By becoming the Agency of Record for NSTI - the Nano Science and Technology Institute, and CTSI - the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization, FIR has diversified its client portfolio and thrown its hat into the “green” marketplace in a meaningful way.  These two organization produce the TechConnect World Conference and Expo (May 3-7, 2009 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston Texas) which is the preeminent technology exchange for the Clean-Technology, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology industries. 

As Agency of Record, FIR is working with NSTI and CTSI to create the event’s messaging, develop and implement the media relations campaign, and support the 400+ vendors and sponsors, who include some of the largest companies in the world – such as Boeing, Honda, Halliburton, Merck, Sanyo, Shell Oil, and many others. 

In addition to servicing the high growth clean technology industry, TechConnect provides a networking opportunity unlike any other event in any industry, anywhere.   It’s a face-to-face “exchange” - where executives from Fortune 500 companies discuss their current research, and identify the technological challenges for the projects they’re working on (in the areas of traditional energy, renewable energy, and sustainability) - to the academic and research communities - who in turn, discuss how their current research projects might be applied, or adapted, to address the needs presented in the conference.   It’s truly an example of helping solutions find the specific problems they’ve been created to solve - and it’s also about helping our largest companies discover new talent, by finding the companies, scientists and researchers who are currently working on the very things they need the most.  For more information, feel free to visit: http://www.techconnect.org/Summit2009/