SFCW Kick Off Happy Hour: Dive into DeepTech with Piva Capital, Congruent Ventures, and SVB!

​Join Piva Capital, Congruent Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank for an evening of cocktails and light bites to round out the first day of SF Climate Week. The event will kickoff with a keynote presentation from Dr. Jon Creyts, CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). Following the keynote, guests are invited to stay for a night of networking with VCs, entrepreneurs, and operators from the community.

​Keynote Presentation - Back to the Future: Building Our Next Energy System

​We're in a moment of energy disruption... and we've been here before. Oil shocks and electrification waves have shaped our collective history. But alongside today’s data center surge, cooling needs, electrification drive, and access demands, we have new solutions to tap. Cost-competitive clean technologies, upgradable intelligence, and demand integration can offer a path to abundance beyond the current scarcity crunch. 

​Jump in our biofuel-fed DeLorean and take a global tour across the US, India, China, and Africa, looking at four distinct transitions, and make sense of where opportunity and competitive advantage are emerging in a world that is poised to reinvent our energy system like never before. 

​Dr. Jon Creyts, CEO of RMI

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​Dr. Jon Creyts is the Chief Executive Officer of RMI (or Rocky Mountain Institute). He is an internationally recognized leader on global energy issues and climate change. Since joining the organization in 2012, he helped grow RMI more than ten-fold and expand its footprint to more than 50 countries, becoming CEO in 2022. Along the way Jon founded RMI's China program, conceived and built RMI’s breakthrough climate technology accelerator Third Derivative, stewarded RMI’s Business Renewables Center to spin out as the Clean Energy Buyer’s Alliance, and helped build and spin out the software startup Energy Web. Prior to joining RMI, he was a partner with McKinsey & Company and a design engineer in the power and aviation industries. Jon is an alumnus of Lockheed Martin's renowned Skunk Works and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in mechanical engineering.  

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