Expected Attendee Demographics:

C-level and Senior Executives from the private and public sector who are responsible for clean energy and green technologies in their roles as: buyers, sellers, manufacturers, innovators, researchers, landuse planners, architects, financiers, investors, legal and accounting professionals, regulators, and environmental stewards.

Listen to VX2010 Invite From Mary Nichols, Chair of the California Air Resources Board

Click here to download a pdf of Mary Nichols's remarks

The VerdeXchange 2010 Conference offers the inside track on the evolving business opportunities, public policies and regulations arising from implementation of California's pace setting climate change laws.

Watch Tom Unterman from the "Show Me the Money!" panel at the 2009 VERDEXCHANGE Green Marktermakers Conference

Tom Unterman from VerdeXchange on Vimeo.

VerdeXchange Conference Testimonials:

Bob Hertzberg, Chairman & Founder of G24i, and John Shegerian, Chairman & CEO, Electronic Recyclers International  

The video above also features highlights of multi-sector panels and speakers from VX2009's conference, including: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Viaragosa, former US Secretary of Transportation and US Secretary of Commerce Norman Mineta, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and Latham & Watkins partner David Fleming, the Chief Sustainability Officers from Google and NewsCorp, the co-founder of G24i Robert Hertzberg,  KCRW's Warren Olney, US Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Director General of the Japan Bank for Energy and International Cooperation Tadashi Maeda, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, The Mayor's Office of New York and Portland, Ore, Los Angeles City Planning Director Gail Goldberg, Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, the former Los Angeles Consul General of Japan, senior solar energy executives from Sharp, Energy Innovations, Atwater Research Group, Sun Power Corp and Solar Millennium, and former California EPA Secretary Winston Hickox, among others.

Attendees will hear from leaders on "in-market, about to be in-market and needed in-market" renewable technologies, and from climate change private, public sector leaders on the path the markets need to take to realize the opportunities present and on the horizon.

Attendees will interact with individuals representing:

* California Air Resources Board
* Elected and Appointed State, Regional and Federal Officials
* Private and Public Utilities
* Manufacturers and public operators of rail, port & ground transport
* Generation, Transmission, Energy Efficiency Procurers and Suppliers
* Renewable Technology Innovators and Pioneers
* Water and Transportation Sector Industry and Regulatory Leaders
* Built Environment Planners, Engineers, Architects, and Products
* Wind, Solar, Biofuels, and Waste to Energy Entrepreneurs & Executives
* Environmental Stewards & Sustainability Resource Managers
* Carbon Market Financial and Tax Analysts
* Foreign Direct Investment and Trade
* Public Pension Funds, Equity Managers, and Venture Capitalists
* Economic Development and Green Job Creators
* Environmental Performance and Corporate Governance Consultants
* High level consultants and University and Agency Researchers

If you want to be a part of these present and emerging clean and green economic and technological market opportunities, then you need to be at VerdeXchange 2009. Clearly, the leadership of all of the above marketmakers is propelling California and the Western States into an early lead nationally in what Thomas Friedman terms “The Earth Race”.