Boston Climate Tech: November 2023
HBS Climate Symposium, MIT Energy & Climate Hack, Circular Economy in buildings, & 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 14 events in the next few weeks- use this calendar or table view if you’d like to sort/filter or view ALL events in the future.
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Announcements
A few announcements before the event list:
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The HBS Climate Symposium is back! (11/18-19)
A word from the HBS Climate Symposium organizing team:
The Climate Symposium is back!
The Climate Symposium is a fully student-run conference hosted by the Energy & Environment, Food & Agriculture, and Sustainability Clubs of Harvard Business School.
The theme for this year’s edition is "Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale." We will explore not only the existing climate solutions but also the crucial aspects of capital and policy deployment required to accelerate their implementation on a global scale.
Saturday 18 November: Exclusive Networking Reception at The Engine
Sunday 19 November: Climate Symposium at Harvard Business School campus (Klarman Hall)
Find out more about the agenda, panel topics and speakers:
https://www.climatesymposium.org/
Apply to the startup pitch competition (deadline 29 Oct): https://www.climatesymposium.org/pitch-competition
Tickets can be bought at https://shorturl.at/rDJ09
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MIT Climate & Energy Prize 2024 - Open for Applications!: 11/6 Mon
Skilling for the Energy Company of Tomorrow Today - MIT Events: 11/7 Tue
Pitch2Match Climate - Martin Trust Center For MIT Entrepreneurship: 11/9 Thu
MIT Energy & Climate Hack: 11/10 Fri
The Power of Design: Designing Climate Futures / Workshops - MIT Events: 11/15 Wed
YPE Boston November Happy Hour: 11/15 Wed
The Future of Offshore Wind: Innovation + Startup Showcase - Greentown Labs: 11/16 Thu
Climate Symposium at Harvard Business School: 11/19 Sun
Circular Economy in the Buildings Sector - Greentown Labs: 11/30 Thu
Crisis as Catalyst: Meeting the Moment with Transformational Investments – Climate Adaptation Forum: 11/30 Thu
MIT Climate & Energy Prize 2024 - Open for Applications!
🕑 Start time
11/6/2023 Mon 12:30 AM
🕓 End time
11/6/2023 Mon 12:30 AM
📍Location
Hybrid
📍Address
📝 Notes
The MIT Climate & Energy Prize (MIT CEP) is the longest-running and largest climatetech and energy startup competition for global university students. MIT CEP teams will compete for $100,000+ in non-dilutive cash prizes and have access to world-class mentoring and other resources. Over 220 MIT Climate & Energy Prize companies have successfully launched and raised $1.7+ billion in follow-on funding.
Starting in 2022-2023, we expanded the scope to include European universities and created the first MIT CEP European chapter in Paris. For the 2023-2024 prize, we will further expand our prize to welcome applicant teams from all over the world. Our goal is we expand the presence to APAC, Middle East, Latin America, and Africa.
Follow us for more Information and updates at:
Website
https://cep.mit.edu/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/mit-cep
🔗 Registration link
www.cep.mit.edu?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
Skilling for the Energy Company of Tomorrow, Today - MIT Events
🕑 Start time
11/7/2023 Tue 6:00 PM
🕓 End time
11/7/2023 Tue 6:00 PM
📍Location
Venture Cafe
📍Address
One Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge, MA
🔗 Registration link
By Rotation Founder & CEO Eshita Kabra-Davies: Reimagining Fashion Rental And Circular Fashion - Retail & Consumer Goods Club
🕑 Start time
11/7/2023 Tue 11:45 AM
🕓 End time
11/7/2023 Tue 12:45 PM
📝 Notes
Interested in sustainability, fashion, and/or entrepreneurship? Come join us for RCGC's lunch series event to learn how Eshita Kabra-Davies, CEO & Founder of By Rotation, is reimagining fashion rental and circular fashion!
