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Registration is now 50% sold and will be capped at 500 participants! Secure your spot today.
Cleantech Forum North America has a new location in 2024.
Join us in San Diego, CA, January 22-24, 2024 for three days of high-quality meetings and deal-making. Learn from our analysts, and each other, about trends and innovation driving the eco-system forward. Our host city has changed, but participants can expect the same amazing opportunities — investors, corporates and innovators finding new partners at the Forum year after year.
Registration will be limited to the first 500 people, so be sure to register early to secure your spot. Join us in January 2024 to meet the right people to fuel your next business opportunity.
Why Register?
The Forum is a great opportunity to connect and learn from the world’s leading authority on cleantech innovation.
- Limitless opportunities over three days to make connections, build your business and meet the right leaders in the sustainable innovation ecosystem — from start-ups, scale-ups, investors, corporates, government and more.
- Connect face-to-face with influencers in the North American ecosystem and beyond. Expect quality, in-person deal-making.
- Meet leading innovators including companies from the 2024 Global Cleantech 100 (to be released in January 2024).
- Gain insight into the trends and innovations powering a cleaner, cooler world.
Who Participates
Cleantech Forum North America connects the latest generation of start-ups with investors and corporates looking for new partners. From co-investors to GPs and LPs, you’ll meet partners who can take you in new and exciting directions. Registration will be capped at 500 participants.
Find out who’s attending!
Global Cleantech 100
Every year, we unveil a new edition of the Global Cleantech 100 a list of the innovative companies ready to take us from commitment to action in our global struggle to reach net-zero. In the report you’ll find the most promising ideas in cleantech – the ones best positioned to help us build a more digitized, de-carbonized and resource-efficient industrial future.
The 2024 Global Cleantech 100 will be released in January 2024. Attendees of the Cleantech Forum North America will have the opportunity to connect with many of the companies on the newly released list at the event.
Contact
If you have any questions about Cleantech Forum North America, please feel free to contact us at forums@cleantech.com.
Entrepreneurs
What Do Entrepreneurs Get at a Forum?
Join us in San Diego on 22-24 January and get your start-up or scale-up in front of investors, corporates and other entrepreneurs who can help you take the next step. Whether you want investment, advice or there’s a technology gap you need to fill, you’ll meet the right people.
The application for Innovation Showcases is now open! Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until November 10, or until all presenting spots are allocated.
Benefits of Participating
When you register for Cleantech Forum North America you will:
- Gain access to leaders in the field and be introduced to relevant investors/corporates.
- Expand your reach and highlight what your company can do in the virtual exhibition hall.
- Meet like-minded colleagues, including many from the 2024 Global Cleantech 100, a list of innovative companies with the dedication, technologies and business models that make it possible to fight the climate crisis.
- Increase your company’s profile by applying to participate in an Innovation Showcase.
- Learn from experts, other innovators, as well as investors, over three days as speakers discuss trends shaping the future of sustainable innovation.
Investors and Corporates
What Do Investors and Corporates Get at a Forum?
Join us in San Diego on 22-24 January to build your network of cleantech leaders and top entrepreneurs. You can take advantage of a research-led agenda that includes presentations from investable companies and experts in the trends shaping the future of sustainable innovation.
The speaker form is now open for nominations and general applications. We appreciate your interest in speaking at our event. We typically receive a fair amount of responses and will not be able to place all applicants on the agenda. We will only contact you if you have been chosen to speak at the event. We will accept applications until November 10.
Who Will I Meet?
Cleantech Forum North America is the best event to meet innovative and exciting start-ups and find future investments.
Start-ups and scale-ups of all sizes and in different phases of fundraising attend the Forum looking for partners who can take them to the next level.
Benefits of Participating
Register for Cleantech Forum North America today to:
- Maximize your opportunities of finding future partners—we even help you by making introductions.
- Hear from top innovators poised to transform the world in our Innovation Showcases and attend the general sessions to learn from sustainable innovation leaders.
- Meet many of the companies from the 2024 Global Cleantech 100, a list of innovative companies with the dedication, technologies and business models that make it possible to fight the climate crisis.
- Build your network, create moments that matter, and connect with colleagues in-person, and on the mobile app.
Agenda
January 22, 2024
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Registration and Help Desk
Registration desk will open early for those attending the Executive Summit and Innovator Coaching Session. Participants can come by all afternoon to pick up their badge and ask questions.
