Registration

September 22 • 7:30AM - 6:00PM

Opening remarks day 1

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 8:55AM - 9:00AM

Kat Dunn Co-founder and CEO, Talk2View

Opening remarks

Main Stage • September 22 • 9:00AM - 9:05AM

Peter Gilmer CEO, The Nest Campus

Bridge or breakthrough? Rethinking the energy transition

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 9:00AM - 9:20AM

Michael Stivala President & CEO, Suburban Propane

How AI can deliver measurable sustainability outcomes

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 9:20AM - 9:45AM

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

Simin Zhou VP, Risk and Compliance Software, UL Solutions

Alicia Argüello Global Head of Sustainability, Hitachi Energy

Hana Kajimura Sustainable Business Advisor & Former CEO, Trellis

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

David Crane CEO, Generate Capital

Anne Kelly VP Government Relations, Ceres

Could the future of water savings be effortless?

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 9:45AM - 10:20AM

Frantz Beznik Global Head of R&D Sustainable Innovation, P&G

Tara Moonan Head of Sustainability North America, Electrolux Group

Laura Kohler Global Business Ambassador

Resilient infrastructure and talent for the AI era

Main Stage • September 22 • 9:55AM - 10:20AM

James Gowen SVP & Chief Sustainability Officer, Verizon

Justina Nixon-Saintil Chief Impact Officer, IBM

Diane Brady Executive Editorial Director, Fortune

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, Project Northstar

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

From dashboard to decision

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

Lyndsay Harris-Kyei VP, Global Impact & Chief Sustainability Officer, ServiceNow

Katia Chaban Head of Global IT Sustainability, NTT DATA

NEST Pitch: Semi-final 1

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 10:45AM - 12:00PM

The next environmental era: Built or blocked?

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

Dawn Lippert Founder & CEO, Elemental Impact

Mike Schroepfer Founder & Partner, Gigascale Capital

Allie Garfinkle Sr. Writer & Editor, Term Sheet, Fortune

Scaling supply chain transformation

Main Stage • September 22 • 11:15AM - 11:45AM

Erik Roberts Chief Purchasing Officer, Procter & Gamble

Burgess Davis SVP, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo North America

Garrett Quinn Head of Sustainability, Branding & Communications, Smurfit Westrock

Hana Kajimura Sustainable Business Advisor & Former CEO, Trellis

The energy transition blueprint

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

Jules Kortenhorst Co-Chair, Energy Transitions Commission

Q&A with Mike Schroepfer, Founder & Partner, Gigascale Capital

Q&A (Room 406.2) • September 22 • 11:45AM - 12:15PM

Mike Schroepfer Founder & Partner, Gigascale Capital

Lunch Break Momentum Stage Day 1

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 12:00PM - 12:55PM

The electrification of everything

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

Henrik Holland President, EV Realty

Steven Henderson Co-Founder & CEO, Fleetzero

Agate Freimane Founding Partner, Norrsken VC

Andrew Beebe Managing Director, Obvious Ventures

Lunch Break Main Stage Day 1

Main Stage • September 22 • 12:30PM - 1:20PM

Connecting the resilience economy

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 1:00PM - 1:25PM

Bhushan Joshi Head of Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility for Ericsson, Americas

Jean Rogers Senior Operating Advisor to Riverstone Earth, LLC, and Palistar Capital, LP

