Sponsors
The Clean Energy Incubator and Austin Energy proudly announce sponsorship opportunities for the third annual Clean Energy Venture Summit: “Bringing the Smart Grid to Life”, scheduled for October 14-15, 2009 in Austin, Texas. The Summit provides clean energy technology companies and entrepreneurs a venue for presenting their innovations to venture capitalists, Angel investors, and strategic investors that currently invest in clean energy, along with experts from Austin Energy, corporate partners, other utility executives and government leaders.
This year’s theme “Bringing the Smart Grid to Life” directly relates to efforts from the Pecan Street Project. The Pecan Street Project (PSP) is Austin’s city-wide clean energy laboratory, the largest in the nation and the only place where researchers and entrepreneurs can come to develop, test and implement the Smart Grid.
A series of moderated panel discussions will focus on clean energy innovations in the key PSP focus areas, including: demand management, transportation and storage, energy efficiency, distributed generation and renewable energy. Daily keynote speakers will include leaders of industry who are innovating the smart grid arena. Meals and social mixers round out your opportunities to learn, influence, educate and associate with peers from around the country.
We expect over 500 participants, including early-stage clean technology company leaders and investors. We hope you will join our team and help sponsor this wonderful event.
If you are interested in being a sponsor, please contact:
Laura Benold, Clean Energy Venture Summit Director
512.922-2559 (m)
512.305.0022 (o)
lbenold@ati.utexas.edu
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Austin Energy is the nation’s 9th largest public power electric utility with more than 400,000 customers and $1.2 billion in annual revenues. Austin Energy is a leader nationwide in the use and promotion of clean energy technologies. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, for example, has ranked Austin Energy’s GreenChoice® program #1 in the nation for the last seven years in a row for the most sales by a utility-sponsored green power program. The Green Building program, started in 1991, was the first program of its kind in the country to rate buildings by the number of energy-efficient features that are incorporated into their design and construction. The Utility’s energy-efficiency programs are the most comprehensive in the nation and since 1982 have collectively offset the need to build an 850 megawatt power plant. Austin Energy also led the Plug-In Partners National Campaign to demonstrate to automakers that there is nationwide support by consumers for the manufacture of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to lessen our dependence on foreign oil and reduce greenhouse gases. The Utility has joined with the Clean Energy Incubator to beta test clean energy technologies to support the development of clean energy companies in Central Texas that will benefit both our economy and environment. |
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The ATI Clean Energy Incubator (CEI) gives young clean energy companies the resources they need to succeed and grow into self-sustaining entities that contribute jobs to Austin and intellectual capital to the world. Located in Austin, Texas, CEI provides the resources and facilities necessary for start-ups to attract funding, aggressively compete in the free market, and turn ideas into reality.
Clean Energy Incubator members and alums include venture focusing on the development or commercialization of proprietary technology in areas including renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy management, distributed resources, energy storage, fuel cells, microturbines, power quality, alternative fuels, and transportation. CEI can serve as a talent pipeline for its member companies.
Since 2002, CEI has served 18 companies within the renewable and energy efficiency sectors; more specifically, these companies range from geothermal power and biofuels, to wind energy and water conservation. With CEI's assistance, companies fill in knowledge gaps and build stronger business propositions, helping to increase their chance for success. Current member companies can be found on our portfolio page.
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At IBM, our priority is to help utility companies transform energy, environmental and sustainability issues into opportunities that positively impact the world.
