Cleantech Forum Beijing

The size of China's green stimulus program is historically unprecedented at about 38% of the over $200 billion announced, and underpinning the country's rise as the largest emerging cleantech market. And, China is positioned to benefit from receiving capital and support for technology transfer and cooperation at the Copenhagen climate negotiations.

The race to reinvent the world starts and ends in China

As its solar industry's breathtaking growth indicates the Middle Kingdom is arriving as an incubator of worldclass cleantech companies, the scale of China's energy and environmental challenges, combined with its deep financial resources, creates a unique opportunity to shape and accelerate market adoption of cleantech innovation globally.

The 3rd annual China Cleantech Forum at the Grand Hyatt Beijing will convene up to 500 Chinese and international policy, corporate, investment, technology and entrepreneurial leaders at a unique, timely and dynamic moment.

Entrepreneurs, corporations, investors, innovators and economic development agencies agree that:

• The China job market and trade opportunities are becoming more competitive
• Copenhagen signals a new era and style of political engagement, with China leading and collaborating
• China will produce home-grown technology ventures
• China is a critical end-market for western-based companies to hit a J-curve, as their own economies adjust to a period of benign growth

Come to Cleantech Forum XXV to harness the opportunities and take on the challenges that the Chinese cleantech initiatives represent. As the world needs to engage with Chinese innovators and investors, China has no choice but to collaborate with the global cleantech sector because:

• China is the largest emitter of carbon in the world and the fasting growing developing economy in the world,
• China makes more investments in wind, solar & nuclear than the rest of the world combined, and
• China is fundamentally re-conceptualizing human transportation

The Chinese cleantech sector is a test-case for policy, capital and technology transfer successfully coming together, and a lynch-pin to the global climate change agreement.

Over 2 days Cleantech Forum XXV will explore:

• The macro-factors impacting China and global cleantech – Copenhagen and technology transfer/cooperation
• International viewpoints on China – hear from non-Chinese companies, large and small, to whom China is strategically important
• What can the rest of the world offer Chinese companies’ growth strategies?
• The growth of local entrepreneurism – meet some of the hottest local ventures looking for capital

Register for what has become the most important annual clean technology industry event in China »

CEOs and other thought leaders from previous Cleantech Forums

	Dr. Sultan al Jaber CEO, of the $15 billion Masdar Initiative		Robert Bernard Chief Environmental Strategist Microsoft		David Blood Managing Partner Generation Investment Management
	Hillary Clinton Senator State of New York		Gregory S. Curhan President Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.		John Doerr General Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
	Stephan Dolezalek Managing Partner VantagePoint Venture Partners		Steven Fludder Vice President GE Ecomagination		Mark Heesen President National Venture Capital Association
	Ko Kheng Hwa Managing Director Singapore Economic Development Board		Dr. Arun Jaura CTO and Head of Innovation and Global Advanced Technologies Mahindra & Mahindra		Daniel Kammen Energy and Resources Group Goldman School of Public Policy
	Neel Kashkhari Special Advisor Department of Treasury		Ravi Khanna CEO Moser Baer Photovoltaic		Vinod Khosla Founding Partner Khosla Ventures
	Jeff Leonard President & CEO Global Environment Fund		Jeffrey Lipton Managing Director Jefferies & Co.		Chetan Maini Founder Reva Electric Car Company
	Debashish Majumdar Chairman IREDA		Sean Maloney Executive VP Intel Corporation		Chuck McDermott General Partner RockPort Capital Partners
	Shri Vilas Muttemwar Minister Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India		Win Neuger Chief Investment Officer AIG		Lord Ronald Oxburgh Chairman Shell
	Dr. Avinash Patkar Chief Sustainability Officer TATA Power		Arno Penzias, PhD. Nobel Laureate Venture Partner New Enterprise Associates		Karthik Ranganathan Head of Investments Baring India
	Andy Ruben VP of Corporate Strategy and Sustainability Wal-Mart, Inc		Partho Sanyal Director Bank of America		Dr. Zhengrong Shi CEO Suntech Power Holdings Company
	Sandeep Singhal Managing Director Nexus India Capital		Saurabh Srivastava Chairman Indian Venture Capital Association		Erik Straser Managing Partner Mohr Davidow Ventures
	Hon. Maurice Strong former Under Secretary General United Nations		Lady Barbara Thomas Judge Chairman UK Atomic Energy Authority		Mossadiq Umedaly Serial Clean Energy Entrepreneur and Chairman BC Hydro
	Vijay Vaitheeswaran Technology Correspondent The Economist		Ravi Viswanathan Partner New Enterprise Associates		Kevin Walsh Managing Director GE
	Robert Watson Chairman & CEO EcoTech International Group		Peter Williams CTO IBM Big Green		Jan-Olaf Willums Chairman Th!nk
	Hon. John Wilkinson Minister of Research and Information Government of Ontario, MPP for Perth-Wellington		Jim Hildebrandt CEO Bain Capital Asia		Don Ye Managing Partner China Environment Fund

Seven years of global clean technology market leadership

Cleantech Forum XXV Beijing is one of the Cleantech Group's five premier events each year across North America, Europe, China and India. The Forums provide insight, investment opportunities and unparalleled networking for the world's leading investors, growth companies and global corporations.

Who should attend Cleantech Forum XXV in Beijing?

Investors:

• Limited partners & investment banks
• Venture capitalists, angels, corporate and institutional investors
• Hedge fund and private equity managers
• Project financiers and asset managers

Industry leaders and influencers:

• Corporate energy and sustainability executives
• Cleantech entrepreneurs
• Utility and industry executives
• Professional service providers such as lawyers, accountants and consultants
• Governments, economic development councils, policy makers, scientists and researchers

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