TRACE THE UNSEEN: Climate Intelligence Build Day
Join us for a one-day, in-person Build Day at the Microsoft Garage in Soho, on Friday September 25th, hosted by the NYU Ethical Tech CoLab as part of Climate Week NYC 2026.
Over a single day, teams will build working prototypes powered by Sayari and Tradeverifyd’s MCP, using entity, ownership, and trade-relationship data to tackle real problems across sourcing, sanctions evasion, transparency, beneficial ownership. Teams can then use Microsoft Fabric to process and visualize what they surface: turning raw query results into dashboards, network maps, and risk visualizations. You'll go from idea to demo in one sitting, with partner engineers on hand throughout.
Tracks
Forced labor & ethical sourcing
Sanctions & evasion
Deforestation & environmental risk in commodity chains
Critical minerals & strategic supply security
Corporate transparency & beneficial ownership
You'll pick your track(s) when you register, so we can group teams around the problems you care about most.
Whether you're a developer, designer, domain expert, or just curious, you'll leave having shipped something real: and connected with a community working at the intersection of technology and social impact.
Presented with The AI Collective.
Event Agenda
8:30–9:00 Arrival, coffee, MCP access check
9:00–9:15 Kickoff: welcome, opening talk
9:15–10:00 Partner intros: Sayari, Tradeverifyd & Microsoft Fabric demos + hand out problem briefs
10:00–10:30 Team formation
10:30–1:00 Build block 1: engineers roaming
1:00–1:45 Working lunch
1:45–4:30 Build block 2: feature-freeze warning at 4:00
4:30–5:00 Demo prep, code freeze
5:00–5:45 Demos: 3 min each, hard cutoff
5:45–6:00 Judging & wrap
**Doors open at 8:15 - we strongly recommend arriving early to get set up with tool access and catch the opening talks, which frame the day's challenges. Tool access is provisioned during the morning check-in, and late arrivals may not be able to get set up with MCP access, so please come on time.
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Tradeverifyd® is the Trade Intelligence Platform that helps supply chain, procurement, and compliance teams ask questions of their supply chain - and get answers before a crisis reaches their desk. Powered by AI agents that monitor continuously and auto-ingest new data sources, Tradeverifyd delivers better operating intelligence so your business can see further, faster. Our proprietary approach translates supply chain complexity into confident, defensible decisions. Learn more at tradeverifyd.com.
Sayari is the commercial risk intelligence platform that helps compliance, supply chain, and investigative teams see the corporate ownership and trade relationships hidden behind any company. By resolving billions of entities and relationships across global corporate registries and trade records, Sayari surfaces the connections: hidden owners, upstream suppliers, sanctions exposure: that manual research would miss. Our knowledge graph turns fragmented public data into a clear picture of who's really connected to whom, so teams can make faster, better-founded decisions. Learn more at sayari.com.
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