Day
Track
Registration
Opening remarks
Main Stage
Peter Gilmer
CEO, The Nest Campus
The cost of inaction: Building a climate-resilient economy
Main Stage
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Ranking Member, Committee on Environment & Public Works, US Senate
David Crane
CEO, Generate Capital
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Anne Kelly
VP Government Relations, Ceres
How AI can deliver measurable sustainability outcomes
Momentum Stage
Jochen Gross
Head of Sustainability Data Strategy and Architecture, Siemens AG
Simin Zhou
VP, Risk and Compliance Software, UL Solutions
Resilient infrastructure and talent for the AI era
Main Stage
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Justina Nixon-Saintil
Chief Impact Officer, IBM
Could the future of water savings be effortless?
Momentum Stage
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
The business case is made. Now where is the money?
Main Stage
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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
From dashboard to decision
Momentum Stage
Lyndsay Harris-Kyei
VP of Global Impact & Sustainability, ServiceNow
NEST Pitch: Semi-final 1
Momentum Stage
The next environmental era: Built or blocked?
Main Stage
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Dawn Lippert
Founder & CEO, Elemental Impact
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Mike Schroepfer
Founder & Partner, Gigascale Capital
Scaling supply chain transformation
Main Stage
Erik Roberts
Chief Purchasing Officer, Procter & Gamble
Garrett Quinn
Head of Sustainability, Branding & Communications, Smurfit Westrock
The energy transition blueprint
Main Stage
Jules Kortenhorst
Co-Chair, Energy Transitions Commission
Lunch break
The electrification of everything
Main Stage
Kaushik Burman
CEO, Spiro
Steven Henderson
Co-Founder & CEO, Fleetzero
Agate Freimane
Founding Partner, Norrsken VC
Andrew Beebe
Managing Director, Obvious Ventures
Lunch break
What VCs are really looking for
Momentum Stage
Zenetta Burger
Partner, Giant Ventures
Rajesh Swaminathan
Partner, Khosla Ventures
Katie Brigham
Staff writer, Heatmap News
Unlocking the grid: An AI solution for an AI problem
Main Stage
Suzanne DiBianca
EVP & Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce
Varun Sivaram
Founder & CEO, Emerald AI
Startup Showcase 1
Momentum Stage
The view from city hall - AI, energy and urban growth
Main Stage
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Daniel Rickenmann
Mayor, Columbia, South Carolina
Kate Gallego
Mayor, Phoenix, Arizona
Justin Bibb
Mayor, Cleveland, Ohio
Kate Wright
Executive Director, Climate Mayors
NEST Pitch: Semi-final 2
Momentum Stage
How to decarbonize our cities and infrastructure this decade
Main Stage
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
Jad Daley
President, Terraformation
Monica Medina
Host, The Scientista Podcast
Adam Met
Founder & Executive Director, Planet Reimagined
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Sweta Chakraborty
CEO, We Don't Have Time, North America
Too hot to ignore: Science and communication for a planet under pressure
Main Stage
Johan Rockström
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Climate resilience in emerging economies: Investing in long-term security
Main Stage
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
Climate action in restaurant POS systems
Momentum Stage
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Jackie Martin
Global Head, Inclusion & Impact, Toast
AI's real job in the energy transition
Main Stage
Andrew Meyer
Founder & CEO, Arbor
Alex Wright-Gladstein
Founder & CEO, Sphere
Bruce Falck
Co-Founder & CEO, Halycon
Michal Nachmany
Founder & CEO, Climate Policy Radar
Lindsey Hall
Co-host, S&P Global podcast All Things Sustainable
Startup Showcase 2
Momentum Stage
Closing the loop on EV adoption: From myths to materials innovation
Main Stage
Cassandra Garber
Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors
Stories from the frontlines of Earth's recovery
Main Stage
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
Made in America: The next generation of heavy industry
Main Stage
Quoc Pham
Venture Partner, Earth VC
Brook Porter
Founding Partner, G2 Venture Partners
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David Bierman
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Antora Energy
NEST Pitch: Semi-final 3
Momentum Stage
Confronting the data center energy crisis
Main Stage
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
Jeff Lawson
Co-Founder & CEO, Inertia
Financing America's clean energy future
Momentum Stage
Alfred Johnson
Co-Founder & CEO, Crux
Clay Dumas
Founding Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
From Petri dish to profit
Main Stage
Chris Abbott
CEO, Pivot Bio
Andrey Zarur
Co-Founder, President and CEO, Greenlight Biosciences
Lila Preston
Partner, Generation Investment Management
The precision dividend
Main Stage
Massimiliano Vitale
Chief Operating Officer, Xoople
NEST Pitch: Semi-final 4
Momentum Stage
Closing the loop: Scaling reusable packaging
Main Stage
Tom Szaky
Founder & CEO, TerraCycle
Ellen Jackowski
Chief Sustainability Officer, Mastercard
Sebastian Munden
Chair, WRAP
Lunch break
The energy source nobody argues about
Main Stage
Tim Latimer
Co-Founder & CEO, Fervo Energy
Joshua Posamentier
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Congruent Ventures
Lunch break
How the built environment becomes the engine of the energy transition
Main Stage
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
Alice Brooks
Partner, Khosla Ventures
Ross Milne
CEO, Leaft Foods
Climate as a competitive advantage in the age of AI
Main Stage
Christoph Gebald
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Climeworks
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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
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Governor Jay Inslee
Former Governor, Washington State
Leah Stokes
Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics, UC Santa Barbara
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Sam Calisch
Co-Founder & CEO, Copper
The era of new nuclear energy expansion
Main Stage
Rachel Slaybaugh
General Partner, DCVC
Tori Shivanandan
President & Chief Operating Officer, Radiant
Startup Showcase 3
Momentum Stage
What is the ocean worth?
Main Stage
Fonger Ypma
Founder & CEO, Arctic Reflections
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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
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
Sea change: Scaling ocean impact
Momentum Stage
Alexander Fuglesang
Founder & CEO, Flocean
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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
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
Gonzalo Rivas-Torres
Director, Tiputini Biodiversity Station
Cristián Samper
Managing Director & Leader for Nature Solutions, Bezos Earth Fund
Andrew Zolli
Chief Impact Officer, Planet
Mass adoption: Lessons from Uber's global EV rollout
Main Stage
Andrew Cornelia
Global Head of Electrification & Sustainability, Uber
Registration
Climate action is not a spectator sport
Main Stage
Jenifer Willig
CEO, Partner & Co-Founder, WRTHY
Generation restoration: Young leaders reimagining our planet’s future
Main Stage
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
How business is meeting the climate resiliency challenge
Momentum Stage
Jonathan Marks
Retired Partner, Slaughter & May
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
Shomik Dutta
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Overture Ventures
Cassie Flynn
Director, Climate, Energy and Environment, UNDP
Nature: From source to shelf
Main Stage
Kathleen McLaughlin
Executive Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart
Jennifer Morris
CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Who writes the trillion-dollar check?
Main Stage
Colin le Duc
Founding Partner, Generation Investment Management
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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
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
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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
How vehicles, storage, and utilities can solve the power crunch
Main Stage
Aseem Kapur
Chief Revenue Officer, GM Energy
Arvin Ganesan
CEO, Fourth Power
Maria Gallucci
Senior Reporter, Canary Media
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