Pictures & Exhibitors

Silver Spring Networks is a leading networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks. With its pioneering IPv6 networking platform, Silver Spring has connected more than 12 million homes and businesses throughout the world with the goal of achieving greater energy efficiency for the planet. Silver Spring’s innovative products enable utilities to gain efficiencies, integrate renewable energy sources and empower customers to monitor and manage energy consumption. Silver Spring Networks is used by major utilities around the globe including Baltimore Gas & Electric, CitiPower & Powercor, Commonwealth Edison, Florida Power & Light, Jemena Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco Holdings, Inc. and United Energy among others. For more information please visit www.silverspringnet.com.

Bloom Energy is changing the way the world generates and consumes energy.

Our unique on-site power generation systems utilize an innovative new fuel cell technology with roots in NASA's Mars program. Derived from a common sand-like powder, and leveraging breakthrough advances in materials science, our technology is able to produce clean, reliable, affordable power,... practically anywhere,... from a wide range of renewable or traditional fuels.

Our Energy Servers™ are among the most efficient energy generators on the planet; providing for significantly reduced electricity costs and dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions. By generating power on-site, where it is consumed, Bloom Energy offers increased electrical reliability and improved energy security, providing a clear path to energy independence.
Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.        

Bloom Energy’s Solution

Built with our patented solid oxide fuel cell technology, Bloom's Energy Server™ is a new class of distributed power generator, producing clean, reliable, affordable electricity at the customer site.

Fuel cells are devices that convert fuel into electricity through a clean electro-chemical process rather than dirty combustion. They are like batteries except that they always run. Our particular type of fuel cell technology is different than legacy "hydrogen" fuel cells in three main ways:

1. Low cost materials – our cells use a common sand-like powder instead of precious metals like platinum or corrosive materials like acids.

2. High electrical efficiency – we can convert fuel into electricity at nearly twice the 

rate of some legacy technologies

3. Fuel flexibility – our systems are capable of using either renewable or fossil fuels

Each Bloom Energy Server provides 200kW of power, enough to meet the baseload needs of 160 average homes or an office building... day and night, in roughly the footprint of a standard parking space. For more power simply add more energy servers.

IBIS began as an independent controls integration contractor in 1997 serving the San Francisco Bay area to a multi-million dollar Corporation specializing in the development and implementation of enterprise-level Energy Management Systems globally. Since 97’ the market for automation products and services has undergone rapid changes which continue today and IBS has evolved with the market. Rising energy prices, green awareness, web enabled open communication, sustainable construction and operational practices have changed the drivers for intelligent buildings from comfort at the lowest initial cost to lowest total cost of ownership. IBS’s flagship product, IBIS (Intelligent Building Interface System) and integration services support this requirement for installations ranging from a single site to worldwide operations.
Today, Integrated Building Solutions (IBS) offers a full suite of products and services supporting energy optimization, demand response, data centers, Energy Star certification and LEED metering on a local and enterprise level. The IBIS Energy Management Suite is a scalable, web enabled software suite derived from years of experience integrating/optimizing building operations and forms the backbone of IBIS.
IBS’s growing client list includes NASA, Adobe, Zynga, eBay, Cushman & Wakefield, HP, Boeing, VA Hospitals, Oakland Airport, College of the Desert and several other Educational Institutions. Through a combination of using IBS’s flagship Software (IBIS) Intelligent Building Interface System and IBS Services, users are able to perform Global Energy analysis, Building Management and Data Center Monitoring.

IBIS’s Solution:

IBIS is the flagship offering of Integrated Building Solutions, the trusted partner of choice in advanced energy management systems for commercial, educational, municipal, data center building owners, managers and providers. IBIS is designed as an open-protocol, vendor and technology-agnostic energy management suite platform. Since 1997, the company has guided dozens of the world’s top organizations – including Adobe, eBay, Hewlett Packard, NASA, Zynga and Vantage Data Centers – along the path toward smarter buildings.

