Smarter Watts: Innovations at the Intersection of Energy & Data Centers
As artificial intelligence accelerates demand for compute, the energy footprint of data centers has become a defining challenge. Meeting this demand sustainably requires innovation at multiple layers: within a facility, where operators must optimize power, usage, cooling, and compute efficiency, and across the grid, where data centers must act as flexible and responsive assets.
Join us at 9zero for an inspiring discussion and networking session on one of today’s most pressing challenges at the intersection of power grids and compute loads. Whether you are a startup at the intersection of data centers and grid technology, a data center developer or operator, a cloud compute provider, an investor, or just curious about the topic, we invite you to join the conversation!
Agenda
5:00pm – 5:30pm: Arrival and open networking
5:30pm – 5:40pm: Welcome from co-hosts Future Energy Ventures and ArcTern Ventures
5:40 - 6.30pm: Panel discussion moderated by Mira Inbar – partner at ArcTern with participation of industry experts:
• Tom Nudel – CEO at Piq Energy
• Aroon Vijaykar - SVP Stratgy and Commerciat at Emerald AI
• Amit Narayan - co-founder and CEO at Grid Care, Managing General Partner at Aina Climate AI Ventures
• Guthrie Ginzler - founder of Qualia Energy
6:30 – 7:00pm: Open networking and close
About Future Energy Ventures: Future Energy Ventures is an energy-native venture capital firm backing early-stage companies with digital, scalable, asset-light business models across Europe and North America. We focus on AI-driven, software-first solutions that improve grid efficiency, optimize power flows, and enable demand-side flexibility, industrial and urban electrification, and the integration of frontier technologies into the energy system. We partner only with founders committed to decarbonizing energy while making it more resilient, intelligent, and radically more efficient.
About ArcTern Ventures: ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital firm obsessed with helping solve the climate crisis and rethinking sustainability. ArcTern, based in Toronto with offices in Oslo and San Francisco, invests globally in breakthrough technology companies solving climate change and sustainability – we call it #earthtech. The fund was founded on the premise that accelerating the transition to a carbon-neutral economy will disrupt all industries and present an unprecedented opportunity for outsized financial returns. Solving our planet’s biggest problems will lead to big rewards—for companies, their investors, and of course, Mother Earth.
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About 9Zero: We’re a members-only community of founders, investors, scientists, and innovators accelerating climate solutions through meaningful relationships. Apply to join at www.9Zero.com