Boston Climate Tech: August 2023
MCJ Climate Tech meetup, Bridging the Corporate and Startup Divide & more
Hi all!
This is Boston Climate Tech. This newsletter is a summary of community-submitted climate tech events in the Greater Boston area coming up in the next few weeks.
We have 3 events in August- use this calendar or table view if you’d like to sort/filter.
Announcements
A few announcements before the event list:
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Cheers,
Bridging the Corporate and Startup Divide Tickets, Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite: 8/24 Thu
How to Create a Climate Venture - Harvard Innovation Labs: 9/12 Tue
Climatetech Career Fair 2023 : 9/12 Tue
MassCEC: Long Duration Energy Storage Stakeholder Session 2 | MassCEC
🕑 Start time
8/16/2023 Wed 9:30 AM
🕓 End time
8/16/2023 Wed 12:00 PM
📍Location
Virtual
📍Address
📝 Notes
Section 80 of Chapter 179 of the Acts of 2022 (“An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind”) requires the Department of Energy Resources (DOER), in consultation with MassCEC, to conduct a study on mid- to long-duration energy storage. MassCEC, DOER, and consultant Environmental and Energy Economics, Inc. (E3) will be conducting stakeholder sessions to present interim work products, address technical questions, and collect feedback on the Study. The second and final stakeholder session will be held on August 16, 2023 from 9:30am-11:00am ET via Zoom.
🔗 Registration link
?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
MCJ Climate Tech Meetup Boston - Summer 2023
🕑 Start time
8/17/2023 Thu 5:30 PM
🕓 End time
8/17/2023 Thu 7:30 PM
📍Location
Trillium Brewing Company - Fenway
📍Address
Landmark Center, 401 Park Dr, Boston, MA 02215, USA
📝 Notes
Sign up here- https://lu.ma/hl5myy9c
Come meet up with the Boston MCJ and climate tech community! MCJ is a podcast and community for those interested in climate, see here for more info.
This will be a casual meetup with no set agenda.
Anyone interested or involved in climate is welcome! Please just make sure your guests register. There will be an opportunity to sign up for MCJ at the event.
Venue details: Nestled in the heart of Fenway only steps from the ballpark, Trillium Fenway offers indoor and outdoor seating for on-site draft pours and food provided by our neighbors at Time Out Market.
PARKING: Garage parking entrance is now located off of Fullerton St. The first 15 minutes are free of charge. Anything under 3 hours will be reduced to a $10.00 charge using the venue's validation machine. Get parking directions here.
To stay up to date on future events, checkout the #g-boston channel on MCJ or consider signing up for the Boston Climate Tech Newsletter.
🔗 Registration link
https://lu.ma/hl5myy9c?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
Bridging the Corporate and Startup Divide Tickets, Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite
🕑 Start time
8/24/2023 Thu 5:00 PM
🕓 End time
8/24/2023 Thu 5:03 PM
📍Location
Greentown Labs Somerville
📍Address
444 Somerville Ave Somerville, Massachusetts 02143 United States
📝 Notes
Join us on Aug. 24 at Greentown Boston for a discussion that will unlock the potential of corporate and startup partnerships in driving climatetech innovation to new heights.
Hosted in collaboration with ADL Ventures and Azolla Ventures, our expert panel will delve into the strategies, frameworks, and agreement mechanisms that pave the way for low-risk, high-reward partnerships.
This event will provide the opportunity to engage with a dynamic group of utility R&D/innovation leads, visionary investors, and other influential voices in the climatetech ecosystem. Attendees will gain invaluable insights from successful collaborations, as industry leaders share their experiences, lessons learned, and game-changing advice for today's startups.
Together, we'll explore commercial frameworks that ignite innovation, mechanisms that minimize risks, and avenues for startups to secure customers beyond the lab.
Agenda:
5:00 - 5:30 p.m.: Doors Open & Check-in
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.: Speaking Program
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.: Networking & Refreshments
Representatives from:
Eni Next
Autodesk
Azolla Ventures
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Masks are encouraged but not required while inside Greentown Labs. Greentown provides medical grade masks at the front desk of each location. Please reach out Kelly Wilson ([email protected]), Events Coordinator, with any questions on our safety policy.
🔗 Registration link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bridging-the-corporate-and-startup-divide-tickets-668916205377?aff=ebdsoporgprofile?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
How to Create a Climate Venture - Harvard Innovation Labs
🕑 Start time
9/12/2023 Tue 4:00 PM
🕓 End time
9/12/2023 Tue 4:02 PM
📍Location
Virtual
📍Address
📝 Notes
Climate change is one of the biggest problems facing our world and there are countless ways to approach solutions. If you’re interested in founding a climate startup, we can help you get started.
What We’ll Cover“How to Create a Climate Venture” focuses on five key areas: unpacking climate solutions, coming up with your idea, leveraging tools to test the viability of your idea, and connecting with fellow climate entrepreneurs to hear their stories and build your network.
The first half of the program is focused on structured ideation, and the second half on idea evaluation.
Ideation sessions cover both mitigation and adaptation and use classic ideation frameworks to generate solutions to climate challenges. Climate entrepreneurs tackling both emissions and city-level adaptation share their journeys. Participants use these examples as well as structured exercises to formulate their own elevator pitches.
The second half of the training hones in on idea evaluation, with sessions focused on the five core areas to validate before diving into a startup. Sessions equip participants with tactical tools in demand validation, A/B waitlist testing, assessing climate impact, and ends with using ChatGPT as a co-ideation tool.
The instructor is Rebekah Emanuel, senior advisor for social impact and director of the Harvard Climate Circle at the Harvard Innovation Labs. The class also features entrepreneurs, operators, funders, and other speakers from the climate entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Who Is Eligible
If you are a member of an eligible university, you may enroll in a “How to Create a Climate Venture” program. Participants who work full-time are welcome to enroll if you can commit to attending sessions regularly.
“How to Create a Climate Venture” is designed for aspiring climate entrepreneurs who do not yet have an idea. We will provide structured activities to help you understand the climate venture space and come up with ideas you might want to work on, as well as meet others who are interested in starting climate ventures.
If you have an early-stage idea, and are just getting started on building it out or forming a team, you are welcome to register. If you are pivoting your idea and want to zoom out, you are welcome to register if you think broader ideation and startup tools will help you. Venture ideas may be for-profit or nonprofit or housed within larger institutions.
If your venture already has traction, this is likely not for you.
🔗 Registration link
https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/creating-climate-ventures/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
Climatetech Career Fair 2023
🕑 Start time
9/12/2023 Tue 4:30 PM
🕓 End time
9/12/2023 Tue 6:30 PM
📍Location
Greentown Labs Somerville
📍Address
444 Somerville Ave Somerville, Massachusetts 02143 United States
📝 Notes
We’re proud to support climatetech startups as they develop their technologies, scale their businesses, and grow their teams. Greentown startups are not only developing climatetech solutions—they’re building a climate workforce that is ready to harness the massive economic opportunities of the energy transition. And that climate workforce is hiring.
There’s a place for everyone in climatetech, whether you’ve previously worked in traditional energy, have experience tackling climate change, or are new to the climate and energy fields. The jobs are here. We just need you!
The types of roles you'll find at the fair:
Business Administration
Data
Engineering
Marketing
Operations
Sales
Software
And more!
You can view all job openings on our careers page here.
🔗 Registration link
https://greentownlabs.com/event/climatetech-career-fair/?ref=climatetechlist.com
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