VERDEXCHANGE

• Connects the green dots to spur growth of the green economy
• Offers information and a marketplace to learn of innovations, opportunities and public policies that are driving the trillion dollar global energy market
• Spurs growth of the green economy

Cleantech is no longer a niche sector of the economy; it is fast becoming the very foundations of stable long-term growth and provides one of the largest market opportunities in history. Finding ways to shape markets and create value in sustainable practices, be it water use, clean energy, agriculture, or carbon reduction, is the central challenge of modern-day capitalism.

VERDEXCHANGE provides a forum to directly address that challenge through the growth of profitable business and the building of an international community of like-minded people shaping the green economy.

For the past five years, THE VERDEXCHANGE GREEN MARKETMAKERS CONFERENCE & EXPO has brought together "under one roof" the leading private and public marketmakers, thought leaders and business executives from all sectors of the economy – finance, energy, water, waste, transportation, consumer goods, mining, forestry, government, innovation centers, academia and more – to discuss the opportunities and challenges of creating sustainable economic growth and to meet the people that are leading this change.  

VX2011 Closed with an announcement by Los Angeles-based Balqon Corporation of the sale of 300 electric drive sytems to China-based Winston Global Energy.

Click here to read an article about the deal from the Sacramento Bee.

Testimonials:

Congratulations on this exciting finish to the conference today and a very succesful VX2011! VERDEXCHANGE should be very proud of this year's event and its promising future in Toronto as well.

-President and CEO of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation Bill Allen

This was nother extraodinary VERDEXCHANGE. For all the materials that I read and events I attend and participate in, none match the energy of participants, breadth in conversation, and learning about the new (aty least to me) efforts underway.

-Director of the Task Force on California's Adaptation to climate change Dan Mazmanian

California is the epicenter of climate change initiatives. Those attending the VERDEXCHANGE Conference will hear firsthand about when and where the most interesting opportunities will be felt. I look forward to engaging with the leading executives in the public and private sector and learning how these marketmakers plan to meet the demand for breakthrough renewable technologies.

- Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta

The VERDEXCHANGE Conference will do for the green marketplace what the Sundance Film Festival did for the movie industry...Nowhere else do I see a confluence of the diverse range of sectors—energy, finance, transportation, public and private utilities, built environment planning and universities—all with the singular goal of delivering and capitalizing on clean and green products and services.

- Former U.S. Commerce Secretary and Former U.S. Trade Secretary Mickey Kantor