Note: QGEN finally MADE the "news" regarding its "sponsorship" of the 2011 MIT Energy Conference on March 4, 2011. What this means, essentially, is that they wrote their OWN press release and presented it as "news." They finally found a place to put this "news" item somewhere in the stream of other breaking QGEN news.
Interesting coincidence. We pointed out that their "sponsorship" of the 2011 MIT Energy Conference had not been deemed "newsworthy" as of March 1, 2011 and on March 4, 2011 it becomes "news." We'll just keep the section of the the writeup immediately below as an artifact of historical curiosity. The rest of the post needs no changes.
Interesting coincidence. We pointed out that their "sponsorship" of the 2011 MIT Energy Conference had not been deemed "newsworthy" as of March 1, 2011 and on March 4, 2011 it becomes "news." We'll just keep the section of the the writeup immediately below as an artifact of historical curiosity. The rest of the post needs no changes.
Originally written on March 1, 2011
QGEN "news" that didn't make the cut in 2011
QGEN's participation in this conference made it into the "news" section of its website in 2010 (actually the news articles are press releases written by QGEN). It was probably crowded-out by all the other "notable" QGEN-related events that have been reported by the press since the last MIT Energy Conference in March 2010 (a total of one press released issued by QGEN in August 2010).
QGEN is once again a Title Sponsor at the 2011 MIT Energy Conference to be held Saturday March 4th and 5th, 2011 at the Westin Copley Place, Boston
In its website, QGEN describes it's involvement in the MIT Energy Conference as follows:
"As a thought leader in the industry, QGEN is once again demonstrating its commitment to identifying and cultivating the leaders of tomorrow’s energy industry."
One can only assume that they still retain that premiere position as a "thought leader in the industry." Their participation as a Title Sponsor this year is just as "newsworthy" as it was last year.
"Title Sponsor" exclusive benefit: a chance to be one of ~65 speakers
Don't know how much you have to pay to become a "Title Sponsor" at the 2011 MIT Energy Conference, but it must be enough to get you a role as one of approximately 65 speakers during the two-day conference.
link: Speakers: Wael Almazeedi
Session: Risky Business: Is the Age of Big Energy Passé?
Date and Place: Saturday, March 5th, 2011 at the Westin Copley Place, Boston
The Old BTU Power Is Back!
It's interesting to note that the BTU Power described in Almazeedi's bio. has transformed from being a company with two assets (in Tunisia and Abu Dhabi totaling 482 net MW) back into the BTU Power of old (as can be seen from the Wael Almazeedi bio from the link above):
"Wael Almazeedi has more than 25 years of experience developing and financing energy projects. He is also Managing Partner of BTU Power, a private equity fund engaged in the development, management and ownership of 11,000 MW of installed power generation capacity located in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Tunisia and the UAE."
The "new" BTU Power Company emerged sometime in the middle of February 2011. The "new" BTU Power is only a bit smaller than the representation of the "old" BTU Power by a factor of 26. Wonder why they did not include a link to the NEW BTU Power?
10 comments:
Local news coming to question him during his presentation, if he allow questions.
Title Sponsor 2 years ago was a crappy booth. QGEN people had business cards and only 100 $5.00 pens to give out.
A former BTU/QGEN HR recruiter had a budget of $10K, with 5K tee-shirt to give out.
QGEN "Title sponsor" has a budget of $500 dollar in pens. Yeah, $5.00 pens.
QGEN hired NO ONE! BTU HIRED NO ONE!
First Question?
Do you know a Mr. Hayat?
Hayat walks into the room.
The former recruiter worked for new company and laught that QGen booth!
I worked with Monica Gupta and we had BTU Ventures cards. Monica had Fate Consortium cards.
I hope they ask him what makes Mr. Al-Mazeedi a leader in energy field? LOL
Second Question:
Who is QGen? You own nothing? You have no World nor US energy accomplishments? Why? Hide in the shadows?
Dateline NBC is coming. To catch a CEO
Or What would you do? To see if anyone shows up?
Both Monica and I got paid from BTU Ventures.
We did not know why we were now called Qgen. We never interviewed anyone nor received resumes from anyone from MIT. Any smart person would do their homework, if they didn't shame on them.
Note of interest: the Blogger service used for this blog has some limitations (it is free, after all). However, it does have the capability to host videos in the main body of the blog.
Another Question for Al-Mazeedi on Saturday:
(Andrea 'Ande' Lyons) former Manager of Operations at QGENENERGY/BTU Industries. Why is it that a 1 Billion Dollar ;) fund hired a "Chief Executive Goddess" to work for Mr. Al-Mazeedi? And now she is CEO and founder at Bring Back Desire??? Is Blog is going to get interesting soon.
See her Linkedin public link:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ande-lyons/5/698/58a
Maybe QGEN in going into the healthy porn business?
3 Student reporters are attending and will be there.
So... did they leave out 2 lines?
"In its website, QGEN describes it's involvement in the MIT Energy Conference as follows:
"As a thought leader in the industry, QGEN is once again demonstrating its commitment to identifying and cultivating the leaders of tomorrow’s energy industry.""
Line 1: It should be noted that as of this date, no court anywhere in the world has passed judgment against the BTU companies or me.
Line 2: We have never hired one MIT Student from any of either the MIT Energy Conference nor MIT Job Fair.
How can someone be a leader in the energy field without a track record and NOT ONE patent?
Good points.
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