Solar Startups Forum at Intersolar

In a solar market burdened with shrinking margins, pressure to vertically integrate, and looming consolidation – how does a startup survive?

Please forgive the blatant self-promotion – but I am moderating a panel at Intersolar next week aiming to answer those questions and wanted to give you the low-down.

Executives from six solar startups across the value-chain are going to be speaking, a few for the first time in a public forum. We'll discuss their technologies but we'll also delve into their strategies for overcoming the current economic malaise and for scaling-up to meaningful volumes.  We'll talk about the challenges they face, the new funding options available from the feds, and how they're going to make their mark in the solar industry.  There will be time to ask questions and opportunity to engage these folks one-on-one.

We'll hear from startups working in:

• CIGS (AQT)
• c-Si (1366)
• CdTe (Primestar)
• Balance of System Electronics (Tigo)
• Medium Concentration Solar (Skyline Solar)
• High Concentration Solar (Soliant)

Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: San Francisco's InterContinental Hotel  Level 3 – Grand Ballroom C

Speakers include:
 
Applied Quantum Technologies – A practical pathway to high volume, low cost TFPV production  
Brian Bartholomeusz, VP, Operations and Business Development, AQT

PrimeStar Solar – Thin Film Technologies 
Dr. Brian R. Murphy, Chairman, CEO and Founder, PrimeStar Solar
 
1366 Technologies – Enabling Terawatt Photovoltaics 
Craig Lund, Director of Business Development, 1366 Technologies
 
Tigo Energy – Optimizing Solar PV Installations and BoS  
Jeffrey Krisa, Vice President Marketing and Sales, Tigo Energy
 
Skyline Solar – Advantages of High Gain Solar (HGS)  
Dr. Bob MacDonald, CEO, Skyline Solar
 
High Energy Density Virtual Grids for Municipalities  
Marco DeMiroz, CEO, Soliant Energy

More details here

I hope to see you there!