Held on May 17, 2024, the inaugural Scaling Sustainability Innovation conference brought together leading academic scholars, ecopreneurs, investors, and industry leaders to share their perspectives and experiences in scaling sustainability innovation.
Below are the recordings from the conference:
Plenary Sessions
Conference Welcome + Scaling Decarbonization Technologies for the Whole Planet
Keegan Cooke, Director, Stanford Ecopreneurship
Stefanos Zenios, Professor of Entrepeneurship, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Will Chueh, Associate Professor and Director, Precourt Institute for Energy
Scaling in Climate: Hard-won Lessons from the Field
Mayank Girdhar, Co-Founder, UpSpark
Keys to Scaling a Sustainability Startup
Doug Galen, Co-Founder and CEO, Rippleworks
The Evolving Capital Landscape and the Funding Pathways for Scaling
Saloni Multani, Founding Partner, Co-Head Innovation and Expansion, Galvanize Climate Solutions LLC
Panel: The Role of Capital in Scaling Sustainability Innovation
Saloni Multani, Founding Partner, Co-Head Innovation and Expansion, Galvanize Climate Solutions, LLC;
Brock Mansfield, Managing Partner, Meliorate Partners;
Joanna Lichter, Associate Director, Emerson Collective;
Diane Schrader, Co-Founder and CEO, thirdACT PBC.
Panel: The Role of Policy and Government Relations in Scaling Sustainability Innovation
Michael Wara, Senior Director of Policy, Sustainability Accelerator, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability;
Ben Serrurier, Government Affairs and Policy, Fervo Energy;
Kate Gordon, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley- Haas School of Business
Keynote Fireside Chat
Keynote Fireside Chat
Yi Cui, Professor and Director, Stanford Sustainability Accelerator
Ryan Panchadsaram, Advisor, Kleiner Perkins and co-author of “Speed & Scale”
Breakout Sessions
Panel: Scaling Sustainably with Food and Consumer Goods
Fern Mandlebaum, Managing Director, Emerson Collective;
Nick Halla, Founder & CEO, GigaClimate;
Julia Collins, Founder & CEO, PlanetFWD
Scaling with Acquisition: Cuberg’s Journey Through the Advanced Battery Industry
Richard Wang, former Founder and CEO of Cuberg
Finding and Scaling Innovation Where You Least Expect It: Saving Elephants, Water and Diesel Fuel Through Tech
Winnie Lam, Former Director of Energy & Head of Data Center Sustainability, Google and National Council, World Wildlife Foundation
Engaging with Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs): The Growing Model For Providing Sustainable Electricity Solutions
Janis Pepper, CEO, Peninsula Clean Energy
Beyond Capital: Venture Studios and Ecopreneurship in Latin America
Dani Gajardo, Co-founder, Reciprocal
Scaling Innovations for Sustainable Digital Finance
Thomas Puschmann, Executive Director, Global Center for Sustainable Digital Finance
IMPEL Climate Impact
Reshma Singh, Senior Director, U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office and Program Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Accelerating Commercial Impact from Research
Suresh Sunderrajan, President, Commercialization, SRI International
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