On Nov. 18 and 19, VentureBeat will be hosting its inaugural GreenBeat conference, the premier executive summit on the Smart Grid this season. One of its major goals: To spotlight the brilliant technology only now emerging to mold a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid on the global level. And that’s what GreenBeat 2009’s Innovation Competition is all about.
Right now, we’re still calling for applications — from startups, big business, research institutions. If you are working on an idea that could disrupt the way we think about the grid today, then we want you in the running. The deadline to submit an application is Nov. 4. There’s still plenty of time.
Participating in the competition will mean exposure in front of an audience of Smart Grid industry leaders spanning venture capitalists, utility executives, other entrepreneurs and the best of the green press — not to mention keynote speakers Al Gore and John Doerr.
VentureBeat will announce the names of the top 10 entries, judged by some the of the grid’s most prominent stakeholders, during the conference on