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DAY ONE

7:00 - 8:00 AM: REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

SESSION ONE: ESG INVESTING

8:00 - 10:00 AM EST

Tuesday March 12th, 2024

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MODERATOR

Paul Ellis

ESG Consultant, Sustainable Finance Podcast

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Bonnie-Lyn de Bartok

Founder, The S-Factor Co.

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Peter Fusaro

Founder, The Wall Street Green Summit

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Marina Severinovsky

Head of Sustainability, Americas, Schroders

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Phuong Gomard

Sustainable Finance Global Leader, Mazars

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Ortega Pittman

Global Communications Story Teller, Seconded to The Sustainability Markets Initiative

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10:00 - 10:30 AM: SPONSOR BREAK

SESSION TWO: CARBON MARKETS TODAY

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST

Tuesday March 12th, 2024

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MODERATOR

Paul Ellis

Sustainable Finance Podcast

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Alasdair Were

Abaxx Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse

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10:30 AM

Promoting and Protecting Green Projects in Public

Peter Browning

CEO, Browning Environmental Communications

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Reed Shapiro

Business Development Manager, Climate Solutions, South Pole

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10:50 AM

How Real Asset holdings in Europe Affect the Valuation of Your US Portfolio

Marco Bernal

Lead Data Engineer, Building Minds

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12:30 - 1:30 PM: LUNCH

SESSION THREE: CARBON OFFSETS & NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS

1:30 - 3:30 PM EST

Tuesday March 12th, 2024

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MODERATOR

 

 

Scott Krady
Founder & CEO, Magnitude


 

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Jason Dodier
Co-Founder, GRAIN



 

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James Kench

Head of Insurance, Kita

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Catherine Flax

Founding Member and President, Private Markets, X Machina Capital Strategies

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2:30 PM

Biochar

 

Jeff Bortniker

CEO, Maxsum Environmental

 

 

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1:50 PM

Nature-Based Solutions Toolkit

Martin Beaudoin-Nadeau

Founder & CEO, Viridis Terra

 

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2:50 PM

Financing Model for Carbon Reductions in Blue Carbon and Biochar

 

Alec Kushnir

EVP, Investments and Origination, Carbon Streaming


 

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3:30 - 3:50 PM: SPONSOR BREAK

SESSION FOUR: CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS

3:50 - 5:30 PM EST

Tuesday March 12th, 2024

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MODERATOR

David Garrison

CEO, Climate & Capital Connect

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4:30 PM

Financing Circularity for Plastics

Halely Lowry

Global Sustainability Director, Packaging  & Specialty Plastics, Dow

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Corrado DeGasperis

CEO, Comstock

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4:50 PM

Decarbonizing Financial Assets

Claudia Marcusson,

Managing Partner & Decarbonization Expert, Zero Emissions Fund

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Ben Burke

CEO, Gradient Geothermal

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5:10 PM

Ceres Freedom to Invest Program

Steven Rothstein

Managing Director, Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets

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5:30 - 7:00 PM: COCKTAIL RECEPTION SPONSORED BY: 

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DAY TWO
7:30 - 8:00 AM:
BREAKFAST

SESSION FIVE: CLEAN ENERGY COMMERCIALIZATION

8:00 - 10:00 AM EST

Wednesday March 13th, 2024

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MODERATOR

Rob Parker

Hono Hoku Advisors

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Jean-Marc O'Brien

Partner, Ardour Capital Investments

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Jeremy McCool

Founder and CEO, HEVO Inc.

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Prentiss Darden

Business Development | Solar, Offshore Wind, Battery Energy Storage Systems, Hydrogen, Munich Re

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Michael Ginsberg

President, Tokamak Energy

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MD Sakib

Director, Future of Electric, National Grid

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9:20 AM

Decarbonizing Buildings

Robert Politzer

Founder, Green Street Global Inc.

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10:00 - 10:30 AM: SPONSOR BREAK

SESSION SIX: ENERGY STORAGE & ELECTRIFICATION

10:30 - 12:30 PM EST

Wednesday March 13th, 2024

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MODERATOR

Nick Aster

Director, Marking, Americas, South Pole

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Antoine Halff

Chief Analyst & Co-Founder, Kayrros

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12:10 PM

Another Mode of EV Recharging

Jeff Prosserman

Founder & CEO, Voltpost

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Alicia Legland 

Associate, Hodgson Russ

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Desmond Wheatley

CEO, Beam Global

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Paul Matter

Founder & CTO, Power to Hydrogen

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Nicole Poindexter, CEO & Founder, Energicity Corp

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12:30 - 1:30 PM: LUNCH

SESSION SEVEN: NEW BUSINESS MODELS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

1:30 - 3:10 PM EST

Wednesday March 13th, 2024

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MODERATOR

 

 

 

Bruno Grandsard

Managing Director,
Midori Sustainable Capital & Services

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Micah Kotch

Partner, Blackhorn Ventures


 

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1:30 PM

Green Horizons: The Climate Fund Landscape Explored

Adam Rein

CEO, CIO and Co-Founder, CapShift

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Krista Tukiainen

CCO & Co-Founder, Climate Aligned

 

 

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Karthik Balakrishnan,

Co-Founder, Actual

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2:50 PM

ESG Fund Strategy

Heather McGeory

Head of Sustainability, Fifth Wall

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3:10 - 3:30: SPONSOR BREAK

SESSION EIGHT: CLIMATETECH SOLUTIONS IN MULTIPLE VERTICALS

3:30 - 5:30 PM EST

Wednesday March 13th, 2024

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MODERATOR

 

 

 

Julie Davitz

Founder & CEO, Plus Media Solutions
 

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Nick Davis

CEO, Gridmarket


 

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Bill Bien

CEO, Forever Oceans

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4:50 PM

Future-proofing Assets for Climate Extremes?

Adam Omansky

Co-Founder & CEO, ClimaTwin Corp

 

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Lorraine Wilson

Chief Sustainability Officer, Novata

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5:10 PM

Climate Investment's New Frontier: 

Circular Supply Chains

 

Nicole Rycroft

Founder & Executive Director, Canopy

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