Marissa McInnis Senior Director Global Sustainability, Verizon

Welcome to day 1 afternoon

Main Stage • September 22 • 1:20PM - 1:25PM

Sarah Elizabeth Ippel Founder, Academy for Global Citizenship

Unlocking the grid: An AI solution for an AI problem

Main Stage • September 22 • 1:25PM - 1:55PM

Cully Cavness Co-founder, President & Chief Strategy Officer, Crusoe

Suzanne DiBianca Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce

Varun Sivaram Founder & CEO, Emerald AI

Allie Garfinkle Sr. Writer & Editor, Term Sheet, Fortune

What VCs are really looking for

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

Peter Hirsch Head of Sustainability & Partnerships, 2150

Zenetta Burger Partner, Giant Ventures

Rajesh Swaminathan Partner, Khosla Ventures

Katie Brigham Staff writer, Heatmap News

Startup Showcase 1

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 1:50PM - 2:05PM

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

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

Daniel Rickenmann Mayor, Columbia, South Carolina

Kate Gallego Mayor, Phoenix, Arizona

Justin Bibb Mayor, Cleveland, Ohio

Kate Wright Executive Director, Climate Mayors

What dance taught me about pitching

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 2:05PM - 2:15PM

Desiree Almodovar Vice President, JPM Innovation Economy

NEST Pitch: Semi-final 2

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 2:15PM - 3:30PM

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

Cody Finke Co-founder & CEO, Brimstone

Hadia Sheerazi Senior Fellow, Constructive

Q&A with Suzanne DiBianca, Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce

Q&A (Room 406.2) • September 22 • 2:25PM - 2:55PM

Suzanne DiBianca Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce

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

Too hot to ignore: Science and communication for a planet under pressure

Main Stage • September 22 • 3:10PM - 3:30PM

Johan Rockström Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Climate resilience in emerging economies: Investing in long-term security

Main Stage • September 22 • 3:30PM - 4:00PM

Mary Robinson Member of The Elders; Leader, The B Team; Former President of Ireland

Sara Beysolow Nyanti Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liberia

Jacqueline Novogratz Founder & CEO, Acumen

Marilyn Waite CEO, Capital for Sustainability

Climate action in restaurant POS systems

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 3:30PM - 3:55PM

Joe Robbins Chief Product Officer, Food Rescue US

Jackie Martin Global Head, Inclusion & Impact, Toast

Angel Veza Director, Innovation Initiatives, ReFED

Heat, data, and the trillion dollar blind spot

Momentum Stage • September 22 • 3:55PM - 4:20PM

Markus Repnik Director, Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF)

John O'Brien Managing Director, Sustainability & Energy, Deloitte

AI's real job in the energy transition

Main Stage • September 22 • 4:00PM - 4:25PM

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 • 4:25PM - 4:45PM

Cassandra Garber Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors

Stories from the frontlines of Earth's recovery

Main Stage • September 22 • 4:45PM - 5:10PM

Benji Backer Founder & CEO, Nature Is Nonpartisan

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

A blueprint for deep tech's next decade

Main Stage • September 22 • 5:10PM - 5:35PM

Moritz von der Linden Co-Founder & CEO, Marvel Fusion

Greg Piefer Founder & CEO, SHINE

Thomas Forner Co-Founder & CEO, Focused Energy

Registration

September 23 • 7:30AM - 6:00PM

Welcome to day 2

Main Stage • September 23 • 8:55AM - 9:00AM

Diamond Spratling Founder & Executive Director, Girl Plus Environment,

Made in America: The next generation of heavy industry

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

Quoc Pham Venture Partner, Earth VC

Brook Porter Founding Partner, G2 Venture Partners

David Bierman Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Antora Energy

NEST Pitch: Semi-final 3

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

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

Fusion works. Now what?

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

Jeff Lawson Co-Founder & CEO, Inertia

Alexander Kaufman Author, daily AM newsletter for Heatmap

Financing America's clean energy future

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

Alfred Johnson Co-Founder & CEO, Crux

Clay Dumas Founding Partner, Lowercarbon Capital

Cat Clifford Strategic Science & Energy Storyteller

From Petri dish to profit

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

Chris Abbott CEO, Pivot Bio

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

Lila Preston Partner, Generation Investment Management

NEST Pitch: Semi-final 4

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

The precision dividend

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

Massimiliano Vitale Chief Operating Officer, Xoople

Feeding the future: Protein, climate and the path to sustainable food systems

Main Stage • September 23 • 11:10AM - 11:40AM

Amber Smith Executive Director, Women in Ranching

Hugh Bromley Head of Food, Agriculture & Nature Research, Bloomberg

Nicole Jenkins Manager, Beef & Poultry Sector, Environmental Defense Fund

Eric Mittenthal Chief Strategy Officer, Meat Institute

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

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

Sebastian Munden Chair, WRAP

Jim Giles Vice President, Editor-at-Large, Trellis Group

Lunch Break Momentum Stage Day 2

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 12:00PM - 1:15PM

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

Amy Harder National Energy Correspondent, Axios

Lunch Break Main Stage Day 2

Main Stage • September 23 • 12:30PM - 1:10PM

Q&A with Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability Officer, Mastercard

