Largest international business meeting for energy and environmental technology in Potsdam, Germany 02 April 2012 – the largest international business meeting for energy and environmental technology in Germany of Green ventures in Potsdam, Germany from 13 to 15 June 2012 already for the 15th time takes place. A total of 3,900 national and international companies from 103 countries participated in the Brandenburg event in recent years. So the event has success at home and abroad with its concept 15 years, because the Green Ventures outside Germany were carried out several times: in China, Italy and in 2011 in Brazil on there largest FIMAI environmental fair. Since its establishment in 1998, the event has grown steadily and green technology a Brandenburg success model for the initiation of cooperation today occupies a permanent place in the area. The year’s matchmaking in Potsdam, which is aimed at companies in the areas of soil, water, air, energy, construction, recycling and renewable materials, will have in addition to the individual interviews of the companies and a field trip also a venture capital stock exchange in the program. Here, the participants can present their promising projects and meet investors.

In addition, the meeting presents itself to its 15th anniversary with new Internet platform for the networking of participants. Partner country Belgium will be an interesting market for providers of energy technologies in 2012. This year international companies and institutions from around the world will make the event a success. Also high-ranking politicians are expected to attend. On the basis of a catalog in which all participating companies present themselves, the interlocutor with whom a meeting is desired, can be selected in advance. The Organizer, the industry and Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Potsdam, puts together affiliated individual schedules. Thus, the Green Ventures are a very efficient way to meet entrepreneurs from many States or Germany and easily new business relationships to build up. The Green Ventures are supported by the European Commission, the State of Brandenburg, ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbH and the Berlin iFUS Institute (Institute for integrated information technology and media design). Registration/information: IHK Potsdam, Olivia Liebert, Tel. 0331 2786-241 Internet: