015.
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Entrepreneurs: Regular: $395 | At the Door: $790
Investors: Regular: $495 | At the Door: $990)
Service Providers: Regular: $695 | At the Door: $1,390)
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Burns and Levinson, LLP., Pepper Hamilton, LLP., The National Science Foundation, Motorola Solutions, Abingworth, Arctaris, BASF, Evonik Industries, Bosch, KPMG, 1on1 Development, Withum Smith and Brown, PC., Mongotel, Talentica, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Flextronics, Center for Israeli Innovation, Fundación DPT, Shufflrr, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, Get Response, Pitchbook, Israel Startup Network, Tech River, Association of Cleantech Incubators of New England, Freemind, Silicon Valley Startup Incubation and Acceleration Network, Startup One Stop, Indiana Health Industry Forum, BC Innovation Council, The Startup Magazine, Communitech, Cape Cod Technology Council, and RocketSpace.
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I get invitations to attend what I call meet-&-bleat events all over the world and I do not have the time nor money to pump up global warming via the purchase of plane tickets for any long distance travel, and even if I did attend there would be no one there that could get their heads around what I was trying to explain. There was a special program on TV the other evening on Sigmund Freud who explored and explained the human mind more thoroughly than any other person who came before him or after.
His contributions to psychology are vast. Freud was one of the most influential people of the twentieth century and his enduring legacy has explained not only psychology, but everything people think and do.
Freud’s work was dominated by his attempts to find ways of penetrating this often subtle and elaborate camouflage that obscures the hidden structure and processes of a persons mental personality. Reading Freud’s writing leads me to better understand that people are essentially predisposed to overlook things that they don’t really understand nor much like, and they think that all of the man-made catastrophes were provoked by ‘bad’ individuals, which really isn’t the case. In short it isn’t the people who sell us the products that are destroying life on earth that are at fault, it’s the people who like using them and using what’s now being called willful denial about it. People are refusing to accept that if we would just do it we could do an awful lot to right this ship but we can’t because our brains control our thinking instead of the other way around.
Willful blindness is very perilous and may doom humanity.
Iain Patton is a global sustainability engagement consultant based in London. Iain is the Founder and Director of Ethical Team. He’s a Social Entrepreneur, Climate Crusader, Sustainability Communications Consultant and Co-Founder of the coveted International Green Awards™.
Like me Iain believes “the cure for what ails us has to be centered around waste and the unbridled self-centered ego that is leading us to over consume and waste the resources of our tiny blue dot world to oblivion. I’m not going to waste fossil fuels by purchasing airplane tickets to meet and bleat with people who I could far easier communicate via the internet…
The distributed energy technology I’m pushing is the one and only technology that can keep any society that is dependent on a main power grid immune from cyber attack and massive sun spot explosions and terrorist attack while also powering society on extraction of carbon from the atmosphere. But do you think people want to understand why that is so enough to listen and think about it? Nope. I’ve tried to explain how and why this is so and get people to think about it and they will not do so. This is because their minds are in control and are well programed to base their perceptions on their history, not on what is possible.
If someone wants to attend this upcoming New England Venture Summit and advocate what I’m proposing please do contact me and let me explain how we can proceed and do so in a way that will reward them for their willingness to act in the world’s interests, it and only if they are able to initiate a discussion that leads to some breakthrough for my breakthrough energy and environmental technology.
Les,
Your response to Craig’s kind invitation was as churlish as your rant is bizarre ! It’s not surprising that no one has any interest in you, or the poorly conceived crackpot scheme you are advocating.
The first lesson any hopeful entrepreneur must learn, is the ability to establish amicable communication with fellow humans. (Only when you’re old and rich you can afford to become curmudgeonly).
If you want to attract others to support your idea you must keep the message simple, free from irrelevant distractions and most importantly, about the benefits to others, not just a rant about your own egocentrics.
(Either that, or find yourself a Beer Cellar)
LOL.
Well done Craig !
The ninth New England Venture Summit is an interesting and worthwhile showcase for opportunities in new technology, and an excellent venue to meet, learn and exchange idea’s as well as network with some fascinating people.
Congratulations on your participation as a sponsor.
Unfortunately, I can’t attend this year as my December schedule is already full, but as a previous attendee, I can really recommend this Boston event to anyone interested in new tech funding, or just new tech opportunities, and the people in the industry.
Events like these take a great deal of organization and relay on the participation of sponsors. Craig is to be commended for sponsorship and the opportunity he has offered his readers.
Thanks very much.
Speaking about the benefits that those who refuse to disclose their names cannot seem to get their heads around, consider this;
Community Supported Energy projects offer yet another advantage; they retain a greater amount of income in the local area and increase the economic benefits substantially over projects owned by out-of-area developers, according to a study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the Government Accountability Office. NREL compared the effect of large corporate wind farms owned out of area with similar projects owned locally.
