LondonAccord:Green Boggle - A Night Of Clean Tech With Prizes
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Green Boggle - A Night Of Clean Tech With Prizes
The Real Time Club in association with the London Accord, Z/Yen Group and Beer & Partners
Date/Time: Tuesday, 29 September 2009, 18:00 to 21:45
Venue: National Liberal Club
Many people believe that the next wave of technological investment not only will be, but should be, green tech. Green technology is the application of many technologies to reduce environmental impact. While climate change is high on the charts, there are numerous other investment opportunities in conservation, recycling and waste reduction. Naturally, information & communications technology (ICT) features significantly in many prospective ventures. Of course, a related question is how much green tech is government-rhetoric-inspired boondoggle or genuine societal transformation.
Green Boggle is a three part event - one part the finance of environmental transformation, one part investment opportunities and one part competitive fun. The London Accord is part one, the largest coooperative research programme into the economics of climate change. London Accord research will be briefly presented along with contributions from other organisations on how ICT can help prevent environmental damage. Part two, the core of the evening, will be short presentations from three active investment opportunities from Beer & Partners, one of the UK's leading venture capital and business angel investment firms. The third part of the evening will be a Green Bourse game run by Z/Yen Group, the City of London's leading think-tank, which should be a great ice-breaker. There will be prizes for those teams on the evening who best get to grips with markets, technology and finance.
Programme
During the evening, a series of short presentations will be made:
- Angus Milne and three green tech entrepreneurs - on genuine opportunities in green tech. Angus has worked in the City for over thirty years funding everything from Israeli high tech to the restoration of Scottish castles.
- Mark Yeandle - will be GameLord of the Green Bourse. Mark has a background ranging from Mulberry and Liberty's to the critical evaluation of green tech projects at Z/Yen Group.
- GreenBottle, Martin Myerscough, CEO martin@greenbottleltd.com, Recyclable packaging to replace plastic bottles, fully funded at this round but a further round of £1M+ in early 2010 once more volume of product on the market.
- Firth Tidal Energy Ltd, Patrick Mulvey, CEO: pjmulvey@gmail.com, Patented 'woven web' turbines for electricity from tides flowing at 3 knots or more. Raised £8,000k.
- Bronzeoak Ltd, Graham Stowell, CEO; Colin.brunker@bronzeoak.com, Renewable power from biomass; development of first power station site. Amount being raised: £1.6 million.
- C-FEC Ltd (Cross-Flow Energy Co); Anthony Fenwick- Wilson, Chairman afw@c-fec.com, Vertical axis wind turbines. Amount being raised: £970k, of which £620k already raised.