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Executive Summit: The Pivotal Role of the Built Environment
Join us for an interactive discussion on innovation for sustainability in the built environment. Experts from JP Morgan and Cleantech Group will give an overview of the challenges, technology landscape, and opportunities to make today’s buildings more sustainable and build the next generation of buildings future-ready. This will be an interactive discussion with high degrees of engagement, including collaborative brainstorming sessions.
This pre-event will have a limited number of places. Please contact forums@cleantech.com to request your place.
Co-hosted by: JP Morgan
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Innovator Coaching Session
Calling all start-ups! Join us for a three-part coaching session where expert coaches dive deep into business related topics and share their wisdom and advice for growing young companies.
Sign up for this pre-event during the registration process and secure your spot today (limited capacity).
Co-hosted by: Morrison Foerster LLP and Sea Change Advisors
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Plenary SessionOpening Session: Welcome to Cleantech Forum North America
During the opening session, in addition to a warm welcome, we will provide an introduction to the 2024 Global Cleantech 100 (to be published in January 2024) and recognize a few others with awards like Early Stage, Rising Star and Global Cleantech 100 companies of the year.
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Networking SessionCleantech Forum North America Opening Reception
Take time to enjoy a drink and light hors d’oeuvres while enjoying the Forum’s new venue and building a connection with other attendees.
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Dinners
Cleantech Group will host a small invite-only dinner for the Global Cleantech 100 companies with us and the investors and corporations who provided inputs into the process, as Global Cleantech 100 expert panelists.
For all others, this time is left open for you to enjoy San Diego. There is a restaurant option in the resort and many others off-site. Take a look at nearby Bay Park neighborhood, the Pacific Beach boardwalk or head on into the Gaslamp Quarter or Little Italy for great dinning options.
January 23, 2024
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Registration and Help Desk
Pick up your badge or stop by with a question.
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Networking SessionContinental Breakfast
Join us for breakfast and coffee to kick-off the day and continue networking with others before the program begins.
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Breakfast with Canada: Meet Some of the Canadian Company Delegation
To get us into the spirit of a Cleantech Forum – we’re here to connect, right? – we will quickly introduce you to a few interesting companies over the last part of breakfast. You will have time over the next two days to meet with them and learn more about their company and solution.
Co-hosted by: Consulate General of Canada and Export Development Canada
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Plenary SessionSetting the Stage: The Key Trends in Cleantech Today
Cleantech Group will provide its customary tour of the innovation ecosystem, highlighting the key innovation topics and investment trends, as well as some of the key players and gaps to pay attention to in the year(s) ahead. These will be complemented by some guest speakers.
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Networking SessionNetworking Break
Coffee, snacks and networking, also a great time to schedule a few meetings.
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Sustainability in Critical Materials
Critical materials are the building blocks of the low carbon economy, but bottlenecks in the supply chain and high demand are causing unstable pricing and a looming supply crisis. North America is leading in critical material supply chain innovation from exploration and mining to battery manufacturing and recycling, The U.S. has made big moves to onshore value with the Inflation Reduction Act. Canada is looking to further exploit its abundant domestic critical materials whilst maintaining its position as a world leader in ESG mining standards. This panel will bring together organizations, investors, and innovators across the critical material supply chain to showcase how technologies are improving critical materials supply—sustainably.
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Showcase SessionInnovation Showcase
Apply for an Innovation Showcases to get in front of the right investors and corporations who are interested in helping you take the next steps. Apply today to be considered, applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until November 10.
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Panel SessionTools Needed to Navigate the Challenges of a Distributed and Decarbonized Grid
Details to come.
Co-hosted by: TD Securities
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Showcase SessionInnovation Showcase
Apply for an Innovation Showcases to get in front of the right investors and corporations who are interested in helping you take the next steps. Apply today to be considered, applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until November 10.
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Interactive BriefingInteractive Briefing: Hydrogen for Heavy-Duty Transport
Heavy-duty transport is one of the highest emitters in the transportation sector as well as one of the most challenging-to-abate sectors. In California, heavy-duty trucks account for 25% of all on-road emissions. Facing carbon taxes, corporate sustainability targets, and impending decarbonization mandates (such as California´s 2045 zero-emission heavy-duty vehicle mandate), the race to produce cost-effective and fuel-efficient zero-emissions heavy-duty trucks (HDVs) is on. While battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are hitting the roads and seem to have carved out the regional and short-haul trucking sector, innovation in hydrogen-powered HDVs provides unique opportunities to decarbonize long-distance, heavy-duty transport. This briefing will focus on the opportunities and challenges for hydrogen-powered heavy-duty transport, highlighting innovation across the value chain and key technological and market milestones.
