"I was just blown away by the quality of the people and the speakers, it was a really high quality event"
Tom Murley, HgCapital
“The forum was really interesting and the panel sessions were really value adding”
Philippe Ringenbach, EDF
“I found it very interesting. People during the breaks and lunch were particularly open and business minded. I already have a couple of meetings lined up”
Laurent Chabrier, EBRD
“I has been a great event and a good opportunity to meet most of the GPs and LPs interested in the clean energy and sustainability area.”
Enrico Canu, European Investment Bank
“Thanks for a great forum. It was great to meet a number of potential investors. I like the size of the event. More intimate than I had thought. Very good indeed. Again congrats for orchestrating a great event.”
Sascha Klamp, Cite Investments
"I think it is great to get a prospective on the industry. There are a lot of people here, who are either GPs, like us or LPs looking to deploy money. There are institutional investors and there are companies looking to raise capital. It is great place to find all of that in one place. I have had a great day.”
Shaun Kingsbury, Hudson Clean Energy Partners
“When it comes to meeting investors with real appetite for the sector, this forum beats all others hands down.”
Igor Smurov, Green Energy Investment Fund
“It was a really great event. I was amazed at how easy it was to contact key investors in the sector”
Christophe Beauvilain, Perenne Capital LLP
"I thought it was one of the best I have been to with the mix of participants of the highest quality and a really good set of panellists and speakers"
Malcolm Kpedekpo, Panoramic Growth Equity
"I was delighted to attend this great conference - it was a lot of fun to present and I really enjoyed the networking as well."
Peter Weidmann, Macquarie
“This gathering is now an institution in the UK cleantech investment sector."
Alex Shivananda, Aclaria Capital
"The NewNet Clean Energy LP-GP Forum continues to definitely be the best cleantech conference that I have attended."
Andrew Carnwath, F&C Private Equity
"Everybody that counts in the sector is here. In one day you can meet everybody - I will come back next year."
Nino Tronchetti Provera, Ambienta
"It has been an extraordinary day. I do conferences all over the world and I think what makes this one special is that you have people from literally every country, LPs as well as GPs… I plan to be back."
Steve Westly, The Westly Group
"I think it has been terrific. I think these sorts of gatherings of the people who are committed to and interested in this space are essential."
Alan Salzman, VantagePoint Venture Partners
"I have been very impressed, I have been to a lot of events but I have to say this NewNet conference is one of the best I have ever been to."
Jürgen Habichler, Mountain Cleantech
"A great gathering of human beings from all over the industry and over the globe. There aren't many places you could get this gathering together and for that the conference is very good value"
Jon Moulton, Better Capital
"I'm very pleased and had a lot of good talks and discussions throughout the day" "The showcase session had about 15 companies presenting, all great technologies, innovative ideas, so yes I'm very pleased"
Erwin Burth, Autodesk
"Some Interesting discussions…I had the privilege of sharing a session this afternoon on growth capital with some real good entrepreneurs and this brought a really positive note"
Jos Peters, Capricorn Venture Partners
"I think the conference has been excellent in terms of meeting the great and the good in the investment community… and gives us a great opportunity to raise our profile, I think the whole ability to network and the way it has been set up is excellent."
Rolf Stein, Advanced Plasma Power
"I thought it was an excellent conference, really well attended"
Edward Guinness, Guinness Asset Management
"Broad variety of participants, good networking breaks."
Markus Forstmeier, Siemens
“An astounding success.”
Nick Dimmock, Carbon 350
"It was an excellent event and an informative insight into investor-focused outlook on the renewable energy space in Europe. I enjoyed the presentations from your selection of speakers and panellists and their comments were valuable."
Viktor Jovanovic, Stormblade
“Excellent. I found the quality of the participants to be of the highest level.”
Kevin Sara, Nur Energie
"A well-organised and valuable day."
Matthew Knight, Siemens
"A good event and an imaginative cross-section of industry players."
Steve Read, Climate Change Capital
"I thought the event was well organised. It gave an excellent opportunity to meet and learn from colleagues in the industry."
David Waimann, Cambarine
"I found the event very informative and useful for making good contacts."
John Milligan, GDF Suez