Innovative ideas for–and examples of–green energy development and production will fuel the World Green Energy Symposium, which is being planned as an international exposition that highlights new energy as the number one opportunity for economic and technological development in northeast Pennsylvania. It also promises to be the first meeting of its kind to bring to the region an international gathering of technologists, policymakers, and investors focused on business opportunities for green energy.
The symposium will be held September 13-15 at Wachovia Arena, home of the Wilkes Barre-Scranton Penguins. Karen Ostroskie, program manager of the Procurement Technical Assistance Center in Pittston, says that the symposium planners hope to draw an audience of more than 5,000 from Pennsylvania and other states and countries to the symposium, which will carry the theme, “The Power of Energy.”
In addition to the Northeast PA Alliance, which Ostroskie represents, symposium planners are seeking to recruit numerous national, state, and regional organizations from private, public, and non-profit sectors with a direct interest in alternative energy. Current participants identified with the program include the NEPA Alliance, the Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal, the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeast PA, regional hospitality and tourism interests, including the Woodlands and Mohegan Sun, as well as the New Energy Wind and Solar Showcase US.
More than 25 universities will be participating in the project, according to Daisy Gallagher, a partner in Gallagher + Gallagher Worldwide Inc, a marketing firm. Student audiences will have an opportunity to hear leading experts from science, government, business, and many other domains of interest in new and alternative energy address the symposium.
The agenda, to be developed over the next eight and a half months, will organize the three-day event around expositions of alternative and green energy technologies and projects, sessions on business, investment and policy, Ostroskie says. “We would love to see this region as the Silicon Valley for energy.”
Sources: World Green Energy Symposium, Daisy Gallagher, Karen Ostroskie
Writer: Joseph Plummer
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