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Networking SessionLunch
As a part of our sustainability efforts, we serve a plant-based menu at all forum meals to help reduce our environmental footprint while highlighting local produce and in season products.
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Panel SessionPanel Session
We are still working on a timely topic for this panel discussion. Check back soon to see which speakers from the ecosystem will be featured.
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Showcase SessionInnovation Showcase
Apply for an Innovation Showcases to get in front of the right investors and corporations who are interested in helping you take the next steps. Apply today to be considered, applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until November 10.
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Interactive BriefingInteractive Briefing: eJet
eJet, or the branch of sustainable aviation fuels utilizing renewable electricity and captured carbon dioxide, provides near carbon neutral jet fuel. After decades of research and millions of dollars invested, the technical challenges of decarbonizing aviation fuel have been replaced by optimism and structured plans for production. This session will explore how aviation fuel producers intend to scale sustainable aviation fuel and eJet with a particular eye on issues of renewable electricity, direct air carbon capture, blending quotas, electrolyzers, and government policy.
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Panel SessionPanel Session
We are still working on a timely topic for this panel discussion. Check back soon to see which speakers from the ecosystem will be featured.
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Showcase SessionInnovation Showcase
Apply for an Innovation Showcases to get in front of the right investors and corporations who are interested in helping you take the next steps. Apply today to be considered, applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until November 10.
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Interactive BriefingInteractive Briefing: Alt-Meat: Moving Past the Hype
Alternative protein products derived from plants, cell cultures, and advanced fermentation offer a promising route to reducing our reliance on emissions-heavy animal agriculture. In recent years, venture investment has been strong in this space, but sales growth is slowing in the plant-based category, while regulatory approvals for cultivated meat remain few and far between. This session will explore how alt-protein innovators are overcoming hurdles like production bottlenecks and getting to commercial scale, global regulatory landscape and innovation trends and achieving price parity with animal products.
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Networking SessionNetworking Break
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Panel SessionPanel Session
We are still working on a timely topic for this panel discussion. Check back soon to see which speakers from the ecosystem will be featured.
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Interactive BriefingInteractive Briefing: The Future of Fusion
Nuclear fusion has the potential to provide limitless, virtually carbon-free, baseload power and avoids many of the hazards of nuclear fission. Companies have been making significant progress overcoming key technical challenges encouraging further investment into the field, bringing us one step closer to achieving net energy gain in the private sector and reaching commercial scale. In this briefing, we’ll discuss the progress companies in North America have been making and some of the key milestone’s for investors and corporates.
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Panel SessionPanel Session
We are still working on a timely topic for this panel discussion. Check back soon to see which speakers from the ecosystem will be featured.
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Showcase SessionInnovation Showcase
Apply for an Innovation Showcases to get in front of the right investors and corporations who are interested in helping you take the next steps. Apply today to be considered, applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until November 10.
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Networking SessionReception at Bayside Terrace
Before you head out to explore San Diego a bit more, join us for heavy hors d’oeuvres, a chance to unwind, and a little fun as we wrap up the day. Meet up with friends, make new connections, strike up a conversation with a colleague you haven’t seen yet and enjoy the amazing backdrop of Mission Bay.
Sponsored by: Breakthrough Energy Fellows
January 24, 2024
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Registration and Help Desk
Pick up your badge or stop by with a question.
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Networking SessionContinental Breakfast
Join us for breakfast and coffee to kick-off the day and continue networking with others before the program begins.
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Meet the New Zealand Company Delegation Over Breakfast
Join us over breakfast to meet some of New Zealand’s leading cleantech innovators. We will introduce you to several interesting companies over the last part of breakfast and you will hear more about their company and solution. If you like what you hear, you can set up a follow up meeting throughout the day using the mobile app.
Co-hosted by: Callaghan Innovation
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Opening Session
The opening of our final day is being worked on and details will be released in due course, post summer.
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Panel SessionPanel Session
We are still working on a timely topic for this panel discussion. Check back soon to see which speakers from the ecosystem will be featured.
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Showcase SessionInnovation Showcase
Apply for an Innovation Showcases to get in front of the right investors and corporations who are interested in helping you take the next steps. Apply today to be considered, applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until November 10.
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Interactive BriefingInteractive Briefing: Innovation in Cathode Manufacturing
Cathode materials are by far the largest part of lithium-ion battery cost (30-50%+) and a bottleneck to scaling the energy revolution, especially electric vehicle deployment. With most cathode manufacturing concentrated in China, a drive for onshoring of production and policy measures have made scaling manufacturing in North America increasingly attractive. This briefing will explore the latest innovations, challenges, and opportunities in cathode manufacturing including, demand for materials, economic and market implications and technological innovations and pathways.
