ClimateTech
When & Where
The Scope, Technologies and Opportunities in Climate Change
A must-attend track to understand the latest in ClimateTech, key issues and challenges, technology solutions, financing options, career opportunities - and network with other experts and stakeholders in the field. Come away ready to enter this multi-trillon dollar opportunity space.
Our focus will be on assessing the present state of ClimateTech and identifying the hurdles that require attention to speed up its adoption and implementation. Additionally, we will examine various policies aimed at stimulating research and development, encompassing everything from chemical to bio- industrial practices across materials, microbes, and processes. This will facilitate action on materials, renewable energy, and circular economy options, as well as increase funding for pilot projects, establish regulatory frameworks that promote the use of these technologies, and create programs that encourage their adoption by consumers and businesses.
A review of various fundamental ClimateTech technologies and financing discussions covering capital stack design, from grant funding to venture capital and project finance across public and private sources. And you are looking to get into ClimateTech space, bring all your questions!
Track Agenda
- 05/05/2023 | 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm PDT
- 45 mins Hall A3Speakers
Arvind Gupta focuses on investments in Human & Planetary Health, where his mission is to invest in science based companies that could change history. Ranging from reinventing our food system to stopping climate change to novel therapeutics, Arvind was the first investor in breakout companies such as Geltor, Synthex, Prime Roots, NotCo, Prellis, New Culture, DNA Lite, Catalog, Prellis and Memphis Meats.
As Founder of IndieBio, Arvind redefined the pace and possibilities of early stage biotech, investing in over 136 companies in five years, defining human and planetary health, and growing the IndieBio portfolio into billions of dollars in value. Under his leadership, IndieBio expanded to New York and grew to fifteen investment professionals with a world renowned adjunct partner board. He now serves as Venture Advisor at IndieBio.
Arvind is the author of Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner, published by Twelve Books, a division of the Hachette Publishing Group. He was honored with the F50 Global Award for Impact in HealthTech Innovation. He is a frequent speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt, Slush, TedX and Future FoodTech. His work has been profiled in global media outlets such as Bloomberg News, Forbes, The Guardian UK, Neo.life, Nikkei News, Rotman, The Times of India, and CGTN in China. Arvind has been a guest lecturer at UCSF, MIT and Harvard and is a judge at the annual BIO conference startup stadium. Prior to founding IndieBio, Arvind was Design Director at IDEO in Shanghai where he earned numerous international design awards and presented his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was also a BASE jumper and big wall climber and now fights professional grappling.
Arvind received his B.S. in Genetic Engineering from UCSB. He holds 8 patents. Arvind is married to an Icelander and has two daughters.
"Coach Po" is Managing Director of IndieBio and General Partner at SOSV, the venture firm that backs IndieBio. SOSV and IndieBio have been ranked #1 most active VC in climate tech since 2011. Po is first investor in early-stage companies such as Prolific Machines, Puna Bio, Gozen Bio, Asterix Foods, Ozone Bio, Avalo.ai, Vertical Oceans, California Cultured, and others. He is also an investor in mid-stage companies such as Upside Foods, Mycoworks, Lingrove, Voyage Foods, Endless West, Zymochem, Beeflow, New Culture, Finless Foods, NotCo, and EVERY Co.
Po was a finance and tech journalist covering Silicon Valley for Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and an oped contributor for The Wall Street Journal. His science journalism has been honored with nine national awards, and he is the author of seven New York Times bestselling books that are available in 28 languages worldwide. His work has been cited in 185 academic journals and 503 books.
Most recently, Po is the co-author of Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner, published by Twelve Books, a division of the Hachette Publishing Group.
