MISSION MOST-POSSIBLE: CLEAN & COOL
Sam Lakha
November 14, 2009
Volans is working in partnership with Polecat in pulling together a “mission” to San Francisco in February 2010 (Polecat last year took the top 20 ‘Web 2.0’ companies out there). In brief the Clean & Cool Mission is a competition to identify the top 20 fast growing Clean & Cool companies in the UK. Those companies selected will travel to San Francisco from 20 Feb to 26 Feb to meet peers, investors, media and potential partners from all around the world; they will also engage with experts on the financial and public policy agendas relevant to ‘Cool Economy’ businesses operating in the US.
It’s exciting to think of the game-changing ideas and partnerships that could arise from bringing these players together, a framework akin to our Pathways to Scale program at Volans.
Polecat will be using their very cool (read ‘funky’) MeaningMine product to map the key trends, influencers and discussion around the event, which will then help build key market intelligence in this field – no spreadsheets or boring bar-charts here, we are talking gorgeous graphics, heatmaps, article carousels and the like to get you close to critical quantitative data about your business, such as where conversations about you or your field are occurring: hear more here
Mission is set for take off on Tuesday, November 17th at the London Stock Exchange, sponsored by the Technology Strategy Board, UKTI and Enterprise UK and supported by Polecat and Volans, with our own trailblazer John Elkington very much at play in the cock-pit. See Clean & Cool website here