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Networking SessionNetworking Break
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Panel SessionPanel Session
We are still working on a timely topic for this panel discussion. Check back soon to see which speakers from the ecosystem will be featured.
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Showcase SessionInnovation Showcase
Apply for an Innovation Showcases to get in front of the right investors and corporations who are interested in helping you take the next steps. Apply today to be considered, applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until November 10.
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Interactive BriefingInteractive Briefing: Cleaning Up With AI
There’s no shortage of news headlines highlighting the exciting developments in artificial intelligence, but questions about how cleantech applications will benefit remain unanswered. For decades, energy, materials, agriculture, and mobility have all seen digital solutions and have been engaging AI, so the topic isn’t new, but the opportunities and challenges are. Can new AI techniques stretch the performance of hardware beyond today’s capabilities or leapfrog a need for next hardware iterations? Innovators and investors using AI to solve climate’s most challenging problems will come together to discuss this fast-moving topic.
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Networking SessionLunch
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Panel SessionPanel Session
We are still working on a timely topic for this panel discussion. Check back soon to see which speakers from the ecosystem will be featured.
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Showcase SessionInnovation Showcase
Apply for an Innovation Showcases to get in front of the right investors and corporations who are interested in helping you take the next steps. Apply today to be considered, applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until November 10.
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Networking SessionNetworking Break
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Long-Duration Energy Storage: The Key to 24/7 Decarbonised Energy
With renewable penetration in California exceeding 40%, the need for long-duration energy storage (LDES) for flexibility and grid stability is rapidly increasing. Cleantech Group is exploring some of the most interesting innovation in this field and will share the key trends, business models and challenges in this sector.
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Networking SessionClosing Reception
Join us for one last chance to network befoe we say good-bye until next year!
Venue/Travel
Main Venue
All Forum events will take place at the San Diego Mission Bay Resort.
This year’s venue is conveniently located 10 mins from San Diego International Airport and 15 mins from downtown San Diego. The venue offers guests well-appointed sleeping rooms, modern and flexible meeting space and will be a great location to achieve everyone’s meeting goals with the amazing backdrop of Mission Bay.
Sleeping Rooms
Cleantech Group has secured a limited block of sleeping rooms at the San Diego Mission Bay Resort at a special rate of $279 USD, plus a $20 nightly resort fee, taxes and local fees for participants.
Book your stay today. This rate will be available until December 29, 2023 or until the block sells out (whichever comes first). If the hotel does sell out, we will provide some overflow hotel options for guests to consider.
Please refer to the hotel booking site for the cancellation policy for the hotel room.
Sustainability
Cleantech Group is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our event, being eco-conscious at every turn, and being thoughtful about the impact of our events on the environment.
Here are a few ways we have made this event more sustainable:
- Providing a plant-based menu to reduce our carbon footprint.
- Replacing single-use plastics with reusable drinkware and cutlery.
- Reducing print waste by providing all information through our event app.
- Purchasing quality carbon offsets after the Forum.
Some of San Diego Mission Bay Resort’s green practices include:
- Only offering glass bottles in meetings.
- Working with the city on compost and waste management.
- Repurposing cooking oil for fuel.
- Providing digital check-in and digital keys.
Explore Mission Bay
Mission Bay is a man-made bay with roughly 2,000 acres of wetland, marsh, and saltwater bay habitat.
Outdoor Activities
- With 19 miles of beaches, Mission Bay is a sanctuary for beach goers. Have a relaxing picnic or play a game of beach volleyball!
- Visit Mission Bay Aquatic Center for water sports experiences – sailing, kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding, windsurfing and more!
- Runners and cyclists can enjoy 12 miles of paved bayside paths.
Museums & Entertainment
- Balboa Park – An urban park boasting seasonal flowers and Spanish Colonial Revival palaces.
- Belmont Park – A family friendly historical amusement park, with various rides and restaurants.
Sponsors
Sponsorship Increases Your Visibility
Our sponsors and partners benefit from increased visibility, thought leadership, and global networking opportunities. Every sponsorship package is bespoke to make the most of your organization’s goals and increase your overall value.
Interested in sponsoring this event? Please contact us at forums@cleantech.com to discuss opportunities.
