

Corporate Sustainability: Navigating the New Reality🚀 Bold Moves + Happy Hour & Tasty Bites🥂🥳
🌍✨ Join Us for an Evening of Impact + Innovation! ✨🌍
Calling all corporate sustainability leaders, climate & energy founders, investors, and changemakers — this is the event you cannot miss 🚀
We’ll dive deep into how corporations are rethinking and reshaping their sustainability strategies in today’s rapidly evolving environment. Expect powerful insights, bold ideas, and actionable takeaways.
Join us for a fireside chat with Elizabeth Sturcken, Vice President Net Zero Ambition & Action, Environmental Defense Fund, moderated by Ron Erd.
Elizabeth leads climate impact and net zero acceleration at EDF+Business, the private sector engagement division of Environmental Defense Fund. She has fostered EDF partnerships with Walmart, UPS, United Airlines, Airbnb, Lyft and FedEx. Elizabeth also leads coalition collaborations with the Business Alliance to Scale Climate Solutions (BASCS), Transform to Net Zero (TONZ), and works with the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA). Under her leadership, EDF+Business created the first-of-kind Net Zero Action Accelerator and the Pathways to Net Zero report series with pragmatic, actionable tools to cut emissions now, set interim targets and invest in climate technologies for hard-to-abate sectors.
📅 AGENDA
🕠 5:30 – 6:00 | Registration & Networking with mission-driven leaders
🕕 6:00 – 7:00 | Keynotes, Panel & Interactive Q&A (big ideas, real talk)
🕖 7:00 – 7:30 | Startup Pitches (the future of climate innovation on stage)
Taichi Takayama, PhD — Engineering Manager, Andes (with @Gonzalo Fuenzalida-Meriz)
Joji Takamoto — CEO, LEP Inc
Kai Narita — CEO & Co-founder, 3D Architech
Yuko Amizaki — BD, bitBiome (with Soichiro Tsuda )
Tatsunori Suzuki — CEO, Alchemist Materials
Olexiy Buyadgie, PhD — CEO, Wilson Engineering
🕢 7:30 – 8:00 | Networking (new partners, new opportunities)
💖Special thanks to the Japan Innovation Campus💖 for hosting us and bringing this important conversation to life.
💝Many thanks to Smashing Dishes for sponsoring the tasty bites. Let Smashing Dishes Smash your next event!💝
💕Gratitude and cheers to Brian Goldenberg, Wine Broker & Longevity Solutions Consultant for for generously donating the wine and making Happy Hour ULTRA Happy.💕
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✨ Don’t just talk about the future — help create it. See you there😍
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