Today, IBM experts are working with utility companies globally to accelerate the adoption of smart grids that make them more reliable and more efficient. IBM is involved in seven of the world's ten largest automated meter management projects. We are at the forefront of the development of an Intelligent Utility Network, which helps leading utility companies to fundamentally transform the way power is generated, distributed and used. And, IBM has developed the Smart Grid Maturity Model, a proven framework used by utilities to plan their smart grid transformation. From network revitalization, to asset management, to plant operations; IBM offers smarter solutions, practices and technology that help utilities transform into new symbols of power in the 21st century. To learn more about smarter solutions for smarter energy, visit ibm.com/energy. |
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TXU Energy is a market-leading competitive retailer that provides electricity and related services to more than 2.2 million electricity customers in Texas. TXU Energy offers a variety of innovative products and solutions, allowing both its residential and business customers to choose options that best meet their needs, including exceptional customer service, competitively priced electricity service plans, innovative energy efficiency options, renewable energy programs and other electricity-related products and services. As a leader in energy conservation and environmental stewardship, TXU Energy is delivering on a five-year commitment to invest $100 million in innovative tools to help customers use less energy and manage their electricity bills. This commitment has helped bring several products and services to market, including the TXU Energy Power Monitor™ and iThermostat™ home energy management devices, Time-of-Use service plans, and the TXU Energy Low Income Energy Efficiency Assistance Program. TXU Energy also offers renewable power that Texans can choose, a generous Distributed Renewable Energy Surplus Power Purchase program, along with leading customer initiatives like the TXU Energy Solar AcademySM and TXU Energy Urban Tree Farm, among others.
TXU Energy “walks the walk” regarding environmental stewardship, investing in several energy efficiency and green upgrades at the company’s Irving, Texas headquarters, which recently earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious ENERGY STAR® award. This signifies that the building’s energy performance rates in the top 25 percent of facilities nationwide. |
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's broad range of services and legal disciplines is focused on serving the principal challenges faced by the management and boards of directors of business enterprises. The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in the fields of corporate governance and finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities class action litigation, employment law, intellectual property, and antitrust, among many other areas of law. With long-standing roots in Silicon Valley, the firm has offices in Austin, New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, and Washington, D.C. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's energy and clean technology practice is built on the firm's leadership in the fields of corporate law, intellectual property counseling and patents, venture capital finance, project finance, technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions, energy regulation, tax, and real estate and environmental law. Our attorneys counsel companies and entrepreneurs creating and commercializing clean technologies in a wide variety of industry segments, including renewable energy (such as geothermal, wind, solar, ocean, biomass, and biofuel); fuel cell, battery, and other energy-storage technologies; distributed power generation systems; software, sensors, and controls; and grid management/interface enhancements. Experienced in issues involving climate change and strategic carbon counseling, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati also helps its clients both mitigate risks posed by global climate change and maximize opportunities created by the solutions to this issue. For additional information, please visit www.wsgr.com. |
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Winstead PC, one of the largest business law firms in Texas, is a trusted legal advisor and an early leader of the burgeoning clean technology and renewable energy industry. Winstead represents investors, lenders, utilities, developers, research institutes, universities, cooperatives, and municipalities, as well as some of the largest energy purchasers throughout the alternative energy and electricity industry sectors. Winstead Alternative Energy Industry Group Represents:
Winstead attorneys and consultants provide a core range of business and regulatory legal services, including business formation, financing, complex transactions, real estate, litigation, and intellectual property protection of critical innovations. |
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Andrews Kurth has counseled energy technology companies for more than a century. Our Technology and Emerging Companies Group is a dedicated team of attorneys providing focused representation to entrepreneurs and cutting edge start-ups from inception to IPO and beyond. We counsel energy and clean technology companies, venture capitalists, private equity firms, investment banks, lenders and traders on formation, operations and corporate governance matters; venture capital financings; public offerings; and mergers and acquisitions. |
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The Austin Chamber of Commerce represents the central Texas business community and targets clean energy as an industry sector for job growth and investment. The Pecan Street Project’s focus on creating a new energy system creates opportunities for new technologies and companies to form. PSP further enhances the robust clean tech ecosystem in Austin, which aids the Chamber’s mission of recruiting new companies to the region. Through PSP, the Chamber will have an opportunity to continue working with UT Austin, Austin Energy, EDF, and the local clean tech community on developing Austin into a global center of excellence in new energy technologies and policy implementation. |
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Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative is one of the largest electric cooperatives in Texas, serving Central Texas since 1939. Bluebonnet serves nearly 80,000 meters, and owns and maintains about 11,000 miles of power lines, located across more than 3,800 square miles within 14 Central Texas counties.
