Boston Climate Tech: March 2024

Protect the Inflation Reduction act hour of action, MIT energy conference, Climate Designers meetup & more

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Mar 02, 2024

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.

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Announcements

A few announcements before the event list:

2024 MIT Energy conference (March 11-12)

Purchase Tickets to the 2024 MIT Energy Conference (see trailer video here)

Want to network with energy transition leaders and top climate change activists? Purchase tickets to the 2024 MIT Energy Conference!

Unlock access to ground-breaking conference sessions, connect with our renowned speakers, and network with top cleantech startups at the 2024 MIT Energy Conference: “Short and Long: A Balanced Approach to the Energy Transition”. This year’s conference will delve into the nuances of how to balance urgent yet effective progress toward the energy transition, exploring the trade-offs and opportunities of shorter and longer-term scaling and investment.

The 2024 MIT Energy Conference will take place on March 11 and 12 at The Westin Copley Place, Boston. Stay updated on speaker announcements and agenda updates through our newsletter and website:

👉 https://www.mitenergyconference.org/

We are excited to feature high profile keynote speakers such as:

Daniel Kammen: a UC Berkeley professor and lead author for the IPCC's Climate Change 2007, a Nobel Peace Prize winning report
Yet-Ming Chiang: an MIT professor and lead researcher in the development of advanced materials for clean energy technologies
Katie Rae: the CEO and managing partner of Engine Ventures, a lead venture capital firm in the clean tech industry

And, key panels such as:

Training the Transition: Developing and sustaining a skilled workforce for the energy transition
Closing the Loop: Building the Value Chain for Recycled Batteries
Green Chemistry for Blue Skies: Scaling biotechnology and electrochemistry to decarbonize manufacturing
Offshore Wind: Winds of change in offshore landscape

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Secure your spot now before tickets run out! Tickets are $299 (Virtual) and $649 (In Person), along with lower prices for student tickets.

👉 Buy tickets here: https://mit.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1914

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Environmental, Energy, and Engineering Career Fair - Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc.

🕑 Start time

3/4/2024 Mon 7:30 PM

🕓 End time

3/4/2024 Mon 9:30 PM

📍Location

Hynes Convention Center

📍Address

900 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02115

📝 Notes

🔗 Registration link

https://ebcne.org/event/environmental-energy-and-engineering-career-fair-3/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

Hour of Action: Protect and invest in bold climate policy

🕑 Start time

3/4/2024 Mon 8:00 PM

🕓 End time

3/4/2024 Mon 9:00 PM

📍Location

Online

📍Address

📝 Notes

In a pivotal election year with the Inflation Reduction Act on the line, the climate-tech community has a unique opportunity and responsibility to speak up.

Join this special Hour of Action featuring speakers from MCJ Collective and Overture, two leading climate-tech venture capital funds. Get inspired, learn how to influence bold climate policies that play a pivotal role in the U.S. energy transition, and then take meaningful action, all within the hour.

🔗 Registration link

https://lu.ma/climate-tech-hour-of-action?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

Climate Designers - Boston Chapter Networking Night at Aeronaut

🕑 Start time

3/6/2024 Wed 5:00 PM

🕓 End time

3/6/2024 Wed 7:00 PM

📍Location

Aeronaut Brewing

📍Address

14 Tyler St Somerville, MA 02143

📝 Notes

Climate Designers provides the knowledge, skills, and professional network to support designers to be climate leaders everywhere they work. Learn more here.

Celebrate Climate Designers 'Chapter Week' with Climate Designers Boston Chapter Networking Night at Aeronaut Brewing Co. after the Greentown Labs ACCEL event. This will be the first networking event of the year for Climate Designers! If you are interested in climate action, design, and/or beer - we would love to meet you!!

Note: this is a casual meet & greet, we will grab a table, and everyone can come and go as they please!

🔗 Registration link

https://lu.ma/4srhokic?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

ACCEL Year 2 Kickoff Event - Greentown Labs

🕑 Start time

3/6/2024 Wed 10:00 AM

🕓 End time

3/6/2024 Wed 12:00 PM

📍Location

Greentown Labs Somerville

📍Address

444 Somerville Ave Somerville, Massachusetts 02143 United States

📝 Notes

Join us to celebrate the kickoff of Year 2 of ACCEL, an accelerator program from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) designed to support BIPOC-led climatetech startups. At this event, hear from innovative startups that are developing climate solutions for sectors encompassing electricity, transportation, buildings, manufacturing, agriculture, and more.