NOTE: By Rotation will raffle off one $50 gift card to attendees 🥳
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🔗 Registration link
https://sloangroups.mit.edu/retailcpglux/rsvp_boot?id=1928335?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
Pitch2Match Climate - Martin Trust Center For MIT Entrepreneurship
🕑 Start time
11/9/2023 Thu 11:30 AM
🕓 End time
11/9/2023 Thu 1:30 PM
📍Location
Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
📍Address
One Amherst Street, E40-160, Cambridge, MA 02142, United States
📝 Notes
Calling all climate-oriented students, staff, and faculty! Network, connect, and create your next opportunity or build your team with one slide & 60 seconds!
Founders: Find supporters, collaborators, potential customers, co-founders and talented team members.
Staff: find opportunities to use the campus as a testbed for cutting-edge climate solutions.
Faculty: Learn about the latest climate innovations coming out of MIT and the wider Boston/Cambridge ecosystem
Joiners: Find a climate startup to share your talents and skills.
Or simply discover like-minded individuals who share your passions for possible future opportunities in climate innovation!
🔗 Registration link
https://sloangroups.mit.edu/trustcenter/rsvp_boot?id=1928269?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
MIT Energy & Climate Hack
🕑 Start time
11/10/2023 Fri 9:00 AM
🕓 End time
11/11/2023 Sat 9:00 PM
📍Location
Hybrid
📍Address
📝 Notes
HACK 2023: AI AND CLIMATE
Climate change is a massive, complex challenge. It requires the processing and management of large-scale data and systems—problems that Artificial Intelligence is best suited to tackle. Simply put, AI has the potential to supercharge our solutions and help combat global warming. Join us this fall to take on the challenge together.
🔗 Registration link
https://www.mitenergyhack.org/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
The Power of Design: Designing Climate Futures / Workshops - MIT Events
🕑 Start time
11/15/2023 Wed 3:30 PM
🕓 End time
11/15/2023 Wed 3:31 PM
📍Location
MIT iHQ
📍Address
292 Main Street Cambridge, MA
📝 Notes
MAD’s annual Forum, The Power of Design, dedicated this year to “Designing Climate Futures,” is an opportunity to discover design responses to the current climate and ecological crisis.
Our aim is to show how design addresses the climate emergency by helping to produce new ecological, spatial, and social conditions rather than mere technical fixes. The Forum brings together a group of designers who are proposing diverse and highly transformative approaches to the climate crisis, spanning from the local to the planetary scale, and offers a platform to know their work and learn, through workshops, with them.
🔗 Registration link
YPE Boston November Happy Hour
🕑 Start time
11/15/2023 Wed 6:30 PM
🕓 End time
11/15/2023 Wed 8:30 PM
📍Location
730 Tavern
📍Address
730 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
📝 Notes
Come warm up with some drinks and ~energy~ conversation at 730 Tavern with the rest of the YPE Family! Catch up with other YPE Boston members before the holiday rush.
🔗 Registration link
https://www.linkedin.com/events/novemberhappyhour7124829605357592576/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
The Future of Offshore Wind: Innovation + Startup Showcase - Greentown Labs
🕑 Start time
11/16/2023 Thu 5:30 PM
🕓 End time
11/16/2023 Thu 8:00 PM
📍Location
Greentown Labs Somerville
📍Address
444 Somerville Ave Somerville, Massachusetts 02143 United States
📝 Notes
REGISTER NOWJoin us in celebrating the culmination of Go Energize 2023, a Greentown Go startup-corporate partnerships accelerator program focused on decarbonizing our energy system, in partnership with Vineyard Wind and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
Together, our partners have supported five innovative startups in accelerating the commercialization of solutions including offshore wind turbine monitoring, ecological data collection offshore, and more. Attendees will hear the Go Energize 2023 cohort speak about their technologies and how these innovations will enable a sustainable and economically feasible offshore wind industry.
A total of 40 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity is set to come online in the United States in the next decade. Cutting-edge technology is key for offshore wind energy projects to be developed in an environmentally responsible manner while also delivering electricity for consumers. Go Energize 2023 aims to reduce barriers to entry through industry education and relationship-building across relevant networks.
AGENDA
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Arrival and Networking
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Speaking Program featuring lightning presentations from:
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Networking
ABOUT GREENTOWN GO
The climate crisis urgently demands sweeping climatetech deployment. While startups bring the solutions, corporates often bring commercialization pathways and scale. That’s why Greentown Go builds partnerships that propel climatetech solutions to market—at the pace needed to tackle climate change.