Q&A (Room 406.2) • September 23 • 12:35PM - 1:05PM

Ellen Jackowski Chief Sustainability Officer, Mastercard

Welcome to day 2 afternoon

Main Stage • September 23 • 1:10PM - 1:15PM

Marilyn Waite CEO, Capital for Sustainability

How the built environment becomes the engine of the energy transition

Main Stage • September 23 • 1:15PM - 1:40PM

Jon Creyts CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute

Eva Riesenhuber Global Head of Sustainability, Siemens

Rob Bernard Chief Energy & Sustainability Officer, CBRE

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

How the world's most abundant protein was overlooked

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 1:15PM - 1:40PM

Alice Brooks Partner, Khosla Ventures

Ross Milne CEO, Leaft Foods

Climate as a competitive advantage in the age of AI

Main Stage • September 23 • 1:40PM - 2:05PM

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

The all-electric, all-American home

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 1:40PM - 2:05PM

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

The era of new nuclear energy expansion

Main Stage • September 23 • 2:05PM - 2:30PM

Rachel Slaybaugh General Partner, DCVC

Tori Shivanandan President & Chief Operating Officer, Radiant

Startup Showcase 2

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 2:05PM - 2:30PM

Q&A with Jon Creyts, Eva Riesenhuber and Rob Bernard

Q&A (Room 406.2) • September 23 • 2:10PM - 2:40PM

Jon Creyts CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute

Eva Riesenhuber Global Head of Sustainability, Siemens

Rob Bernard Chief Energy & Sustainability Officer, CBRE

What is the ocean worth?

Main Stage • September 23 • 2:30PM - 2:55PM

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 • 2:55PM - 3:20PM

Charles Cadieu Co-Founder & CEO, Spiritus

Alexandra Petre CEO, Deep Sky

Etosha Cave Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Twelve

Heather Clancy Editor-at-Large, Trellis

NEST Pitch: Final

Main Stage • September 23 • 3:20PM - 4:30PM

From footprint to impact: You made your trip, now make it count

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 3:20PM - 3:40PM

Julie Hewitt Executive Director, The Gulch Environmental Foundation

Katerina Deliargyris Senior Associate, Motive Power

Sea change: Scaling ocean impact

Momentum Stage • September 23 • 3:40PM - 4:05PM

Alexander Fuglesang Founder & CEO, Flocean

Adam Root Founder & CEO, Matter Industries

Chiara Petrioli Founder & CEO, Wsense

Julia Marsh Co-Founder & CEO, Sway

Jerome Ternynck Co-Founder, Rypples

Making corporate carbon commitments actually mean something

Main Stage • September 23 • 4:30PM - 4:55PM

Marijn van Diessen CEO, STX Group

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

Maura Hodge US Sustainability Leader, KPMG

Andy Critchlow Head of energy news, Dow Jones Energy

Revolutionizing Amazonian conservation with breakthrough technologies

Main Stage • September 23 • 4:55PM - 5:20PM

Gonzalo Rivas-Torres Director, Tiputini Biodiversity Station

Cristián Samper Managing Director & Leader for Nature Solutions, Bezos Earth Fund

Andrew Zolli Chief Impact Officer, Planet

Monica Medina Host, The Scientista Podcast

Mass adoption: Lessons from Uber's global EV rollout

Main Stage • September 23 • 5:20PM - 5:40PM

Santosh Rao Global Head of Mobility Electrification, Uber

Registration

September 24 • 7:30AM - 2:00PM

Welcome to day 3

Main Stage • September 24 • 8:55AM - 9:00AM

Kat Dunn Co-founder and CEO, Talk2View

Generation restoration: Young leaders reimagining our planet’s future

Main Stage • September 24 • 9:00AM - 9:25AM

Amber Carter Marine scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Aman KC Geophysics Glaciologist & PhD Student, Boise State University

Garvita Gulhati Founder, Why Waste?

