The management team is looking for speakers who can share new and innovative experiences and visions on the below mentioned conference goals.

General Topics:

Papers or abstracts can be submitted for one of the following subject groups. Topics of interest are indicated per group but are not limited to these topics.

• Policy & Regulation
• Recent ESCO Market Developments
• Innovative Technologies & Solutions for ESCO's
• Successful ESCO Projects in Commercial Buildings and Industrial Facilities
• Access to Finance and Successful Financing Mechanisms
• Monitoring and Verification (M&V)
• Public Procurement
• Energy Management Solutions
• Energy Audits
• Energy Performance Contracting

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Speaker policy:

All speakers at ESCO Europe will have their conference registration fee waived. Note that it is important that you get your conference materials in by the due dates - we reserve the right to withdraw the free registration if you do not submit the information on time. If you are having problems meeting the deadlines, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can come to an possible alternative agreement.

Guidelines:

• Speaking slots are 30 minutes in length: 5 minute introduction by the chairman, 20 minutes for the paper presentation and 5 minutes for questions from the audience.
• Vendors / consultants are welcome to submit proposals along with an identified lead utility speaker.
• Sales and marketing presentations are not appropriate for this conference and will not be accepted.
• Presentation of more than one paper by the same organisation during the conference is discouraged.

Submission stages:

Your proposal will need to include:

• Author’s name and a bio information (including a short overview of your qualifications regarding your presentation topic) 
• Title of presentation (no more than 10 words)
• Summary of the presentation (around 200 words)
• Include 3 learning objectives for your presentation, focusing on what knowledge participants will gain from the presentation
• Who your target audience is likely to be 
• Likely topic of presentation (stream) 
• Name and bio information of any co-authors

Preference is given to papers that have not been presented at other conferences. If your paper was previously presented, please mention where and when.

Review process:

All abstracts will be reviewed by the programme committee in June 2010

• Deadline for submission is 20 June 2010. Early submission is strongly encouraged.
• Applicants will be notified of their status by email.
• By submitting an abstract authors are agreeing to provide ESCO Europe 2010 a copyright release and final publication of their presentation for publication in the conference proceedings.

Selection criteria:

Abstracts will be reviewed and judged on the basis of the following criteria:

• Relevance to the conference theme and theme of the individual sessions
• Significance of the work/project to a broad audience
• Originality of work/project, including new concept, innovations or data
• The completeness of the work/project