About the Conference VX2011

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VX2011: VERDEXCHANGE's 4th Annual Green Marketmakers Conference

California and the Western States are the Portals to the U.S. and North American Clean Energy, Green Technologies Marketplace

Last January VX2010 brought together in Los Angeles California leading clean and green technology, infrastructure, and sustainable practices marketmakers - the executives, private and public, who are creating the global green economy.

The value proposition draw for attending global entrepreneurs, manufactures, utility executives, environmental stewards, trade ministers and investors: a need to share and better understand pacesetting climate change regulations; vast alternative energy opportunities; and to compete for market defining procurements in California and the Western States which both generate enormous economic possibilities and serve as important templates for energy market regulations and stimulus policies around the world.

This January 23-25, 2011, VerdeXchange again hosts its fourth annual Western States/California Conference and Expo (VX2011-LA).  Attendees will participate in an unmatched, cross platform, B-to-B executive opportunity to learn from, network and do business with global and local green economy manufactuers, entrepreneurs, elected officials, utility executives, energy and water regulators, environmental stewards, investors, and project financiers. Continuing the tradition of previous VERDEXCHANGE conferences, attendees will gather under one roof, in initimate panel and networking sessions, in one of the most economically vibrant and environmentally conscious regions in North America and the world- Southern California's Los Angeles.

January's VX2011 conference builds on and confirms the central thesis of VerdeXchange's three previous Conferences: that California and the Western States are  opportunity rich, economic markets that are and will be driving US energy policy and sustainable practice for the foreseeable future. VX 2011's multi-platform clean and green technology conference panels will include: in-market, about-to-be-in-market, and needed-in-market experts on renewables, clean water, greenbuild, alternatively fueled vehicles, sustainable infrastructure; and, will highlight as market drivers global initiatives, model public policies and environmental regulations.

Approximately 500-650 delegates will attend VX2011, including industry leaders and procurers involved with energy efficiency, transmission, alternative fueled vehicles, clean water, and green build. All are, or wish to be actively investing in and shaping the US, Western States, and global, green economy marketplace. 

 

Panel Videos from VX2010

VX2010 Panel: Biofuels and Energy Alternatives

VX2010: Biofuels and Energy Alternatives Panel from VerdeXchange on Vimeo.

 

VX2010 Panel: Energy Efficiency—Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy

VX2010 Panel: Energy Efficiency—Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy from VERDEXCHANGE on Vimeo.

Conference panels and plenary sessions will highlight current and future business opportunities, current and about-to-be in market products and services, public policy developments, and research on needed-in-market technologies that are driving climate change innovation, sustainable practice, and new investment. As previous conference participants know, while world leaders convene in Copenhagen to reach international consensus, it’s California and the Western States where clean and green U.S. energy policies will be first implemented and where corresponding robust markets for green technologies are quickly developing.


January’s VX2010 builds on and confirms the central thesis of the 2009 VERDEXCHANGE Green Marketmakers Conference: California and the Western States' pacesetting climate change regulations, huge appetite for alternative energy and technologies, and sizable procurement budgets are generating enormous economic opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and investors and have served as templates for national, international, state, and local government energy market regulations, commercial low carbon technologies, and green job stimulus policies.

President Obama's announced climate and energy policy goals, Congress' pending greenhouse gas offset legislation, and the global carbon reduction agenda of December's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen present new and even larger economic opportunities for clean energy and green industry stakeholders.

Don't miss this timely opportunity to network, accelerate and profit from these clean energy and green tech marketplace developments.

 

VX2010 Panel Topics Included:

  • Accelerating deployment of renewables: wind, solar power, biofuels, and geothermal

  • Utility and emission regulations as drivers of technology innovation, efficiency, and sustainability

  • Transport technology (EV's and High Speed Rail) and GHG mandates: initiatives, emerging technologies, and procurement

  • Commercial technology opportunities in a carbon-constrained policy and regulatory environment

  • Monetizing carbon: measuring, managing, & capitalizing environmental performance & risk

  • Green collar jobs, workforce training, and state and regional economic development Watts through the grid: transmission, reliability, smart grid, and storage

  • Clean cities initiatives: sustainable landuse planning, architecture, and green build innovations

  • Water resource conservation & management: recycle, reuse, desal, & water metering technologies

  • Finance and investment in renewables, cap & trade, federal/state/local stimulus

  • Foreign trade, direct investment, research, & tech transfer  

  • Waste: waste to energy, e-waste, and recycling technologies

  • Green Building and Planning

  • Fossil energy research and development

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    VX2010 Luncheon Plenary: Climate Change Market Regulation in 2010: What is Success?

    VX2010: Climate Change Market Regulation in 2010: What is Success? from VerdeXchange on Vimeo.

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