Registration

September 22 • 7:30AM - 6:00PM

The cost of inaction: Building a climate-resilient economy

Main Stage • September 22 • 9:30AM - 9:55AM

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Ranking Member, Committee on Environment & Public Works, US Senate

How AI can deliver measurable sustainability outcomes

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 9:30AM - 9:55AM

Jochen Gross Head of Sustainability Data Strategy and Architecture, Siemens AG

Simin Zhou VP, Risk and Compliance Software, UL Solutions

The business case is made. Now where is the money?

Main Stage • September 22 • 10:20AM - 10:50AM

Jens Nielsen Founder and CEO, World Climate Foundation (WCF)

Sage Lenier Founder, Futureline

Jesper Brodin Chair, The B Team & Senior Advisor, IKEA Foundation

Sarah Kapnick Global Head of Climate Advisory, J.P. Morgan

Justin Worland Senior Correspondent, TIME

Startup Showcase 1

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 10:20AM - 10:45AM

Technology, ecology and the new environmental era

Main Stage • September 22 • 10:50AM - 11:15AM

Dawn Lippert Founder & CEO, Elemental Impact

Mike Schroepfer Founder & Partner, Gigascale Capital

The energy transition blueprint

Main Stage • September 22 • 11:45AM - 12:05PM

Jules Kortenhorst Co-Chair, Energy Transitions Commission

Lunch break

September 22 • 12:00PM - 1:00PM

The electrification of everything

Main Stage • September 22 • 12:05PM - 12:30PM

Gagan Gupta Co-Founder, Spiro

Steven Henderson Co-Founder & CEO, Fleetzero

Agate Freimane Founding Partner, Norrsken VC

Andrew Beebe Managing Director, Obvious Ventures

Lunch break

September 22 • 12:30PM - 1:30PM

What VCs are really looking for

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 1:25PM - 1:50PM

Rajesh Swaminathan Partner, Khosla Ventures

Unlocking the grid: An AI solution for an AI problem

Main Stage • September 22 • 1:30PM - 1:55PM

Suzanne DiBianca EVP & Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce

Varun Sivaram Founder & CEO, Emerald AI

Startup Showcase 2

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 1:50PM - 2:15PM

The view from city hall - AI, energy and urban growth

Main Stage • September 22 • 1:55PM - 2:20PM

Kate Gallego Mayor, Phoenix, Arizona

Justin Bibb Mayor, Cleveland, Ohio

Kate Wright Executive Director, Climate Mayors

How to decarbonize our cities and infrastructure this decade

Main Stage • September 22 • 2:20PM - 2:45PM

Ben Saada Founder & CEO, FAIRMAT

Yuliya Kravtsov CEO, CarbonCure

Tadeu Carneiro Chairman & CEO, Boston Metal

Hadia Sheerazi Senior Fellow, Constructive

Nature, the other climate story

Main Stage • September 22 • 2:45PM - 3:10PM

Jad Daley President, Terraformation

Monica Medina Host, The Scientista Podcast

Adam Met Founder & Executive Director, Planet Reimagined

Sweta Chakraborty CEO, We Don't Have Time, North America

AI's real job in the energy transition

Main Stage • September 22 • 3:50PM - 4:15PM

Andrew Meyer Founder & CEO, Arbor

Alex Wright-Gladstein Founder & CEO, Sphere

Bruce Falck Co-Founder & CEO, Halycon

Lindsey Hall Co-host, S&P Global podcast All Things Sustainable

Closing the loop on EV adoption: From myths to materials innovation

Main Stage • September 22 • 4:15PM - 4:35PM

Cassandra Garber Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors

Stories from the frontlines of Earth's recovery

Main Stage • September 22 • 4:35PM - 5:00PM

Wes Sechrest Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Scientist, Re:Wild

Anna Rathmann Executive Director, Jane Goodall Institute USA

Dax Dasilva Founder, Age of Union

Esther Whieldon Co-Host, S&P Global podcast All Things Sustainable

Registration

September 23 • 7:30AM - 6:00PM

Made in America: The next generation of heavy industry

Main Stage • September 23 • 9:00AM - 9:25AM

Cody Finke Co-founder & CEO, Brimstone

Brook Porter Founding Partner, G2 Venture Partners

Confronting the data center energy crisis

Main Stage • September 23 • 9:25AM - 10:00AM

Josh Parker Head of Sustainability, NVIDIA

Jim Gao Co-founder & CEO, Phaidra

Jamie Nolan CEO & Co-Host, Energy Empire Podcast

Jigar Shah Co-Host, Energy Empire Podcast

Financing America's clean energy future

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 9:55AM - 10:20AM

Alfred Johnson Co-Founder & CEO, Crux

Clay Dumas Founding Partner, Lowercarbon Capital

Fusion works. Now what?

