January 24: Biofuels in the Americas: Technology, Investment, and the Path Forward, College of Business and The Center for Energy and Technology of the Americas of the Applied Research Center (ARC), Florida International University, Miami, Florida. The Biofuels Conference is focused on both Technology and Investment, Miami, Florida

February 14-18: AAAS (Advancing Science, Serving Society) Annual Meeting 2008, "Science and Technology from a Global Perspective", Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest federation of scientists and engineers, with 130,000 members and 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Green Microfinance was invited to be part of a panel discussion entitled: It Takes a Bank To Raise a Village: Financing Science and Technology for Sustainable Development, Boston, Massachusetts

February 23: Fueling, Feeding, and Financing Sustainable Change The Microfinance Leadership Initiative and Nicholas School Student International Discussion Group (SIDG), Duke University, Durham, North

April 18: University of Pennsylvania, Microfinance Conference, Global Assets: Local Access, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

April 18: University of Chicago, Chicago Microfinance Conference, Competition & Collaboration: Expanding the Boundaries of Microfinance, Chicago, Illinois

June 10-11: 2nd JatrophaWorld The JatrophaWorld is a series of three conference focused on Jatropha investment, cultivation and processing, Miami, Florida

June 13-15: The Second Subsistence Marketplaces Conference: Sustainable Consumption and Commerce For a Better World, 100 academicians, business practitioners and social enterprise leaders gather for the second subsistence marketplace conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois

July 28-30: Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit: The Microcredit Summit Campaign and Gema PKM co-host the Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit 2008, Bali.  GreenMicrofinance team members reported and conducted interviews from the Summit for posting on USAID microLINKS and GreenMicrofinance Blog. Bali, Indonesia

August 1-2, 2008: Bank Indonesia Annual International Seminar: Macroeconomic impact of Climate Change - Opportunities and Challenges: The Bank Indonesia hosted this annual seminar bringing together a diverse audience of governors, deputy governors, distinguished speakers, and scholars from various world leading universities, who provided valuable insights on policy perspective on global warming and climate change, Bali, Indonesia.