ALIGN Climate CoLab: CUBs × Innovative Climate Companies
What happens when innovative climate companies and experienced local businesses work together on real deployment challenges?
Join ALIGN, Beacon Climate Innovations, and members of the Greentown Labs community for an interactive summer gathering designed around a simple theme: Helping Each Other.
This is not a traditional pitch event. Participating climate companies will present a specific challenge affecting their ability to pilot, deploy, or scale their solutions. ALIGN cohort businesses will then respond with their capabilities, practical ideas, and potential value propositions.
Through facilitated, theme-based discussions, participants will explore where relationships can move beyond introductions toward credible contracting, subcontracting, installation, workforce, vendor, and partnership opportunities.
The discussions will focus on:
Data centers, energy storage, and clean-energy deployment
Building-decarbonization materials and industry practices
Equitable heating and cooling solutions
Workforce sourcing, human capital, inclusive vendor networks, and deployment capacity will be considered across all three areas.
The afternoon will also include lunch, recognition of the ALIGN cohort, distribution of ALIGN materials, and open networking with participating companies and ecosystem partners.
Who should attend
ALIGN cohort businesses and fellows
Greentown Labs climatetech companies
Contractors, installers, technicians, and implementation partners
Organizations supporting equitable climate deployment
Selected ecosystem, public-sector, and program partners
Space is limited, and registration is subject to host approval.
Agenda
12:30 PM — Arrival, lunch and introductions
Welcome participants and introduce the “Helping Each Other” format.
12:45 PM — Climate challenge matchmaking
Climate companies present real deployment or commercialization challenges. ALIGN cohort businesses respond with capabilities, potential solutions, and partnership models.
2:00 PM — ALIGN cohort recognition
Recognize participating cohort businesses and distribute ALIGN materials.
2:15 PM — Open networking
Continue conversations, identify follow-up opportunities, and build connections across the cohort and climatetech community.
3:00 PM — Event concludes