Programme
Day One – Wednesday 7th December
08.15 - 09.00 Registration, refreshments and networking
09.00 - 09.20 CO-CHAIRMAN'S OPENING REMARKS AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS: EVALUATING THE WIDE RANGING CATEGORIES OF CLEANTECH
Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Professor and Director, Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL), Switzerland
09:20 - 09:30 WELCOME FROM CANTON OF VAUD
Raphaël Conz, Economic Promotion Manager, Canton of Vaud - Département de l'économie, Switzerland
09:30 - 10.00 ASSESSING THE EXTENT THAT FAMILIES AND OTHER PRIVATE INVESTORS ARE EMBRACING GREEN INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
- Evaluating how they are sourcing, assessing, funding and incubating cleantech venture
- Explaining why they have to look towards the long term when investing in cleantech
- Investigating the winners and losers in cleantech investing to date
- Assessing what have been the most lucrative investment sectors
Dr Rob Wylie, Founder Partner, WHEB Partners LLP, UK
10:00 - 10.20 HIGHLIGHTING THE POTENTIAL AND CAPABILITIES OF THE CANTON OF VAUD
Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Professor and Director, Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL), Switzerland
10:20 - 10.45 Morning coffee and networking opportunity
10:45 - 12.00 CLEANTECH COMPANIES PITCH THEIR INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
These sessions are dedicated to cleantech companies presenting innovative technology and investment opportunities in difference sectors to an audience of investors. Each company will present for 15 minutes.
These sessions are dedicated to cleantech companies presenting innovative technology and investment opportunities in difference sectors to an audience of investors. Each company will present for 15 minutes.
12:00 - 13.20 ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: EVALUATING THE PROS AND CONS OF VARIOUS INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND THE CLEANTECH ENVIRONMENT TODAY
- Outlining the advantages and disadvantages of direct and indirect, risk-spreading, selective and co-investing
- Outlining the advantages and disadvantages of direct and indirect, risk-spreading, selective and co-investing
- Assessing how to structure investments and perform due diligence
- Investigating the future direction of government stimulus packages
- Assessing scarcity of capital and the approaches being taken by innovators to surpass the valley of death
Constantin Salameh,CEO, Abdulla Al Masaood and Sons Group, UAE
John Rowland, Investment Manager, Consensus Business Group, UK
Tobias Reichmuth• CEO, Susi-Partners, Switzerland
Matthew D. Stephens, Ph.D., President, Cleantech Strategies, US
Moderator: Scott E. Jacobs • Co-founder and Manager McKinsey & Company's Global CleanTech Practice, US
13.20 - 14.20 Lunch and networking opportunity
14.20 - 15.00 PRESENTATION I: EXPLORING THE KEY ROLE OF PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURES BETWEEN FAMILY OFFICES TO ENCOURAGE CLEANTECH INVESTMENT
- Assessing how FO cleantech partnerships can enable participants to learn from past experiences and identify like minded co-investors from outside the VC community
- Outlining the possible advantages FOs have over VC firms and other investors
- Exploring the key role that they will have in the next wave of cleantech investing
- Investigating what VC models can be applied to various cleantech sectors and which of them are not suitable
Dr Audrey Selian, Director - Artha Sustainable Development, Rianta Capital Limited, UK
14:20 - 15.00 PRESENTATION II: IDENTIFYING THE HOTTEST EARLY AND GROWTH STAGE CLEANTECH INVESTMENT PROSPECTS
- Exploring how investors can avoid the potential pitfalls surrounding the capital intensive nature of investing in early stage cleantech
- Exploring how investors can avoid the potential pitfalls surrounding the capital intensive nature of investing in early stage cleantech
- Investigating the key challenges in turning a start-up into an established energy business
- Assessing whether new players offer better investment prospects than their established counterparts
- Outlining the type of growth stage companies to invest in, and the challenges and opportunities in growth stage cleantech
- Examining the different kind of risk/return profile compared to early stage start ups
- Evaluating when the time is ripe to go public and the appetite for cleantech from the public markets
Michael Brandkamp, Chief Executive Officer, Hightech Gründerfonds, Germany
15:00 - 15.20 Afternoon tea and networking opportunity
15.20 - 16.40 CLEANTECH COMPANIES PITCH THEIR INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
These sessions are dedicated to cleantech companies presenting innovative technology and investment opportunities in difference sectors to an audience of investors. Each company will present for 15 minutes.
These sessions are dedicated to cleantech companies presenting innovative technology and investment opportunities in difference sectors to an audience of investors. Each company will present for 15 minutes.
