The First NY Climate Tech Newsletter
The First NY Climate Tech Newsletter
Welcome to NY Climate Tech
Hello and welcome to the first NY Climate Tech email!
You’re getting this email because you came to the MCJ / NY Climate Tech meetup last week. I’ve been running the MCJ Meetup in NYC for about six months now, and I’d love to expand the community. There’s so much going on in NYC and NY State, I thought it’d be useful to have an email list of events, people, and opportunities.
My goal is to have a useful weekly email roundup of what’s going on in NY Climate Tech. I haven’t found a good, single place to check yet, so I figured I may as well get it started. If you know of any events or listings, please send them my way and I’ll include them!
This is my first stab at the newsletter, so I’d love feedback — please let me know what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d like to see more of.
Events This Week
Getting to Zero Forum
When: Wednesday, October 27th - Friday, October 29th
Where: NY Marriott Marquis Times Square & Online
The Getting to Zero Forum is the premier event dedicated to zero energy and zero carbon buildings. With a growing number of climate emergencies across the United States and around the world, there is no more important time than now for the Getting to Zero Forum. It brings together the world’s leading experts to share best practice approaches to reducing energy demand and decarbonization related to policy, program and projects. It is the only event with a broad cross-section of stakeholders focused on ambitious building efficiency goals and is an ideal venue for organizing both the policy and building communities to achieve zero carbon ambitions.
It’s a bit pricey at $1500 for a three-day pass, but looks good for those of you who can expense it. Virtual tickets are cheaper but not cheap, and there’s an a la carte option for workshops. Featured speakers include Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of the DOE, Doreen Harris, President and CEO of NYSERDA, and many more.
NY Best Energy Storage Technology and Innovation Conference
When: Wednesday, October 27th
Where: DoubleTree Hilton Binghampton & Online
Each Fall, NY-BEST brings together leading minds in energy storage technology and innovation for a stimulating one-day conference on the latest groundbreaking work and technological advances in the rapidly growing field of energy storage technology, including:
• advancements in storage technologies and applications
• new market use cases
• advancements in product development
• commercialization and manufacturing
This battery tech conference is put on in collaboration with the Souther Tier Clean Energy Incubator. Rates are cheaper, at $250 for a general day pass and $150 if you’re remote. Conference speakers lean academic, with professors and doctoral candidates from multiple upstate universities.
Amazonia: A Climate Crisis Popup Event
When: Saturday, October 30th from 6pm to 9pm and Sunday 11am to 7pm
Where: Peninsula Art Space
Grey Area Collective’s first pop-up exhibit “Amazonia,” inspired by the shopping experience of an Amazon Go store, will exhibit fictional products that New Yorkers would need to survive in a dystopian climate-ravaged future, where basic needs such as water, food, power, and communication systems are on the verge of collapse.
If you’re looking for a more creative take on the climate crisis, Grey Area Collective is running a Red Hook show exploring climate futures. The opening party is Saturday.
Jobs This Week
Pump up Heat Pumps as Blocpower’s Director of Communications and Enterprise Marketing
BlocPower is a clean energy startup that provides engineering, financing, and project implementation services for green building retrofits that save money, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve health and create local employment opportunities in low-to-moderate income communities.
This is a multi-faceted role where you’ll help build the marketing function at BlocPower from the ground up - leading strategy and execution for our comms/PR and enterprise partnerships, while also flexing cross-functionally to support other marketing initiatives and policy-related work as needed.
Put the pedal to the metal as Zoomo’s Sr. Operations Manager
At Zoomo, we're leading the charge in enabling our vision to transition every urban mile to light electric vehicles (LEV) and build carbon-neutral cities. To that end, we are building the world’s most convenient, affordable, and safe e-bike platform.
The Sr. Operations Manager will be responsible for building a field operations and logistics team that can scale across the country. This role will drive strategy through execution on initiatives to improve Zoomo’s largest cost-drivers. These include revenue and asset recovery, regional / local logistics, and local routing optimization. This person will be leading one of the fastest growing organizations at Zoomo.
Sail away as Nautilus’ Director Of Managed Services, Voyage Optimization
Nautilus is building artificial intelligence to advance the efficiency of ocean commerce. We deliver technology to help shipping companies minimize fuel consumption, maximize operational efficiency, and optimize fleet performance. By arming ship owners and operators with real-time predictive decision support, Nautilus is reducing greenhouse gas emissions and making global trade sustainable.
We are looking for a Director of Managed Services to help us build out a scalable process for executing Voyage Optimizations. This role would start as a player-coach who can run our existing processes while implementing process improvements to streamline the system moving forward. Voyage Optimization is a hugely valuable product and we’re excited to bring someone on to help us transform it into an industry.
Thanks for reading! Our next meetup will be the Week of November 8th — stay tuned for more details.