I’m excited to let you know I’ll be attending the Clean Energy Summit in Washington DC next week. I’ll be speaking about the real estate and construction industry. Buildings are one of the largest users of energy, and optimizing their efficiency will be key to stabilizing and decreasing our energy use in the future. I’ll be discussing ways we can make buildings more efficient and green while we also keep costs down.
Here is a summary of what the Summit is about:
“On January 24-25, 2011, the Clean Economy Network Education Fund will host its first annual Clean Economy Summit. The Summit will convene the existing and emerging leadership of the clean economy business community from across technology silos and across the nation. With stimulus investments coming to a close and the 112th Congress officially beginning, the Summit will take advantage of the political reset to evaluate the landscape. It will engage delegates to surface and prioritize policy proposals with the greatest potential to unleash economic growth and job creation in the sector, while also helping identify market opportunities existing within the current policy and political constraints.
SUMMIT PARTICIPATION
The Summit is not a conference. It is an annual invitation only event with no fee to attend that will produce concrete outcomes for the clean economy community. Attendance is limited to those invited leaders from both the business and policy communities that have the capacity to engage and add value to the final outcomes. Given the significant requirements for attendance and cap at 150 participants, the Summit will be ripe with high-level relationship building opportunities with other senior business and policy leaders.
The creation of a clean economy requires long-term consistent public policy necessary to create market clarity and certainty. Consistent policy requires consistent engagement by this community in the policy development and political process. To that end, unlike a conference composed of random individuals with minimal connections and widely varying levels of expertise, the Summit will annually convene those who have made the ongoing commitment to assume leadership roles in building a clean economy. It will bring together CEN’s executive and corporate members, chapter steering committees, CEOs of affiliated organization, the CEN and CENEF boards of directors, and key legislative and administration staff.”


