CLEANTECH FORUM XIV

Alert, alert! If you’re a cleantech company looking to present at the upcoming Cleantech Forum in Toronto, October 24 to 26, then you’ve only got a few more days left to register. Companies present on Thursday, October 25, and the event is ideal if you have a clean technology product or service and are looking for $2 million to $50 million in investment.

Here’s how the folks at Cleantech pitch it: Starting with our selection committee through the presenter boot camp and all the way to the forum attendees, you’ll be exposed and networking with the top names in cleantech investing. When you apply your executive summary will be screened by our Forum Selection Committee which is a selection of traditional and cleantech investors, including @ Ventures, Battelle Ventures, Blue Hill Ventures, Calyon Securities, Chrysalix Energy, D.E. Shaw, Emerald Technology Ventures, NREL and SJF Ventures.

For chosen companies, the registration fee includes a pre-conference boot camp where you give your pitch to 6-7 top VCs who critique your presentation for style, content, flow, etc. With the Cleantech Forum you have the exclusive focus of an audience of 600-650 cheque writers. The early deadline for applying is August 9, and the late deadline August 18. For more information and a link to an application, click here. I personally want to promote this event because it’s a chance for Toronto and southern Ontario to finally put a bright spotlight on its cleantech successes. I also expect several major cleantech-related announcement to come out of this event, and perhaps we’ll see the formal birth of a cleantech cluster initiative for southern Ontario.

CANSIA 2007 SOLAR

A sign that the solar market is no longer a cottage industry in Canada is that the Canadian Solar Industries Association has decided to hold its annual conference this year in Toronto instead of Ottawa. This is significant, because it means less emphasis on educating and wooing politicians and more emphasis on raising money and market profile. Toronto, after all, is the financial heart of Canada and Ontario’s capital. Since the province has been a leader in solar — that is, announcing standard offer program for solar; plans to build massive solar farms, and offering other incentives — it makes sense to bring the show to Toronto. So here are the details: November 18 to 21, at the Holiday Inn on King Street.

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