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Sydney Cleantech Network |
The Sydney Cleantech Network (SCN) was launched in 2009 by Australian CleanTech to provide a forum for investors, companies, government and academia to meet, learn about the sector and collaborate. The SCN will not be a profit making venture but rather provide a forum for the organising partners to increase their industry profile whilst providing a useful forum for industry participants.
It is anticipated that the SCN will evolve into an organisation with a national as well as a state focus and aims to become a hub for all the key cleantech discussions within Australia. The associated profile benefits for the organising partners would therefore not only be enhanced within Sydney but potentially through out Australia. In time it is also planned to establish the SCN as a hub for international activity within Australia and as such those involved in the SCN may be seen as the gatekeepers for international participants looking to link with either companies or investors within the Australian cleantech sector.
Emerging cleantech companies are given an opportunity to pitch at these events - download brief profiles of the companies that have done recent here - SCN Pitches Overview. If you are interested in pitching at future events, please email pitching@auscleantech.com.au for more details.
Australian CleanTech has secured partners for the SCN. There are six organising partners who have committed to an involvement over a twelve month period. The partners all provide complementary services to the cleantech sector and as such will implicitly offer attendees a range of expert services that they may require. Categories of partners include an accounting firm, a legal firm, a broker, a carbon trader, a stock exchange, a research group and patent attorneys.
The Partners that have agreed to work with the Sydney Cleantech Network during FY10 are:
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KPMG
accounting, grants and tax |
Clayton Utz
legal services |
Macquarie Capital
advisory and capital raising |
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New Energy Finance
research and reports |
Griffith Hack
patent attorneys |
ASX
listing and carbon market |
The principles that underpin the SCN are:
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not having ‘members’ as it is strongly believed that this requirement would stifle and discourage emerging, innovative collaboration amongst participants; |
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where appropriate, attracting attendees by engaging with industry organisations and asking them to bring along their members, thus avoiding being seen as a threat to those organisations; |
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wherever possible, provide events free of charge to remove any barriers to attendance; |
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ensuring that each event has a different format and is held in a different venue to maintain interest levels; |
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developing an extremely efficient event delivery model that enables events to be run at minimal costs; |
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fully engaging with government, academia, the finance sector and cleantech companies to complete the required cleantech participants needed for successful collaboration; and |
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a targeted introductory and relationship building process built around individual attendee needs. |
The aspirations for the SCN are to facilitate new conversation, inspire collaboration and ultimately generate cleantech industry growth. In providing this facilitation, those involved in its organisation and delivery will increase their profile in the sector and increase their network of potential clients within the sector.