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Eligible program participants must meet the following qualifications:
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The Qualified Buyer program was created to address the reality that travel budgets are tight and stretched thin. There is no obligation for an executive buyer to do business with any of the energy solutions providers participating in the event. SED’s only requirement is that executive buyers come ready to learn, attend the general sessions, network with peers, and meet with the energy solutions providers that they select during the 1:1 meetings segment of the event.
The following information is provided for compliance departments who need details on how the program works.
Smart Energy Decisions (SED) hosts Qualified Buyers via a blind pool that is funded by a portion of sponsorship fees collected from all event sponsors. These funds are used directly to pay for the airfare, hotel rooms, and food costs related to the event for qualified buyer executives.
The blind pool ensures that no single sponsor is funding the presence of any individual buyer executive. Further, as Smart Energy Decisions will not bid as a energy solutions provider on any buyer executive projects, SED does not have a energy solution provider relationship with attending buyer executives.
The use of a blind pool of funds and the fact that SED is not soliciting business from buyer executives, combine to provide a Qualified Buyer program that meets with the approval of most compliance departments.
Professionals engaged in sales, marketing, or business development for an organization providing energy or sustainability related products and services to energy customers do not qualify. Determination of qualification is at the sole discretion of Smart Energy Decisions.
