The Nanotech 2007 conference, to be held in Santa Clara, California from 20 to 24 May 2007, is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative programme which will feature more than 700 technical presentation and 300 business presentations. Over 4,000 scientists and engineers attend and more than 300 companies and organizations exhibit and sponsor the event — Nature Pubishing Group will be there. Top nanotechnology centres from around the world are featured and there will be an awards programme to honour leaders in small technology. Nanotech 2007 is coordinated with Cleantech 2007, a multi-sector conference on global sustainability addressing advancements in traditional technologies, emerging technologies and clean business practices.

Vinod Khosla, Silicon Valley icon and founder of Khosla Ventures, will deliver the keynote at Nanotech 2007 & Cleantech 2007, highlighting the interdependency of ‘cleantech’ and ‘nanotech’. Mr Khosla was founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors.