Great stuff last night at the Mass Technology Leadership Council’s (MassTLC) Award Finalists Reception. Four CHEN clients were named finalists, two in multiple categories, making for a “CHEN Slam” and a lot of proud CHENers. Congratulations to everyone nominated, and especially to the finalists! We’re all looking forward to the awards gala in November, it should be a great night….
Two topics with no shortage of buzz were paired together on Thursday morning at the Massachusetts Smart Grid Innovators Collaborative’s (MASGIC) second annual conference, held to discuss the Transition to Electric Vehicles. A packed room, which needed extra chairs brought in, listened to presentations from a range of technologists, regulators and thought-leaders all dedicated to making the smart grid a…
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Nissan entered into an agreement this afternoon to advance zero-emission mobility throughout Mass. by promoting the development of an electric-vehicle charging network, as well as the necessary legislation to allow for adoption of such a network. The agreement was signed today at the Museum of Science, which hosted the event and featured the Nissan Leaf,…
It remains a deadlock between my top two moments from last night’s MassTLC award ceremony – lobbing a marshmallow at Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor or watching Metatomix VP of marketing Jon Pilkington accept his CXO of the Year award. The marshmallow toss was an impromptu part of Taylor’s – the night’s emcee – opening remarks. An usually rowdy crowd took…
It’s common knowledge that a warm, delicious breakfast makes 7:30 on a Friday morning a little more bearable. This understanding was displayed to perfection last week at the Seaport Hotel for the Boston Business Journal’s first ever Green Business Summit. A room full of green entrepreneurs, investors and local business-folk gathered to eat cheese soufflé, and more importantly, to discuss…
The morning session on power during Thursday’s MITEF Innovation Summit kept attendees tuned in as speakers discussed alternative energy topics from wind dams to waste gasification. After a thought-provoking keynote by Dr. John Kao, the conference divided into its three sectors for the remainder of the day. Stephen Connors, director of the Analysis Group for Regional Energy Alternatives at the…
On Thursday, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge will host its annual Innovation Summit at the Seaport Hotel in Boston. This year’s event, titled “Power, Drugs and Money – Local innovation, global impact” will focus on three interconnected sectors: clean energy and the environment, life sciences and financial services. The conference blog has been adding a “Speaker Spotlight” series this…
It was another successful night for the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, this time at their annual end of the year thank you dinner and bad business plan competition (See Barb Heffner’s post on the latter below). The Forum hosts the event to thank its many volunteers and talk about the year’s successes. 2006-2007 proved to be quite a year…
By Veep Randy Wambold…CHEN PR Founding Partner Chris Carleton and I recently had the chance to attend the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year dinner. We were invited by our client Boston-Power, whose founder Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud, was a finalist. Calling as it did for me to wear a tux for the first time since my wedding ten years…
Conde Nast’s highly anticipated business magazine Portfolio made its hard copy debut in New York City today. Those of us not living in the Big Apple will see this May issue at our local newsstands on April 24. Born in the image of sister pubs Vanity Fair and Vogue, Portfolio boasts an all-star publishing and editorial team with too many…