Suntech, SolarWorld, EPIA, Antenna Group and Others Featured at Solar Gigawatts Symposium...

Suntech, SolarWorld, EPIA, Antenna Group and Others Featured at Solar
Gigawatts Symposium at Intersolar North America 2009

Experts Address Policy Impact, Industry Opportunities and Brand-Building in
the North American Solar Market

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar Promotions International GbmH and
eclareon GmbH, organizers of the Solar Gigawatts Symposium at Intersolar North
America 2009, today announced the panel topics and speaker lineup of their
Wednesday, July 15 conference, taking place alongside the most diverse
international business-to-business trade show in the United States for the
global solar industry. The Intersolar North America 2009 trade show, with an
expected 450 exhibitors and 15,000 trade visitors, will take place July 14 to
16 at San Francisco's Moscone Center West.

The second annual Solar Gigawatts Symposium, taking place 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. at
the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco, will build on results from
discussions at the Solar Gigawatts Symposium at Intersolar in Munich in May
and address the latest policy, market and industry developments in the leading
European and North American solar markets to identify lessons and
opportunities for the U.S. market. Additionally, leading marketing and
communications experts will offer European and Asian solar companies advice on
leveraging their brands in the emerging U.S. market. Furthermore, a special
session on solar thermal will highlight the impressive economic opportunities
and environmental potential of this technology. Each panel will be followed by
an audience Q&A session.

Solar Gigawatts speakers include:

-- Akeena Solar, Barry Cinnamon, CEO
-- Antenna Group Inc., Caroline Venza, VPEuropean Photovoltaic Industry
Association, Winfried Hoffmann, President
-- European Solar Thermal Industry Federation, Olivier Drucke, President
-- REC Solar, Inc., Isabelle Christensen, Senior Director of Marketing
and
Public Relations
-- Renewable Ventures, a Fotowatio Company, Matt Cheney, CEO
-- Solaria Germany GmbH, Philipp Kunze, Managing Director
-- SolarWorld AG, Boris Klebensberger, COO
-- Suntech America, Steve Chadima, VP of External Affairs

-- The Vote Solar Initiative, Adam Browning, Executive Director

Solar Gigawatts is also offering a unique and clever networking opportunity
modeled on the popular "speed dating" format, where executives will be able to
quickly meet industry peers through about a dozen five-minute one-on-one
"dates." The networking event will take place at 4:15 P.M., concurrent to the
last session of the day, "Solar Thermal: Lessons Learned from Leading European
Markets and Tapping into the U.S. Market Potential."

To register for Solar Gigawatts, please click here.

About eclareon GmbH:
eclareon was founded in 2000 in order to support industry and public bodies in
the renewable energy, energy saving and energy efficiency sectors. Since then
we have served more than 100 companies, energy agencies or public institutions
in the development of their business, the market introduction of new products
and the exploration of foreign markets.

SOURCE eclareon GmbH

CONTACT: Lonnie Shekhtman of Antenna Group Inc., +1-415-977-1917,
Lonnie@antennagroup.com, for eclareon GmbH; or Scott G. Mueller of eclareon,
+49 (0)30 246 286 90, sgm@eclareon.com