Our Meetup and other Chicago Sponsored Meetups are invited to an exclusive event by GE: Ecomagination. At this Meetup, Bob Gilligan VP of GE Energy Services' Digital Energy business will lead a discussion on exactly what clean technology means, why it's important, and how you can help be a part of the solution in Chicago!

As you may have already heard, GE and its VC partners launched the $200m Ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid in July. The Challenge is a call to businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators and students to share their best ideas on how to build the next-generation power grid - and get the chance to have their ideas funded.

As part of its support of Meetup Groups this summer, GE is hosting a series of Meetups in select cities to talk about the Challenge and how collaboration with communities can make clean energy real, right now.

There will be drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and plenty of time for networking! Space is limited to 75 attendees.

Please follow the link to RSVP: http://www.meetup.com.... The invitation code is: ecomaginationchallenge. Be sure to RSVP for the Chicago event specifically: http://www.meetup.com...

When: Wednesday, September 8th 7-9pm

Where: Y-Bar, 224 West Ontario Street, Chicago

About Bob: Mr. Gilligan is Vice-President of GE Energy Services Digital Energy business and an officer of the General Electric Company. The Digital Energy business provides integrated smart grid solutions and reliable power delivery systems to electric utilities as well as the oil & gas, critical infrastructure and industrial sectors. Smart grid is the marriage of information and automation technologies with our electrical infrastructure to support our 21st Century global energy needs enabling us to do more with less through increased efficiencies.

In the meantime, if you want to learn more about the GE: Ecomagination Challenge or submit an idea go to: http://challenge.ecom...