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"The Solar PV Event Of The Year 2009" contest
Organized by SolarPVEVENTS.com and SolarPV.TV
1. About the contest
Objectives:
With “The Solar PV Event of The Year 2009” contest we would like to provide some guidance for the people interested in Solar PV (industry and other stakeholders such as R&D, analytics and experts, financial community and investors, architects and construction industry, politicians and decision-makers) in order to help them to break through the jungle of hundreds of events yearly, so that they could see which events are the most highly rated and decide where their companies and themselves should present, exhibit or attend.
The best:
- Solar PV Exhibition of the Year 2009
- Solar PV Conference of the Year 2009
will be chosen.
The procedure of choosing The Best Event includes 3 steps:
Step 1. Submission of Application forms.
All the Solar PV events organizers are invited to submit their events in two categories:
The procedure of choosing The Best Event includes 3 steps:
Step 1. Submission of Application forms.
All the Solar PV events organizers are invited to submit their events in two categories:
- Solar PV Exhibition
- Solar PV Conference
The Nominating Committee consists of dozens of Top People from the SolarPV industry from the whole value chain, and other stakeholders including among others: R&D, analytics and experts, financial community and investors, architects and construction industry, politicians and decision-makers.
The presence of Nominating Committee will help us to pre-select the 20 most worthy events (20 conferences and 20 exhibitions) and insure that only the best events will be in the running for the prestigious title “The Solar PV Event of The Year 2009” in the online voting.
The Nominating Committee members are entitled to recommend events to the contest before the official pre-selection process begins. This is only applicable if they feel that an event has been omitted and warrants being added to the list.
Chairwoman of the Nominating Committee Ms. Charlotte Wille, SHARP
Members of the Nominating Committe
| Prof. | Vladimir M. | Andreev | Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute | |
| Mr. | Miguel | Arraras | Acciona Solar | |
| Dr. | Bronislav | Bechník | CZREA (Czech Renewable Energy Agency) | |
| Ms. | Noémie | Bourdin | Upsolar | |
| Mr. | Federico | Brucciani | GIFI (Italian PV Industry Association) | |
| Dr. | Joeng-Shein | Chen | Taiwan Photovoltaic Industry Association (TPVIA) Photovoltaics Technology Center (PVTC), Industrial Technology Research Institutes (ITRI) | |
| Mr. | Alexandre | d'Angelo | Solar Solidarity Int | |
| Mr. | Robert | de Franclieu | Apollon Solar | |
| Mr. | René | Desserrières | Photowatt | |
| Mr. | Rafael | Diranzo Martíne | Siliken | |
| Mr. | Wael | Elamine | SER Soler (French Renewable Energy Organisation) | |
| Mr. | Hans-Josef | Fell | German Bundestag | |
| Mr. | Francis | Féraux | EU PV Technology Plaform, Member States Mirror Group Belgium Delegate - Vice chairman | |
| Mr. | Leo | Ganz | 360|Consult | |
| Mr. | Nikola | Gazdov | Bulgarian Photovoltaic Association | |
| Ms. | Katja | Gorsek | ZSFI - Slovenian Photovoltaic Industry Association | |
| Mr. | Ed | Gunther | Gunther Porfolio | |
| Mr. | Frank | Haugwitz | GTZ | |
| Dr. | Claas | Helmke | Masdar PV | |
| Mr. | Louis | Huber | Upsolar | |
| Dr. | Winfried | Hoffmann | EPIA President and Applied Materials | |
| Mr. | Shinichiro | Ishihara | Sanyo Electric | |
| Dr. | Arnulf | Jaeger - Waldau | European Commission, DG JRC, Institut for Energy, Renewable Energy Unit | |
| Dr. | Lawrence L. | Kazmerski | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
| Mr. | Antonio | Lumicisi | Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare, EU PV Technology Platform WG2 Leader | |
| Mr. | Torsten | Luetten | Centrosolar | |
| Mr. | Philippe | Malbranche | INES (French Institute for Solar Energy) | |
| Mr. | Paul D. | Maycock | Photovoltaic Energy Systems | |
| Dr. | Uros | Merc | Bisol | |
| Ms. | Paula | Mints | Navigant Consulting | |
| Mr. | Angelo | Nogara | Solkraft Italia and Assosolare (Association of Italian Photovoltaic Industries) | |
| Mr. | David | Owen | PV-TECH, Photovoltaics International Magazine | |
| Ms. | Polona | Peunik | Bisol | |
| Dr. | Stanislaw M. | Pietruszko | Centre for Photovoltaics | |
| Mr. | Benjamin | Rosier | Agenece Economique de la Savoie | |
| Mr. | Peterjan | Schutyser | Photovoltech NV | |
| Mr. | Tomasz | Slusarz | SolarPVconsulting | |
| Mr. | Lorenzo | Spadoni | Riello UPS GmbH | |
| Dr. | Konstantin | Tuzovskiy | QuintTech | |
| Mr. | Frans | van den Feuvel | Scheuten Solar | |
| Ms. | Dagmar | Vogt | vogt group | |
| Mr. | Lars | Waldmann | SCHOTT Solar AG | |
| Mr. | Gary | Watson | Sumco Europe | |
| Prof. | Eicke | Weber | Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems | |
| Dr. | Henning | Wicht | iSuppli Deutschland GmbH | |
| Mr. | Scott | Weitzman | Solarfeeds |
Step 3. Online voting for everybody.
Thousands of visitors of SolarPV.TV and SolarPVEVENTS.com, as well as members of our partnering organizations will be invited during ONE MONTH to vote.
| 2. Calendar: | Dates: |
| Submission of Application forms. Organizer should fill in the application form in order to take part in the contest in two categories:
| 22 February – 21 March |
| Voting by Nominating Committee | 22 – 29 March |
| Online voting for everybody | 01 – 30 April |
| Announcement of the results on SolarPV.TV, SolarPVEVENTS.com and Media campaign | 3 - 28 May |
3. Notes for Organizers:
By submitting your event to “The Event of The Year 2009” contest you will obtain:
- Recognition as THE event among the Industry and other stakeholders
- Promotion of the Nominated Events (chosen by high level Nominating Committee)
- Yearly free advertisement campaign on SolarPVEVENTS.com
- Announcement of the winners and promotional campaign on SolarPV.TV
- Opportunity to use the brand name “Solar PV EXHIBITION of the year 2009” and “Solar PV CONFERENCE of the year 2009”
It is always exciting to see the results of your work – SUBMIT YOUR EVENT NOW !


























