Monday morning & Afternoon Workshops

All Global Forum attendees are welcome, if space is available. Current cohort and exhibiting entrepreneurs have priority to attend the workshops, and teams are encouraged to split up to attend all workshops at a given time.

MORNING Workshops (9:45 am - 10:45 Am)

Morning Track 1: After Cleantech Open, What are the Next Steps?

Targeted to recent CTO alumni companies, an interactive discussion with cleantech incubator, an accelerator/funder, a competition.

Questions: What is each organization? What kinds of companies/stages do they accept? Can you do more than one? Who in the audience has experience with any of these? What are tips / best practices to get in?

"You survived CTO - now what?"

Accelerator/Funder: J.A. Colantonio, NREL: GCxN / IN2 / IGF Denver

Competition: Alex Hagen, 76West, New York

Incubator: Richard Amato, ATI - Austin Technology Incubator

Morning Track 2: Marketing your Cleantech Startup - Break Through the Noise!

You’ve got a great technology, and after CTO you now have your business strategy. How do you get your message out into a broader market? How can CTO and other cleantech ecosystem partners help tell your story? What experiences have you had so far, and what can be done better? We’ll look at examples online - keeping it real and practical.

Emily Lundberg, CTO Director of Marketing

Liz Morrison, Director, Strategic Development, Network for Global Innovation

Afternoon Workshops (1:30 pm - 2:30 pm)

Afternoon Track 1: Pitching to Investors: How to Maximize your Opportunity and Survive Due Diligence

Tips and best practices on how you can MAXIMIZE your opportunities when meeting with potential partners and investors at Global Forum: How should you best use your 7 minutes? What should you ask? What do they need to know about you? How to follow up? THEN, once you have an investor “hooked”, what will they expect of you? How much do you reveal? How do you make the DD process painless? What has gone wrong or right for you in your own fundraising endeavors - and what can others learn?

Tim Hoffman, Columbia Technology Ventures

Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital VC

Afternoon Track 2: Clarity is Power!

Effectively Communicating to Cause Exciting Results / How to Have Everything you Want for Yourself and Your Company

Whether it is raising money, aligning your partners or managing teams, Truly Effective Communication is the key. This interactive, dynamic workshop will give you practical tools to impact your greatest challenges and opportunities now.

Denise Spatafora, Founder, the BeClear Method

Her clients include hundreds of CEOs, founders and VCs over the last 20 years from companies such as Google, Lionsgate, Staples, Chanel, Citibank, The Onion, Wall Street Journal, RAND, YPO, TriStar Pictures, Loreal, Unilever, Eloquii and Ogilvy & Mather, among many others.