NY Climate Tech: Nov 20 - Nov 25
Water crisis, nuclear energy, infrastructure, clean energy, Gen Z in climate, comedy, and more upcoming events and opportunities
Hi all,
While our friends on the West Coast are getting hit with an atmospheric river and a bomb cyclone, we’re officially in a drought. Take care, safe water, and stomp out any smolders you see in the park! The DEP has some water saving tips.
NYC is a center for water tech and resiliency. This week, the Urban Future Summit at Cornell Tech is talking infrastructure and more on Roosevelt Island, the Harbor Climate Collaborative is focused on building a climate solutions ecosystem connected by our waterways as part of the Green Economy Action Plan.
There’s plenty coming up, and stay tuned in for our next meetup and pitch night the first and second weeks of December—links coming soon!
Here are our picks for the week.
⚛️ Nuclear 101 and The Future of Clean Energy: Wed, Nov 20
🏗️ Cornell Infratech Day 2024: Thu, Nov 21
⚡️ Clean Energy in New York Summit: Thu, Nov 21
🏗️ Think Tech: Tools for Meeting Building Decarb Targets: Thu, Nov 21
🌱 Eat & Walk: Gen Z Founders in EdTech, Health, and Climate: Fri, Nov 22
😂 Apoca-HA-HA-calypse: Sat, Nov 23
Also, we haven’t shouted it out yet but be sure to have the 🤖 HackSummit Climate X Deep Tech at Newlab on your radar. This is their first NYC climate conference, and they have a great line up.
We have a few new opportunities this week as well: the 🚀 Newlab Founder Fellowship is a highlight, supporting a new cohort of 15 climate tech founders from underrepresented communities.
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events, opportunities, and more.
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities team
This Week’s Events
🍄 From Field to Form: Mycelium: Wed, Nov 20
👷♀️ WISE: Networking Lunch: Wed, Nov 20
🚗 The State of EV Infrastructure: Wed, Nov 20
⚛️ Nuclear 101 and The Future of Clean Energy: Wed, Nov 20
🏗️ Cornell Infratech Day 2024: Thu, Nov 21
⚡️ Clean Energy in New York Summit: Thu, Nov 21
🏗️ Think Tech: Tools for Meeting Building Decarb Targets: Thu, Nov 21
🥗 Transform Wasted Food into Hope - Lunch Networking Seminar with RLC: Thu, Nov 21
🌱 Eat & Walk: Gen Z Founders in EdTech, Health, and Climate: Fri, Nov 22
😂 Apoca-HA-HA-calypse: Sat, Nov 23
🌎 Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures Startup and Talent Platforms
Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures are launching new platforms to support climate founders, funders, and career transitioners! There is no shortage of great companies raising money for their groundbreaking ideas, great investors looking to support with capital, and great talent living the mantra that every job is a climate job. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Community Shoutouts
🔌 Transition-AI 2024: Dec 3 in Washington, DC
Ready to explore the future of AI in the power sector? Join Transition-AI 2024, hosted by Latitude Media, and be at the forefront of the AI-energy revolution. Discover how AI is transforming utilities, grid operations, and asset management – as well as how data center developers can meet surging power demands with clean energy. Join industry leaders for a day of networking and education, featuring speakers from Google, Meta, Dominion Energy, DOE and more. Space is limited, so register now to secure your spot!
⚡️ Renewables.org | Build solar where it does the most good.: Dec 15
Renewables.org is offering CTC subscribers $25 free to get started with their Global South solar investing nonprofit. When you back solar projects on Renewables.org, your funds help build the world’s highest carbon impact renewables across India and Africa. The best part is you get repaid to your Renewables.org account where you can choose to withdraw funds, or redeploy them for even more impact.
🤖 HackSummit Climate X Deep Tech: Dec 12
For the premier US edition, we’ll focus on an intimate and curated group of 300 participants to ensure an ideal breakdown across sector, stage, focus and seniority. In the room includes Stealth to Series B Climate Tech Founders, Partners and Principals behind some of the most active Funds, as well as Corporates, Banks and Asset Managers with a keen interest to collaborate with companies in this space.
