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2009 Conference Highlights
- 2009 Tradeshow Hours
- Outdoor Showcase
- Full Conference Immersive Experiences
- On The Tradeshow Floor
- Special Events
2009 Tradeshow Hours
Thursday, October 1st, 10 am — 5 pm
Friday, October 2nd, 10 am — 5 pm
Saturday, October 3rd, 10 am — 4 pm
Check out our 2009 list of exhibitors!
Outdoor Showcase
Integrative Show Garden – New!
A hanging garden was suspended from a bamboo structure over the bay, connecting the two piers of Fort Mason. Not just stunningly beautiful, this garden also treats stormwater. Attendees learned the benefits of vegetated urban and architectural systems, including enhanced building performance, reduced infrastructure impacts, heat island mitigation, carbon sequestration, improved air & water quality, habitat restoration and increased biodiversity. Josiah Cain, acclaimed Landscape Architect and Visionary, worked with community organizations to create this mind-expanding display that is as functional as it is beautiful.
Self Sustaining Show Home – New!
Attendees were able to view collection of on-demand, self-sustaining housing structures! These units are designed for a wide range of emergency and temporary housing applications – from single-family emergency relief homes to mobile medical units and community hubs. With built-in energy generation, fresh water supply and wastewater treatment, they are capable of provide completely off-grid relief for weeks.
Living Walls – New!
Launching at West Coast Green, this new type of vertical planted system reduces cooling demands, filters water, drains storm water and creates new habitats for birds and butterflies. The living walls use an innovative hydroponic technology and a non-soil growing medium.
Full Conference Immersive Experiences
Entrepreneur Training – Tried and True!
Concentrated, skill-based business sessions coupled with personal attention from California’s best consultants. Take your concept or existing enterprise to the next level with assistance from the Clean Tech Open and the Keiretsu Forum. This is a tangible way that you can create and further your important ventures. Click here to see the full session line up!
Leadership Summits – New!
Facilitators will give you dense, lighting fast presentations to prepare you to roll up your sleeves and work on real problems and creating real solutions. University student fellows will be in the room to record the conversation for publication.
Summits topics include:
- Seeding Innovations – Funders Vet Hot Ideas
- Energy Carbon Reduction Goals
- Creating Demand for Retrofitting Residences
- Dashboards- What Will Provide Lasting Behavior Change?
- Rebuilding Our Communities for Success
- Business Opportunities and the New Economy
- Fort Mason Design Slam
The 2009 Tracks –New!
The educational sessions and summits will focus on the these topics in 2009: Building Communities 2.0
- Smart Systems
- Water & Energy
- Clean Tech and Cool Products
- Business Opportunities & New Energy Economy
- Social Innovation
Conversations With Leaders - New!
In-depth conversations with business leaders, hosted continuously by Sustainable Industries founding editor and publisher Brian Back. Join the dynamic, thought provoking dialogues.
Networking Cafés – Tried and True!
Start your morning face to face with leaders. The people who have been looking for someone just like you will be there and the people you seek will be there too! This is the most effective, efficient and easy place to meet your next business partner or collaborator. You’ll leave with pockets full of business cards - our facilitators make sure of it!
On The Tradeshow Floor
Innovation Pipeline – Tried and True!
An incredible "Exploratorium-like" exhibit and experience revolutionary, smart products that will stretch your imagination. These fresh, progressive solutions give a glimpse of an abundant, efficient future! All these brilliant technologies and products are in early stages of development, so come see them before you find them all over the market!
Green Jobs Pavilion – New!
So you want a job that both gives back to the world and sends you leaping out of bed in the world, but you can’t seem to find one right now? Not a problem! This is your moment to create the business or the job that you’ve always wanted. The live multi-media, interactive space created our future economy right on the tradeshow floor. Attendees were introduced to more than 50 fabulous employers, training centers, financial resources so you can hone in on the best matches between your incredible skills and the opportunities that truly are out there in green.
Demo Stage – Tried and True!
Fast paced. Hands on. Products and methodologies are presented in the heart of the tradeshow floor- demonstrating how we move from vision to reality in the way we design, build and finish projects.
Organic Wine Tasting – New!
Meet our gregarious speaker faculty while grabbing a glass of organic booze on us! Digest the abundance of the day with your heroes and colleagues while sipping on delicious, organic beers and wines.
Special Events
The Official Afterparty at the California Academy of Sciences!
What happens when the most innovative conference teams up with the most innovative museum? A unforgettable social evening with purpose! Dancing, drinks, and music under the swooping living roof of the greenest museum in the world. The Elumenati played in the Planetarium and it was a mind blowing immersive visual experience.
See the list of the Top 10 Coolest things at West Coast Green !