Pennsylvania Clean Technology Forum

The First Annual Clean Technology Forum is hosted by the PA Small Business Development Center's Clean Technology Resource Center (CTRC). The CTRC helps businesses develop and commercialize technology products, good, services, and processes that use the renewable energy sources. This specialized consulting service, centrally located at the Penn State SBDC, is available to all businesses in Pennsylvania looking to determine the viability of technologies, obtain financing or introduce new technologies to market.


For more information about the Clean Technology Resource Center, please visit http://pasbdc.org/cleantech or call 877-771-CTRC.

Thanks to our sponsors:
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
www.benfranklin.org

Energy Transfer Technology
www.et-technology.com

West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund
www.wppsef.org


This one day forum is intended to educate and provide a network to small business entrepreneurs interested in clean technology.


Clean technology is revolutionizing the energy industry. Enterprises that embrace clean technology are poised to capitalize on new opportunities for growth and garner competitive advantages, while those that don’t will face rising costs. In order to create a full, diverse, thought-provoking discussion on clean-tech business issues, exemplary clean tech-related businesses, regulators and financiers will speak through a series of four panel discussions. Panels are designed to equip small businesses with the information they need to start and operate a successful clean tech company, as well as educate clean tech consumers to make energy decisions that will enhance their profitability, productivity and market adaptability.


10:00 am – 11:00 am
Registration & Exhibitor Set-up


11:00 am – 11:15 am
Welcome


11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Clean Technology Services: How to Get Started
Featuring:
Joe Coyle, Open Sky Energy
Paul D. Spiegel, P.E., LEED AP, Practical Energy Solutions
Michael Napolitan, P.G., Taylor GeoServices, Inc.


12:15 pm – 1:15pm
Lunch & Keynote Speaker
James Gambino, Vice President of Technology Commercialization: Physical Sciences at the Benn Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA and Associate Director for the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster for Energy Efficient Buildings (GPIC)

GPIC was selected by the U.S DOE from a competitive, national pool of applicants to run an Energy Innovation HUB. Located at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia, the goals of the GPIC/HUB are to improve energy efficiency and operability and reduce carbon emissions of new and existing buildings, and to stimulate private investment and quality job creation in the Greater Philadelphia region, the larger Mid Atlantic region, and beyond. Mr. Gambino will discuss how Pennsylvania won the DOE contract, what this means for the state, and how the Energy Innovation HUB will impact small businesses.


1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Implementing Clean Technology at Small Companies
Featuring:
Lynn Hocker, Whispering Creek
Eugene Moffatt, Star Class, Inc
Al Renzi, Yellow Springs Farm
Morrill Curtis, Windview Farm


2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
Commercializing Clean Technology
Featuring:
William Goldner, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Rochelle S. Blaustein, J.D., U.S. Department of Energy
Kelly Wylam, Innovation Partnership


3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Financing
Featuring:
Jeffrey T. Gatano, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Matthew J. Karnell, Department of Community & Economic Development
John Johnston, Ben Franklin Technology Partners
Valerie Gaydos, 51st Associates, LLC


4:15 pm – 6:00 pm
Clean Tech Exhibition / Networking Reception