Conference Bites

GE Ecomagination Challenge Launch Event: Powering the Grid July 13 San Francisco

2010-07-14T13:40:42-07:00

"We want to make clean tech our reality."
~ Beth Comstock, SVP & CMO, GE

"Our business would be a Fortune 130 business, just in clean technology."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"This is not a precious initiative, it is a broad based industrial effort."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"Smart Gird may be an elite term, we are using 'Digital Energy' within GE."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"Policy clarity would help, but we are going to go forward regardless."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"This problem is a fat slow rabbit. There are lots of ways to succeed Scale is the challenge GE can help with."
~ Ray Lane, Managing Partner, KPCB

"We've got this 100 year hairball of pricing based on past needs, not current opportunities, that we have to unwind."
~ Chuck McDermott, Founder & General Partner, Rockport Capital

"Storing electricity could be the holy grail, if it's low cost."
~ Mark Little, SVP & Director, GE Global Research

"Our partners help GE avoid being like Godzilla at the end of the movie with the tail wiping out villages, when it comes to working with small firms."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"We are the pioneers, and we now have the arrows in the back."
~ Peter Darbee, CEO, PG&E

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but energy and environment is the mother of all necessities."
~ Arun Majumdar, Director, ARPA-E

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Sustainable Brands '10 June 7-10 Monteray

2010-07-13T15:21:09-07:00

"Use the engine of the business to drive social innovation, not the fumes."
~Jason Saul, CEO, Mission Measurement

"Eco efficiency will be biggest game changer & contributor to the global economy over next 20 years."
~ Lee Green, VP Brand Experience and Strategic Design, IBM

"China spends $9 Billion per month on renewable energy. The US spends $8 Billion per year!"
~ Aimee Christensen, Founder and CEO, Christensen Global Strategies

"Being green is no longer a differentiator. 'Green' is superficial. It’s a color. The real strategic opportunities come from being authentic and innovating."
~ unknown

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National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid, June 23-24 D.C.

2010-07-08T16:02:35-07:00

"Energy efficiency standards help us tell OPEC we need their oil as much as we need their sand."
~ Congressman Ed Markey (D–MA)

"Because we have organized markets, we are ahead of Chinese in ability to bring technology and demand response to consumer."
~ Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman, FERC

"The Smart grid industry needs to focus on selling benefits to consumers as well as benefits to utilities."
~ John Jimison, Sr. Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee

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CM Summit June 7-8 New York, Part 2

2010-06-13T11:47:58-07:00

"If you're not occasionally failing, you're not trying hard enough."
~ Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman/Publisher of The New York Times

"YouTube has given us a 'right brain' to go with the left brain focus of search (that has always been so strong at Google)."
~ Dennis Woodside, VP Americas Operations of Google

"Woman have 8% more Facebook friends than men. Seems obvious to me."
~ Deanna Brown, President & COO of Federated Media Publishing

"Open forum started as real live events… customers had more fun networking than from the content... that is what inspired us to move to the digital space with open forum."
~ John Hayes, CMO of American Express

"Without access to data, you pretty much can’t do anything."
~ Simon Khalaf, President & CEO of Flurry

"The internet has destroyed more business models than it has created—the pace is such that the market is always going to be churning."
~ CM Summit Data Panel

"Even as powerful as they are, Apple is not the web."
~ Adam Gerber, CMO of Quantcast

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CM Summit June 7-8 New York, Arianna Huffington Closing Keynote

2010-06-10T14:32:02-07:00

Quotes from Closing keynote interview that John Battelle did with Arianna Huffington, Co-founder & Editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post:

"We see the future as the linked economy. You don't change human behavior with pay walls....we will always be free. Staying engaged, with complete transparency, is the way of the future."

"This (our current political situation) is really a teachable moment for leadership."

"Many well known people have sent op ed pieces to papers like the New York Times, because they want to, as you say 'sound off', not for the $150 payment."

On what Kissinger told her regarding her accent, "You are about to discover the value in the U.S. of complete and total incomprehensibility."

"Loopholes are like yeast...they are the only thing that makes legislation rise."

"Sleep your way to the top--literally, due to (the explosion of) sleep deprivation. Everyone is so exhausted, there is no time to connect with ourselves and our own wisdom, which is the most precious thing."

"Self-expression is the new entertainment."

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