Fostering the Green Economy – Green Venture Summit is an international cleantech conference for startups, investors and corporates

Since December 2010 Ecosummit is the successor of Green Venture Summit.

Ecosummit 2011 (ECO11) took place on 24-25 March 2011 in Berlin and had 300 participants. Ecosummit 2012 (ECO12) takes place on 22-23 March 2012 in Berlin and expects 400 participants.

GVS10 Review

Our first cleantech conference, Green Venture Summit 2010 (GVS10), took place on 10 May 2010 in Berlin in the wonderful location called Moskau and attracted 250 participants, 17 sponsors, 35 media partners, 45 speakers and 15 startups. To review GVS10 please watch the GVS10 Flickr Photo Slideshow and enjoy our Green Venture Summit Youtube HD Channel.

Dr. Hermann Scheer Obituary

We are very sorry that renewable energy visionary Dr. Hermann Scheer passed away recently. Please watch his GVS10 talk to remember this honest fighter for the green planet and a better future.

GVS10 Talk: Dr. Hermann Scheer, MdB – Part 1

GVS10 Talk: Dr. Hermann Scheer, MdB – Part 2

GVS10 Talk: Dr. Hermann Scheer, MdB – Part 3

GVS10 Conference Highlights

The first Green Venture Summit 2010 took place on 10 May 2010 in Berlin in the wonderful location called Moskau (Karl-Marx-Allee 34). We had 250 participants.

The GVS10 Standard Ticket price was €290 incl. 19% VAT. You need a credit card to pay and can even get a ticket at the door for the same price.

The Green Venture Summit Agenda features innovative entrepreneurs, investors, experts and industry leaders in Cleantech areas such as renewable energy, solar, wind, emobility, energy storage, energy efficiency, smart grid, smart metering, green architecture, green agriculture, water, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

The Green Venture Summit was streamed online as live video with USTREAM.

There was free WiFi (WLAN: SSID = greenvsummit) and free electricity in the conference room and lounge.

47 Confirmed GVS10 Speakers incl. 15 Green Startup Pitches:

Dieter Ammer, CEO, Conergy
Steffen Aumueller, Managing Director, The Very Useful Company
Dr. Thomas Badegruber, Co-CEO, Crystalsol – Startup Pitch
Sebastian Becker, Supervisory Board Member, MAMA
Till Behnke, Founder, betterplace.org
Holger Behrens, CFO, Geohumus
Dr. Stephan Beyer, Investment Director, Ventegis Capital
Dr. Philipp Bouteiller, Partner, Finfortec
Michael Bueltmann, Managing Director, Nokia Germany
Dr. Helge Daebel, Senior Specialist, Emerald Technology Ventures
Alexander Dauensteiner, Head of Product Innovation Management, Vaillant
Craig Davis, Sales & Marketing Director Europe, Tesla Motors
Dr. Joerg Fabri, Manager Director, Droege & Comp.
Carl-A. Fechner, Director & Producer, 4th Revolution – Energy Autonomy
Hans Josef Fell, MP & Energy Policy Speaker, Alliance 90/The Greens
Prof. Meinhard von Gerkan, Founding Partner, gmp Architects
Holger Giebel, CEO & Founder, TimberTower – Startup Pitch
Philipp Gloeckler, CEO & Founder, Avocado Store – Startup Pitch
Christian Graeff, District Council & Co-Founder, Cleantech Park Berlin-Marzahn
Hans Harjung, CEO & Founder, e-moove – Startup Pitch
Dr. Mandred Heil, CEO & Founder, WeSustain – Startup Pitch
Dr. Michael Hoppe, Founder, steps for children
Joern Ihlenburg, CTO & Founder, Cogilux – Startup Pitch
Olaf Jacobi, Partner, Target Partners
Prof. Dr. Achim Kampker, Chair & Founder, RWTH Aachen – Startup Pitch
Bernd Kolb, Founder, Club of Marrakesh
Dr. Ralf Leutz, Founder & Managing Director, Concentrator Optics – Startup Pitch
Michael Loehr, CEO & Founder, Tiramizoo – Startup Pitch
Volko Loewenstein, CEO, Inventux
Timon Meyer, Head of Cleantech & Mobility, Berlin Partner
Wolfram Putz, Founding Partner, GRAFT
Karl Rabeder, Founder, MyMicroCredit
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rill, CEO & Founder, Phytolutions – Startup Pitch
Alexander Romahn, CEO, Sonne+Wind
Dr. Hermann Scheer, MP, SPD, President Eurosolar, Chairman WCRE
Ingo Schoenberg, CEO, Power Plus Communications
Stephan Schuetz, Partner, GMP Architects
Rolf Schumann, Europe Business Development, Better Place
Andreas Spiess, Founding Partner, Solarkiosk
Maurice Stanszus, Founder, WeGreen – Startup Pitch
Nikolaus Starzacher, CEO & Founder, Discovergy – Startup Pitch
Dr. Gerhard Timm, Supervisory Board Member, Desertec Foundation
Otto von Troschke, Chief Investment Officer, SUSI Partners – Startup Pitch
Marco Voigt, CEO, Clean Tech World
Gerald Vollnhals, COO, Govecs – Startup Pitch
Philipp Wagner, Founder, Windcube – Startup Pitch
Richard Youngman, MD Europe & VP Global Research, Cleantech Group

We are grateful for the marketing support of our 33 media partners including Glocalist, enorm, Energy 2.0, Neue Energie & New Energy, Foerderland, Cleanthinking and re:publica. We especially recommend you to participate in the Next Conference on 11 & 12 May 2010 in Berlin.

Gruenderszene has published a video interview in German with GVS10 Organiser Jan Michael Hess with a very nice Green Venture Summit Preview.

Recommended reading: Green Venture Summit Organiser Jan Michael Hess has written this editorial We Need to Build our Green Economy within this Decade (PDF).

Call for Green Startups

The Green Venture Summit 2010 offers promising green startups looking for investors a free 7-minute investor pitch opportunity. If you are interested in pitching on stage to Cleantech business angels and VCs, please email your investor presentation to: jan dot hess at greenvsummit dot com. So far we have selected 15 green startups.

Our Motivation to Go Green

“Going green is the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century,” summarises the famous American VC John Doerr of KPCB. We agree and have organised the Green Venture Summit as an open event platform for know-how exchange and business development to foster the Green Economy. While several Cleantech IPOs are in the pipeline this year, battery maker A123 Systems celebrated their IPO already in 2009 – 7 years after founding the company.

Taking green technologies to market takes a lot of time and money. Now is the right time to start up and invest in the Green Economy as we have to reach 100% Renewable Energy by 2030 (Mark Z. Jacobson). Only then can we support a sustainable lifestyle for everybody on this planet including the 2 billion people who are still offgrid and offline. We should all become green companies and green consumers. And we should all produce and consume clean energy, clean products and clean services. Join us on 10 May 2010 in Berlin and meet innovative green entrepreneurs and investors at the Green Venture Summit 2010.