For immediate use: Monday, Feb. 3, 2014
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is holding its first annual Clean Tech Summit at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. The daylong event begins at 8:15 that morning. Registration for the event, at www.ie.unc.edu/cleantech, is $125. The special registration rate for students is $20. Registration is now open for the event.
The Clean Tech Summit will focus attention on North Carolina’s Research Triangle area as a global leader in the clean-tech field. Clean tech includes smart grid technology, efficient water management, efficient, multimodal transportation, environmentally sustainable waste disposal technologies and more.
Carolina recognizes the promise of this sector and its economic development potential across the state. In response, the UNC Institute for the Environment and the Center for Sustainable Enterprise in UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, in partnership with the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster and Strata Solar, are offering the annual Clean Tech Summit. The Clean Tech Summit will help focus this potential and harness it for the good of North Carolina and its people.
Event highlights include:
- Opening remarks by Strata Solar founder and CEO Markus Wilhelm;
- Opening keynote address by North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources Brad Ives; and
- Luncheon keynote address by Sensus Chairman Lou D’Ambrosio.
The Clean Tech Summit also includes panel discussions focusing on:
- Building a Stronger Innovation Ecosystem in the Triangle;
- North Carolina’s Clean Tech Landscape;
- Policy for Engendering North Carolina’s Clean Tech Growth;
- Support for the Clean Tech Sector at UNC-Chapel Hill;
- Smart Cities;
- Economic Development;
- Financing for Clean Energy Entrepreneurs; and
- Workforce Development.
For more information about the UNC Clean Tech Summit, contact UNC Institute for the Environment Public Communications Specialist Katie Hall, at 919-962-0965 or mchall@email.unc.edu. For directions to UNC’s Friday Center, see http://fridaycenter.unc.edu/directions/.
The Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE) is the hub of sustainability at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, creating leaders for the world we envision using business to innovate for global change. CSE provides students, executives and organizations with the education, experiential learning and career development resources necessary to become innovative leaders in sustainable enterprise. For more, visit http://www.cse.unc.edu.
The Institute for the Environment (IE) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill catalyzes and advances interdisciplinary environmental research to solve local to global challenges, educates the next generation of leaders committed to the health and stewardship of our planet, and informs and engages the public to enable environmental problem solving. IE seeks solutions to critical environmental issues—including those related to water resources, public health, energy, climate change, air quality, land-use change, and biodiversity—to enable sustainable human communities and their coexistence with natural systems. For more, visit www.ie.unc.edu.
Media opportunities, such as interviews with keynote speakers, are available to reporters attending the Summit.
Media Contact for Event: Katie Hall, Public Communications Specialist, UNC Institute for the Environment, 919-962-0965 (work), 919-601-0616 (cell), mchall@email.unc.edu.