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<div><br><b>Date:</b> <span>Thursday, January 28, 2010 - <span></span></span><font size="2"><span>6:00 PM – 9:00 PM</span></font></div><span></span><font size="2"><span></span></font></div></div></div>
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<div><b>Venue:</b> DLA Piper, Conference room First Floor (102/103)</div>2000 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA</div></div></div>
<p>The US-China Green Energy Council’s IT and Green Energy steering
committee is pleased to announce the first of its IT and Green Energy
seminar series: “Enterprise Carbon Accounting – A Real Market or A
Cleantech Bubble?”</p>
<p>The nascent carbon software market was hot in 2009. Large
multinationals such as Wal-Mart embraced environmental disclosures for
all products sold; SAP acquired Clear Standards and Hara raised over
$20M in venture capital money. According to KPMG, 80% of the world’s
largest 250 companies and 73% of US Fortune 100 companies issued
sustainability reports. Enterprise Carbon Accounting is attracting both
entrepreneurs and investors as large corporations push green marketing
campaigns in light of mandatory cap-and-trade regulations. These
proposed cap-and-trade regulations have created a market for
business-to-business enterprise software which can help companies
ensure compliance with the new and rapidly changing regulatory
environment. Is this a real market trend or a cleantech bubble?</p>
<p>The highly accredited panel will share their thoughts on
sustainability management, such as: What are the true drivers of the
enterprise carbon accounting market? What are the vendor selection
criteria? What is the impact of carbon accounting on a company’s
overall green strategy? What is the short- and long-term market
outlook? What does it mean to go green and how much will it cost?</p>
<b>Agenda</b>:<br>6:00-6:30pm: Registration, light dinner and networking<br>6:30-6:40pm: Welcome, UCGEC<br>6:40-8:00pm: Individual presentation (15min presentation per speaker)<br>8:00-8:30pm: Open Discussion and Q&A<br>
8:30-9:00pm: Networking <br>
<p><b>Speakers</b>:<br>Neal Dikeman - Co-Founder & CEO of Carbonflow and Chairman of the Board<br>Chris Farinacci - Chief Marketing Officer of Hara<br>Bruce Klafter - Sr. Director, Environmental, Health and Safety for Applied Materials<br>
Rupesh Shah - Director of Corporate Sustainability at Intuit (Pending)<br>Karl Van Orsdol – Energy Risk Manager of Palo Alto City</p>
<p><b>Moderator</b>:<br>Joseph Yu – Senior Counsel at PG&E</p>
<p><b>Registration</b>:</p>
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<td>$25</td>
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<td>$10</td>
<td>$40 (At Door Cash only)</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>UCGEC Member Discount: 20%; UCGEC Partner Organization Member Discount: 10%</p>
<p><b>Organizer: US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC)</b></p>
<p>Founded in Silicon Valley in 2008, UCGEC is a leading non-profit
organization that connects U.S. and Chinese individuals interested in
green energy. The mission of UCGEC is to facilitate and sponsor high
impact cleantech collaborative initiatives and projects between the
U.S. and China, and to serve as a platform for the integration of
policy, business, investment, and R&D projects for the two
countries.</p>