Description:
The Rushlight Clean Technologies Show includes conferences, exhibitions, workshops and walk-in surgeries and demonstrations. The event is intended to be of interest to both established, mid-state and start-up cleantech companies.
The Show incorporates the following:
1. An Exhibition of leading cleantech solutions
2. The Cleantech Developers Conference for early and mid-stage cleantech companies.
3. The Cleantech Growth Company Conference for established cleantech businesses.
4. The Sustainability Directors Conference for Energy, Waste, Sustainability, Facilities, CSR and Environmental Managers and Directors of corporates, public sector organisations and other key adopters of new cleantech solutions.
5. Isle of Man breakfast seminar
6. Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings for cleantech companies with potential customers, investors and advisers.
7. Workshops, clinics, walk-in surgeries and demonstrations, including the Autodesk engineering design software, a workshop run by Sauce Consultancy on the most advanced strategies for waste/resource management and walk-in surgeries with a range of different professional advisers .
Leading individuals associated with the event include:
1. Julie Meyer, Ariadne Capital and Entrepreneur Country and online dragon on Dragons Den
2. Adrian Gault, Chief Economist Committee on Climate Change
3. Dan Monzani, Green Deal lead at DECC
4. Marion Bernard, Business Growth Fund
5. Some leading cleantech entrepreneurs telling their corporate stories.
There are also a range of other organisations involved in the programme including the Carbon Trust, PNO Consultants, Withers & Rogers, Turquoise Associates, a number of active investors from the UK, US and Europe, UKT&I, BT, Orange, Dixons, Rolls Royce, Ricardo, London Fire Brigade, West Sussex County Council, Wiles Greenworld, Diageo, BAA Heathrow, Royal Mail, Marriott and BSkyB.
Topics to be covered include the Green Deal, project finance for infrastructure projects and the Green Investment Bank, crowd funding, the Carbon Trust FastTrack Entrepreneurs Programme, how to access industry sectors with new cleantech solutions, the environmental profit & loss and software solutions for environmental footprint measurement, monitoring and reporting, grants, the future energy market, M&A activity in cleantech, funding growth plans, a view of the future resource system and market and managing energy risk for companies with deployed renewable energy.
The lead sponsors of the event are the Isle of Man Dept of Economic Development and Autodesk.