SF Climate Tech: June 24 - July 1
Deep tech, fusion, energy, storytelling, hackatons, and more climate events this week!
Hi friends,
It’s Deep Tech Week, and there’s almost too much to recommend!
On Tuesday, join MCJ Collective for their 🌱 SF Deep Tech Week - Climate Tech Meetup in Mission Bay, San Francisco
On Wednesday, swing by Gigascale’s ⚛️ Fusion Energy Landscape during the afternoon in SF, and then spend the evening in Emeryville at Lowercarbon’s 🔌 Energy and Climate
Join climate tech hub 9Zero on Thursday in SF for their 🚀 Deep Tech Storytelling Workshop
Or head to Redwood City for the 🌅 7th Peninsula Climate Happy Hour, also on Thursday and now at a new venue
Friday, start 🔌 Hacking for Clean Energy at a Hackathon with Lowercarbon, OpenAI, and Crusoe
As always, scroll down for more details on this week and the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities team
This Week’s Events
💪 Climate Heroes in your Neighborhood with Matt Scott: Tue, Jun 25
🌱 SF Deep Tech Week - Climate Tech Meetup, by MCJ Collective: Tue, Jun 25
🔌 Lowercarbon Capital: Energy and Climate: Wed, Jun 26
⚛️ Fusion Energy Landscape: Wed, Jun 26
🐋 In-Person Climate Fresk - Ocean Month Edition: Wed, Jun 26
🚀 Deep Tech Storytelling Workshop: Thu, Jun 27
🌳 Boom in the Forest: Thu, Jun 27
🌅 7th Peninsula Climate Happy Hour: Thu, Jun 27
🔌 Hacking for Clean Energy: Fri, Jun 28
🧪 Rainbow Bacteria Painting : Sun, Jun 30
Special Shoutout: 🌲 Bloomberg Green Festival
Looking for a summer trip? Head to Seattle and pair it with PNW Climate Week!
The world needs radical solutions to address global warming and climate change. Join us in Seattle July 10-13 for the inaugural Bloomberg Green Festival, a groundbreaking celebration of thinkers, doers and innovators leading the way into a new climate era. The festival will immerse attendees in solutions-driven experiences with world-renowned experts to inspire climate action. Get your tickets today.
🌎 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!
Upcoming Events
🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Cocktails: Wed, Jul 10
🎨 Regeneration, Art, and Architecture, co-presented by Art + Climate Action: Sat, Jul 13
🥂 Marketers in Sustainability Happy Hour: Thu, Jul 18
🌳 2024 Global Green Development Summit (GGDS): Sat, Jul 20
📚 Tom Steyer, author of CHEAPER, FASTER, BETTER: Wed, Jul 24
🍽️ GP Dinner #179 | Circular Economies w/Manuel Maqueda: Sat, Jul 27
This Week in Depth
💪 Climate Heroes in Your Neighborhood with Matt Scott
When: Tuesday, June 25 from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105
There are climate heroes among us everywhere, but many go unnoticed in the thrum of everyday life. Matt Scott, director of storytelling and engagement at the global nonprofit climate solutions resource Project Drawdown, has been shining a light on the work of such people in cities across the country in his documentary short series “Drawdown’s Neighborhood.” In Atlanta, Pittsburgh, New Orleans and more, Scott lifts up underrepresented voices of those engaging in climate issues directly in their communities. And that diversity of voices—of women, Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color—is itself the point. “By passing the mic to underrepresented people working on the frontlines of climate change, we hope to share as many of these stories as possible while reshaping who society sees as climate heroes,” says Scott.
🌱 SF Deep Tech Week - Climate Tech Meetup, by MCJ Collective
When: Tuesday, June 25 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Where: Register for Address
A community of operators, entrepreneurs, investors, engineers - MCJ Collective is a venture fund backing the tech and talent working on this generation's most promising climate solutions. Ahead of the summer break, we're looking forward to convening the climate community at SF Deep Tech Week.
🔌 Lowercarbon Capital: Energy and Climate
When: Wednesday, June 26 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Where: Register for Address
Lowercarbon Capital: Energy and Climate during SF Deep Tech Week
⚛️ Fusion Energy Landscape
When: Wednesday, June 26 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Where: 65 Langton St, San Francisco, CA
Join Fusion Industry founders, engineers, scientists and energy policymakers for a overview of the Fusion Energy Landscape - the different technical approaches to unlocking nearly limitless clean grid-scale base power by harnessing the power of the Sun right here on Earth.
🐋 In-Person Climate Fresk - Ocean Month Edition
When: Wednesday, June 26 from 3 - 6pm PDT
Where: Sports Basement Presidio, 610 Old Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94129
Do you know that whales enhance ocean carbon capture? Why is ocean acidification affecting planetary oxygen level? How does ocean temperature rise become a human health crisis? Join us in-person for an interactive Climate Fresk workshop to understand the UN IPCC climate science and narrow in on ocean impact and solutions. All are welcome.
🚀 Deep Tech Storytelling Workshop
When: Thursday, June 27 from 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
Where: San Francisco, CA
Within 45 minutes and a three-step process, you will go from being unclear on how to make content for your startup to actionable content ideas to showcase. Spiral (our deep tech marketing agency) has led this exercise amongst 100s of Founders and it is the simplest most effective approach to ideating how to showcase what you’re building. This is not only a chance to improve your startup's brand positioning but get hands on support by creatives to shape your story.
🌳 Boom in the Forest
When: Thursday, June 27 from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Where: Huddart Park, Woodside, CA
Boom in the Forest is our regular gathering of the most interesting people we know. This meeting of the minds is held 100% outdoors under a forest canopy, and happens rain or shine. As always, the highlight is the **Unconference** where guests choose the small conversation that they join or lead. This is where you meet the most interesting people and ideas in Silicon Valley in a choose-your-own conversation adventure. All guests must be cleared by email or text in advance of the meeting
🌅 7th Peninsula Climate Happy Hour
When: Thursday, June 27 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Where: The Hub RWC, Redwood City, CA
All climate fixers, domains are welcomed! We'll meet at The Hub RWC another time this month. This edition at The Hub RWC, which offers drinks and food options. Next to train. Teen activists are welcomed to join outside (inside is 21+)
🔌 Hacking for Clean Energy
When: Register for Address, San Francisco, CA
Where: Friday, June 28 from 2:00 PM - Jun 29, 2:00 PM PDT
Join us this summer in San Francisco at Hacking for Clean Energy, an AI hackathon focused on accelerating the scale up of solar, wind, batteries, and other renewable energy technologies in the US. Brought to you by Lowercarbon Capital, OpenAI, and Crusoe.
🤖 Deep Tech Showcase
When: 65 Langton St, San Francisco, CA
Where: Saturday, June 29 from 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
The finale showcase for SF Deep Tech Week. Come explore live demos and hardware setups showcasing technology from frontier startups in robotics, aerospace, energy, biotech, manufacturing, defense and more.
🧪 Rainbow Bacteria Painting
When: 55 Grace St, San Francisco, CA
Where: Sunday, June 30 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
To celebrate pride this year we're having an open house where you can come paint with rainbow bacteria to have your drawings on petri dishes come to life. This event also serves as a double-function for all previous students to come in to use shared equipment on projects and/or to just practice synthetic biology techniques.