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The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) provides its clients with practical advice on foreign markets and on-the-ground intelligence to help them make better, more timely and cost-effective decisions in order to achieve their goals abroad.
Read moreThe Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) provides its clients with practical advice on foreign markets and on-the-ground intelligence to help them make better, more timely and cost-effective decisions in order to achieve their goals abroad.
Trade commissioners offer services across a wide range of trade sectors, to those members of the Canadian business community who contribute to Canada’s economic growth, have a demonstrated capacity for internationalization and have good potential to add value to the Canadian economy.
The Trade Commissioner Service promotes Canada’s economic interests in global markets, by engaging in a range of activities, including:
- contributing to export market development
- conducting advocacy and foreign market access activities
- understanding and analyzing trade policy
- attracting foreign investment to Canada
- developing a network of international business contacts
- identifying and communicating business leads
- fostering strategic alliances
- linking Canadian businesses to global value chains
- supporting licensing and venture capital linkages
- promoting joint-venture partnering and foreign equity investment
- facilitating R&D collaboration and technology transfer
- promoting responsible business conduct
- facilitating Canadian direct investment abroad

TD Securities is the wholesale banking arm of TD Bank Financial Group (NYSE: TD), one of North America’s largest banks with a market capitalization of over C$160 billion (US$130 billion) and over C$1.7 trillion (US$1.4 trillion) of assets.
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TD Securities is the wholesale banking arm of TD Bank Financial Group (NYSE: TD), one of North America’s largest banks with a market capitalization of over C$160 billion (US$130 billion) and over C$1.7 trillion (US$1.4 trillion) of assets. In 2010, TD Bank became the first North American bank to achieve carbon-neutral status and in November 2020 became the first Canadian bank to set a target to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions associated with operations and financing activities by 2050.
TD Securities is a globally recognized leader in capital markets and advisory services, with 15 offices and over 4500 full-time employees located in financial centers across the globe. This includes dedicated teams to advise and support clients as they work to capture opportunities in the low-carbon economy, including a newly established Sustainable Finance and Corporate Transitions Group, which works closely with clients to support their transition plans through ESG-related advice, financing, and affiliated products. These commitments also include a newly established principal investing strategy aimed at supporting emerging technologies that can have a meaningful impact on our path to a low-carbon economy.
Our focus is on the entire spectrum of clean technology, including advanced materials, agriculture, carbon capture, hydrogen, mobility, new energy, renewable fuels, and smart building technologies. Our reach is global and our track record is significant. We look forward to working with you to advance your initiatives in all aspects of ESG and energy transition.
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Callaghan Innovation was born out of the simple but powerful idea that Aotearoa New Zealand’s intergenerational prosperity would come not through traditional businesses or business models, but from smart, bold entrepreneurs creating innovative, new companies that are not just world-class but are also working to make the world better.
Read moreCallaghan Innovation was born out of the simple but powerful idea that Aotearoa New Zealand’s intergenerational prosperity would come not through traditional businesses or business models, but from smart, bold entrepreneurs creating innovative, new companies that are not just world-class but are also working to make the world better.
Our role is to act as an enabler for this new breed of companies; to champion, guide, support and advise them as they make a positive impact on Aotearoa New Zealand and the world.

For the past three decades, Chubb has provided a wide range of renewable energy, technology, and manufacturing companies with scalable, future focused insurance solutions...
Read moreFor the past three decades, Chubb has provided a wide range of renewable energy, technology, and manufacturing companies with scalable, future focused insurance solutions. With an integrated worldwide network of branches and affiliates, Chubb’s global expertise, risk engineering, and claims services help Clean Tech companies keep pace with the velocity of changing risks. To learn more about Chubb, please contact your local agent or broker today.

Emerald is a globally recognized venture capital firm building a sustainable future at the crossroads of industry and technology.
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Foresight is Canada’s cleantech accelerator. In collaboration with our Helix 5TM collaborators - innovators, industry, investors, government, and academia - Foresight is relentlessly driving cleantech innovation in Canada. Our audacious goal is that Canada be the first G7 country to reach net zero.
Read moreForesight is Canada’s cleantech accelerator. In collaboration with our Helix 5TM collaborators – innovators, industry, investors, government, and academia – Foresight is relentlessly driving cleantech innovation in Canada. Our audacious goal is that Canada be the first G7 country to reach net zero. Our mission is to accelerate the growth and impact of cleantech ecosystems across Canada to achieve deep decarbonization and net zero climate targets through problem-driven innovation.
