OPPORTUNITY FAIR

 

Networking! Explore opportunities to make your career or build your business around clean energy at the Clean Energy Connections Conference and Opportunity Fair.

 

Access resources to start your clean energy career or build your business.

 

Meet entrepreneurs and community groups mobilizing around clean energy.

 

Hear direct from state lawmakers about the policies supporting development of green industries in Massachusetts.

Opportunity Fair Exhibitors:

 

Check back after November 10 for a list of Opportunity Fair exhibitors.

OPPORTUNITY FAIR ENTRY IS INCLUDED WITH FULL-DAY ADMISSION.

REGISTER HERE FOR FULL-DAY PROGRAM


 

FREE Opportunity Fair - Opens at 1:45 pm

Attendees who register for the FREE Opportunity Fair ONLY
will NOT be admitted before 1:45 pm
.
Pre-registration is required.

 

Free Opportunity Fair admission includes ONLY:

•  Career & Business Development Information

•  Networking Opportunities

•  The Wellspring Session - Voices of clean energy innovators, entrepreneurs, and organizers in the community. A range of short (6-7 minute) presentations will feature some of the many exciting projects, programs, enterprises and initiatives that are contributing to the development of a vibrant clean energy economy.

•  Powershift: Massachusetts ' New Clean Energy Landscape - A policy panel on the whirlwind of recent legislative activity that is setting the stage for a dramatic acceleration of our clean energy economy. Panelists will include state Senator Benjamin Downing, state Representative Daniel Bosley, MA Department of Energy Resources Commissioner Phil Giudice, among others.

This Afternoon Program DOES NOT inlcude the keynote speaker, exclusive networking luncheon, or the morning panel sessions on career trends, workforce training programs, business development models, and finance strategies.

Saturday, November 22,
2008

MassMutual Center
Springfield, MA

9:00 am to 4:45 pm

FREE Opportunity Fair
Opens at 1:45 pm
Pre-registration Required

 

Who should attend?

- Career seekers

- Students

- Business developers

- Community leaders

- Entrepreneurs

- Innovators

- Financiers

- All who want to take part in the clean energy movement for sustainable economic development

 

How do I get there?

 

Contacts:

General information:
Loren Walker
413-577-3725
loren@research.umass.edu

 

Sponsor information:
Marla Michel
413-577-0092
marla@research.umass.edu

Karen Ribeiro
413-735-6583
kribeiro@bankwmass.com

 

Exhibitor information:
Michelle Wonsey
413-545-2706
mwonsey@
research.umass.edu

 

Clean Energy R&D:
UMass Amherst Advanced Energy Research Initiative

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