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About Tony Seba - Author and Speaker on Clean Energy and Technology:

Tony Seba is an entrepreneur, educator, author, speaker, executive, management consultant and business architect. Seba speaks frequently at clean energy, clean tech, entrepreneurship and high tech conferences and company events. He has been featured in Business Week, Investors Business Daily, Forbes, Fast Company, Success and other media and holds entrepreneurship awards such as BridgeGate's Top 20 Difference Makers.

Tony Seba is the author of Solar Trillions - 7 Market and Investment Opportunities in the Emerging Clean-Energy Economy and Winner Takes All - 9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech Strategy. He is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford University where he teaches clean energy, cleantech and high tech strategy and finance. He has created and taught Clean Energy - Market and Investment Opportunities, Strategic Marketing of High Tech and Cleantech; Finance for Marketing, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs; and Business and Revenue Models Innovation. He teaches at top business school around the world such as The Auckland University (New Zealand) Business School and in-company at some of the world's top high tech companies such as Google, Inc.

Tony Seba brings 20+ years of solid operating experience in fast-growth high technology companies. He was Vice President, Corporate Development at Utility Scale Solar, Inc. where he helped the company grow from the garage-stage through growth strategy, fundraising, business development with plant developers and partners. He has also co-founded or helped start several clean technology companies. Seba was previously founder and CEO of PrintNation.com, a B2B ecommerce site which he established as the undisputed leader in its market segment, winning such top industry awards as the Upside Hot 100 and the Forbes.com B2B Best of the Web.

Seba led two venture capital rounds raising more than $31 million in funding from well-known venture funds, hired a complete management team, 100+ employees, and managed the development of strategic partnerships with some of the world's top companies.

Prior to PrintNation, Mr. Seba worked in business development and strategic planning at Cisco Systems and RSA Data Security. Seba has been responsible for the architecture, development, and commercialization of more than two dozen products including Java security, electronic payment technology, sales force automation, computer-aided software engineering and ecommerce infrastructure.

Seba is a Global Cleantech Advisor at Global Technology and Innovation Partners, and is on the advisory boards of Medifirst Systems, and Stanford Society for Entrepreneurship in Latin America. He has recently been on the Board of Directors of the Stanford Alumni Consulting Team and the San Francisco Jazz Organization.

Tony Seba holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

What Tony Seba Talks About:

Growth Opportunities in the Clean Energy Economy
The world will spend $382 trillion in energy over the next forty years. But the future of energy will be radically different from the past and the present. Just like the information economy created new trillion-dollar industries and powerhouses like Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and Cisco and made Silicon Valley and America its epicenter; the clean energy economy will create untold wealth for the entrepreneurs, companies, investors, and countries who win the race. Every aspect of the $7-trillion-a-year energy industry is up for grabs: energy generation, transportation, storage, and use. Furthermore, industries like construction, real estate, transportation, appliances, food, and water will be radically transformed. Warning: several students who took Seba's Stanford courses have subsequently started companies in solar power, energy storage, clean water, and other cleantech companies.

The Future of Energy
What does the future of energy look like? What sources will provide most of the world's energy 2050? Who will be the new world powers of energy? What are the myths and realities about today's and tomorrow's energy world? Mr. Seba combines science, technology, finance, and entrepreneurial flair to show the future of energy is about abundant, cheap, and clean, energy. He also shows why oil will be obsolete by 2030. Not because of regulation or peak oil but because of technology trends. This talk will surprise, delight, and contradict everything you 'know' about energy.

Electricity 2.0 - The New Architecture of Energy
The architecture of energy will radically change over the next decade thus destroying old industries and creating the largest new business opportunities in a century. The current architecture of energy is like the old computer mainframe model: energy is produced 'out there' (in a coal or nuclear plant or oil refinery) and consumed 'here' by dumb users. Energy is autocratic, monolithic, and centralized - just like data was 30 years ago. Back then data was expensive and scarce. The PC, Internet and cell phone radically changed all that and data turned into a torrent of cheap or free information. (Clean) energy in the future will be plentiful and cheap - basically free. We don't need to wait for this transformation: the eBay of electricity is already here! Learn about the new architecture of energy will change the way we generate, store, transmit, and use energy and how this architecture will forever transform industries like construction, automotive, appliances, water, food, and real estate management.