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Jim Poss, Founder of BigBelly Solar, is a globally recognized innovator and entrepreneur. He founded BigBelly Solar in 2003 based on the idea of applying renewable energy to the complex and expensive process of waste collection. Over the intervening years and four product generations, BigBelly Solar is now bringing operational efficiency and environmental benefits to customers in virtually every U.S. state and more than 30 countries.

Jim began his career in renewable energy with a Pew Foundation grant to build a wave-powered energy generator. He further developed his focus on renewable energy in technical and business roles with Spire Corporation (solar manufacturing) and Azure Dynamics (hybrid and electric vehicles). Jim has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and as one of Business Week Magazine’'s 'Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs'.

Join us and learn from Jim about his experiences in clean energy and how Japan might be able to benefit from more renewable energy entrepreneurship.
 
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Jim is also an instructor in environmental entrepreneurship at Babson College’s MBA program and a clean-technology speaker. Jim recently returned from a speaking tour of Australia, which was sponsored by the U.S. State Department, where he spoke to government, academics, civic leaders and students about clean technology in America.
 
Jim received his MBA from Babson College with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and dual undergraduate BA in Environmental Science & Policy and Geology from Duke University.