AlwaysOn Announces GoingGreen West 100 Winners

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- AlwaysOn, the leading producer of world-class conferences for venture investors and entrepreneurs of emerging private companies, today announced the winners of the annual GoingGreen West 100 Awards. Topping the 2010 list is OPOWER, an industry leader in energy efficiency and smart grid software. The AlwaysOn GoingGreen West 100 represent a wide variety of emerging growth companies across the industry, including companies in energy management, energy storage, green transportation, green materials and building, life-sciences, water treatment and technologies, biofuels, solar energy, and other clean energy technologies. The full list can be viewed online here.

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GoingGreen West 100 winners are selected by AlwaysOn editors in collaboration with KPMG. Judging criteria included market opportunity, nature of innovation, media buzz and awareness, commercialization and ability to create stakeholder value. Companies must be located in the Western United States and Canada to qualify. Last year's overall winner, BrightSource Energy, has acquired $150 million in funding this year since being honored at GoingGreen and is expected to issue an IPO in 2011.

"Clean technology is an industry that is, in many ways, still in its beginning stages and is assured to have a huge impact on the world, in terms of business and environmental stability," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "The companies being honored at GoingGreen are growing so rapidly because they are pioneers in a field that is growing with them."

GoingGreen West 100 winners will be honored at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen West Conference to be held October 12-14, 2010, at the Presidio Golden Gate Club in San Francisco. This two-and-a-half day executive conference will bring together innovators and VCs by offering presentations and high-level debates from CEOs, journalists, industry experts, investors, venture capitalists and greentech executives.  

The current program for GoingGreen West 2010 can be found at:  http://www.aonetwork.com/AOEvents/GoingGreen/GoingGreen-Silicon-Valley

For tickets to AlwaysOn GoingGreen West, please contact John Schwartz at:  [email protected]

To register for a press pass, please visit: http://www.formstack.com/forms/?987738-Lib5naUzvs

About GoingGreen

GoingGreen West is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet top investors and the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities. At GoingGreen West, our editors will honor the GoingGreen Top 100 Private Companies. Up to 50 greentech CEOs will also pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our CEO Showcases.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn's preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.

SOURCE AlwaysOn

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