Deadline Sept 17: Nominations for the 1st Annual Colorado Cleantech Leadership Awards

The Colorado Cleantech Industry Association (CCIA) is pleased to announce the inaugural Colorado Cleantech Awards Celebration, October 19 at the Denver Marriott City Center. This celebratory luncheon will honor the companies and entrepreneurs driving Colorado’s thriving cleantech industry.

Awards will be presented in multiple categories. We encourage companies to self-nominate or to nominate colleagues or vendors that have made a significant difference in Colorado's cleantech community.

Link to the online nomination form

Important dates to keep in mind:

Nominations will close at 5:00pm on September 17

Finalists will be notified the week of September 27

Award winners will be notified the week of October 4

Dr. Temple Grandin Keynotes CBSA Awards Dinner at 2010 BioWest Conference & Expo

From today's posting by DBJ Report Mark Harden: "Temple Grandin, the Colorado State University animal science professor whose life story was featured in an Emmy Award-winning television movie, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s BioWest Conference on bioscience in Denver.

The eighth annual conference, presented by the Colorado BioScience Association, will be held Sept. 29-30 at the Grand Hyatt in Denver. Grandin will speak at BioWest’s annual awards dinner."

Link to the Denver Business Journal website

Colorado's Emmy® Award Winning Heroine Dr. Temple Grandin Keynotes CBSA Awards Dinner at 2010 BioWest Conference & Expo

General registration is now open for the Rocky Mountain Region’s Premier Bioscience Conference & Expo, BioWest 2010, at the event website. This year's event, September 29 & 30 at Denver's Grand Hyatt (1750 Welton), is headlined during the Annual Awards Dinner by Colorado State University Animal-Science Professor Dr. Temple Grandin, whose HBO made-for-cable biopic just swept the Prime Time Emmy® Awards with five major and two creative arts award wins for her inspiring life story as a renowned animal scientist and autism activist.

The announcement is made by Holli Baumunk, President and CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA), who says, “This is the eighth annual BioWest conference and the best to date. More than 700 national and international industry leaders, government representatives, executives, researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, and professional services firms are expected to attend.”

Baumunk continues, “BioWest is the region’s preferred venue for visiting with researchers about their newest discoveries and meeting founders of the area’s most innovative and promising bioscience start-up companies. Dr. Grandin, whose work is a prime example of the important research being done in Colorado, headlines an impressive lineup of speakers during the BioWest Conference, and we are all looking forward to her awards dinner keynote. Further, the conference will again showcase Colorado's early-stage companies during a research poster session and at the popular Venture Showcase Competition with four companies presenting to win a $7,500 grand prize.”

Link to the BioWest 2010 website

Link to the Business Wire release

Link to the PRWeb newswire

New Study: The Mountain West Can Lead the Way on Energy Innovation

We want to call your attention to a report released yesterday by Brookings Mountain West.

Quoting from the report's conclusion: "The Intermountain West region is poised to help reinvent America’s fossil-fuel dependent energy system and so construct the “next economy” in the Mountain region and nationally.

The nation should move proactively and aggressively to build the proposed Intermountain West network of high-powered energy innovation commercialization centers.

Through such an intervention, the federal government could catalyze a dynamic new partnership of Mountain West businesses, research universities, federal laboratories, entrepreneurs, and state and local government to transform the nation’s carbon-dependent economy. Along the way, the nation could experiment with a dynamic new approach to leveraging for the nation’s benefit a powerful regional innovation complex while helping to empower the Intermountain West to reach its potential for prominence in a 'next economy' that will be opportunity-rich as well as export-oriented, lower-carbon, and innovation fueled."

Link to the study

Holli Baumunk Interview: Major impact on the Colorado economy

w3w3's Larry Nelson recently interviewed Holli Baumunk the newly appointed President and CEO of Colorado BioScience Association or CBSA. Quoting from the w3w3 Biosciences Channel: "We've followed Holli's career over the years and, 'I've seen you in everything from aerospace to all different types of areas, but you're always helping organizations and businesses flourish and grow.' Holli's been in economic growth for over 22 years, and 'Really believes in working with these industries. It helps the economy, grows jobs, wealth in the community - can't get any better than that,' she said."

Link to read the article

Link to the podcast interview - mp3

Last day for CBSA nominations

"Monday, Aug. 30, is [was] the final day to submit nominations for the eighth annual Colorado Bioscience Association Awards Dinner...Awards will be presented on Sept. 29 at the CBSA Annual Awards Dinner, part of the two-day BioWest Conference and Expo at the Grand Hyatt in Denver. Colorado State University professor, best-selling author and Emmy winner Temple Grandin will be the keynote speaker."

Link to the Northern Colorado Business Report website

Eye on Operations: Farm award for Bell Aquaculture

"Perch processor Bell Aquaculture LLC said Indiana Lt. Governor Rebecca S. Skillman and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) recognized Bell's Albany, Ind., plant and aquaculture operations for excellence in progressive farm practices. Bell President & CEO Norman McCowan said Bell recently completed the voluntary ISDA Certified Livestock Producer Program in order to qualify for the review and is the first aquaculture facility in Indiana and one of only a few in the nation to receive this type of designation.

Bell was founded in 2005 in Albany Indiana. McCowan said Bell's 53-acre this yellow perch farm is the largest in the country. Bell's production facility incorporates 43 acres of ground and officials hope to process more than 6.5 million fish annually 2015, said McCowan."

Link to Refrigerated & Frozen Foods