Maeve Campbell Journalist, Channel 4

Climate action is not a spectator sport

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

Jenifer Willig CEO, Partner & Co-Founder, WRTHY

Senator Rick Fox Senator Rick Fox, Three-Time NBA Champion, Founder of Partanna, & Senator of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Linnae Harper Former WNBA player, 6x Team USA Gold Medalist, Manager of Athletics & Sports Leadership at the Obama Presidential Center, & Adapt2Win Athlete

Lucas Leiva Former Professional Footballer, Liverpool & Brazil

Alan Dangour Director of Climate & Health, Wellcome Trust

What AI can, and can't, solve for the grid

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

Josh Wong Founder & CEO, ThinkLabs AI

Marie Thompson Partner, Powerhouse Ventures

Opening remarks day 3

Momentum Stage • September 24 • 9:55AM - 10:00AM

Diamond Spratling Founder & Executive Director, Girl Plus Environment,

How business is meeting the climate resiliency challenge

Momentum Stage • September 24 • 10:00AM - 10:25AM

Jonathan Marks Lawyer, experienced adviser, director & trustee

Anna Mkhitaryan Head of Global Insurance & Risk Analytics, Verisk

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

Lisa Sachs Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

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

Alexander Kaufman Author, daily AM newsletter for Heatmap

On a mission to preserve Arctic sea ice

Momentum Stage • September 24 • 10:25AM - 10:45AM

Fonger Ypma Founder & CEO, Arctic Reflections

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

Q&A with Cassie Flynn, Global Director of Climate Change, UNDP

Momentum Stage • September 24 • 10:45AM - 11:15AM

Cassie Flynn Director, Climate, Energy and Environment, UNDP

Who writes the trillion-dollar check?

Main Stage • September 24 • 11:05AM - 11:35AM

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

The business of sport in a changing climate

Momentum Stage • September 24 • 11:15AM - 11:40AM

Rishi Jain Director of Impact, Liverpool Football Club

Daniel Kull Director, Development Partnerships and Programme Delivery at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Annie Horn Associate VP, Social Impact & Inclusion & Sustainability, NBA

Scaling nature positive solutions

Main Stage • September 24 • 11:35AM - 12:00PM

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 • 11:40AM - 12:05PM

Jeff Markley Senior Equity Analyst, Water Asset Management

Dolly Mirchandani Partner, White & Case

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

The state of materials just changed forever

Main Stage • September 24 • 12:00PM - 12:30PM

Kati ter Horst President & CEO, Outokumpu

Lunch Break Momentum Stage Day 3

Momentum Stage • September 24 • 12:05PM - 1:00PM

Lunch Break Main Stage Day 3

Main Stage • September 24 • 12:30PM - 1:00PM

Startup Showcase 3

Momentum Stage • September 24 • 1:00PM - 1:25PM

Women in charge: Two coasts, two CEOs, one power bill

Main Stage • September 24 • 1:00PM - 1:25PM

Tamla Olivier President & CEO, Baltimore Gas & Electric

Lora Anguay CEO & General Manager, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

Denise Owusu Leader of the National Public Utilities Council & Decarbonization Manager, Motive Power

How vehicles, storage, and utilities can solve the power crunch

Main Stage • September 24 • 1:25PM - 1:50PM

Aseem Kapur Chief Revenue Officer, GM Energy

Arvin Ganesan CEO, Fourth Power

Aaron Johnson Chief Sustainability Officer, PG&E

Maria Gallucci Senior Reporter, Canary Media

The economics of adaptation: What it takes to protect the planet

Main Stage • September 24 • 1:50PM - 2:15PM

Mekala Krishnan Partner, McKinsey Global Institute

Tim McDonnell Climate & Energy Editor, Semafor