Events & Initiatives

Join leaders from diverse disciplines to dive deep into water issues affecting the region and to explore innovative solutions to water challenges. The Symposium will feature nationally renowned speakers, and showcase the efforts of various sectors in leveraging research, innovation, education, and creative policies to address the most pressing water issues.

The Symposium will kick off with a reception Wednesday evening, followed by all-day programming on Thursday. Confirmed speakers include Gary Knell, Chairman of National Geographic Partners and Tom Vilsack, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Visit the speaker page for the latest lineup.

The Water in the West Symposium is an offering of the future Colorado State University Campus at the National Western Center. For more information, visit nwc.colostate.edu.

The 21st Century Energy Transition Symposium 2019 is the 8th annual event co-hosted by the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory (Collaboratory) — a unique and successful energy research partnership between University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Since 2011 the past annual symposia offered a wide range of science, industry leadership, best practices, common sense regulations and policy implications across a broad spectrum of energy and sustainability issues.

For the past seven years, the annual energy symposia were hosted by Colorado State University. Building a national reputation of hosting an event focused on finding solutions, the symposia made sure speakers from different backgrounds and opinions had a voice at each session. Always held in the fall, this year’s 8th annual symposium will be held in the spring 2019.

With a reputation for independent research excellence, the four Collaboratory partners are uniquely positioned to help the public understand energy-related transitions occurring in Colorado, the West, the United States and internationally. The partners will provide balanced, credible, and multi-disciplinary solutions to the complex problems facing the world.

The Collaboratory partners can directly address all the issues – energy sources, environmental, water, land use, oil and gas production, air, regulatory, policy and cultural – that are demanding public attention and discussion.

Are you a project developer?   A technology company that deploys infrastructure or projects?   Come hear about new capital opportunities for scaling.

CCIA is partnering with the Colorado Solar and Storage Association (COSSA) and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) to host a breakfast on Opportunity Zones (OZ), and you are cordially invited. The goal is to bring together a small group of leading technology companies and developers to discuss plans for developing in Opportunity Zones, lessons learned so far and how the state can support.

The OZ info-session from OEDIT will be followed by a brief project and OZ financing working group discussion hosted by Trent Yang, AMG Capital.

InnoSTARS is a market-readiness pitch competition that offers an opportunity for innovative U.S. technology companies to demonstrate their readiness for the China market. It is a three-round pitch competition where U.S. companies selected from preliminary (U.S.) rounds in spring/summer go to China in fall on a sponsored trip to compete in the semi-final and final rounds. In addition, InnoSTARS is a platform for connecting U.S. technology companies with prospective partners in China, such as distributors, corporations, incubators and accelerators, and investors. Since 2017, more than 1,000 U.S. technology companies applied to the InnoSTARS, and over 200 scored high enough to advance to the semi-final and final competitions in China.

Application Deadline: April 7, 2019

EarthX is an enormous exposition with an expected attendance of over 160,000 visitors, 400+ speakers, 700+ exhibitors and a wide range of activities such as the Tiny House Village, Outdoor Adventure Zone, Organic Farm, Animal Petting Zoo, Virtual Reality Zone, Big Thought Robotics Truck, Sustainable U, Green Auto Show, International Art Display and much, much more.

Organizers planning a new Colorado Pavilion in 2019. They are looking to bring together private companies state agencies, municipalities, not for profit organizations, universities and research institutions with a goal to highlight the remarkable accomplishments and innovative products and services of Colorado based companies and institutions. The weekend event brings together 130,000+ people, including leading national companies, elected officials, media and not for profits involved in environmental issues.

A Colorado Pavilion,

The goal of the Pavilion is to present Colorado companies an unique opportunity to attract new customers, tell their sustainability story and meet with like-minded companies during a variety of B to B networking conferences, dinners and seminars. EARTHx will feature companies in the clean energy, advanced manufacturing, eco-tourism, water conservation, medical technology, healthy food, aerospace, biosciences, transportation, efficient buildings, and natural gas industries,

The EARTHx Colorado Pavilion will be located inside the Centennial Building, one of the marque structures on the historic Fair Park grounds. Individual booths come equipped with Wi-Fi, tables, chairs, draping and electricity. 20 to 40 Colorado exhibitors are expected. The cost of a 10’ x 10’ booth ranges from $350 to $2,500, depending on the type and size of organization or company. Sponsorships are also available

Email the organizers for more info.