Join The New York Climate Exchange for a dynamic Climate Tech Showcase on Governors Island on Wednesday, September 25th from 9:30am-6pm during NYC Climate Week. The day will feature:

Presentations and a chance to connect 1:1 with 20+ climate tech startups being incubated at The Exchange’s partner institutions including Stony Brook University, NYU, CUNY, The Georgia Institute of Technology, RIT and the University of Washington working across topics including energy, hydrogen, materials and agriculture

Panel discussions and spark talks featuring voices from the NYC Climate Tech Ecosystem

5pm Happy Hour to network and connect in a more casual setting

Event is free and open to the public, RSVP encouraged. You are welcomed to join us for all or part of the day.

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EVENT AGENDA:

9:00 AM – Doors Open & Registration

9:30 AM – OPENING REMARKS by Dr. Stephen Hammer (CEO, The New York Climate Exchange) & John B. King Jr. (SUNY Chancellor)

9:45 AM – PANEL– State of Play: NY Climate Tech Ecosystem

Nse Esema (SVP, Green Economy, NYCEDC)

Satish Rao (Chief Product Officer, Newlab)

Sonam Velani (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Streetlife Ventures)

Nathan King (Co-Founder & CEO, ItsElectric)

Moderator: Shaina Horowitz (Director of Programming Innovation & Acceleration, The New York Climate Exchange)

10:20 AM – STARTUP SPOTLIGHT: Materials, Re-Use, & Bio-Based Innovation

Re-Nuble, Capro-X, Raccoon Eyes, Rivalia Chemical, Last Loop Metals, SWFT Labs

11:15 AM – SPARK TALK - The Opportunity: Leveraging Tech to Advance Nature Based Solutions as part of NYC’s Climate Action with Terri Carta (Executive Director, Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy)

11:30 AM – STARTUP SPOTLIGHT: Activating Water

Sun Fresh Water, Purifica Water

12:00 PM – Lunch

12:30 PM – STARTUP SPOTLIGHT: Energy & The Built Environment

Lamarr.AI, Re-Wind USA

1:00 PM – PANEL - Taking a Challenge-Based Approach to Innovation

Kate Frucher (Managing Director and Co-Founder, The Clean Fight )

Mark Chambers (VP of Partnerships, Elemental Exclerator )

Clare Newman (President and CEO, Trust for Governors Island)

Janna Gilbert (President and Partner, Luminary Labs)

Moderator: Stacey Matlen (Senior Vice President of Innovation, Partnership for NYC)

1:40 PM - STARTUP SPOTLIGHT: Energy

Maxwell AI, Watt Edge, Canyon Magnet Energy Inc.

2:20 PM – SPARK TALK - The Opportunity: Enabling Access to Asset-Level Climate Risk Data for Entrepreneurs with Philip Bruner, PhD (Executive Director, UW Climate Risk Lab)

2:30 PM - STARTUP SPOTLIGHT: Hydrogen

Evolve Hydrogen, Joule One, HySep

3:00 PM – SPARK TALK - Startup x Corporate Collaboration to Accelerate Market Solutions with Campbell Watson (Senior Research Manager & Delivery Lead, Climate & Sustainability, IBM Research)

3:30 PM - STARTUP SPOTLIGHT: Batteries

Urban Electric Power, Alluminate, Terrament, Metzev

4:00 PM – REMARKS by Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer

4:15 PM – PANEL - Prioritizing Pathways to Diversify Climate Tech

Andrea Silverman, (Associate Professor, NYU Tandon)

Lucas Turner-Owens (Principal, Building Ventures)

Tom Ogletree (Founding Executive Director, Factor Fellowship)

Moderated by Andel Koester (Director of Community Initiatives, The New York Climate Exchange)

4:50 PM – CLOSING REMARKS

5:00 PM – HAPPY HOUR

Join The New York Climate Exchange for a dynamic Climate Tech Showcase for Climate Week NYC 2024!