About the Conference

VX2010: VERDEXCHANGE Green Marketmakers Conference

Road West From Copenhagen Paved with Clean Energy and Green Technology Opportunities

Join leading technology, energy and cleantech marketmakers - the executives, private and public, who are creating the global green economy - at VX2010: The VERDEXCHANGE Green Marketmakers Conference in Los Angeles, California.

VX2010 is an unmatched, cross platform, B-to-B opportunity to learn from and network with industry leaders, elected officials, public regulators, environmental stewards, investors, and financiers. Continuing the tradition of previous VERDEXCHANGE conferences, attendees from California and the Western States will gather under one roof with global, national, and subnational climate change leaders.

Conference panels and plenary sessions will highlight current and future business opportunities, current and about-to-be in market products and services, public policy developments, and research on needed-in-market technologies that are driving climate change innovation, sustainable practice, and new investment. As previous conference participants know, while world leaders convene in Copenhagen to reach international consensus, it’s California and the Western States where clean and green U.S. energy policies will be first implemented and where corresponding robust markets for green technologies are quickly developing.

January’s VX2010 builds on and confirms the central thesis of the 2009 VERDEXCHANGE Green Marketmakers Conference: California and the Western States' pacesetting climate change regulations, huge appetite for alternative energy and technologies, and sizable procurement budgets are generating enormous economic opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and investors and have served as templates for national, international, state, and local government energy market regulations, commercial low carbon technologies, and green job stimulus policies.

President Obama's announced climate and energy policy goals, Congress' pending greenhouse gas offset legislation, and the global carbon reduction agenda of December's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen present new and even larger economic opportunities for clean energy and green industry stakeholders.

Don't miss this timely opportunity to network, accelerate and profit from these clean energy and green tech marketplace developments.

VX2010 Panel Topics Will Include:

  • Accelerating deployment of renewables: wind, solar power, biofuels, and geothermal

  • Utility and emission regulations as drivers of technology innovation, efficiency, and sustainability

  • Transport technology (EV's and High Speed Rail) and GHG mandates: initiatives, emerging technologies, and procurement

  • Commercial technology opportunities in a carbon-constrained policy and regulatory environment

  • Monetizing carbon: measuring, managing, & capitalizing environmental performance & risk

  • Green collar jobs, workforce training, and state and regional economic development Watts through the grid: transmission, reliability, smart grid, and storage

  • Clean cities initiatives: sustainable landuse planning, architecture, and green build innovations

  • Water resource conservation & management: recycle, reuse, desal, & water metering technologies

  • Finance and investment in renewables, cap & trade, federal/state/local stimulus

  • Foreign trade, direct investment, research, & tech transfer  

  • Waste: waste to energy, e-waste, and recycling technologies

  • Green Building and Planning

  • Fossil energy research and development

    • 2009 Speakers Highlight Video

    2009 VerdeXchange Green Marketmakers Conference Speaker Highlights from VerdeXchange on Vimeo.