Since inception in 2013, Foresight has made a meaningful impact in the cleantech innovation ecosystem. We have supported 1000+ ventures in our accelerator programs, 150+ industry partners through our industry programs, and 300+ investor firms through our various access to capital programs. Foresight’s leadership has helped secure $1.44 billion in capital, $419 million revenues, and 7,250+ high-paying jobs for our ventures with an economic impact of over $2+ billion. Our domestic and international engagement includes collaboration with 2,000+ stakeholders, rightsholders, and partners. We have a strong history of strategy, ecosystem mapping, and partnership building that positions Canada as a global leader in cleantech innovation.
Foresight considers that the innovation we promote and accelerate has to answer industry needs. Therefore, we also run Innovation Challenges to ensure this innovation is market driven.
We have run over 52 Innovation Challenges. These challenges have brought more than $31 million in direct funding for innovators and are projected to reduce 68.9Mt CO2e emissions by 2033.

Idemitsu aims to expand existing businesses and develop new businesses in the Americas, creating value by identifying collaborative opportunities with entrepreneurial innovators. The target areas are carbon-neutral transformation, a recycling-oriented society, and next-generation mobility and communities.
Read moreIdemitsu in San Jose, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. IAH was established in 2020 to serve as a holding company for Idemitsu Kosan’s subsidiaries in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil.
The purpose of IAH as a holding company for the subsidiaries is to develop and implement group financial structure for the Idemitsu Kosan Group in the Americas and to strengthen internal audit and internal controls, as well as to provide administrative and strategic support, such as Human Resources. IAH strives to generate value by enhancing performance and utilizing resources among the group companies in North and South America.
IAH also aims to expand existing businesses and develop new businesses in the Americas, creating value by identifying collaborative opportunities with entrepreneurial innovators. The target areas are carbon-neutral transformation, a recycling-oriented society, and next-generation mobility and communities.

At Kilpatrick Townsend, we are at the legal forefront of the global energy market’s evolution. We provide trusted legal counsel and representation in government relations, including on tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and transactional advice to clients who actively shape the future of clean energy production, storage solutions, sustainable fuels, carbon recapture, and other groundbreaking technologies. Our approach to solving legal problems combines strategic thinking, meticulous research, and innovative problem-solving to deliver exceptional results and together with our clients, we are shaping the energy landscape while making a positive impact on the world. www.kilpatricktownsend.com
Read moreAt Kilpatrick Townsend, we are at the legal forefront of the global energy market’s evolution. We provide trusted legal counsel and representation in government relations, including on tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and transactional advice to clients who actively shape the future of clean energy production, storage solutions, sustainable fuels, carbon recapture, and other groundbreaking technologies. Our approach to solving legal problems combines strategic thinking, meticulous research, and innovative problem-solving to deliver exceptional results and together with our clients, we are shaping the energy landscape while making a positive impact on the world.
Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm.
We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to rewKorn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. ard and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers.

Origin Merchant Partners (“Origin”) is an independent North American investment bank with offices in Chicago, Montreal, and Toronto. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and restructuring/recapitalization advisory services across a range of sectors, including Environmental & Sustainability, delivered by a team of more than 50 professionals.
Read moreOrigin Merchant Partners (“Origin”) is an independent North American investment bank with offices in Chicago, Montreal, and Toronto. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and restructuring/recapitalization advisory services across a range of sectors, including Environmental & Sustainability, delivered by a team of more than 50 professionals.
Our Environmental & Sustainability practice is focused on companies that provide customers with solutions and services that support environmental sustainability and impact initiatives. We regularly engage with strategic and financial buyer and investor groups that have significant interest, across size and stage range, with respect to businesses focused on waste/recycling, waste-to-energy, EV battery ecosystem, clean energy/energy transition, clean infrastructure, and other circular economy activity.

San Diego Community Power provides clean energy with the goal of creating a more sustainable and equitable future for all San Diegans.
Read moreSan Diego Community Power provides clean energy with the goal of creating a more sustainable and equitable future for all San Diegans. As a locally-run, not-for-profit public agency, San Diego Community Power is committed to providing competitive electricity rates, while reinvesting back into the communities it serves. San Diego Community Power provides transformative solutions to our region’s climate action goals to chart a bold path to a cleaner, greener future. The organization launched in 2019 and now serves nearly 1 million customers, making it the second largest community choice aggregation program in California.
Bronze

At Breakthrough Energy, we are committed to supporting new technologies that change the way we live, eat, work, travel, and make things so we can avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change.