With a mission of decarbonizing the key greenhouse gas-emitting sectors, Greentown Go programs inject momentum and traction into startup-corporate collaborations, unlocking the power of climate solutions at scale.
ABOUT VINEYARD WIND
Vineyard Wind LLC is an offshore wind development company seeking to build the first
large-scale offshore wind energy project in the US, to be located 15 miles south of Martha’s
Vineyard. Vineyard Wind, based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is 50 percent owned by
funds of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and 50 percent by Avangrid
Renewables. For more information, visit www.vineyardwind.com.
ABOUT MASSCEC
MassCEC is a state economic development agency dedicated to accelerating the growth of
the clean energy sector across the Commonwealth to spur job creation, deliver statewide
environmental benefits and to secure long-term economic growth for the people of
Massachusetts. MassCEC works to increase the adoption of clean energy while driving
down costs and delivering financial, environmental, and economic development benefits to
energy users and utility customers across the state
🔗 Registration link
https://greentownlabs.com/event/the-future-of-offshore-wind-innovation-startup-showcase/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
Offshore Wind in Our Backyard: EBC 4th Annual Rhode Island Offshore Wind Conference - Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc.
🕑 Start time
11/17/2023 Fri 8:30 AM
🕓 End time
11/17/2023 Fri 12:00 PM
📍Location
District Hall Providence
📍Address
225 Dyer StreetProvidence, RI
📝 Notes
The offshore wind industry has taken off since Rhode Island became home to the first offshore wind project in the nation with the successful installation of the 30 MW Block Island Wind Farm in 2017. In 2023, Vineyard Wind became the first large-scale offshore wind project to begin construction in the United States, with South Fork Wind also under construction. Revolution Wind, the first commercial-scale offshore wind project to make landfall in Rhode Island, has received approval for construction and operation from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Located approximately 15 nautical miles offshore southeast of Point Judith, the project will have a generating capacity of approximately 704 megawatts, capable of powering nearly 250,000 homes. With other offshore wind projects in the queue and supporting offshore wind partners setting up shop in Rhode Island, the question is no longer whether the offshore wind industry will come to the region, but rather what does it mean for Rhode Island to be growing it in our backyard.
Rhode Island has continued to take bold steps to address climate change, including by setting some of the most aggressive mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets in the nation through the 2021 Act on Climate. Offshore wind will play an indispensable role in meeting these targets. Discussions are underway with state and regional leaders about new opportunities to bring more offshore wind energy to Rhode Island.
The fourth annual EBC Rhode Island Offshore Wind Conference will explore what comes next for offshore wind in Rhode Island.
🔗 Registration link
https://ebcne.org/event/offshore-wind-in-our-backyard-ebc-4th-annual-rhode-island-offshore-wind-conference/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
Climate Symposium at Harvard Business School
🕑 Start time
11/19/2023 Sun 8:30 AM
🕓 End time
11/19/2023 Sun 8:39 AM
📍Location
Harvard Business School
📍Address
Harvard Business School, Boston, MA 02163
📝 Notes
With this year's theme "Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale," the Climate Symposium at HBS will bring industry speakers, professors, and startup founders to explore not only the existing climate solutions but also the crucial aspects of capital, policy, and technology deployment required to accelerate the implementation on a global scale.
🔗 Registration link
https://www.climatesymposium.org/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
Circular Economy in the Buildings Sector - Greentown Labs
🕑 Start time
11/30/2023 Thu 5:30 PM
🕓 End time
11/30/2023 Thu 8:00 PM
📍Location
Greentown Labs Somerville
📍Address
444 Somerville Ave Somerville, Massachusetts 02143 United States
📝 Notes
Join us to celebrate the kickoff of Go Build 2023, a Greentown Go startup-corporate partnerships accelerator program focused on advancing circularity and decarbonization in the built environment, in partnership with Saint-Gobain.
At this event, attendees will hear lightning pitches from startup finalists in the buildings industry with innovations that extend product life cycles, further develop raw materials, revalorize waste, or act as other enabling technologies.
