Green:Net Startup Launchpad Deadline This Friday!

The deadline to submit an application for our Green:Net launchpad is just around the corner — this Friday at 5PM! If you’re part of a new startup that leverages information technology — the Internet, computing and communication networks — to help remake the energy industry and fight climate change, submit an application to launch your company or product at our Green:Net conference. Green:Net 2010 will be held on April 29 in San Francisco and will focus on how IT can be used to fight climate change — from the smart grid, to connected cars, to carbon software.

During the Launchpad section of our Green:Net 2010 event 10 hot startups will show off their products on the main stage. The Launchpad winners will receive a lot of visibility — and likely interest from investors. Check out last year’s Judge’s Winner, Wattbot.

The qualifications for the launchpad are that companies need to have developed innovative technology that uses information technology — the web, mobile devices, wireless networks, software and computing — to fight climate change in some way. We’re giving preference to companies that have yet to launch publicly or raise funding, and we’re also looking for real technology and real products. So no vaporware, folks.

We’ve already received dozens of great submissions. And you’ve got 2 more days — til Friday at 5PM — to send in yours! We’ll announce the winners on March 22.

We’re really excited for Green:Net 2010 and we’ve got a great list of speakers lined up including: Bill Gross, CEO of Idealab, Dian Grueneich, Commissioner, California Public Utility Commission, Jason Few, President of Reliant Energy, Vinod Khosla, founder Khosla Ventures, Bill Weihl, Google’s Green Energy Czar, Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Eric Dresselhuys, EVP, Silver Spring Networks, Laura Ipsen, SVP and GM, Smart Grid, Cisco and many, many more (for the complete list of speakers see here). Hurry, buy your tickets for the only event that focuses on the intersection of Internet, computing and green.

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