BMW iVentures, Denso Ventures, AutoTech Ventures, Kelly Ventures, Band of Angels

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This event is organized by Cleantech Open accelerator:

• 1,036 companies

• more than $1 billion raised

• up to $200,000 in cash, investments, and services awarded per company

• 2015 accelerator application deadline May 1st

• expert advisors, national visibility, investors

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AGENDA

6:00-6:45 pm Registration and networking, refreshments

6:45-6:55 pm Welcome and opening remarks

6:55-7:30 pm Panel + Q&A

7:30-7:45 pm CleanTech Open alumni success stories + Q&A

7:45-8:15 pm Investor Pitch (1 min pitch by startups)

8:15-8:30 pm Networking

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PANEL SPEAKERS:

Tony Cannestra, Director of Denso Corporate Ventures ( $42Bin revenue)

Mark Platshon, Managing Director at BMW iVentures, Icebreaker Ventures (early stage software, mobility, commerce and energy/materials) and Birchmere Ventures($200M under management)

Dragos Maciuca, Sr. Technical Leader at Palo Alto Research & Innovation Center at Ford Motor Company (Stanford Research Park)

Josh Switkes, CEO of Peloton Technology (as seen on Fox News, Bloomberg TV, CBS, ABC News, NBC, etc.)

The panel facilitator, Doug Davenport, is an Executive Director at Prospect Silicon Valley, a green tech facility sponsored by Cisco, Siemens, Hyundai, Ericsson, Toyota, BMW, etc.

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SUCCESS STORIES:

Neil Sinclair, Chairman at CyberTran International

Kristen Aramthanapon, CTO of Sylvatex

Chris Kirn, Co-Founder and President of AquaPedal

Mark Mascal, Professor at UC Davis

INVESTOR PITCH:

To close the evening, cleantech entrepreneurs from the audience will have the opportunity to pitch to the investor panel:

Quin Garcia, Managing Director at AutoTech Ventures

Larry Kelly, CEO of Kelly Ventures & investor at Band of Angels

Mary Vincent, Co-Founder & CTO at Wearables HealthTech Startup

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SPEAKER BIOS:

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Chris Kirn, Co-Founder and President of AquaPedal

AquaPedal is a company focused on water and energy conservation products and services. Prior to AquaPedal Chris spent 20 years in automotive design, 16 years of which at Mercedes-Benz where he was the Director of R&D for North America in charge of Human-Machine Interaction.

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Josh Switkes, CEO of Peloton Technology

For the last 13 years Josh has been dedicated to assisting commercial drivers and fleets to be the safest and most efficient on the road. After his work at Stanford University on vehicle dynamics and control, Josh developed production control systems for Volkswagen, Audi, and Tula Technology.

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Kristen Aramthanapon, Cofounder of Sylvatex

As Chief Technology Officer, she oversees all technology development including research and product initiatives, regulatory compliance, and IP development.

Additionally, she is currently an adjunct faculty at at UC Berkeley Extension, and a research affiliate with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs.

Prior to this she worked at Wolfram Research where she was a member of the core team that developed and launched Wolfram Alpha, a web-based computational engine.

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Larry Kelly, CEO of Kelly Ventures and investor at Band of Angels

Larry is active in venture investing in both the information and energy sectors. He chairs the energy interest group for the Band of Angels.

Earlier in his career, Larry worked at Hewlett Packard, where he started and built the networking business, and started and built the personal computer business.

At GRiD Systems, Larry led the development of the first laptop computers.

Educationally, Larry received Engineering degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard.

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Mark Mascal, Professor at University of California at Davis

Mark’s Cleantech Open project has been spun off into three independent startups focused on various aspects of biomass valorization.

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Mary Vincent is cofounder / CTO of a new wearables startup

Mary was cofounder at Sensilk, a smart fabric wearables company. Her startup was accepted into the Intel Make it Wearable Semifinals, two Startup Incubators, and she presented in Shenzhen China and Taipei Taiwan, Keiretsu Women's Forum, Draper University, Silicon Valley China Wireless, and was selected as a Delta Techcrunch Disrupt Innovator.

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Neil Sinclair, Chairman at CyberTran International

Neil has 25 years of senior management positions in advanced transportation and alternative energy startup businesses. He has been responsible for raising funds from government and private sources, writing business plans, research and program management, marketing campaigns, product development and manufacturing management.

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