Cleantech Sector Investments Streams
16.40 - 17.20 STREAM A: EXPLORING DEVELOPMENT IN RENEWABLE ENERGY IN 2012 AND BEYOND - Assessing how to identify the new winning renewable technology innovations and how to avoid the potential investment pitfalls
- Exploring which renewables are, or can effectively provide in future, clean energy to the grid
- Evaluating key regulatory developments, government support and the main barriers to entry for investors
- Examining the promises and pitfalls of pairing base-load natural gas with renewables
- Exploring the importance of next-generation transmission technology for renewable energy deployment
Michael Liebreich,CEO, New Energy Finance, UK
Conor Roche, Vice President, Corporate Finance, NTR and Director, Woodford Capital (Roche Family Office)
16.40 - 17.20 STREAM B: INVESTIGATING NEW GLOBAL WASTE MANAGEMEMENT AND RECLYCING TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Exploring how governments are encouraging new recycling and waste-to-energy technologies, and the opportunities for investors
Iyad Omari, Partner,Frog Capital, UK
Nick Pople, Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Ludgate Investments, UK
17.20 - 18.00 STREAM A: GREEN RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS - EXAMINING HOW TO ACHIEVE MEANINGFUL RETURNS ON EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS
- Exploring how energy efficient technologies and measures are being incorporated into the built environment
- Outlining how innovation is occurring in decentralised lighting, heating, cooling and power production throughout the built environment, and how it is impacting a variety of disparate systems
Amadeo Brenninkmeijer, Founding Partner,Nycon Energy, Germany
Greg Neichin, Vice President, Research & Advisory, Cleantech Group, US
17.20 - 18.00 STREAM B: GREEN TRANSPORT – ASSESSING THE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
- Evaluating the investment opportunities in the electric car sector
- Looking at the steps being taken to speed the uptake of them into the mass-market
- Investigating how a growing number of grid-dependent vehicles will function and the arrangements required for them to effectively do so
- Exploring developments in other transport sectors for investors to engage in
Hugo Spowers, Founder, Riversimple, UK
18.00 Cocktail reception
Day Two – Thursday 8th December
08.30 - 10.10 One-to-one meetings
09.00 - 09.10 Co-chairman’s opening remarks
Hans Björn(Teddy) Püttgen, Professor & Director of the Energy Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL), Switzerland
09.10 - 10.10 CASE STUDIES ABOUT SIGNIFICANT FAMILIES WHO HAVE INVESTED IN CLEANTECH
KEYNOTE CASE STUDY I: ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES OF PRIVATE IMPACT INVESTORS
Dr. Julia Balandina Jaquier, Advisory Board Member and IC Chair, Entropy Ventures and Author, Guide to Impact Investing for Family Offices and High Net Worth Individuals, US
KEYNOTE CASE STUDY II: INVESTING AND DEVELOPING CLEANTECH ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Candice Beaumont, Managing Director, L Investments, US
KEYNOTE CASE STUDY III
Dipender Saluja, Managing Director, Capricorn Investment Group, LLC, US
10.10 - 10.40 EXPERIENCES OF CLEANTECH IMPACT INVESTING - FOCUSSING ON THE 'EROS IMPACT' - Outlining why the next push in the economy will be initiated by aesthetic products and services that create wealth on a sensual level
Patricia von Papstein, Investor, Entrepreneur, Donator to Arts and Science, Author and Blogger, Capital in Love
10.40 - 11.00 Morning coffee and networking opportunity
11.00 - 12.20 CLEANTECH COMPANIES PITCH THEIR INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
These sessions are dedicated to cleantech companies presenting innovative technology and investment opportunities in difference sectors to an audience of investors. Each company will present for 15 minutes.
These sessions are dedicated to cleantech companies presenting innovative technology and investment opportunities in difference sectors to an audience of investors. Each company will present for 15 minutes.
12.20 - 12.50 IDENTIFYING TRENDS AND THE HOTTEST CLEANTECH COMPANIES IN THE PUBLIC MARKETS
- Overviewing progress and the future outlook for listed cleantech companies
- Assessing what cleantech companies are likely to launch IPOs in 2012
- Examining interest from families and other investors in listed cleantech organisations
- Examining interest from families and other investors in listed cleantech organisations
Faysal Sohail, Partner,CMEA, US
12.50 - 13.40 Lunch and networking opportunity
13.40 - 14.10 KEYNOTE: EVALUATING WHAT RESPONSIBLE CLEANTECH INVESTMENT MEANS TO GLOBAL SOCIETY AND PREDICTING THE FUTURE BEYOND 2012
Hans Björn(Teddy) Püttgen, Professor & Director of the Energy Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL), Switzerland
14.10 - 15.00 ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOP I: EXPLORING RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR FAMILY OFFICES AND OTHER PRIVATE INVESTORS
- Identifying companies and industries that have used sustainability themes, such as energy efficiency and resource management technologies, into their operations
- Identifying companies and industries that have used sustainability themes, such as energy efficiency and resource management technologies, into their operations
- Assessing how focusing on sustainable development has saved them money and improved their day-to-day activities
- Exploring what cleantech breakthroughs industries are looking for next and what still needs to be done to speed the uptake of new technologies
Robert Rubinstein, CEO, TBLI Consulting, Netherlands
Paul Simon, Special Adviser to Lord Finkand Partner, Earth Capital Partners LLP, UK
Dr. Julia Balandina Jaquier, Advisory Board Member and IC Chair, Entropy Ventures and Author, Guide to Impact Investing for Family Offices and High Net Worth Individuals, Switzerland
WORSHOP II: EXAMINING CLEANTECH OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN EMERGING MARKETS
- Assessing emerging markets proving to be the most attractive to investors along with their risks and how projects can be sourced
- Assessing emerging markets proving to be the most attractive to investors along with their risks and how projects can be sourced
- Evaluating regulatory developments and possible barriers to entry
- Assessing the importan ce of understanding different investment cultures
- Revealing the lessons investors have learned while operating in emerging markets
- Outlining why the sheer opportunities of scale for Chinese environmental technologies means the market remains a compelling investment prospect
- Examining the differences in emerging markets compared to developed ones
Herta von Stiegel, J.D. Chief Executive Officer, Ariya Capital, UK
Matthew D. Stephens, Ph.D., President, Cleantech Strategies, US
Moderator: Scott E. Jacobs • Co-founder and Manager, McKinsey & Company's Global CleanTech Practice, US
15.00 Close of seminar
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Previous attendees comments
Our intention was to meet people able and willing to invest in our company. We won't know the results for a few weeks yet. However, what I can say with certainty is that Campden Conferences have delivered on their part of the deal and certainly introduced us to people wealthy enough to back our project fully and who clearly have an interest in the sector and are actively looking to invest. Overall - excellent value for money.