Bluebonnet’s Sustainable Grid™ is the concept of developing and expanding power delivery technologies to empower energy consumers with maximum control over energy use. A Sustainable Grid™ differs from both the current grid system and other Smart Grids in that it goes beyond the implementation of technology to encompass three main ideas: Net Energy Market™, Economic Development and Education Empowerment. |
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Brown McCarroll, L.L.P. is a multi-disciplinary law firm with offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and El Paso. We have extensive experience with risk management and project management and development for renewable and clean energy power generation sources. Brown McCarroll attorneys have historically advanced and shaped legislative and regulatory policy regarding Texas' electric market development and restructuring, renewable energy deployment and integration, and energy efficiency. For more information, visit: www.brownmccarroll.com. |
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Fulbright & Jaworski, a full-service international law firm, serves the needs of businesses, governments, non-profit organizations and individual clients around the world. Fulbright is one of the largest law firms in the United States with nearly 1,000 lawyers and more than 60 integrated practice areas. There are sixteen Fulbright locations worldwide, with international locations in Beijing, London, Munich, Hong Kong, Dubai and Riyadh. |
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The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is a nonprofit conservation and reclamation district that provides energy, water, and community services to Texans. Created by the Texas Legislature in 1934, LCRA has no taxing authority and operates solely on utility revenues and service fees. LCRA supplies electricity to more than 1.1 million Texans through more than 40 wholesale customers. LCRA also provides many other services in the region. These services include managing floods, protecting the quality of the lower Colorado River and its tributaries, providing parks and recreational facilities, offering economic development assistance, operating water and wastewater utilities, and providing soil, energy, and water conservation programs. |
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Mercom Capital Group, LLC is a public relations, public affairs and market intelligence firm specializing in clean energy. At Mercom, we help clean energy companies build powerful relationships with media, analysts, government decision-makers and local communities. We arm our clients with timely market intelligence to ensure their competitive position and overall success. Mercom Capital Group is located in Austin Texas with offices in Bangalore India. For more information about Mercom Capital Group, visit: http://www.mercomcapital.com. To get a copy of Mercom’s popular market intelligence reports covering solar and smart grid, visit: http://mercomcapital.com/market_intelligence.php |
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Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through design, sales and manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries. For more information, go to www.ti.com. |
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Austin, Texas-based anthonyBarnum is a full-service public relations and communications firm specializing in creating high-impact campaigns for companies in diverse sectors nationally and internationally. At anthonyBarnum, we work to expand the marketplace's understanding of your company's services, products and capabilities through the development of sophisticated campaigns that meet your public relations, reputation management and public affairs objectives. While serving national and international clients, we specialize in campaigns for emerging, mid-market and Fortune 500 companies. |
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Cedar Park is a great place for startups-as the third largest city in the Austin MSA, we have affordable office space, easy access to Austin, and a pro-business environment. We also have a workforce that is one of the most educated in Texas-over 40% of our community holds at least bachelors degree. That’s why Cedar Park is already home to many innovative clean-tech firms such as EEStor, Fallbrook Technologies, and Viryd Technologies. |
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HULSEY IP Intellectual Property Lawyers provides IP professionals for today’s new golden age of entrepreneurship and serves clients in legally protecting and commercializing new ideas for business and technology. We serve our clients’ needs economically and efficiently, keeping them informed on all stages of their matters’ progress. Our guiding principles are integrity, excellent work product, reasonable fees, continuing education, civility, community service. |
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JETRO is a catalyst for doing business with Japan. We are a Japanese governmental organization dedicated to strengthening trade and investment between Japan and other nations. JETRO has 38 offices in Japan and 72 overseas offices in 54 countries. JETRO Houston is one of six offices in the United States. JETRO recognizes the strategic imperative of clean energy for 21st century economic and environmental security for both Japan and the world. A global leader in renewable energy and clean technology, Japan’s firms and market offer superb business opportunities in green energy. |