Read moreBreakthrough Energy Fellows are focused on key technologies that will be critical to moving the world to net-zero emissions by 2050 including hydrogen, electrofuels, cement, steel, food and agriculture, long duration energy storage, carbon dioxide capture, storage, sequestration, offshore wind, solar, advanced materials, and efficient building technologies. The Fellows program provides patient capital along with expert advice, funding, and mentorship to support innovators on their path to commercialization, including a stipend for living expenses, funding for technology and product development, access to scientific and business expertise, investors, policy experts, and our world-class network of partners.

Morrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage. With our collective intelligence, we shape powerful legal strategies that move your business forward while living our shared values.
Read moreMorrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage. With our collective intelligence, we shape powerful legal strategies that move your business forward while living our shared values.
We solve your most critical multidimensional challenges in a way that provides clarity around the risk you are facing and gives you confidence in your chosen path. We pair diversity of perspective with a strategic consultative approach to craft the tailored strategies you need. We foster trusted partnerships that are defined by winning for you when it matters most.
Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and leading technology and life sciences companies. Whether established for decades or just an entrepreneur’s idea, we represent organizations as they grow, innovate, disrupt, and develop into leading industry players and household names.

At Sea Change, we deliver the talent solutions you need to solve the climate crisis. Sea Change is a Talent Venture company that delivers an end-to-end talent advisory and acquisition platform to investors, start-ups, and cutting-edge corporates focused on the most pressing problem facing the world today: Climate Change.
Read moreAt Sea Change, we deliver the talent solutions you need to solve the climate crisis.
Sea Change is a Talent Venture company that delivers an end-to-end talent advisory and acquisition platform to investors, start-ups, and cutting-edge corporates focused on the most pressing problem facing the world today: Climate Change.
Our advisory services range from talent due diligence for climate tech investors to reduce recruiting-related execution risk, to market intelligence and talent roadmaps to help portfolio companies accelerate hiring strategies.
Our Executive Search team serves the needs of both early-stage companies and corporates, while our Professional search group can build teams quickly across all business units, including technical. The combination of these services allows Sea Change to be a true talent partner to its clients, offering specialized teams and tools to solve whatever talent challenge you may face as an investor, start-up CEO, corporate executive, or business unit leader.
Community Partner

Cleantech San Diego is a member-based business organization that positions the San Diego region as a leader in the cleantech economy by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, engaging in advocacy efforts to promote cleantech priorities, supporting energy entrepreneurs through the Southern California Energy Innovation Network, and encouraging more equitable investment across the San Diego region.
Read moreCleantech San Diego is a member-based business organization that positions the San Diego region as a leader in the cleantech economy by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, engaging in advocacy efforts to promote cleantech priorities, supporting energy entrepreneurs through the Southern California Energy Innovation Network, and encouraging more equitable investment across the San Diego region. Learn more at cleantechsandiego.org.

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) fosters an influential network of professionals to further the roles of women in growing the green economy and making a positive impact on the environment.
Read moreWomen in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) fosters an influential network of professionals to further the roles of women in growing the green economy and making a positive impact on the environment. Founded in 2011, WCS is a nonprofit organization made up up nearly 1000 professional women and men working to build the green economy. Our members range from the students and entry level professionals, to Founders, C-Suite executives and investors. WCS meets once a month to network and learn the latest developments in the green movement, as well as attain new business and personal skills from speakers and panelists. Topics covered include: renewable energy (solar, wind biofuel, etc), water, smart grid, biomass, carbon reduction, sustainable transportation, energy efficiency, sustainability, green buildings and many other technologies that aim to make our world a cleaner, more sustainable place.
Registration
Super Early-Bird June | Early-Bird July 1 - Dec 1 | Standard Dec 2 - Jan 21 | Onsite Jan 22 - Jan 24 |
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Investor/Corporate Tickets | $2,495 | $2,745 | $3,295 | $3,400 |
Innovator Tickets | $1,495 | $1,645 | $1,995 | $2,100 |
Regular Tickets | $2,495 | $2,745 | $3,295 | $3,400 |
Your Forum Registration Fee Includes:
- Access to all keynotes, general sessions, (non-invite-only) breakout sessions and workshops
- Access to all (non-invite-only) breakfasts, lunches, networking breaks, and receptions.
- Access to the networking area and exhibitor space.
Investor/Corporate Ticket
This ticket type is available to individuals who are part of an investment team (e.g. VC, PE, Family Office, etc.) or who work in large corporations (be that in the CVC function or elsewhere). Register as an Investor/Corporate to connect with all participants in San Diego and set up meetings that will take your plans forward.
