Why attend?
- Start-up and growth companies
- connect with potential investors and partners
- find new mentors/advisors
- learn from your peers’ successes and failures
- pick up key trends and what others are working on and why
- Corporations
- connect with investors, industry experts and fellow corporations
- confront the ideas that will disrupt your industry and learn to embrace innovation that will differentiate your business
- Investors
- connect with CEO’s, industry experts, corporations and co investors
- learn about emerging trends, technologies and up-coming companies
- Service provider& advisors
- connect with future clients, leaders of innovation and industry experts
- learn about emerging trends, technologies and up-coming companies
- Governments/incubators/ clusters
- connect with new companies and innovators around the world, expand your global network
- learn about emerging trends
Who You’ll Meet
This annual gathering of the global cleantech innovation community offers a comprehensive, three-day program along with exclusive opportunities to network, learn, and get deals done.
Entrepreneurs: The startups and innovators on the front lines of sustainable innovation.
Corporates: Representatives from today’s leading corporate open innovation and venturing programs – those funding, incubating and partnering with innovation for strategic as well as financial return.
Financial Investors: Representatives from leading financial firms – venture and growth capital firms, from Sand Hill Road to Zhongguancun, along with the angels and family offices looking to make a sustainable impact and financial return.
Innovation Leaders: The ecosystem is completed with the presence of public sector officials and programs specialized in helping cleantech and resource innovation, and by lawyers and bankers, thinkers and innovation visionaries.
Check out a sampling of who typically attends our Forum – and why.
You can also check out our photos from the 2016 Forum, as well as last year’s agenda, to get a feel for the event!
What You’ll Experience
Now in its 15th year, Cleantech Forum San Francisco 2017 will once again be a true kick off for your year – mark your calendars for January 23-25, 2017!
Haven’t experienced a Cleantech Forum? Learn more about it here.
Since 2002, Cleantech Group has brought together clean technology’s most influential leaders – corporate executives, start-up and growth company CEO’s, investors, government agencies, and other players – from across all areas of resource innovation, from the major industrial verticals, and from across the globe.
The upcoming Forum will be our 15th annual showing of our flagship event, and Charting the Future, Connecting the Globe remains core to the value proposition of Cleantech Forums, and indeed all of CTG’s services.
Our 15th (Crystal) anniversary will follow this theme, helping you discover and connect with the emerging trends, leading innovation companies, and key players of sustainable innovation. We will once again host the official announcement of our 8th annual Global Cleantech 100 list and awards – our second year doing so at a Forum – as well as release our Global Cleantech 100 Report that highlights the mega-trends of the next 5-10 years.
Are you interested in sponsoring the Forum? Contact us today to learn more about our sponsorship packages.
If you have any questions, please contact us at forums@cleantech.com.
Speaker nominations are open to November 30: application is here.