Deployment Lab: Scaling Climate Innovation, Together
Climate technologies don't scale on great ideas alone. They scale through partnerships, customers, policy, and community.
Hosted by Elemental Impact. Join us for an interactive conversation exploring what it takes to move promising climate technologies from successful pilots to real-world deployment in Hawaiʻi.
What to Expect
💡 Conversations from the Front Lines
Hear directly from the people leading the deployment of innovative technologies across energy, permitting, wildfire resilience, and sustainable fuels. They'll share the opportunities they see for Hawaiʻi, the barriers they've encountered, and why collaboration across sectors is essential to moving from promising ideas to impact.
🤝 Deployment Labs
Following the conversation, participants will join facilitated breakout discussions where each company presents a real-world deployment challenge.
🌺 Networking
Continue the conversation with founders, investors, government leaders, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and ecosystem builders who are helping shape Hawaiʻi's innovation economy.
Featured Speakers
Leila Banijamali, Co-founder and CEO of Symbium: Using AI to streamline permitting and help communities accelerate the deployment of rooftop solar, battery storage, EV chargers, and other clean energy technologies.
John Leong CEO of Pono Energy: Building a Hawaiʻi-grown renewable fuels industry by converting locally sourced feedstocks into sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel.
Ford Ainslie, Head of Growth at BurnBot: Helping communities reduce catastrophic wildfire risk through safer and more scalable vegetation management and prescribed fire technology.
Moderated by Tiffany Huynh, Senior Director of External Affairs at Elemental Impact.
The goal is simple: leave with tangible next steps, strategic introductions, and new partnerships that help accelerate deployment.
Space is limited. Register today to join this interactive conversation.
About Elemental Impact
Elemental Impact is a nonprofit investor with 17 years of experience advancing innovative technologies with deep environmental and local impact. Elemental is supported by 40 funders and its portfolio includes 160 companies that have catalyzed $11.8B in additional funding and created more than 18,100 jobs. Elemental works to address market failures for first-of-a-kind and early commercial projects by providing catalytic capital and specialized expertise—from policy engagement to workforce development and capital coaching.