You’ll enjoy access to all general sessions, various networking opportunities, as well as appointment-making opportunities on our digital app, plus:
- Facilitated introductions and meetings – to maximize your opportunities of finding future partners, you can ask us to make up to ten introductions.
- Possible speaker or presentation opportunities – the earlier you register, the greater your chances of being included in the agenda.
Innovation Company ticket
This ticket type is available to all start-ups, scale-ups, and entrepreneurs. Register as an Innovator to connect with all participants in San Diego, plus give your company profile a boost.
You’ll enjoy access to all general sessions, various networking opportunities, as well as appointment-making opportunities on our digital app, plus:
- Brief information on your company is shared with investors/corporates, to help them identify companies of interest and used to make additional introductions.
- Speaker or presentation opportunities– the earlier you register and apply, the greater your chances are of being featured in an Innovation Showcase.
- All innovation companies will have a virtual exhibit on our event app to help all other participants identify, and connect to, innovation companies of interest.
Regular Ticket
This ticket type is available to all others who are not innovators, investors or at a large industrial corporation. You might be public sector or at a service firm including law firms, advisory firms, consulting firms, etc. Register as a Regular ticket type to connect with all participants in San Diego and benefit from various networking and learning opportunities.
You’ll enjoy access to all general sessions, various networking opportunities, as well as appointment-making opportunities on our digital app.
If you have any questions about what ticket type you qualify for, please contact us. Please note: we will contact you if you register under the incorrect ticket type and a price adjustment will be made.
Available Discounts
All discounts are offered via the online registration system unless otherwise agreed by Cleantech Group.
Discounts- please email us for the discount code to use during registration:
- Cleantech Group subscribers: Our subscribers receive $150 off the registration fee.
- For more information about our services and subscription offerings please see here.
- Government/Non-Profit Representatives: We offer a discount rate for government employees and non-profit representatives. For more information about how to receive this special rate, email us with the name of your organization and verification of your government or non-profit status.
- Groups discount: If your organization or company brings three or more participants, we offer special group rates on the going rate ticket prices for Innovator, Investor/Corporate and Regular ticket types.
- For groups of three, we offer a 10% discount; for groups of 4, we offer a 15% discount; and for groups of 5+, we offer a 20% discount. Contact us for a discount code to use during registration.
Please note that only one discount type/code can be applied against the standard rates published above. Cleantech Group reserves the right to reject any registrations where a double discount has been applied or the individual was not entitled to use a discount code.
Media
Media registration is by invitation only. For a media pass, please contact us.
Terms & Conditions
For the full list of terms and conditions, please click here. Here is a summary of the key provisions:
Substitutions:
- A request to transfer a registration to a colleague should be made by giving written notice, anytime up to two working days before the event start date, via email to forums@cleantech.com.
- Cleantech Group reserves the right to deny a request for such a substitution but will not unreasonably do so.
Cancellation by You:
- Participants wishing to cancel their registration must do so in writing via email to forums@cleantech.com; Applicable refunds (or future credits) for participant cancellations are outlined as follows:
- Cancelations made by November 17 at 5:00 pm ET will receive a 100% refund.
- Cancelations made between November 18 and December 22 at 5:00 pm ET will receive a 50% refund of the registration fee paid (or 75% can be applied as a credit to a future Cleantech Group event within 12 months of the cancellation date)
- Cancelations made after December 22 at 5:00 pm ET (including No Show or No Notice), no refund of any sort will be applicable.
- Changes or Delays to In Person Events:
- All our events are built with the ability to deliver them, even if we have to convert in-person experiences to virtual ones.
- If Cleantech Group changes or delays an event that is either wholly or partially in-person, be that due to Covid-19 or some other reason that renders this necessary to ensure the event’s viability and/or participants’ safety, our standard terms and conditions do not oblige Cleantech Group to refund, but to deliver equivalent value. That will be achieved either from a future credit for the full value of what was not delivered (usable within 12 months) or, in the case where an in-person event (be that the whole or part of the overall event) is converted to online, the ticket type will be converted, and the number of tickets will be increased to deliver equivalent value.
Cancellation by Cleantech Group
- In the unlikely event where Cleantech Group chooses to cancel an event, a full refund would be owed except in the case where an event is cancelled, through no fault of Cleantech Group (e.g. a force majeure event).
- This is a standard and necessary protection across the event industry (particularly aimed at the situation where a very late cancellation is forced upon the organizer/host at which point all the time and costs for hosting the event have been expended).