Our next event will address Domestic Legislative Issues and how they affect Cleantech. The role of government, the role of private equity, navigating state and federal programs.

Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time: 6-8 pm
Venue: Prairie Star, 288 Prairie Star Rd, Bernalillo, NM
Directions: Map
Cost: $22.50 in advance (credit card payments); $25 at the door (cash and check only).

Our panelists will discuss Cleantech Federal and State policies; share their views on the prospects for proposed legislation in the 2011 Congress and on how private companies can navigate the Federal Cleantech regulatory landscape. Our distinguished speakers include experts at the Federal and NM State level as well as in the private and NGO sectors:

Derek B. Dorn, Staff Director, Finance Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources & Infrastructure and Senior Counsel for Economic Policy, Chairman Jeff Bingaman, Energy & Natural Resources Committee United States Senate
As a legislative lawyer and advisor in the U.S. Senate, Derek Dorn works at the crossroads of energy, tax, and economic development policy. He is deeply engaged in developing Federal incentives for clean, renewable energy; energy efficiency; and climate change mitigation – and in leveraging clean energy priorities for economic development. Since 2008, Mr. Dorn has served as Senior Counsel to Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM). Additionally, he serves as Staff Director of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources & Infrastructure (of which Senator Bingaman is also Chairman). In addition to his energy-related portfolio, Mr. Dorn is Chairman Bingaman’s principal adviser on tax, economic development, and pension policy. He handles related issues before three other Committees on which Senator Bingaman is a Senior Member: the Senate Finance; Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP); and Joint Economic Committees. Prior to joining Senator Bingaman’s staff, Mr. Dorn was Counsel to Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT). Earlier, he managed the legal, economic and regulatory affairs practice of Gerson Lehrman Group, a global investment research firm, where he worked with buy-side investors to execute customized due diligence projects. Mr. Dorn began his legal career practicing tax, trust, and estate law, first with Milbank Tweed and then Patterson Belknap in New York. A New York City native, Mr. Dorn received a B.S., with honors in labor economics, from Cornell University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Since 2008, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

Ken Eisner, Managing Director, OE Ventures at One Economy
In this role, Ken Eisner heads up business development with private sector partners, launches social ventures that leverage technology to connect low-income individuals and small businesses to the economic mainstream. Over the past two decades, Mr. Eisner has been vice president of marketing for e-commerce bookseller VarsityBooks.com, helping to drive them to their IPO in addition to launching their marketing services division; strategic advisor to Nextel, helping to launch their Boost prepaid offering; head of e-commerce and operations for a multi-carrier wireless company; and head of marketing and sales for the largest global e-commerce association. Mr. Eisner has a BA from Cornell and MPP (Masters in Public Policy) and MBA from Georgetown.

The NM Nominee for Secretary of Energy; TBA

Meet leadership in emerging innovation, global trends and opportunities across the new energy spectrum.

GLOBAL NEW ENERGY SUMMIT
March 21-23, 2010
Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Lunch Keynote:
“Toward a More Objective Means of Technological Choice”
J. Doyne Farmer, Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Partial Speaker List:

Directors of Energy Programs, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oakridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories

Susan Rochford, SVP, Energy and Sustainability, Council on Competitiveness

Robert Wegener, Secretary of Energy, State of Oklahoma

Pablo Otin Pintado, Country Manager GA, Solar

Dick Williams, President, Shell WindEnergy, Inc.

Carl Huslig, Executive Director, ITC Grid Development

Rob Peterman, Head of Clean Energy Group, Toronto Stock Exchange

Mike Mendez, VP of Technology, Sapphire Energy

Andy Chu, VP Marketing and Communication, A123 Systems

For more information or to register, visit http://gnes2010.rmtech.org/

Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Location: UNM Campus, Albuquerque
Jackson Student Center – Building 87
(next to the Anderson School of Business Building – Building 76)
Map Link (UNM Campus Map)

About the Speaker

Dr. Lowell Catlett is a Regent’s Professor/Dean and Chief Administrative Officer at New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. An exciting futurist, his knowledge of technologies and their implications on the way we will live and work is addressed in his varied and upbeat presentations. Dr. Catlett works on behalf of corporate and association audiences internationally, presenting his take on trends in healthcare, agriculture, the environment, education and more.

Dr. Catlett received his doctorate in Economics from Iowa State University, and has twice received the Don C. Roush Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Burlington Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding University Teaching. In 1994 he was one of two Western Regional recipients of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges “Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences Award.”

He recently received the College of Agriculture and Home Economics Advisor of the Year as well as Teacher of the Year at New Mexico State University. He was one of six senior faculty members to be named New Mexico State’s first Regents Professors.

He is a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, the Interior, Defense and Labor. He has also been a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies.

Those who missed the event may be interested in the content of certain sessions. Even those of you who attended may have missed a session or two you were interested in. Please click on this link to access these video and slide files.

In addition, there has been interest from a number of folks to continue conversations started at the Summit and contribute to next year’s planning. We have created a LinkedIn group to help facilitate sustaining and growing the community of interest around New Energy and the Summit. LinkedIn seems to be the most professional way to grow a community of interest that preserves the business nature of the relationships and conversations.

I hope you will consider joining and participating in this group. Start a discussion topic of interest (solar, wind, smart grid, etc.) or contribute to one. Activity will create “energy” and ideas.

Date: Thursday, November 19
Time: 6 – 8 pm
Venue: Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM
Map: Google Map
$20 in advance (credit cards payments)
$25 at the door (cash and check only)

Senator Jeff Bingaman
Chairman, Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Senator Jeff Bingaman shares his insight on how we can advance the role of New Mexico in helping meet the energy needs of the nation.

Panelists
Jason Matlof at “Battery Ventures”:http://www.battery.com/
Brian Birk of “Sun Mountain Capital”:http://www.sunmountaincapital.com/
George Friberg, Senior Director of “Technology Ventures Corporation”:http://techventures.org/
Mitch Zuklie of “Orrick”:http://www.orrick.com/
Stephanie Spong of “Wasatch”:http://www.wasatchvc.com/

Description
Co-hosted by CVF and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
Join us for a special event discussing Cleantech industry trends, opportunities and challenges. Local and national experts will be on hand to meet and network with at Albuquerque’s famous Balloon Museum. Special starting time is 5:15 pm.

Description:
Successful investment entails more than writing a check. Successful early stage investors are routinely involved in helping the companies they invest in to make good decisions, make useful connections, and exercise discipline in working their business plan.

Scott Caruso, a New Mexico-based angel investor and business adviser will share his knowledge and practical experience with making the most of an investment once the investment decision has been made. Scott is a long time resident of New Mexico and a NMSU graduate who spent the early part of his career at Sun Microsystems as a systems engineer. In 1994, Scott left with several other Sun employees and founded an ISP/consulting business. The company was acquired by Verio in 1997, and then went through an IPO in 1998. Verio was ultimately bought by NTT at the peek of the dot com bubble. During this time, Scott took on various roles including managing the Verio Consulting Group and several IT projects. He operates Hotspare, Inc., a consulting practice that works in the arenas of information technology and business development.

Download the power point presentation.

Entrepreneur’s Forum:
Chuck Call, CEO, MesoSystems

MesoSystems is a market-leading biotechnology company specializing in the development and manufacture of systems for the assessment of environmental biological hazards. The company’s products enable its customers to determine if people are being threatened by or have been exposed to harmful and even life-threatening bio-organisms. MesoSystems has offices in Kennewick and Seattle, WA and Albuquerque, NM.