Ecosummit TV is Smart Green Business TV on-demand. We cordially invite you to watch Ecosummit TV on Youtube in HD quality which looks beautiful on small and big screens. We are proud to be official Youtube content partner and are grateful for Youtube’s free content distribution. We uploaded 86 videos that received over 27.000 Videoviews. Below you find some Ecosummit TV highlights.

ECO12: Smart Green Innovation – Jan Michael Hess opens Ecosummit 2012

Ecosummit Founder Jan Michael Hess opens Ecosummit 2012 Berlin on 22 March at Radialsystem. Our third Smart Green Business Conference is climate neutral thanks to the carbon offset powered by ClimatePartner. According to Bart Markus of Wellington Partners, Cleantech includes many big markets such as wind, solar, water or efficiency. Big markets attract lots of VC money and absorb experiments and execution mistakes. According to Prof. Karl Leo, Europe is good at basic research – this is our culture – but bad at application and bringing new ideas fast to global markets.

ECO12: From Ego to Eco – Gerd Leonhard on Sustainable Capitalism

Ecosummit TV brings to you the first video of Ecosummit 2012 (ECO12), our third Smart Green Business Conference which took place on 22-23 March 2012 in Berlin. Futurist Gerd Leonhard, CEO of The Futures Agency, talks about Sustainable Capitalism and why we have to move from Ego to Eco. People and corporations alike should be sustainable by default in everything they do. The Internet enables a decentralised sharing economy in which we share energy and all other resources collaborating instead of competing. A new form of sustainable capitalism is the only way forward into a smart green future.

ECO12: Bart Markus on The Art of Investing in Cleantech Startups

Bart Markus, General Partner of Wellington Partners, gives an outstanding talk about the Art of Investing in Cleantech Startups at Ecosummit 2012. Bart admits that being a successful Cleantech VC is a big challenge as Cleantech startups usually are very capital intensive and need a long time to develop until investors can exit. However, there are a number of success factors that Bart manages when advising his portfolio. One of them is having the best management team in place in every phase of the startup process. Another one is being 100% customer-centric because without solving real problems of customers revenue growth isn’t possible.

ECO12: Prof. Karl Leo unveils new OLED Microdisplay Startup

Prof. Karl Leo is Germany’s poster child when it comes to co-founding new smart green startups out of university. In his case, it’s the University of Dresden where he leads the Institute for Applied Photophysics. He simultaneously works with Fraunhofer IPMS to create even more value. Karl Leo is famous for co-founding Novaled which is heading for NASDAQ as well as Heliatek. His new startup that currently looks for smart green VCs invents OLED Microdisplays which are super energy efficient as you put them directly in front of the eye. Karl Leo is a role model for Europe’s university professors.

ECO12: Thibaud Le Séguillon Presents Organic PV Startup Heliatek

Thibaud Le Séguillon, CEO of Heliatek, presents his Organic PV startup at ECO12. OPV is the third generation of solar technology and Heliatek is the global leader. The Dresden-based startup recently announced another efficiency world record of 10.7%. The efficiency roadmap goes up to 15-20%. But the real advantage of Heliatek is low cost per watt as well as very green manufacturing processes without toxic materials. Now Heliatek looks for €60M for their Fab 2. Thibaud on Ecosummit TV is just the perfect sales pitch for their new financing round.

ECO12: Karl Kolmsee Smart Hydro Power

Smart Hydro Power successfully closed their Series A financing round raising €2.7M from the German Cleantech VC eCapital which values the startup at €8.4M premoney. As Smart Hydro Power also won the Ecosummit Jury Award 2012 convincing our 53 judges, this milestone is a welcome opportunity to interview the CEO Karl Kolmsee and his investors about the deal and the prospects of this unique young company. To celebrate, we are happy to publish Karl’s fantastic ECO12 pitch on Ecosummit TV.

