Forums & Events

E2Tech provides a monthly forum series (Sept-June) that seeks to provide timely information about Maine's clean technology sector. E2Tech also hosts periodic networking events to foster business-to-business opportunities within Maine's clean tech economy. Additionally, preceding each forum, a 45 minute block of time is reserved for networking. We hope you can join us. 

Upcoming events

  • March 15th Forum - 2012 ME Environmental & Energy Policy (Augusta)

    • Thursday, March 15, 2012
    • 7:15 AM - 9:30 AM
    • Governor Hill Mansion 136 State St, Augusta
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    E2Tech 2012 Maine Environmental & Energy Policy FORUM

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    Environmental Policy Perspective

    Patricia Aho, Commissioner of the Maine Dept of Environmental Protection: 
    Commissioner Aho will outline plans for restructuring the DEP. A native of Boothbay Harbor and a graduate of Nasson College with a law degree from Western New England College, Ms. Aho has been in the forefront of environmental advocacy for over 25 years and active on critical issues facing Maine including energy efficiency, greenhouse gas and petroleum regulation. Ms. Aho is Maine DEP’s primary liaison with both the Legislature and the Governor’s Office, as well as representing the agency on state and regional committees.

    Energy Policy Perspective

    Kenneth Fletcher, Director, Governor's Office of Energy Independence and Security
    Mr. Fletcher will outline the Governor's energy policy for 2012. Fletcher served eight years as a state legislator for House District 54 also served on the governor's special budget committee. Fletcher is an experienced professional executive with more than 35 years of managerial and technical experience in both the private and public sectors. He worked in the pulp and paper industry for more than 30 years and had most recently worked as a consultant providing managerial and technical expertise to companies, including Huhtamaki Food services, Inc., Madison Paper Corporation, and Wausau-Mosinee Paper Corporation. While a legislator, Fletcher served as the ranking minority member on the Utilities and Energy Committee, which he was on for eight years.

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  • March 29th Networking Evening

    • Thursday, March 29, 2012
    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Maine International Trade Center, 511 Congress St., (Suite 100) Portland
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    AMEC is one of the world’s leading engineering, project management and consultancy companies. Their goal is to deliver profitable, safe and sustainable projects and services for their customers in the oil and gas, minerals and metals, clean energy, environment  and infrastructure markets, including sectors that play a vital role in the global and national economies and in people’s everyday lives.

    AMEC's Portland office offers services that include site investigation, remedial system design and construction, system O&M and optimization, environmental site liability modeling, air modeling, river modeling, litigation support, data management and industrial process modeling.

    Many of AMEC's clients are pulp and paper companies and Fortune 500 companies interested in regulatory and risk management issues. The environmental engineering staff holds P.E. Licensure in Maine, New Hampshire, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.

    They design, deliver and maintain strategic assets for their customers, offering services which extend from environmental and front end engineering design before the start of a project to decommissioning at the end of an asset’s life.

    AMEC's customers, in both the private and public sector, are among the world’s biggest and best in their fields - BP, Shell, EDF, National Grid and U.S. Navy to name just a few. AMEC is international, with major operations centres based in the UK and Americas and offices and projects in around 40 countries worldwide. 

    AMEC employs some 27,000 people – ranging from scientists and environmental consultants to engineers and project managers.
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  • April 10th Forum - UMAINE: Maine's Clean Tech Innovator

    • Tuesday, April 10, 2012
    • 7:15 AM - 10:30 AM
    • Wishcamper Center, USM, Portland & Wells Conf Ctr, UMAINE, Orono
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    E2Tech heads north--to Orono but will share the experience via video-conferencing technology to forum attendees in Portland. This special event will bridge north and south and provide attendees with a novel opportunity to engage in virtual networking while learning more about the cutting edge, clean technology assets offered by UMAINE.  

    The university is uniquely positioned to play an important role in serving the region’s growing clean technology sector by offering high quality services through its world-class laboratories and research centers including the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, the Advanced Manufacturing Center, and the Advanced Structures and Composites Center. Meet leaders from these well renowned centers to learn how their current projects and capabilities have spun off successful businesses and how they may be able to help yours.


    Aquaculture Research Institute: Dr. Ian Bricknell, Director
    Advanced Structures and Composites Center/ DeepCwind Consortium: Larry Parent, Assistant Director
    Forest Bioproducts Research Institute: Hemant P. Pendse, Professor and Department Chair, UMAINE Pulp & Paper Fdtn
    Advanced Manufacturing Center:  John Belding, Director
    Food Technology Pilot Plant:  Al Bushway, Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
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    Moderator: John Voltz, Blackstone Accelerates Growth, an Innovative, Maine-focused Entrepreneurship Program developed to lead efforts to encourage entrepreneurs and spur innovation across Maine.

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    What is Clean Tech?

    Clean Tech is defined by a diverse range of products, services, and processes that harness renewable materials and energy sources, promote the sustainable use of natural resources, and reduce or eliminate emissions and wastes. Clean tech firms seek to increase performance, productivity and efficiency by minimizing negative effects on the environment, and describe companies that generally deal in energy (renewables, bio-fuels, efficiency, storage), recycling and waste, the environment, transportation, agriculture, materials and manufacturing. The clean tech sector refers both to clean tech firms as well as to all those industries that support those firms including construction, legal, marketing and any other number of businesses which may play a role as service providers. 

    Clean tech venture capital has bounced back in the third quarter of 2011, according to Ernst & Young. The accounting firm said U.S. VC investment in clean tech companies increased 73 percent, to $1.1 billion. Regionally, while California was the top spot for clean tech investment ($583 million  in the 3rd quarter), Massachusetts was next at $170.4 million.  

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