The second iteration of ACCEL follows on a successful inaugural year that featured six startups working on innovations as diverse as sneakers made from food waste, ultracapacitors built with hemp sourced from Black and Indigenous farmers, and ultra-light solar panels. Their accomplishments during the accelerator included raising equity funding, earning acceptances into additional accelerators, winning grants, executing customer discovery, and more.

Take this opportunity to network, celebrate, and build community around this incredible program and meet the Year 2 cohort, which will be announced in the coming weeks! Are you an investor or corporate leader planning to attend? We’re looking to connect our cohort of founders with resources essential to success. We welcome conversation around how you can support! Please reach out to ACCEL Program Manager, Sonali Anderson ([email protected]), for more info.

🔗 Registration link

https://greentownlabs.com/event/accel-kickoff-event-year-2/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

Community-Based Approaches To Energy Equity / Sustainability Lunch Series - Sustainability Initiative

🕑 Start time

3/7/2024 Thu 2:45 PM

🕓 End time

3/7/2024 Thu 3:45 PM

📍Location

Private Location (register to display)

📍Address

📝 Notes

Join us for our sustainability lunch series presenting with the Sloan Energy Club featuring Lucy Bullock Sieger, VP of Strategy at Lightstar Renewables, LLC (https://www.lightstar.com/).

Lucy will share insights on developing and policy surrounding community solar and agrivoltaics projects across the US. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about these innovative approaches to sustainable energy.

Lunch will be provided to those that join in person.

Food Provided (Vegetarian food options will be provided for our in person attendees)

🔗 Registration link

https://sloangroups.mit.edu/sustain/rsvp_boot?id=1929168?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

2024 MIT Climate and Energy Prize Semi-Finals

🕑 Start time

3/8/2024 Fri 8:30 AM

🕓 End time

3/8/2024 Fri 3:30 PM

📍Location

MIT Media Lab

📍Address

75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139

📝 Notes

Secure your spot now with LIMITED Early Bird Tickets for 2024 MIT Climate and Energy Prize Semi-Finals! 🔥

Witness the top 18 teams out of 160+ startup applicants unveil groundbreaking climate-tech solutions in Boston and London (9 teams each). You will have exciting 2 days in each location listening to startup pitches and inspiring panel discussions, plus networking with entrepreneurs, VC investors, corporate professionals, researchers, and students! Livestream will be available for both events for Semi-Final pitches.

🔥 Hurry, limited early bird ticket availability! 🔥

Use code Earlybird_General for General Admission

Use code Earlybird_Student for Student Discounts

🇺🇸 Boston Semi-Final:

3/7 Networking Reception @Greentown Labs (Somerville)

3/8 Semi-final @MIT Media Lab

🇬🇧 London Semi-Final:

3/14 Networking Reception @ London Business School

3/15 Semi-final @ DLA Piper London Office

See you soon in Boston & London! 🎉

🔗 Registration link

https://lnkd.in/eg6YW4hu?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

MIT Climate & Energy Prize 2024 Boston Semi-Final

🕑 Start time

3/8/2024 Fri 8:30 AM

🕓 End time

3/8/2024 Fri 3:30 PM

📍Location

MIT Media Lab

📍Address

75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139

📝 Notes

Join the BOSTON SEMI-FINAL of MIT CEP 2024, the largest and longest-running pitch competition for student-led climate-tech startups, and gain insights on the latest innovations in tackling climate change.

Top 9 student climate-tech startups out of 166 applicants will compete for Regional Prize and subsequent $100,000 Grand Prizes!