Ecosummit Lounge Berlin 6 December 2011

Our second Ecosummit Lounge Berlin took place on 6 December 2011 at InnoZ, Berlin’s exciting epicentre for electric mobility and smart green city. We enjoyed a high-voltage evening of intense Smart Green Business Networking with 5 startup pitches, Ursprung, finger food and all that Jazz. The startups presenting were Flinc, Nachbarschaftsauto, Ubitricity, Airbase Systems and Changers.

Ecosummit Lounge Berlin 21 September 2011

We celebrated our first Ecosummit Lounge on 21 September 2011 at the HomeBase Lounge in Berlin. Featuring: Kai Lorenz (BT Germany), Pieter Bots (Geo-En), Jörg Fabri (allocate), Eric Mahleb (LGMi) and Jan Michael Hess (Ecosummit).

ECO11: Ecosummit 2011 Review Smart Green Business Conference

Our ECO11 Mix brings you 10 minutes of Ecosummit experience featuring speakers and participants. A great opportunity to relive ECO11 on 24-25 March in Berlin. The groovy Jazz music is the song “Lost in Bogota” by Erik Truffaz on his new album “In Between”.

ECO11: Going Smart Green Now – Jan Michael Hess opening ECO11

Jan Michael Hess, Ecosummit Founder, opens Ecosummit 2011 (ECO11) on 24 March 2011 in Berlin at the eco hotel Scandic. We loved our second conference so much and it really felt like a Smart Green Economy Festival.

ECO11: #1 Michael Linse Kleiner Perkins Cleantech Cost Curves

It’s the cost curves, stupid! – A cool title chosen for his speech by Michael Linse, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, at ECO11 in Berlin. The cost of production for all major green technologies including PV, wind, water, batteries etc. goes down rapidly. Driving cost out of the business should be the focus of all Cleantech startups and corporates trying to scale their business and go global. In fact, economics are the key parameter for Michael’s investment decisions.

ECO11: Thomas Noonan Joulex Enterprise Energy Management

Joulex is the poster child of Smart Green IT. Thomas Noonan, CEO of Joulex, gave a very professional presentation at Ecosummit 2011 in Berlin explaining how Enterprise Energy Management can work to save significant amounts of energy and money. Already today, many devices have an IP address and are networked, thus they can be power-managed remotely over the network. In the future, the amount of online devices and sensors in corporate and private networks will grow tremendously.

ECO11: #1 Gina Domanig Emerald Ventures 10 Years Cleantech VC Lessons

Gina Domanig, Managing Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures, is a real pioneer in the Cleantech Venture Capital scene. 10 years ago she raised her first Cleantech fund and can tell very interesting stories about the lessons learned. Gina points out the significance of managing close relationships with the corporates in the various Cleantech sectors, i.e. the big companies that often buy the products of the startups or, even better, the entire startup company.

ECO11: Alexander Krajete Greenthitan Power to Gas Renewable Methane

Alexander Krajete, Founder and CEO of Greenthitan, pitches his renewable methane startup to investors at ECO11. The business idea of Greenthitan is biological methanation, a key technology for Power to Gas, i.e. storing renewable energy as renewable gas. Greenthitan produces CH4 (methane gas) and H2O (water) out of CO2 (carbon dioxide) and 4H2 (hydrogen) using a biological methanation process called methanogenesis performed by Archaea, microbacteria that love CO2.

ECO11: #1 Denis Lucquin Sofinnova Partners Green Chemistry VC

“You need to master the industry in which you invest,” says the French VC with a plan to help the chemical conglomerates overcome their oil dependence through external innovation commercialised by innovative startups. His name is Denis Lucquin, Managing Partner of Sofinnova Partners, one of the most successful VCs in Europe. I was totally impressed by the strategy of his new VC fund focused within Cleantech on the specific sector called Green Chemistry.

Ecosummit TV: #1 William McDonough Michael Braungart Cradle to Cradle

At the Cradle to Cradle Festival in Berlin, Jan Michael Hess interviewed the two C2C co-founders William McDonough and Michael Braungart. What a wonderful meeting with these wise visionaries who know how we can transform our economy into a Cradle to Cradle Economy. Waste is food. Materials in the technosphere should be reused like biodegradable nutrients in the biosphere.