Opportunities
🚀 Scale For ClimateTech, Cohort 6 Application Survey: Nov 30
Scale For ClimateTech provides immersive training on manufacturing for climatetech hardware innovators, along with a team dedicated to making manufacturing easier — from mentors, experts in the field and product and packaging designers, to manufacturers, suppliers, and investors. Participating companies receive access to dedicated mentors, entry into the New York State hardware ecosystem, Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) assessments from industry experts, a deeper understanding of GHG metrics and impact in their target market, customized roadmap development, and introductions to strategic partnerships, investors, and founder-friendly contract manufacturers to commercialize technology in New York State and beyond.
⚡️ NextEra Investments | Seed Competition: Dec 1
Startups, NextEra Energy Investments is ready to fuel your growth with up to $1 million in seed funding! The 2025 NextEra Energy Investments Seed Competition offers up to $1M in seed capital for cutting-edge solutions in cybersecurity, data & AI, decarbonization, and energy transition. What’s in it for you? Up to $1M to fuel your next phase of growth. An opportunity to collaborate with the largest renewable energy generator. Access to NextEra’s vast network, expertise, and infrastructure to turn your tech into a market leader.
👩🔬 Breakthrough Energy Fellows: Dec 2
We need significant innovation now to develop the clean technologies that will help the world get to net-zero emissions by 2050. To do this, the scientists, engineers, business experts, and teams behind groundbreaking innovations need investment and support to ensure their technologies have the resources to get adopted quickly. As part of our end-to-end approach to accelerating innovation, BE has established the Breakthrough Energy Fellows (BE Fellows) program to support the world’s best and brightest innovators as they develop technologies to help the world get to a clean energy future.
🏝️ Climate Pilots at Governor's Island: Dec 5
The Trust for Governors Island offers unique opportunities for innovators to test early-stage climate products and services in a real-world environment. Selected piloting projects utilize Governors Island’s built, social, and natural environments – including a 2.2-mile waterfront, 43-acre climate resilient park, 7 miles of car-free streets, and 50+ historic buildings – to accelerate climate innovation, economic opportunity, and social impact in diverse urban communities.
🚀 Newlab Founder Fellowship: Dec 6
Fellows will gain access to practical resources through hands-on workshops, connections to industry leaders, and personalized mentoring to help address their specific challenges. Each founder will also benefit from a year-long membership at Newlab Brooklyn and key connections to investors for fundraising support.
✍️ 2025 NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship | The Black List: Dec 5
The Black List is thrilled to announce that it has partnered with NRDC’s (Natural Resources Defense Council) Rewrite the Future program, The Redford Center, The CAA Foundation, and NBCUniversal to launch the fourth annual NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship. The Fellowship will grant $20,000 each to three writers (or writing teams) to support revision of a feature screenplay or pilot that engages with climate change in a compelling way through events, actions, character, emotions, plot, and/or setting.
Upcoming Events
🔌 Deploy24: Wed, Dec 4
🎄 MCJ New York: Holiday Happy Hour: Wed, Dec 4
🌦️ The Future of US Climate Adaptation & Resilience Under Trump 2.0: Wed, Dec 4
⛈️ Fall 2024 Lecture in Climate Data Science: TIM HERMANS: Thu, Dec 5
🎴 Climate Fresk at Eat Offbeat (Chelsea Market): Thu, Dec 5
✍️ Climate Writing Club: Sat, Dec 7
🚀 Climate Tech Demo Night - NY Climate Week Edition - AWS, NYU, Streetlife Ventures: Mon, Dec 9
🍏 Green Apple Trivia: Tue, Dec 10
🥂 WRISE NYC Holiday Networking Happy Hour: Tue, Dec 10
🍻 4WARD Global Climate & Sustainability Networking Meetups NYC: Thu, Dec 12
🤖 HackSummit Climate X Deep Tech: Thu, Dec 12
❄️ Snowless or Snowy Winters?: Unwrapping Climate Change: Fri, Dec 13
🎨 Inner and Outer Transformations: The Climate Crisis By Olive Toran: Sun, Dec 15
This Week in Depth
🍄 From Field to Form: Mycelium
When: Wednesday, November 20 · 6:30 - 8pm EST
Where: Wollman Hall, The New School
What role can mycelium play in shaping the future of healthy materials for architecture, design, and construction? On November 20th, a cultivator, a manufacturer, and an architect at the forefront of mycelium’s use in materials and design will be in conversation about the promises of using mycelium to create regenerative built environments.
