Building upon the success of last year’s event, Cleantech Georgia 2008 is gearing up to be even better! The date is fast approaching (May 14th) Attendees will have an opportunity to:

• Discover the many exciting Georgia innovations that are happening in the cleantech space
• Listen to venture capitalists, cleantech entrepreneurs, and other subject matter experts share their insights
• Enjoy fast venture pitches by a handful of select up-and-coming Georgia cleantech companies
• Explore our “cleantech showcase”, which will feature many emerging Georgia clean technologies

While we haven’t fully fleshed out the lineup yet, it is shaping up to be pretty strong:

• John Baumstark, CEO, Suniva: a solar cell play which just completed a $50M round of venture capital
• Dan Gordon, Valhalla Partners
• David Kirkpatrick, Managing Director, SJF Ventures
• Tom Johnson, Southern Company

Suniva should be fun to see – they are one of the biggest investments made in Georgia (cleantech or otherwise) in quite some time. David Kirkpatrick will be returning as well – his insights into the cleantech space were very valuable at last year’s event (check out his recent appearance on the StartupLounge.com podcast as well).

And of course, my favorite part – the early-stage entrants.

If you are a Georgia-based cleantech/green energy startup, and you’d like to be considered to be one of 3 hand-picked startups that will get to deliver a 3 minute fast-pitch at this event, please contact me so I can get you into the mix. Also, if you want to take advantage of our free “showcase” area for cleantech companies, contact me.

We have a number of industry players, angel investors and venture capitalists that will be in attendance as well – many of them have expressed to me their desire to learn more about the space, and to see what sort of innovations are coming out of Georgia.

For more information on the event, stay tuned to the TAG web site – more information will be posted soon.

Thanks to all of my fellow board members of the TAG Business & Technology Alliance for helping to pull this together. It should be a great event!

Cheers.