Confirmed Speakers Include: Debra L. Reed, President and CEO, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas Company; Alan J. Fohrer, Chairman and CEO, Southern California Edison; Jack Keenan, Chief Operating Officer, Pacific Gas & Electric Company; The Honorable Alex Padilla, State Senator and Chair of Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee; The Honorable V. Manuel Perez, Assemblymember and Chair of the Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee; The Honorable Tom Torlakson, State Assemblymember; Mayor of Long Beach, Bob Foster
 

 

Over 800 invited policy makers, educators, industry experts, labor leaders, investors, business owners, and community organization leaders are expected to participate in the California Utilities Diversity Council's 2009 Green Diversity Summit.

This timely statewide summit will be the first green energy conference to directly address diversity and inclusion. It will provide an unprecedented opportunity for discussion of solution strategies that can generate tens of thousands of green jobs for all California. It will promote programs to increase green job training and education, as well as programs to stimulate green business development.

Our primary goal is to broaden and sharpen understanding of how the transition to a clean energy economy can bring green investment and contracting opportunities to entrepreneurial WMDVBE business owners as well as benefit underserved and underrepresented communities through green workforce education and training and green job creation.

Opportunities for the Green Economy in the Federal Stimulus Package:

...$6 billion to the new Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program - Expected to support $60 billion in loans.

...$500 million for jobs in renewable energy and energy efficiency

...$43 billion for energy programs

 

 

 

ATTEND:
A One-day Summit, “Advancing Diversity in the New Green Energy Economy”

LEARN:
How the new clean energy economy and federal
stimulus will bring investment, business, and job
opportunities to California’s diverse marketplace.

JOIN:
More than 800 attendees from corporations,
business associations, environmental groups, educational institutions, labor groups, government, and diverse community-based organizations.

EVENT DETAILS:
When: May 29, 2009
Where: Long Beach Convention Center - Grand Ballroom
Directions: Google Maps - MapQuest - LBCC

CUDC * MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS:
American Indian Chamber of Commerce of California
Asian Business Association
AT&T Inc.
California Black Chamber of Commerce
California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce
California Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses, Inc.
California Small Business Association
California Water Association
Comcast
Communications Workers of America
GeM Communications
Latin Business Association
Latino Institute for Corporate Inclusion
Latino Journal
National Association of Women Business Owners
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce
San Jose Water Company
Sempra Energy utilities, San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Gas Company
Southern California Edison
Spanish Language Academy
Utility Workers Union of America
Verizon

*A collaboration between the CPUC, business, labor and California utility companies.