3/7 Networking Night 5pm - 7pm at Greentown Labs (Somerville, MA)

3/8 Semi-final and Panel Discussion 8:30am - 3:30pm at MIT Media Lab

Registration: https://lnkd.in/eg6YW4hu

(Food will be served with the ticket purchase)

🔗 Registration link

http://tinyurl.com/CEP24-BostonSF?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

2024 MIT Energy Conference

🕑 Start time

3/11/2024 Mon 10:00 AM

🕓 End time

3/12/2024 Tue 10:00 PM

📍Location

Westin Copley Place Boston

📍Address

📝 Notes

🔗 Registration link

https://mitenergyconference.org/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

The Value Of Values: A Book Discussion With Author Daniel Aronson (MBA '99) / Sustainability Lunch Series - Sustainability Initiative

🕑 Start time

3/14/2024 Thu 2:45 PM

🕓 End time

3/14/2024 Thu 3:45 PM

📍Location

Private Location (register to display)

📍Address

📝 Notes

Join us for an enlightening presentation by author Daniel Aronson on his book, "The Value of Values: How Business Leaders Can Grow Profits and Competitive Advantage by Doing the Right Thing". Aronson advocates for a quantitative analysis of the impact of values, suggesting that they can lead to significant improvements in operating margins, accident rates, crisis response, stock performance, and overall corporate performance. The book emphasizes the importance of values in today's business landscape and suggests that their significance will continue to grow, making them a crucial lever for success. The presentation will be introduced by John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Whether you have critical questions about the financial aspects of sustainability or are already a sustainability ambassador, engage with Aronson as he shares real-world examples and tools of how to impact the bottom line.

The Sustainability Initiative will be raffling off several copies of Aronson’s book to those who attend in person. Lunch will be provided to those attendees joining in person.

Food Provided (Vegetarian food options will be provided for our in person attendees)

🔗 Registration link

https://sloangroups.mit.edu/sustain/rsvp_boot?id=1929170?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

Climate Adaptation at the Regional Scale: From Planning to Implementation – Climate Adaptation Forum

🕑 Start time

3/15/2024 Fri 9:30 AM

🕓 End time

3/15/2024 Fri 12:30 PM

📍Location

Foley Hoag

📍Address

155 Seaport BoulevardBoston, MA 02210 United States

📝 Notes

Flooding, sea level rise, storm surge, heat, and other climate change challenges cross-cut political boundaries. Facing a crisis without set boundaries, how can communities, agencies, and non-profit organizations plan for climate change at the regional scale? Join experts from across the country to learn about different regional approaches to building climate change resilience for people and nature. Speakers will explore the benefits and challenges of bringing communities together at the watershed, coastal, and other regional scales in order to move from planning through to action.

Forum Speakers

Violeta Duncan, Principal, Duncan Núñez Consulting, LLC

Stephanie Page, Acting Director, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board

Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) – Speaker to be announced shortly.

Additional speakers to be announced shortly!

Forum Co-Chairs

Mark Costa, Senior Water Resources Engineer, VHB

Melanie Gárate, Senior Associate, Consensus Building Institute

Beth Lambert, Director, Division of Ecological Restoration, Department of Fish and Game, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Carolyn Norkiewicz, Regional Coordinator for Greater Boston, Municipal Vulnerability Program, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Registration Information

This forum will be organized in a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in-person OR virtually.

🔗 Registration link

https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/climate-adaptation-at-the-regional-scale-from-planning-to-implementation/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

Climate Adaptation at the Regional Scale: From Planning to Implementation - Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc.

🕑 Start time

3/15/2024 Fri 12:30 PM

🕓 End time

3/15/2024 Fri 3:30 PM

📍Location

Foley Hoag

📍Address

155 Seaport BoulevardBoston, MA 02210 United States

📝 Notes

The Climate Adaptation Forum is a collaboration between the Environmental Business Council and the Sustainable Solutions Lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

🔗 Registration link

https://ebcne.org/event/climate-adaptation-at-the-regional-scale-from-planning-to-implementation/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

Tough Tech Talent Fair

🕑 Start time

3/20/2024 Wed 11:00 AM

🕓 End time

3/20/2024 Wed 4:00 PM

📍Location

The Engine

📍Address

750 Main Street, Cambridge, MA

📝 Notes

Interested in working at a mission-focused startup driving the future of industry? The Tough Tech Talent Fair is your chance to engage with Tough Tech founders looking for candidates to join their team. Tough Tech companies apply cutting edge technology to society’s biggest problems. We believe these areas are all interconnected — addressing climate change must go hand in hand with improving issues surrounding global supply chains and food systems, and vice versa. Working at a Tough Tech startup is more than just supporting the development of foundational technologies; it also means playing a part in transforming industries for the better, and creating the new industries of the future.

🔗 Registration link

https://toughtechtalentfair.splashthat.com/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com

Boston Climate Tech by Steven Zhang / ClimateTechList.com

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