GoingGreen Silicon Valley

The fourth annual GoingGreen Silicon Valley, is being held on September 13-15, 2010 in San Francisco. The two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities. 

Green technology innovators are transforming trillion dollar industries-and the solutions they are delivering not only promise to clean up pollution and restore ecosystems, but also to bring abundance and prosperity to everyone on earth. 

In fundamental areas-water, energy, and land-resource abundance is just around the corner through the power of technology and free markets.  Readers of Down the Avenue and Blog The World are invited to attend for a third of the original cost. 

Speakers include:

Jeff Byron, Commissioner, California Energy Commission 

Ray Rothrock, Partner, Venrock 

Brian Steel, Senior Director, Corporate Development & Strategy, PG&E 

Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials

 Anup Jacob, Partner, Virgin Green Fund 

Kevin Genieser, Head of Clean Energy Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley 

Marc van den Berg, Managing Director, Vantage Point Venture Partners 

Raj Atluru, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson 

Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner, Technology Partners 

Jane Wu, President, Global Operations, Comtec Solar 

Reyad Fezzani, CEO, BP Solar 

Tom Tiller, CEO, Abound Solar 

Laura Shenkar, Director, The Artemis Project 

Andy Seidel, CEO, Presidio Underground Systems 

William Westcott, VP Innovation, Americas, Veolia Environment 

Fatemeh Shirazi, Microvi Biotech Inc., Founder & President 

Nadav Efraty, CEO, Desalitech 

Kevin Skillern, Managing Director, Venture Capital, GE Energy Financial Services 

Joe Laia, CEO, Miasole 

Marc Porat, Chairman, Serious Materials, ZETA Communities and CalStar Products 

Atul Thakrar, President & CEO, Segetis, Inc.

Brent Constantz, CEO & Founder, Calera Corporation 

Rao Mulpuri, CEO, Soladigm, Inc. 

Elise Zoli, Partner, Goodwin Procter 

Matthew Trevithick, Partner, Venrock 

John Grizz Deal, CEO, Hyperion Power Generation Inc. 

Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson 

Craig Lobdell, Partner, KPMG 

Ravi Viswanathan, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates 

Marianne Wu, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures 

Joe Dews, Managing Director, Think Equity, LLC 

Ashmeet Sidana, General Partner, Foundation Capital 

Mark Fischetti, Board of Editors, Scientific American Magazine 

Vinod Khosla, Managing General Partner, Khosla Ventures 

David Demers, CEO, Founder, Westport Power, Inc. 

John Melo, CEO, Amyris Biotechnologies 

John Gimigliano, Partner, Energy & Sustainability, KPMG 

Colin Stewart, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley 

Trae Vassallo, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 

Jennifer Fonstaad, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson 

Michael Goguen, Partner, Sequoia Capital 

Rich Lechner, VP, Energy & Environment, IBM 

.....and countless others..........