Energy 2.0 - Energy goes digital.

Date: 6-8.30pm, 31st March 2011

Venue: Microsoft, 100 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL

Tickets: £35+VAT. Drinks & snacks are included.

ENERGY 2.0 is a joint event brought to you by mashup* in partnership with Forum for the Future.

The Energy 2.0 event will bring together entrepreneurs, executives and investors active in the digital and energy sectors to share ideas, insights and innovations.

The energy market is going through radical changes as it struggles to provide efficient and sustainable solutions to the world's growing energy demands. As energy issues become more critical, energy innovation is flourishing – particularly at the intersection with the digital sector, taking advantage of the world of open APIs, smartphones and connected devices.

At Energy 2.0 we will have around 40 entrepreneurs and companies active in the energy and digital markets, together with a lively set of speakers, panel members and demo companies showcasing some of the recent developments in Energy 2.0.

Speakers & panel include:

Fraser Harding - Development Director, PassivSystems

Fraser is Development Director of PassivSystems and has over 20 years experience in technology consulting and product development. He loves the dynamism of start-up businesses and is excited by bringing disruptive technology to market. He has spent the last 15 years working with or within early stage technology companies, building the teams that deliver world beating products.  Prior to PassivSystems Fraser ran his own consulting business, was CTO in Residence at Ariadne Capital and was Director of Engineering at Secerno, a database security product company acquired by Oracle in 2009. Fraser was a founding member of Paragon Software, one of UK's most successful technology startups in the 90s. Fraser holds a 1st Class honours degree in Computer Science from London University.

Usman Haque - Founder/CEO, Pachube.com

Pachube is a realtime data infrastructure platform for the Internet of Things, managing millions of datapoints per day from thousands of individuals, organisations & companies around the world. Pachube's powerful and scalable infrastructure enables you to build 'Internet of Things' products and services, and store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world.

Ajit Jaokar - FutureText

Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies. In 2009-2010, Ajit was nominated as part of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet by the world economic forum. Ajit chairs Oxford University's Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0, Social networking, Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University.

Paul Tanner

Paul is a consultant, developer and maker in wood, metal, plastic, electronics and software.  His day job is IT-based business improvement for SMEs. By night he turns energy nut, creating tools to optimise energy use.

Paul graduated in electronics and was responsible for hardware and software product development and customer services in several product and service startups, switching to consulting in 2000.

Demos/initiatives:

Charlie O'Malley - FutureCamp