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- 05/05/2023 | 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Dept. of Energy Science Engineering, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Photon Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Director, SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis
Thomas Francisco Jaramillo is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Energy Science Engineering at Stanford University, along with a faculty appointment in Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He serves as Director of the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, a joint partnership between Stanford and SLAC. Prof. Jaramillo's research efforts are aimed at developing catalyst materials and new processes to improve sustainability in the energy and chemical sectors. A key emphasis is engineering catalyst materials at the nano- and atomic-scale to induce desired properties, and then on designing and developing new technologies that employ them. Examples include electrified processes to convert water, N2, and CO2 into valuable molecular products such as hydrogen (H2), ammonia-based fertilizers, and carbon-based products (e.g. fuels, plastics) for use in transportation, agriculture, energy storage, and in the chemical industry, among others. The overarching theme is the development of cost-effective, clean energy technologies that can benefit society and provide for economic growth in a sustainable manner.
Prof. Jaramillo has authored over 200 publications in the peer-reviewed literature in these areas, and has earned a number of honors and awards for his efforts. Honors include the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis (2021) from the North American Catalysis Society, the Resonate Award (2014) from the Resnick Institute, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE, 2011), the U.S. Dept. of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Program Research & Development Award (2011), the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2011), and the Mohr-Davidow Ventures (MDV) Innovator Award (2009). Prof. Jaramillo is on the annual list of Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics, ranking in the top 1% by citations (2018-present).
Professor Jaramillo is from Carolina, Puerto Rico, earning a BS in chemical engineering at Stanford University and MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He then pursued post-doctoral research as the Hans Christian Orsted Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Physics, prior to joining the Stanford faculty.
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- 05/05/2023 | 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm PDT
- 45 mins Hall A3SpeakersDirector of the Innovation and Partnerships OfficeLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryMatt GarrettDirector of the Innovation and Partnerships Office
Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryMatt Garrett is the Director of the Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The Innovation and Partnerships Office serves as the focal point for LLNL engagement with the private sector and advances the development and commercialization of LLNL scientific discoveries with intellectual property protection, support and structures for effective collaborations, entrepreneurship training, and pursuit of business development activities. The IPO focus is to identify new economic opportunities and potential solutions and to ensure the most promising are transferred to the private sector through licensing or partnerships for the benefit of the U.S. economy.
Prior to joining LLNL, Matt served as the Chief Technology Officer and Director of Technology Transfer and Private Partnerships at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, managed and operated by Stanford University. Matt managed the technology transfer strategy and mission operations at SLAC and was the focal point for private industry engagement across the SLAC complex. Prior to joining SLAC, Matt served as Commercialization Manager in the Technology Transfer Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he managed the intellectual property portfolio and commercial licensing of technologies. Prior to his roles at ORNL, Matt served as deputy director of the Center for Technical Intelligence Studies and Research at the Air Force Institute of Technology,
Matt also previously served as a senior scientist/program manager with Nomadics, Inc. While with the company, he participated in the development and manufacturing of handheld and robot-mounted explosives detection platforms, leveraging amplifying fluorescent polymer technology licensed from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as a visiting scientist in the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. The detection platform was named one of the US Army's Top 10 Inventions of 2005, which led to its eventual acquisition by ICx Technologies and FLIR Systems (now Teledyne).
Matt was a 2022 Department of Energy Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program fellow, a past recipient of an R&D 100 Award, and currently serves on the National Laboratory Technology Transfer Council. Matt received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Florida State University and a master's degree in chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University.
Wade is the founder of Energy and Sustainability practice at Plug and Play. Plug and Play is the largest corporate innovation center and one of the most active early stage investors globally. Wade works closely with entrepreneurs, corporate innovation leaders, and investors with a focus on the energy industry value chain.
Previously, Wade worked in solar, published scientific articles, and led business development efforts in a startup.
Wade holds a master degree in Chemical Engineering and a master degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas engineering. His passion is at the intersection of technology and business.