Benefits of Community Supported Energy
For Local Distribution Grids & Micro-grids
Community Supported Energy Potential
Over the last few years, the concept of having smaller-scale energy sources dispersed over a grid has gained a considerable amount of interest. Innovations in the technology and a changing economic and regulatory environment have been main drivers behind this growing interest in new concept distributed generation technologies. In many liberalized energy markets, distributed generation has offered a variety of benefits to market participants and has given customers choices in the electricity services best suited for them. Many distributed generation technologies like micro-turbines and fuel cells are quite well known and being developed all across the world. However, now there is another new concept in technology that has become feasible only in last few years and is being developed to supply locally generated alternative energy, improve voltage control as well as power quality, address carbon emissions and energy security. The concept is community supported distributed energy supply to the distribution grid or to a micro-grid.
A power distribution grid supplies a town or city while a micro-grid is a much smaller-scale power supply network, designed to provide power to few buildings, a village, or a community. Adding cleaner power to distribution grids and micro-grids offer the promise of substantial environmental benefits, brought about by higher energy efficiency and by facilitating the integration of renewable sources such as photovoltaic arrays, wind turbines or biomass. By close matching between the load and power generation, distributed energy, fed to distribution grids and microgrids, during peak load periods have a positive impact on main grid electricity networks, by offering a potentially significant level of renewable generation by localized and on demand energy sources. Although the ownership and operation issues for the distribution grid and the micro-grid concept have yet to be addressed, one way forward might be for a the distribution grid and the micro-grid to become intrinsically a local “cooperative” venture. In such systems, consumers may also be the suppliers and achieve a more imaginative approach to load management. This may be possible in the joint interests of cost and efficiency.
Experiences in the last decade have shown that in order to accelerate the connection rate of distributed generation, be it conventional or renewable, it is necessary to either provide new incentives to generation network operators or alternatively to mandate the connection of community generation under a regime of preferential feed in tariffs. In the long term, there is no doubt community supported generation technology will become more competitive as the price of fossil fuel rises due to their ever growing demand worldwide.
There is clearly a lot more that must be done to support innovation in community supported generation in general,, especially from the perspective of integrating local self sufficiency and clean alternative energy in the planning and operation of transmission and distribution networks.
Community Supported Energy Offers Many Benefits
March 12, 2007
by Greg Pahl, Vermont Biofuels Association, Co-Founder
We have the necessary resources to meet most of our energy needs in the future with renewable energy. Until fairly recently one key strategy has, for the most part, been overlooked in North America. This innovative strategy involves the cooperative and collaborative installation and ownership of advanced renewable energy projects at the local, community level.
When applied to wind power for example, this strategy falls in between the large-scale commercial wind farm and the small-scale residential wind turbine, and has been described as “The Third Way.” This middle strategy, also referred to as Community Supported Wind, relies on somewhat smaller scale projects that are developed, sited and owned by members of the local community rather than out-of-state corporate entities.
Community Supported Wind could fill a huge gap in the present wind power sector. And this approach is not limited to wind power, but can be applied to virtually any type of local renewable energy project such as solar thermal or photovoltaic panels, biogas digesters, a variety of biofuels production facilities, geothermal or geoelectric projects, and small-scale hydro.
When applied to a wide variety of renewable energy technologies, this strategy is sometimes known as Community Supported Energy (CSE). CSE projects are somewhat similar to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). The main difference, however, is that instead of investing in potatoes, carrots, or cucumbers, with CSE, local residents invest in energy projects that provide greater energy security and a wide variety of other benefits.
Many Advantages
A cooperative or community owned energy project offers many advantages. It stimulates the local economy by creating new jobs and new business opportunities for the community while simultaneously expanding the tax base and generating new income for local residents. A locally owned energy project also generates support from the community by getting people directly involved.
Another advantage of community energy projects is that they can be owned cooperatively or collectively through a variety of legal mechanisms. Ownership strategies can include limited liability corporations (LLCs), cooperatives, school districts, municipal utilities or other municipal entities, or combinations of these models. Sometimes a partnership with an existing utility can be mutually beneficial.
An excellent example of this approach is the prominent, commercial-scale wind turbine located on Toronto’s (Ontario) harbor front that is 50 percent owned by WindShare, a 427-member cooperative of local residents, while the other half is owned by Toronto Hydro Energy Services. While the appropriate model will differ from project to project and from state to state (or province), depending on a wide range of variables, what these strategies all have in common is some form of community ownership and group benefit.
The main point is to identify the project as belonging to the community, which may avoid (or at least minimize) the usual conflicts between local residents and developers, whose large-scale, commercial proposals are often viewed as primarily benefiting absentee owners. Local ownership is the key ingredient that transforms what would otherwise be just another corporate energy project into an engine for greater energy security that directly benefits its owners — the members of the community.
Community Supported Energy projects offer yet another advantage; they retain a greater amount of income in the local area and increase the economic benefits substantially over projects owned by out-of-area developers, according to a study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the Government Accountability Office. NREL compared the effect of large corporate wind farms owned out of area with similar projects owned locally.
The study found local ownership yielded an average of $4 million in local income annually, over three times more than the $1.3 million produced with out-of-area control, while job creation was more than twice as large in the local model.*