After developing biomimetic membranes for cancer therapies, zNANO was founded by Dr. Adrian Brozell in February 2010 to commercialize biomimetic membranes for water purification. 

zNANO demonstrated its first membrane with NASA Ames in February 2011 for water reuse in space. NASA Ames continues to be a valuable customer and supporter of zNANO. zNano is demonstrating greywater recovery systems empowered by our proprietary biomimetic membrane for laundry water, car wash water, and industrial wash water recycling. Our systems have an ROI of less than 4 years. Today, zNANO has four employees, 1800 sq ft of dedicated manufacturing space, and is working with several major companies on long term projects for water reuse.

zNano’s Solution:

We will be exhibiting some membranes used for laundry water filtration.

Sunflower Systems is an enterprise asset management solutions and software company specializing in the deployment of software tools and business processes to simplify asset management tasks. Sunflower’s portfolio of solutions enables organizations to improve decision-making, accountability, sustainability and regulatory compliance for all types of assets including personal property, real property, IT assets, materials, vehicles and more. Sunflower Systems, headquartered in San Ramon, California has been serving the property management needs of commercial enterprises, federal government agencies, universities, government contractors and national laboratories since 1997.

Sunflower Systems’ Solution:

Sunflower Systems is an enterprise asset management solutions and software company specializing in the deployment of software tools and business processes to simplify asset management tasks. Sunflower’s portfolio of solutions enables organizations to improve decision-making, accountability, sustainability and regulatory compliance for all types of assets including personal property, real property, IT assets, materials, vehicles and more. Sunflower Systems, headquartered in San Ramon, California has been serving the property management needs of commercial enterprises, federal government agencies, universities, government contractors and national laboratories since 1997.

Advanced Lighting Technologies Inc. (ALT), is an early-stage start-up company located in Santa Clara, CA that has developed breakthrough AC power supply (driver) technology for LED lamps which has the potential to revolutionize the LED lighting market.   The founders and management team are made up of experienced executives from the power management, semiconductor and lighting industries. ALT is seeking investment funding to support its commercial launch and is looking to establish business partnerships with semiconductor and lighting companies to bring these new products to market on a global basis.

ALT’s Solution:

 ALT has developed a single chip AC LED lamp driver – with no cap action, coils or EMI filters; that has up to 80% lower cost, 5 times longer life, >90% efficiency and >0.95 power factor; and allows the LED lamps to be fully dimmable, have no visible flicker and be rated for operating temperatures up to 150 degrees C. ALT’s driver will be fully integrated into 8 pin and 16 pin ASIC chips, and can eventually lead to development of a singly LED light engine system by embedding the ALT driver chip an LED array chip, creating the “The Ultimate Lighting Device” in the industry. ALT’s driver technology may be the first of its kind in the world and hold the potential to become ubiquitous in the global LED lamp market.

Verdigris Technologies, a Silicon-Valley based Clean Tech startup company, was founded in 2010 by Mark Chung and Jonathan Chu. The Verdigris team has expertise in signal processing, machine learning, and cellular sensor networks. Verdigris’ vision of reducing global energy demand with its patented technology solution has enabled Verdigris to attract and assemble a notable team of engineers, computer scientists, and energy experts from leading universities such as Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, MIT as well as seasoned influential advisers from government, academia, and industry for their board. 

Verdigris’ Energy.AI is a comprehensive hardware/ software platform with the groundbreaking ability to measure any building’s electricity use down to a specific appliance- all from the circuit panel. Energy.AI can simultaneously and accurately measure as many as a thousand different devices from each single sensor node. Our platform is built on the premise that every appliance has a unique energy signature. Energy.AI samples energy data using an array of inductive coils and a voltage sensor tethered to the circuit panel of a building. From this single point of measurement, we execute the disaggregation and analysis of the electrical signatures in the cloud in order to reduce the cost of hardware deployment and take advantage of centralized data aggregation and computation. Energy.AI has been tested and proven to achieve unprecedented energy data granularity from individual plug-loads: from 1500-ton chiller plants and halide lighting systems to individual iPhone chargers. Currently, Verdigris has partnered with NASA to install our innovative product, Energy.AI, as part of the induction of NASA’s newly dedicated high-performance building, N232, also known as Sustainability Base, that can be used to conduct experiments for sustainable technologies.

