Climate Week 101 w/Climate Tech Cities
Whether you're climate curious or an energy expert, Climate Week can be overwhelming. NY Climate Week is the largest event of its kind in the world: over 1,000 events across seven days, drawing 100,000 or so startups, investors, corporate leaders, scientists, policymakers, and activists into a shambolic run of panels, plenaries, happy hours, and parties.
The most important thing to know is that it's not one big conference. Think of it more as a coral reef, providing the structure for hundreds of independently organized events to swim and thrive. There are big fish, small ones, and dazzlingly weird ones, and never enough time to see them all. You're just as likely to learn something new or land your next role at a morning jog or a karaoke night as at a panel session, so mix it up. Find a balance, be curious, and do your best to pay it forward.
Hundreds of those events never make it onto the official website. Join Alec Turnbull and Sonam Velani from Climate Tech Cities on Tuesday, September 1 for a guide to sifting through the noise and choosing your own adventure: what the anchor events are, how to find the unlisted stuff, how to balance business with culture, and what to do afterward so it all adds up to something.
Bring your calendar. We'll answer whatever you throw at us.
🌎 Climate Tech Cities and 🌆 Streetlife Ventures are based in New York and collaborate with climate founders, funders, and the broader community across the globe. We aim to shift the narrative from doom and gloom to agency and optimism, bringing climate solutions to our streets and neighborhoods.
🌎 Climate Tech Cities is the world’s largest place-based climate tech community. We bring together over 25,000 entrepreneurs, investors, activists, scientists, and policymakers to take climate action in cities across the globe. We send weekly newsletters and host topical panels, happy hours, site visits to infrastructure projects, and more. Newcomers and old hands in climate are welcome to work on, share, and grow as we build solutions towards a decarbonized future.
🌆 Streetlife Ventures invests in the $5 trillion market opportunity at the intersection of cities and climate. Co-Founders Laura Fox and Sonam Velani leverage our 30+ years of urban experience, our Climate Tech Cities community platform, and our urban deployment ecosystem, supporting founders to bring their climate solutions to life. We invest in pre-seed and seed startups across the buildings, energy, mobility and logistics, waste and water, and adaptive infrastructure sectors. We also partner with cities, corporates, real estate firms, and infrastructure groups to help startups deploy and de-risk their technologies, access non-dilutive capital, and accelerate commercialization. We are dedicated to advancing cities, focusing on people and the places they call home.
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