Clean Energy Summit 2009

IFLEX Resource Management - facilitate as the project manager of the upcoming Clean Energy Summit in Janary 2009. This is an important event to promote clean energy as well as promote trade between Sweden and Arizona.

SACC Arizona, Swedish Consulate of Arizona and Arizona Department of Commerce invite sponsors, speakers and businesses to participate in the Clean Energy Summit in Phoenix, 2009.

The meeting is to promote clean energy trade, commerce and investment between Sweden and Arizona. We estimate the event will be visited by 15 officials and approximately 10 Clean Energy businesses each from Sweden and Arizona. The Summit will take place at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Phoenix. We are very open to having a mixture of officials and industry partners from Arizona and Sweden, as well as individual speakers through the event.

Today we have commitments from the Swedish Embassy, Arizona Governors office, Arizona Department of Commerce, Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, City of Phoenix, Arizona State University, APS and many clean energy businesses both from Sweden and Arizona. Would you consider being a participant?

There is a planned a one day conference with presentations from the Arizona delegation followed by the Swedish delegation. There will be included sessions for business matchmaking events for the participating businesses and two (2) planned one-day-field-trips that you may want to plan to attend. The event will have speakers from Arizona and Sweden as a conduit into the Clean-Energy business sector and the national and state officials. A detailed program will be posted on our event website shortly.

Following are major subject areas that we want to cover in the Summit:

• Generally promote long-term business relations between Sweden and the State of Arizona.
• Expand economic exchange between Sweden and the State of Arizona.
• Increase knowledge of the Swedish and Arizona markets and possible business opportunities within the Clean Energy sector as well as other industry sectors.
• Inform of the business programs offered by SACC Arizona and the Arizona Department of Commerce.

Date proposed will be January 19-22 at Embassy Suites Conference center. We estimate a range of 50 conference participants at a cost of $600.00. The event schedule will be posted shortly.

We would appreciate any recommendations that you may have on what would be beneficial to our event, our presentations tnd the following field-trips.

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