SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Twenty years since its inception, the clean-technology industry is now a dynamic force powering business advancement, driving change and leading us to a low carbon future. Today, entrepreneurial innovators and multinational corporations are meeting in the middle and working together, globally. In just over three weeks, November 4 & 5, in San Francisco, the CleanTech Future Conference II will showcase more than 80 top executives, visionaries and innovative entrepreneurs sharing their views on how deploying clean technologies can bring about a more vibrant economy worldwide, as well as an improved environment.

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"Whether working with large corporations or innovative upstarts, anyone who wants to gain creative foresight into the future of business can benefit from attending," said Keith Raab, CEO and Co-Founder of the organizer, CleanTech Connections (www.ctechconnect.com). "This second event in our forward-looking series will bring together influential executives shaping the next big growth area of technology."

The first day's focus will be "Breakthrough Capitalism: Corporate Change Leaders." The second day will emphasize "CleanTech 4G: Ushering in the Era of the Cleanweb." Some of the many intriguing keynote topics include:

• An Energy Intervention: Energy Independence not as a Goal, but as the Byproduct of Effective Policies, Strategies, and Leadership. John Hofmeister, Founder & CEO Citizens for Affordable Energy; Former President Shell Oil Company
• The Future of Building Efficiency: Leading by Example - Defining and Delivering Tomorrow's Most Innovative Integrated Building Management Solutions.  Lauralee Martin, CEO Americas, Jones Lang LaSelle
• The Business Case for Corporate Sustainability: Setting the Stage for Unprecedented Growth, Profits and Success - Redesigning the World. Joe Stanislaw, Independent Senior Advisor, Energy & Sustainability, Deloitte, LLP
• The Future of the Industrial Internet: How Data is Making Power Generation and Delivery More Predictable, Flexible and Responsive.  Anne McEntee, President & CEO, Renewable Energy, GE Power & Water
• The Future of Renewables, Power Generation and Storage:  Freedom from the Utilities - Transforming the Way the World Produces and Uses Energy.  Lyndon Rive, Founder & CEO, Solar City
• The Future of Transport – A Single Connected Network of Mobility Solutions. John Viera, Global Director, Sustainability & Vehicle Environmental Matters, Ford Motor Company
• Clean IT:  The Emergence of the Cleanweb - The Power of Using Information Technology to Reduce Environmental Impacts and Gain Energy Efficiency.  Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist, Microsoft
• The Path to Building the Electric Superhighway: Opportunities and Solutions for Next Generation Energy Networks. Rick Geiger, Executive Director for Utilities & Smart Grid, Cisco

In addition to those noted above, executives will be featured from many more market-making organizations including Veolia Environnement, Total New Energies , American Water Corporation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Global Water Resources, Grundfos, Waste Management, McCormick & Company, McKinsey & Company, Natural Logic, Salesforce.com, Siemens, Verizon and many more. For the complete agenda see http://www.ctechconnect.com/index.php/events/san-fransisco/agenda.  Ample opportunities are provided for networking.

As the cleantech industry's only, all-keynote conference, the CleanTech Future Conference series aspires to be the premier showcase for visionary ideas that inspire useful action and meaningful change. Speakers and their organizations are carefully vetted for relevance and interest. The keynote format avoids the fragmented chat that is so common to panels. It lets the audience experience a varied collection of coherent perspectives to inform their own insights into industry direction and momentum. Each presenter is encouraged to break out of the conventional slide-presentation straightjacket and share their vision in as lively and creative way as they like, speaking up, not down, to the equally lively and knowledgeable audience.

In 2013, Keith Raab, co-founder & CEO of CleanTech Connections and one of the pioneers of the cleantech industry, and Joe Trackwell, co-founder & COO, saw a need for a different kind of industry event that focused more on access to markets and somewhat less on access to capital. Past events organized by CleanTech Connections include CleanTech Future Conference I, in Phoenix, AZ, and the Savannah International Clean Energy Conference 2012.  Between them, the founders have hosted more than 70 clean technology and sustainability conferences around the world over the past nearly 20 years.  For more information, visit: www.CleanTechFuture.com.

We would like to thank our conference sponsors

CleanTech Future Conference II sponsors include Deloitte, Veolia Environment, Advanced Energy Economy, Sterne Kessler Goldstein Fox, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Ecolab, Grundfos, Babson College, Vyykn Water, and the Carbon War Room.

About CleanTech Connections

The CleanTech Future Conference is brought to you by CleanTech Connections, a firm with a dedicated focus on helping its clients gain global exposure and recognition through: market intelligence and positioning, connections to the entire cleantech ecosystem, streamlined access to entrepreneurs, investors and global thought leaders, and positioning at our industry relevant events. With our experiences, relationships, and resources in the clean technology sector, CleanTech Connections is uniquely positioned to help its clients navigate cleantech markets, assess future challenges, take advantage of emerging opportunities and ultimately grow communities, create smart cities, assist with sustainable, urban-development best practices and accelerate the creation of green collar jobs.

Media Contact: Joseph Trackwell, CleanTech Connections, 5175792386, joe.trackwell@ctechconnect.com

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