New England's Largest Clean Energy Conference Expands Program Areas

BOSTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sixth Annual Conference on Clean Energy, New England's largest clean energy conference, will be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center on November 3 and 4, 2010.  For the first time, the conference will be held in collaboration with both the Boston CleanTech Venture Day, which aims to assist European Cleantech companies in exploring opportunities in the U.S. and the New England MREC Technical Conference, which highlights the latest advances in marine renewable energy technology. These new programs will augment the Conference's overall focus on clean energy innovation, venture capital funding strategies and research and university panels.

The Sixth Annual Conference on Clean Energy will showcase 40 emerging cleantech companies presenting their technology approaches for areas such as BioEnergy, Portable Power, Energy Storage, Solar Energy, Wind Power, Electric Vehicle and Solid State Lighting, among others.  The event will feature investors, late stage companies, market leaders and entrepreneurs in the clean energy community. Keynote speakers include Jim Gordon, president of Cape Wind, and Stan Kowalski, chairman of FloDesign.

The Sixth Annual Conference on Clean Energy will anchor Clean Energy Week in Massachusetts. The week will include a number of activities and events designed to raise the visibility and illustrate the leadership of Massachusetts in clean technology and energy. Last year's conference attracted more than 500 attendees and featured more than two dozen clean energy startup companies. Over the last six years, participating companies have raised more than $100M in venture financing.

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"This year's conference, in tandem with the CleanTech Venture Day and MREC Conference, will give attendees a powerful snapshot into all areas of the clean technology community and growth areas, and will also showcase some groundbreaking technology by local companies in New England," said Abigail Barrow, founding director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), which is a co-organizer of the event. "We are excited to deliver our best and biggest conference yet "

For more information and to view the full agenda, please visit the Conference on Clean Energy web site.

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About the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center

The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center was created in 2004 as a program in the Massachusetts Economic Stimulus Bill. Its goal is to support technology transfer activities from public and private research institutions to companies in Massachusetts. To achieve this goal, the Center works with technology at Massachusetts research institutions; faculty, researchers, and students who have commercially promising ideas; and companies across the Commonwealth.

About the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition

The Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, formed in 2004, is an industry association focused on accelerating the success of Massachusetts companies and organizations developing and deploying hydrogen, fuel cell and related technologies. The Coalition achieves its objectives by pursuing several initiatives, including promoting member companies, representing member companies at conferences, holding educational forums, identifying funding and market opportunities, and promoting industry interests with state and national governments.

SOURCE Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center