Marsha Vande Berg is a corporate director and advisor with expertise internationally in governance, sustainability investment and C-suite management. She brings a unique global lens to her appreciation of the dynamic complexities that describe sustainability, corporate governance and new technologies today. She has served as a CEO of an NGO; independent director, Tata Capital, Singapore and London and currently, Quantum Advisors Pte. Ltd. in Mumbai. She has held senior executive roles at large news publications. She is a writer, editor and mentor. Her thought leadership centers on sustainability as an investment management tool. She is lead director of an Atlantic Council project: IndiaG20 in the Limelight: Energy transition and the promise of governments, technology and the US-India Corridor. She authors the Sustainability Stars column for Callaway Climate Insights. As consultant and dba MJGlobal Insights, she counsels mid- to late-stage private companies on sustainability risk management strategies. She holds an IFRS/SASB Level 1 Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting certificate. She is a qualified NYSE/SEC financial expert.
Recognized as a strategic leader and internationalist, she credits her engagement as a Distinguished Careers Fellow at Stanford University and her nearly decade-long executive leadership role as CEO of the Pacific Pension and Investment Institute. One of several institutional milestones was leading PPI's strategic build-out of its Asia Pacific platform for the benefit of a prominent institutional investor membership and their investment due diligence. Her earlier work as a journalist, culminating in her ownership of a weekly newspaper, likewise proved formative in her career on the global stage.
Her non-profit engagements are an extension of her professional interests in the Asia Pacific, corporate governance and education generally. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Foundation, she is an advisory director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy and serves as Treasurer and Finance Chair of the Japan Society, Northern California. She is a member of the OMFIF Advisory Council and The Asia Foundation's President's Leadership Council. She is affiliated with a number of prominent organizations that promote corporate board service.
She holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and an MA from Duke University. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Jim Fuller, and is an avid biker, hiker and cook.
Vipul Nath Jindal, is the Head of Suzuki Innovation Center, that focuses on fostering open innovation and collaboration in the India-Japan corridor. As an IIT Hyderabad graduate, he has made a mark by becoming Suzuki Motor Corporation's first international employee at its Japanese Headquarters. Throughout his career, he has successfully spearheaded numerous multi-million dollar projects in advanced technologies, while recently transitioning to business diversification & strategy roles for the Suzuki Group that focuses on rural innovation, climate tech, and more.
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Track Chairs
Hrishi has a B. Tech in Engineering Physics from IIT-Bombay, MS in EE from Iowa State University, and MBA from UCLA Anderson. He also has a "Leaders in Sustainability" certification from UCLA. He is passionate about technology, sustainability, social impact, and LGBT issues. He is the President of the IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and on the board of IIT-BayArea.org, where he creates many opportunities for IIT Alumni to network and learn from each other.
Prior to this, Manu was founder of WaterBit Inc., focused on sensing and control systems for commercial agriculture. WaterBit has a portfolio of connectivity products, connected sensors and application software focused on automated irrigation systems deployed at scale in California, and across the US. (WaterBit is now part of FarmX.)
Manu has also worked in consumer, industrial and telco grade electronic systems and software from design to deployment, and has led or been a key team member in the definition, development and manufacturing of over 100 products to the global market.
Manu has a BE(EE) from University College, Dublin, Ireland and an MBA from Santa Clara University, California. He is a member of the IEEE, ACS, AiCHe, and a CM at TIE. He is a strong believer in California, the positive impact of immigration, entrepreneurship, reduced regulatory burdens, and the importance of climate tech in providing a future worth living in.
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Healthcare Disruption: Redefining the Future
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AI/ML
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Cloud/Edge
Creating the AI future on Cloud & Edge
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Cybersecurity and Compliance
Defending Our Digital Lives
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Climate Tech
The Scope, Technologies and Opportunities in Climate Change
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GLOBAL CONNECT
Expanding entrepreneurial and technological networks across the globe
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Generative AI
The Next Frontier: Generative AI
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Healthcare Disruption: Redefining the Future
A New Era of Innovation and Patient Care
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Next-Gen Manufacturing
Riding the Waves of Disruption
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Rocketship India
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Supply Chain
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Web3 & Metaverse
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