Events & Initiatives

The Colorado Cleantech Awards Celebration brings the cleantech community together to honor the creativity, innovation, and dedication to a cleaner energy future put forth by Colorado’s entrepreneurs, educators, corporate innovators, volunteers and policymakers. The 9th Awards will happen in October 2018!

The Oil & Gas Cleantech Challenge is a product innovation showcase and competition that connects clean technology solutions to the oil and natural gas industry.

The Mining Cleantech Challenge efficiently provides targeted connections between mining industry operators, OEMs, and clean technology solution providers with a mutually beneficial goal of meeting industry’s needs while at the same time introducing innovative solutions to the marketplace.

If you follow CCIA's newsletters, blog, LinkedIn or Twitter, you may have noticed increased action the past six months... We've been ramping up our media presence to keep you updated on all our latest and greatest, to expand our community and, perhaps most importantly, to create a platform to amplify your voices across Colorado and beyond. In order to support this effort, we kicked off a Storytelling Campaign pilot in June. The campaign launched with the blog post Bolder Industries: Greening an Industry with Bolder Black and an A/B ad campaign to compare sponsored outreach.

In 2010, CCIA undertook a State Plan. It is past time to update specific components of the action plan and, over the next few months we will be examining how CCIA can best support the growth of Colorado's cleantech industry in the areas of policy, workforce and capital.

CCIA is addressing this prominent concern in partnership with Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) and others through our capital initiative, SOAR Colorado (Stimulate Opportunities, Accelerate Reinvestment). Our goal with SOAR is to create a fund that supports startup, mid-stage and growth companies within innovation based industries.

The Energy Fellows Institute is an executive immersion program that rapidly transitions experienced executives and serial entrepreneurs into the advanced energy technology sector. The application period will open in mid-January 2018.

The Innovative Energy Review is Colorado’s leading clean energy journal dedicated to promoting trends, companies, and the overall state of energy in the region.

If you are an employer in an innovative industry, Colorado will help with your internship costs, up to $5,000 per intern for an intern with a minimum of 130 on-the-job training hours completed in 6 months.

CCIA and CEC bring their memberships together for Energy Connections (EC), a quarterly educational series that provides networking opportunities for established companies and young companies in order to promote new relationships and industry partnerships. Save the date in 2018: February 27, June 6, August 22, November 14.

The goal of the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association Foundation (CCIAF) is to extend the reach and scope of CCIA’s current educational programs and accelerate the pace of economic development in the cleantech sector. As a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization, CCIAF will be eligible to receive financial support from private foundations.

Energy I-Corps is a specialized training curriculum aimed at accelerating the transfer of clean energy technologies from national laboratories into the commercial marketplace.