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KUT 90.5FM, Austin’s 50 year old listener-supported public radio, is dedicated to be the most trusted radio source for news and music in Central Texas. A founding member of NPR, KUT also serves the community with award winning local news as well as a unique blend of hand picked Austin music. KUT offers Underwriters the ability to connect with the people who shape Austin and is ranked as a top public station in the US. For information on Austin-centric marketing: ksiliven@kut.org |
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Maxwell Locke & Ritter is the largest locally owned and managed accounting and consulting firm in the Greater Austin Area. Our mission is to help companies and people achieve their dreams by selecting Great People, serving Great Clients and focusing on Great Execution. We create an environment of open communication, honesty, compassion, respect, and active community participation. Through these efforts, our employees voted us one of Central Texas’ Best Places to Work six years running. |
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Patrick Basinski, a business lawyer in Austin, Texas, has been advising companies and investors located in Texas and around the world since 2001. In 2009, Basinski launched Basinski-Law: a legal services firm that delivers top-tier service and responsiveness in a flexible and cost-effective manner. Basinski-Law provides on-demand or ongoing advice on commercial and corporate matters to clients from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups in the cleantech, IT, retail, services, healthcare and energy industries. |
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The Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC) promotes the economic development of the city of Pflugerville. It accomplishes its mission by marketing Pflugerville as a desirable place for new businesses to operate, assisting existing businesses, and addressing their needs. The PCDC can provide funding for incentives to businesses to begin operating in Pflugerville; to construct needed infrastructure such as roads, utilities, and drainage projects; and for parks and recreation projects in the city. |
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Silicon Valley Bank is the premier commercial bank for companies in the technology, life science, venture capital and premium wine industries. SVB provides a comprehensive suite of financing solutions, treasury management, corporate investment and international banking services and serves clients around the world. SVB is a member of global financial services firm SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB), with SVB Analytics, SVB Capital, SVB Global and SVB Private Client Services. www.svb.com |
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Southwest Securities, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of SWS Group, Inc., the largest brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in the Southwest with nearly 1,200 employees and $4 billion in assets. SWS corporate finance bankers have been at the forefront of the Cleantech sector over the last several years, advising numerous public and private companies on financing and M&A transactions. More information about Southwest Securities’ Corporate Finance Group, including the backgrounds of its professionals, can be found at http://corporatefinance.swst.com. |
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SynEnergy Associates is a consortium of accomplished professionals providing solutions for clean and renewable energy companies. Consultants from SynEnergy Associates have experience in business development, finance, human resources, information technology, marketing, operations, and project management. Business services are customized to a client’s current needs and future goals. SynEnergy Associates’ mission is to accelerate the ability of “green” energy firms to capitalize on the multitude of market opportunities and ramp up production capabilities quickly and efficiently. |
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Established in 1976, the Texas Solar Energy Society is a non-profit organization committed to outreach and education on the benefits and efficacy of renewable energy for both residential and commercial applications. We host the annual Cool House Tour in Austin each year in addition to the Renewable Energy Round Up and Sustainable Living Fair in Fredericksburg, the last full weekend of September, the 25th – 27th. Visit us online at www.txses.org and www.theroundup.org for more information. |
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Austin Technology Council |
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Austin Clean Energy Incubator |
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Clean Energy Alliance (CEA) |
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Houston Technology Center (HTC); |
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McCombs Business School CleanTech Group |
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) |
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Office of Technology Commercialization, University of Texas |
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Pecan Street Project |
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PV-Tech.org |
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Renewable Energy Business Network (REBN) |
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Rice Alliance |
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Solar San Antonio |
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State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) |
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Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association (TREIA) |
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