👷♀️ WISE: Networking Lunch
When: Wednesday, Nov 20th from 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Where: Building Energy Exchange
BE-Ex’s Women in Sustainability & Energy (WISE) series is pleased to host a networking lunch, connecting emerging and industry-transitioning professionals with seasoned experts from across energy & sustainability industries. Following a sit-down lunch with industry experts, attendees will have the opportunity for more informal networking with peers over coffee and dessert.
🚗 The State of EV Infrastructure
When: Wednesday, November 20 · 5:30 - 8pm EST
Where: 55 Water Street #37th Floor, New York, NY 10041
Join YPE, YPT & YPI at 5:30-8pm on Wednesday, November 20 as we discuss the opportunities and challenges facing EV charging infrastructure. With Haley Rubinson of Revel, Michale Lyndon-James of Ashurst LLP, and Mehrsa Khalegi of AECOM, moderated by James Gutman.
⚛️ Nuclear 101 and The Future of Clean Energy
When: Wednesday, November 20 · 6:15 - 8pm EST
Where: International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027
Come join us for an exciting event where we delve into the world of nuclear energy and its role in shaping the future of clean energy. This in-person event will be held at Publique on the 6th Floor of the School of International and Public Affairs, where experts in the field will discuss the basics of nuclear power and its potential impact on sustainability. Whether you're a student, a professional, or simply curious about the topic, this event is a great opportunity to learn and engage with like-minded individuals. Don't miss out on this unique chance to explore the possibilities of nuclear energy!
🏗️ Cornell Infratech Day 2024
When: Thursday, November 21 · 10am - 4:30pm EST
Where: Verizon Executive Education Center, 2 West Loop Road, New York, NY 10044
The Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) advances knowledge that improves the delivery, maintenance, operation, and technological sophistication of physical, social, and digital infrastructure. This year’s event will demonstrate how technology can be used to favorably impact infrastructure design, quality, resilience, environmental footprint, and cost while minimizing adverse effects on climate.
⚡️ Clean Energy in New York Summit
When: Thursday, November 21 · 9am - 3:30pm EST
Where: Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 36 Battery Place New York, NY 10280
City & State is proud to present our second annual Clean Energy in NY Summit to discuss opportunities that NY’s ambitious energy strategy created for new investment. Panels will focus on large-scale renewable projects; the future of large-scale renewable procurement activity both onshore and offshore; the financial incentives to develop resources in vulnerable communities; as well as the emerging activity in hydrogen hubs, transportation decarbonization, and the state’s very active storage procurement market.
🏗️ Think Tech: Tools for Meeting Building Decarb Targets
When: Thursday, November 21 from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Where: Register for Address
Join Contech Alliance for a groundbreaking panel discussion: "Think Tech: Tools for Meeting Building Decarb Targets." This cutting-edge event brings together leaders from decarbonization technology companies and building facility operators to explore innovative solutions for reducing carbon emissions in construction and building operations.
🥗 Transform Wasted Food into Hope - Lunch Networking Seminar with RLC
When: Thursday, November 21 · 1 - 2pm EST. Doors at 12:45pm
Where: 25 Broadway #14th Floor, New York, NY 10004
Are you ready to make a real impact in your community? Come join us for an inspiring seminar hosted by Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, where we’ll tackle the pressing issue of wasted food head-on! Our in-person event will delve into the importance of reducing food waste and how you can make a difference in your community. Learn about our initiatives, success stories, and how you can get involved. Whether you're a seasoned volunteer or new to the cause, this seminar is for everyone passionate about sustainability and helping those in need.
🌱 Eat & Walk: Gen Z Founders in EdTech, Health, and Climate
When: Friday, November 22 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM EST
Where: Shake Shack, Hudson Yards
Join GenZtea and WeStand for an intimate networking food walk designed specifically for Gen Z founders in EdTech, Health, and Climate tech. Connect with fellow impact-driven entrepreneurs while exploring NYC's iconic High Line, starting at Hudson Yards and ending at Chelsea Market.
😂 Apoca-HA-HA-calypse
When: Saturday, November 23 · 7 - 8:15pm EST
Where: Brooklyn Comedy Collective, 167 Graham Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11206
You know what sucks? Climate change. You know what doesn't suck? Some of New York’s hottest comics helping us laugh our way through the apocalypse, saving the world one ha-ha at a time.