BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//EVDB//www.eventful.com//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:SVASE CleanTech BIG - how new Battery & PVC technologies will turbocharge energy\, autos. in San Jose at Cooley Godward LLP - E ventful BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080918T180000 DTEND:20080918T203000 DTSTAMP:20080918T060330Z SUMMARY:SVASE CleanTech BIG - how new Battery & PVC technologies will turbocharge energy\, autos. DESCRIPTION: SVASE CleanTech BIG - how new Battery & PVC technologies will turbocharge energy\, autos. Start: 09/18/2008 - 6:00pm End: 09/1 8/2008 - 8:30pm WHAT: SVASE CleanTech BIG - how new Battery & PVC tech nologies will turbocharge energy\, autos. URL:-www.svase.org/?q=node/1 564 WHEN: Thursday\, September 18 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Networking and Busin ess Showcase 7:00 - 8:15 pm: Round table panel discussion and Q/A 8:15 - 8:30 pm: Additional networking WHERE: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP\, 3175 Hanover Street\, Palo Alto\, CA 94304 WALK-IN RATES: Add $10.00 t o the folowing prices PRE-REGISTERED RATES (All Rates Include Hors Do euvres): Members - $20\; Affiliates who advertise this event - $29\; G eneral Public - $49\; Business Showcase Exhibit Table  member rate: $ 149\; non-member rate: $375 (Includes exhibit table and two tickets to the event.) Solar Electric Energy demand has grown consistently by 20 -25% per annum over the past 20 years. This has been against a backdro p of rapidly declining costs and prices. Next generation solar technol ogies will deliver even higher efficiencies\, and next generation batt eries may finally deliver on the promise by providing effective ways t o store energy for use when the sun isnt shining. Today\, the global market for "large and advanced" batteries is $8.9 billion. That is exp ected to increase an average of 5.1% annually to $11.4 billion by 2012 \, according to the report. Next to experimental new research\, the la rgest increase in the market is projected to come from hybrid electric vehicles\, including plug-in vehicles. This segment of the market is expected to grow from $789 million to $1.5 billion\, an increase of 14 .3%. This is another example of growth industries that are benefitting from the green revolution. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have proposed programs that would increase research and development on gre en technologies and a new "green collar" workforce. Republican candida tes have also talked about the potential of creating jobs through ener gy investments\, though with less specificity or allegiance to clean a nd renewable fuel technology. Come and participate in a lively panel d iscussion on the pros\, cons and opportunities of next generation PVC and battery technologies! The Panel - see below for bios: ï¾·Next Gene ration Battery development ï¾·Rajeeva Lahri\, Founder & CEO\, Signet S olar ï¾·David Edwards\, Partner\, CleanTech Team\, VantagePoint Ventur e Partners ï¾·Mamoon Hamid\, Principal\, CleanTech Team\, US Venture P artners ï¾·Legal aspect & Moderator - Frank F. Rahmani\, Partner\, Coo ley Godward Kronish\, LLP This event is co-sponsored by Cooley Godward Kronish LLP. Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Speaker Bios Dave Edwards\, P artner\, CleanTech Team\, VantagePoint Venture Partners Dave joined Va ntagePoint from Morgan Stanley where he was an equity research analyst with a focus that spanned the solar\, wind\, efficiency\, emission re duction\, storage\, biofuels and energy biotech markets. Previously\, Dave was a partner at ThinkEquity Partners and founder of the firms C leanTech practice. He also served as a buy-side analyst for a hedge fu nd and as a partner for Charles River Ventures. Dave also worked in pr oject finance at Kenetech Windpower and product management at Apple Co mputer and Macromedia. He received a BA from Yale University. Rajeeva Lahri\, Founder\, President & CEO\, Signet Solar Rajeeva Lahri has ove r 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry\, focusing prim arily on technology and operations. Most recently\, Rajeeva was CTO an d Executive VP of Worldwide Operations at Intersil Corporation\, a lea ding manufacturer of high performance analog semiconductors. He was ke y in transforming Intersil into a high performance analog product comp any with significant improvement in operating performance. Prior to In tersil Corporation\, Dr. Lahri had served in many operational and tech nology leadership positions: Senior VP of Technology and Operations at Elantec (acquired by Intersil Corp)\, Deputy CTO of Philips Semicondu ctors\, and Senior VP of Corporate Technology for VLSI Technology Inc (acquired by Philips). Prior to those\, he held various management and technical positions at National Semiconductor and Hewlett Packard. Dr . Lahri holds a MS degree in Physics and a Master of Technology degree in Materials Science\, both from the Indian Institute of Technology i n Kanpur\, India. In addition\, Dr. Lahri holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo\, New York. R ajeeva is a charter member of TiE\, and a founder of Fab Owners Associ ation (FOA\; www.waferfabs.org)\, a forum for semiconductor fabricatio n owners to discuss and act on specific semiconductor manufacturing is sues in a cooperative environment. Mamoon Hamid\, Principal\, CleanTec h Team\, US Venture Partners Working at USVP combines Mamoon Hamid's t hree passions: technology\, people and building businesses. Mamoon joi ned USVP in 2005 and became a Principal in 2008. He has 11 years of ex perience building and investing in high growth technology businesses. His investment interests lie in IT and Cleantech areas. Mamoon led USV P's investments in box.net\, and serves on the company's Board of Dire ctors. He is actively involved with USVP portfolio companies: Optichro n\, Supplyframe and Zannel. He is also an advisor to Yelp. Prior to jo ining USVP\, Mamoon spent seven years at Xilinx (XLNX) in various mark eting management and engineering roles. He was responsible for definin g and implementing sales and marketing strategies that grew the compan y's consumer electronics and automotive market segment revenues five-f old to $100 million in a span of three years. As a System Architect at Xilinx\, Mamoon was responsible for evangelizing the role of Xilinx t echnology in emerging markets and prior to that\, as an applications e ngineer\, he designed performance and cost optimized FPGAs which led t o key design wins for the company. Previously\, Mamoon has also worked for Deutsche Bank. Mamoon holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from P urdue University (graduated at age 19)\, an MS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Busi ness School. Frank F. Rahmani\, Partner\, Cooley Godward Kronish\, LLP Frank F. Rahmani is a partner in the Cooley Godward Kronish Business department. Resident in the Palo Alto office\, he has been with the Fi rm since 1997. Mr. Rahmani has a general business and corporate law pr actice with an emphasis in the representation of emerging growth compa nies\, intellectual property transactions\, securities transactions\, including private and public financing\, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Rahmani has counseled companies\, entrepreneurs and investors in a broad range of matters including start-up formation and spin-off tra nsactions\, assistance with obtaining early stage financing\, technolo gy acquisition and licensing matters\, to later stage financings\, str ategic and commercial relationships\, variety of public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Rahmani counsels companies in a wide ran ge of industries including medical devices and life sciences\, softwar e\, semiconductor and telecommunication equipment. Mr. Rahmani receive d a J.D.\, from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1997\, where h e was on the Deans List and was a representative to the American Bar Association. He received a business degree from Santa Clara University . Prior to joining Cooley\, Mr. Rahmani was an analyst with Intel Corp oration working with the corporate finance and worldwide sales organiz ations. Mr. Rahmani is a member of the State Bar of California. \n LOCATION:Cooley Godward LLP - Hanover St. Campus @ California, United States SEQUENCE:1221717810 UID:E0-001-014488443-9 URL:http://eventful.com/E0-001-014488443-9 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR