SXSW Eco Awards
Tuesday, OCTOBER 8
5:30pm-7:00pm | Ballroom BC
After a day of exciting presentations, find out the winner of each category at the inaugural
SXSW Eco Awards. The entire conference is welcome to this celebration featuring drinks
and entertainment. Winners of the Hackathon, Sustainability Goes Viral! video competition
and Place by Design competition will also be announced.
Startup Central
Breakout Sessions
presented by THE ENERGY EXCELERATOR
Wednesday, OCTOBER 9
12:00pm-2:00pm | Ballroom BC
Startup Central Breakout Sessions give entrepreneurs and startup representatives access to
industry experts for direct advice on their careers and businesses. Participants will have the
opportunity to join round tables of fellow attendees for coaching by industry experts in
pitching, funding, marketing and more. Space is limited, and advance signup is recommended.
Sessions Include:
Corporation + Startup
Relationships
Farshid Arman, Director
Legal + Patents
Heather L. Flanagan, Matt
Browning & Ryan McCarthy
ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, SIEMENS TTB
FISH & RICHARDSON
Customer Development For
Cleantech
Micah Kotch, Founding Director
Marketing For Greentech
Barun Singh, Co-Founder and CTO,
WEGOWISE; Matt Stewart, Vice
President, ANTENNA GROUP
NYC ACRE
Early Markets For Energy
Innovation
Dawn Lippert, Heather Richman &
Lauren Tonokawa
Technology
Bert Haskell, CTO, PECAN STREET
Venture Investment
Clark Jernigan, Venture Partner
AUSTIN VENTURES
Utility + Startup Relationships
Kurt Stodgill, Distributed Energy
Services Group, AUSTIN ENERGY
Biomimicry
Lina Constantinovici, Founder +
CEO, STARTUP NECTAR
ENERGY EXCELERATOR
The Energy Excelerator is a startup program dedicated to solving the
world's energy problems starting in Hawaii.
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