Main Stage • September 23 • 10:00AM - 10:25AM

Jeff Lawson Co-Founder & CEO, Inertia

Startup Showcase 3

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 10:20AM - 10:45AM

From Petri dish to profit

Main Stage • September 23 • 10:25AM - 10:50AM

Gilad Gershon Co-Founder & CEO, Tropic Biosciences

Chris Abbott CEO, Pivot Bio

Andrey Zarur Co-Founder, President and CEO, Greenlight Biosciences

Lila Preston Partner, Generation Investment Management

NEST Pitch: Semi-final 3

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 10:45AM - 12:00PM

The precision dividend

Main Stage • September 23 • 10:50AM - 11:10AM

Massimiliano Vitale Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Xoople

Closing the loop: Scaling reusable packaging

Main Stage • September 23 • 11:40AM - 12:05PM

Tom Szaky Founder & CEO, TerraCycle

Ellen Jackowski Chief Sustainability Officer, Mastercard

Lunch break

September 23 • 12:00PM - 1:00PM

The energy source nobody argues about

Main Stage • September 23 • 12:05PM - 12:30PM

Tim Latimer Co-Founder & CEO, Fervo Energy

Joshua Posamentier Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Congruent Ventures

Lunch break

September 23 • 12:30PM - 1:30PM

Electric dreams: Rewiring American homes

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 1:25PM - 1:50PM

Governor Jay Inslee Former Governor, Washington State

Leah Stokes Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics, UC Santa Barbara

Sam Calisch Co-Founder & CEO, Copper

How the built environment becomes the engine of the energy transition

Main Stage • September 23 • 1:30PM - 1:55PM

Jon Creyts CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute

Eva Riesenhuber Global Head of Sustainability, Siemens

Rob Bernard Chief Energy & Sustainability Officer, CBRE

Startup Showcase 4

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 1:50PM - 2:15PM

Climate as a competitive advantage in the age of AI

Main Stage • September 23 • 1:55PM - 2:20PM

Christoph Gebald Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Climeworks

Matthias Medert Global Head of Sustainability, SAP

Christina Shim Chief Sustainability Officer, IBM

Justin Worland Senior Correspondent, TIME

NEST Pitch: Semi-final 4

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 2:15PM - 3:30PM

The era of new nuclear energy expansion

Main Stage • September 23 • 2:40PM - 3:05PM

Rachel Slaybaugh General Partner, DCVC

Tori Shivanandan President & Chief Operating Officer, Radiant

What is the ocean worth?

Main Stage • September 23 • 3:05PM - 3:30PM

Fonger Ypma Founder & CEO, Arctic Reflections

Anna Marsden Managing Director, The Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Julia Marsh Co-Founder & CEO, Sway

Jerome Ternynck Co-Founder, Rypples

Carbon as a commodity: Building the next industrial feedstock economy

Main Stage • September 23 • 3:30PM - 3:55PM

Charles Cadieu Co-Founder & CEO, Spiritus

Alexandra Petre CEO, Deep Sky

Etosha Cave Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Twelve

Making corporate carbon commitments actually mean something

Main Stage • September 23 • 3:55PM - 4:20PM

Marijn van Diessen CEO, STX Group

Pierre-François Thaler Co-Founder & Co-CEO, EcoVadis

Maura Hodge US Sustainability Leader, KPMG

Sea change: Scaling ocean impact

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 3:55PM - 4:20PM

Alexander Fuglesang Founder & CEO, Flocean

Adam Root Founder & CEO, Matter Industries

Julia Marsh Co-Founder & CEO, Sway

Jerome Ternynck Co-Founder, Rypples

Mass adoption: Lessons from Uber's global EV rollout

Main Stage • September 23 • 5:10PM - 5:30PM

Andrew Cornelia Global Head of Electrification & Sustainability, Uber

Registration

September 24 • 7:30AM - 2:00PM

Climate action is not a spectator sport

Main Stage • September 24 • 9:25AM - 9:50AM

Jenifer Willig CEO, Partner & Co-Founder, WRTHY

Generation restoration: Young leaders reimagining our planet’s future

Main Stage • September 24 • 9:50AM - 10:15AM

Amber Carter Marine scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Aman KC Geophysics Glaciologist & PhD Student, Boise State University

Garvita Gulhati Founder, Why Waste?

Power play

Main Stage • September 24 • 10:15AM - 10:40AM

Shomik Dutta Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Overture Ventures

Cassie Flynn Director, Climate, Energy and Environment, UNDP

Nature: From source to shelf

Main Stage • September 24 • 10:40AM - 11:05AM

Kathleen McLaughlin Executive Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart

Jennifer Morris CEO, The Nature Conservancy

Who writes the trillion-dollar check?

Main Stage • September 24 • 11:05AM - 11:30AM

Colin le Duc Founding Partner, Generation Investment Management

Kyung-Ah Park Chief Sustainability Officer, Temasek

Mindy Lubber President & CEO, Ceres

Nigel Topping Co-Founder, Ambition Loop

Renaud Visage Founder, Slate VC

Scaling nature positive solutions

Main Stage • September 24 • 11:30AM - 11:55AM

Michael Sutton Executive Director, Goldman Environmental Foundation

Iroro Tanshi Ecologist & Co-Founder, SMACON

Rosamira Guillen Board Director, Wildlife Conservation Network

Benji Jones Senior Correspondent, Vox

Investing in water amid climate change and the AI boom

Momentum Stage • September 24 • 11:35AM - 11:55AM

Jeff Markley Senior Equity Analyst, Water Asset Management

Dolly Mirchandani Partner, White & Case

Jeff Gitterman Managing Director, Gitterman Asset Management and Perigon Wealth Management

Startup Showcase 5

Momentum Stage • September 24 • 12:00PM - 1:00PM