Columbia Climate School Global Impact Lab: Community Kickoff & Mixer
Join us for an open networking happy hour featuring the next generation of climate innovations from Columbia researchers, faculty, and startups! Come see the climate challenge from every angle ahead of Climate Week NYC.
The week before Climate Week NYC, the Columbia Climate School’s Global Impact Lab is opening its doors for a community kickoff. The climate challenge extends beyond the environmental. It’s also an economic and affordability issue that is personal and political, and hyperlocal and globally interconnected. Our Global Impact Lab teams tackle it through focused, innovative approaches, each illuminating a piece of this bigger picture.
Join us for an afternoon dedicated to introducing climate initiatives grounded in research and connecting with mentors and partners like you!
What to Expect:
Keynote presentation: Featured presentation and remarks by a to-be-announced special guest!
A cross-section of climate innovation: Hear 3-minute talks spanning energy for the NYC grid, flood resilience planning, autonomous water quality monitoring, critical minerals innovations, and heat-exposed supply chains
Innovation in practice: Connect with teams developing filters that remove microplastics from our water systems, artificial flowstones capturing CO2 from air, among others!
Open networking: Connect with mentors, faculty, industry leaders, students and investors from across the climate ecosystem
Whether you're a mentor looking to plug into Columbia's innovation community, a fellow researcher, an investor scouting early-stage climate ventures, or simply climate-curious, we'd love to have you.
Come learn about the Global Impact Lab and complementary programs across the climate innovation ecosystem!