Energy Points enables management and planning of resource consumption. The Company’s platform combines advanced analytics with complex resource scarcity data to translate all resources into primary energy, enabling a direct, one to one comparison of domains such as electricity, water, waste and fuel.
Energy Points directly addresses how companies can maximize both the financial and long-term (sustainability, brand, reputation, etc.) return on their capital investments. Energy Points has a simple and powerful value proposition. That is, Energy Points enables an organization to measure, analyze, and communicate the total energy consumption across resources. Energy Points addresses this challenge by providing a universal metric and the first calculation engine that converts all metrics and resource domains into energy. Each of these resources require energy to produce, consume or manage – and the amount of energy that each require is measurable to a high degree of accuracy.Founded in 2011 by Dr. Ory Zik and Co-founded by Roy Stein, Energy Points is privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

EnergyPoint’s Solution:

EnergyPoints™ Analytics provides a one to one normalization and comparison of resource consumption across all environmental domains, including water, electricity, transportation, gas, waste, and material.
The product enables decision makers to: manage and plan their company’s resource consumption over time, choose the right projects based on environmental impact and cost, set goals based on total energy consumption, integrate financial and sustainability reports, and monitor and score the environmental sustainability of a supply chain. Built with a range of customer needs in mind EnergyPoints Analytics can be either be used as a stand-alone system, on-premise or cloud-based or by integrating with existing resource management systems.

Innovations from SRI International have created new industries, billions of dollars of marketplace value, and lasting benefits to society—touching our lives every day. SRI, a nonprofit research and development institute based in Silicon Valley, brings its innovations to the marketplace through technology licensing, new products, and spin-off ventures. Government and business clients come to SRI for pioneering R&D and solutions in computing and communications, chemistry and materials, education, energy, health and pharmaceuticals, national defense, robotics, sensing, and more.

Bauer’s Transportation provides corporations, transit systems, schools, airports, and transportation managers one of the largest fleets in America — over 150 luxury vehicles — from state-of –the-art eco-luxury business shuttles to black car celebrity and VIP services to the renowned San Francisco cable cars. The business employs over 200 employees, including 150 well-trained chauffeurs, who transport thousands of people each day to and from work and to special venues. With an eye to the future and the planet, the company introduced “Green” transportation strategies in 1999.

In IBM's view, today's networked economy has created a global business landscape and a mandate for business change. Integrated global economies have opened markets of new opportunity and new sources of skills. The Internet has enabled communication and collaboration across the world and brought with it a new computing model premised on continuous global connection. In that landscape, companies can distribute work and technology anywhere in the world.

Given these opportunities, IBM is working with its clients to develop new business designs and technical architectures that allow their businesses the flexibility required to compete in this new landscape. The business is also adjusting its footprint toward emerging geographies, tapping their double-digit growth, providing the technology infrastructure they need, and taking advantage of the talent pools they provide to better service the company’s clients.

No matter where discovery takes place, IBM researchers push the boundaries of science, technology and business to make the world work better. Today, IBM researchers are redefining where discovery happens by stepping outside of the laboratory and challenging the status quo to solve some of the world's most complex problems. From monitoring energy and water desalinization in the deserts of the Middle East to using nanopolymers to fight bacteria, IBM Research is a global community of forward-thinkers working towards a common goal: progress.

Solution: Lithium/Air Battery Project (Battery 500)

The 2009 Almaden Institute, Scalable Energy Storage: Beyond Lithium Ion, has inspired the formation of a new project focused on Lithium/Air Rechargeable Batteries. The goal is to create a powerful new battery for electric cars that is as good as gasoline, gets 500 miles/800 km range per charge, and is a total electric drive system comparable in size. A lightweight 'air-cathode' replaces heavy metal-oxide cathodes of today and has an encapsulated Lithium metal anode. 

This is a very high risk/very high reward, long horizon project and a joint research effort with National Labs and commercial partners. If successful, such batteries could dramatically reduce oil dependency.