Innovation in the buildings sector is critical to achieving decarbonization. Buildings are responsible for 39 percent of CO2 emissions globally, with a staggering 11 percent of global emissions coming from the construction of buildings and manufacturing of building materials. To change this, we need innovations that reinvent how buildings and their materials are planned, built, sourced, and managed.
AGENDA
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Arrival and Networking
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Speaking Program
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Networking
ABOUT GREENTOWN GO
The climate crisis urgently demands sweeping climatetech deployment. While startups bring the solutions, corporates often bring commercialization pathways and scale. That’s why Greentown Go builds partnerships that propel climatetech solutions to market—at the pace needed to tackle climate change.
With a mission of decarbonizing the key greenhouse gas-emitting sectors, Greentown Go programs inject momentum and traction into startup-corporate collaborations, unlocking the power of climate solutions at scale.
REGISTER NOW
If you have questions or need to request accommodation, please reach out to Greentown Labs’ Events Coordinator, Kelly Wilson ([email protected])
🔗 Registration link
https://greentownlabs.com/event/circular-economy-buildings-sector/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
Crisis as Catalyst: Meeting the Moment with Transformational Investments – Climate Adaptation Forum
🕑 Start time
11/30/2023 Thu 9:00 AM
🕓 End time
11/30/2023 Thu 9:00 AM
📍Location
Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP
📍Address
Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston MA
📝 Notes
In the wake of a crisis, be it an extreme weather event, a pandemic, or something else, political dynamics shift that catalyze innovation and usher in possibilities previously deemed unimaginable. Join the Climate Adaptation Forum on November 30th to learn about these critical junctures in history when opportunities to do the impossible became reality.
We’ll explore these moments to glean lessons that will help us prepare for our current climate crisis. What conditions allowed these changes to take place? Did planning happen beforehand? What pitfalls should we watch out for? During this discussion, we’ll have the opportunity to learn from speakers exploring big infrastructure investments, safety innovations, and re-designing the urban landscape.
🔗 Registration link
https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/crisis-as-catalyst-meeting-the-moment-with-transformational-investment/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
Harvard's Salata Institute Climate and Sustainabilty Expo
🕑 Start time
12/1/2023 Fri 12:30 AM
🕓 End time
12/1/2023 Fri 4:30 AM
📍Location
Harvard's Gutman Conference Center
📍Address
6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138
📝 Notes
Harvard University will host the first annual Salata Institute Climate & Sustainability Expo on Friday, December 1st, 12:30-4:30pm. The Climate and Sustainability Expo is a new collaborative effort across Harvard schools to connect organizations focused on climate, sustainability, and the environment with Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni. Organizations will have the opportunity to showcase jobs, internships, research experiences, and/or potential projects focused on climate and sustainability.
The Harvard Salata Institute Climate and Sustainability Expo Team is honored to invite organizations such as yours that are deeply committed to supporting sustainability efforts and finding effective and equitable solutions to climate change to register and connect with undergraduate and graduate students as well as alumni who are passionate about pursuing climate and sustainability careers.
🔗 Registration link
https://harvard-csm.symplicity.com/events/6f8b816b1dddc55ca9640dea3560b2cb/overview?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
EBC / LSPA / SAME / SWEP-MA 23rd Annual Winter Garden Party - Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc.
🕑 Start time
12/6/2023 Wed 6:00 PM
🕓 End time
12/6/2023 Wed 8:00 PM
📝 Notes
Mix and mingle with the penguins, take in the Giant Ocean Tank, and network with your colleagues in the environmental and energy industry at the EBC / LSPA / SAME / SWEP-MA 23rd Annual Winter Garden Party, this year at the New England Aquarium in Boston.
Enjoy delicious hors d’oeuvres while you chat with colleagues you normally see on Zoom, and make new connections in the industry.
Calling all Ascending Professionals!
EBC, LSPA, SAME Boston Post, and SWEP-MA Ascending Professionals are eligible for a reduced registration rate of just $45. The Ascending Professionals Rate applies to all those who are employed by an EBC Member company / are a member of the LSPA / are a member of the SAME Boston Post / are a member of SWEP-MA, and have been working in the industry for less than 10 years.
🔗 Registration link
https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-23rd-annual-winter-garden-party/?ref=bostonclimatetech.com
