SJF Summit on the New Green Economy

Starts: Tuesday June 02, 2009 at 8:00am
Ends: Wednesday June 03, 2009 at 5:00pm
Event Type: Conference
Region: Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
Location: Durham Marriott Convention Center
201 Foster St
Durham, NC 27701 US
Price: $275 or $195 for NPOs and Gov't
Website: http://www.sjfund.com/?id=335
Industry: venture capital
Keywords: Cleantech Venture Capital Green Jobs Community Development Entrepreneur Investment Carbon Recycling Solar Energy
Intended For: Investors, entrepreneurs, developers, service providers, management
Organization: SJF Ventures and SJF Advisory Services

After four successful annual Cleantech CEO Panels, SJF is expanding our event in 2009. This event, featuring keynotes by Nicholas Parker of Cleantech Group LLC, Jeff Wolfe of groSolar, Majora Carter of Majora Carter Group, NC State Treasurer Janet Cowell and Martin Eakes of Self-Help Credit Union, brings private company CEOs and investors together with government and community leaders. Join us and be inspired by innovative businesses and organizations which are creating green jobs, and take away useful strategies, policies and best practices for your company, organization or region.

Comments (23)

  • Happy to attend.

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Mike Caslin, Chairman, URGENT VC & Faculty Member, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College
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  • Great roster of CEOs of leading cleantech companies from across U.S speaking, including CleanScapes, Intechra, Salvage Direct, groSolar, Native Energy, Biogen, Clean Power Finance, Southern Energy Management, Prenova, Thrift Recycling Management and many more!

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    David Kirkpatrick, Managing Director at SJF Ventures
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  • I am looking forward to participating. The Center for Economic Options (CEO) is developing a new model - the Green Business Accelerator - in West Virginia and we hope to learn, share, and make good connections at this event. CEO's website is: www.economicoptions.org

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Pam Curry, Social Entrepreneur
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  • I look forward to meeting other folks passionate about green economy opportunities for North Carolina. For those of you who could not attend the North Carolina State Energy Office's 6th Annual Sustainable Energy Conference, the presentations are now available on our website at www.energync.net. Many of the sessions were focused on cleantech, the green economy, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as related to energy.

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Chuck Sathrum, Energy Industry Executive
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  • I'll just be returning from InterSolar - Germany. I look forward to sharing the latest from Europe as well as the US in my Keynote Wednesday on how solar creates green jobs while also fighting climate change and creating energy security.

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Jeff Wolfe, Co-founder, groSolar
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  • This article in the NY Times yesterday discusses the increasing investor interest in capital-efficient cleantech business models, a focus of SJF Ventures'investment strategy. You'll be able to hear from a number of cleantech CEOs with capital efficient-downstream business models at the Summit! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/technology/start-ups/11green.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Bonny Moellenbrock, Executive Director at SJF Advisory Services
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  • Seems like a great range of discussion topics and speakers. I'm keen to speak with entrepreneurs that are bringing software and internet enhanced business solutions to bear on cleantech.

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Arrun Kapoor, Senior Associate, SJF Ventures - Cleantech, tech-enabled services, and premium consumer products
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  • This just-released announcement gives a lot of good information on the SJF Summit on the New Green Economy. http://www.csrwire.com/News/15448.html

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Anne Claire Broughton, Senior Director at SJF Advisory Services
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  • looking forward to meeting impact investors from the south

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Kevin Doyle Jones, Building the social capital market
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  • I will be attending with Sarah Morgan from the Lyndhurst Foundation. Chattanooga has some really exciting Cleantech stuff happening. Because of this we are creating a Cleantech corridor on the Southside of Chattanooga. We are excited to come to this conference and we are really looking forward to meeting some of the best in the industry. If anyone has any ideas about people we should see before we leave, please let me know. Thanks!

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Sheldon Grizzle, SpringBoard Director at CreateHere
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  • I look forward to re-connecting with some of the folks from the sustainable business meeting Katy Ansardi convened in Chapel Hill yesterday! And I always hope to discover some "green" entrepreneurship opportunities for rural NC.

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Leslie Scott, entrepreneurship director at N.C. Rural Center
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  • I am looking forward to attending the Summit and meeting some Venture Capital groups and foundations with green tech in mind. ARI Green Energy, Inc is a startup company in wind power for residetial and light industrial applications. We are currently seeking venture capital partners. Please drop me a note if you would like to meet and chat during the SJF Summit.

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Anne Li, President at ARI Renewable Energy Co
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  • I'm interested in who has corporate strategies for sustainability that include cost/energy/water reduction technologies; who is buying cleantech and how they are approaching it.

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Kathryn James (Stefanski), Owner, GreenEarth Designs
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  • Pleased to be learning and sharing thoughts with participants about the new green economy and green jobs Join our funders strategy session on Tuesday!. Looks like a great event!

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Dana Lanza, Consultant: MIssion Related Investing Initiative at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
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  • Pleased to be learning and sharing thoughts with participants about the new green economy and green jobs Join our funders strategy session on Tuesday!. Looks like a great event!

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Dana Lanza, Consultant: MIssion Related Investing Initiative at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
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  • SJF Ventures has launched a new blog on cleantech investing at http://www.cleantechinvesting.com! SJF staff will be blogging live from the Summit next week. Take a look and let us know what you think.

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    Posted 6 months ago
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    Anne Claire Broughton, Senior Director at SJF Advisory Services
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  • I am pleased to represent the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority and to participate in the SJF Cleantech summit this year.

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    Posted 5 months ago
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    ANDREA SCHROER, Governor's Internship at Georgia Energy Innovation Center
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  • Pleased to be participating and looking forward to sharing what's working for our company and hearing/being inspired by the others.

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    Posted 5 months ago
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    mark wilson, Owner, ryla teleservices
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  • Am looking forward to learning and sharing. I am part of www.georgiagreenloans.org

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    Posted 5 months ago
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    Grace Covington Fricks, President and CEO at Appalachian Community Enterprises
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  • I look forward to discussing with financial leaders the feedbacks between state energy policy drivers / electric regulation and finance and investment in clean energy projects and growth of the efficiency and renewables industries.

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    Posted 5 months ago
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    Ivan Urlaub, Executive Director at NC Sustainable Energy Association
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  • Safe travels to all joining us in Durham, weather is beautiful - we have 350 cleantech-green jobs-entrepreneurial leaders coming from around the U.S.!

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    Posted 5 months ago
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    David Kirkpatrick, Managing Director at SJF Ventures
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  • Looking forward to learning from all that are attending.

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    Posted 5 months ago
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    Lindsay Lovelace, Business Developer at Weaver Cooke Construction
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  • Thank you to all who joined us, what a wonderful, energizing, inspiring two days -- looking forward to continuing our work together!

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    Posted 5 months ago
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    David Kirkpatrick, Managing Director at SJF Ventures
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