[Please note the WSGS 2024 has finished, the agenda for 2025 is TBA]
WSGS 2024 Schedule
March 12 and 13, 2024 at the Cornell Club, New York City
44 Speakers I 8 Sessions I 200 Delegates
Day One
Tuesday March 12, 2024
7:00 - 8:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast
Session One: ESG Investing
Moderator: Paul Ellis, Sustainable Finance Podcast
8:00 - 8:30 AM: Setting the Stage for Sustainability 2024
Peter Fusaro, Founder, The Wall Street Green Summit
8:30 - 8:55 AM: ESG and the SEC Mandates
Phuong Gomard, Sustainable Finance Global Leader, Mazars
8:55 - 9:20 AM: Managing Diverse ESG Reporting Standards
Bonnie-Lyn de Bartok, Founder, The S-Factor Co.
9:20 - 9:40 AM: Pricing Climate Risks Into Financial Markets
Marina Severinovsky, Head of Sustainability, Americas at Schroders
9:40 - 10:00 AM: Essential Story Telling on ESG
Tega Pittman, Global Communications Story Teller
10:00 - 10:30 AM: Sponsor Break
Session Two: ESG and Carbon Markets Today
Moderator: Paul Ellis, Sustainable Finance Podcast
10:30 - 10:50 AM: Promoting and Protecting Green Projects in Public
Special Guest Speaker: Peter Browning, CEO, Browning Environmental Communications
10:50 - 11:10 AM: How Real Asset holdings in Europe Affect the Valuation of Your US Portfolio
Marco Bernal, Lead Data Engineer BuildingMinds
11:10 - 11:30 AM: Achieving Net Zero Emissions
Alasdair Were, Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse
11:30 - 11:50 AM: How to Generate Carbon Offsets
Reed Shapiro, Business Development Manager, Climate Solutions, South Pole
12:30 - 1:30: Lunch
Session Three: Carbon Offsets & Nature-Based Solutions
Moderator: Scott Krady, CEO, Magnitude, Inc.
1:30 - 1:50 PM: Offsets Capturing Methane Emissions
Catherine Flax, Founding Member and President, Private Markets, X Machina Capital Strategies
1:50 - 2:10 PM: Nature-Based Solutions Toolkit
Martin Beaudoin-Nadeau, Founder & CEO, Viridis Terra
2:10 - 2:30 PM: The Rising Role of Biochar
Jason Dodier, Co-Founder, GRAIN Ecosystem
2:30 - 2:50 PM: TBD
Jeff Bortniker, CEO, Maxsum Environmental
2:50 - 3:10 PM: Financing Model for Carbon Reductions in Blue Carbon and Biochar
Alec Kushnir, EVP, Investments and Origination Carbon Streaming
3:10 - 3:30 PM: Carbon Insurance: How to Unlock Financing and De-risk Carbon Projects
James Kench, Head of Insurance, Kita
3:30 - 3:50 PM: Sponsor Break
Session Four: Climate Change Solutions
Moderator: David Garrison, Founder & CEO, Climate and Capital Connect
3:50 - 4:10 PM: Commercializing Decarbonization Solutions, Corrado DeGasperis, CEO, Comstock
4:10 - 4:30 PM: Transformative Finance: Traditional Energy’s Role in a Cleaner Future
Ben Burke, CEO, Gradient Geothermal
4:30 - 4:50 PM: Financing Circularity for Plastics
Halely Lowry, Global Sustainability Director, Packaging & Specialty Plastics, Dow
4:50 - 5:10 PM: Decarbonizing Financial Assets
Claudia Marcusson, Managing Partner & Decarbonization Expert, Zero Emissions Fund
5:10 - 5:30 PM: CERES Freedom to Invest Program
Steven Rothstein, Managing Director, Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets
5:30 to 7:00 PM: Cocktail Reception Sponsored by Zefiro Methane and XMC Strategies
Day Two
Wednesday March 13, 2024
7:30 - 8:00 AM: Coffee Service
Session Five: Clean Energy Commercialization
Moderator: Rob Parker, Hono Hoku Advisors
8:00 - 8:20 AM: Reinsurance Coverage for ClimateTech
Prentiss Darden, Business Development | Solar, Offshore Wind, Battery Energy Storage Systems, Hydrogen
8:20 - 8:40 Utility of the Future
MD Sakib, Director, Future of Electric, National Grid
8:40 - 9:00 AM: An Investment Banker's Perspective in ClimateTech, Jean-Marc O'Brien, Partner, Ardour Capital Investments
9:00 - 9:20 AM: Nuclear Fusion To Cut GHGs
Michael Ginsberg, President, Tokamak Energy
9:20 - 9:40 AM: Decarbonizing Buildings
Robert Politzer, Founder, Green Street Global Inc.
9:40 - 10:00: The Rise of Electric Vehicles and Recharging
Jeremy McCool, Founder and CEO, HEVO Inc.
10:00 - 10:30 AM: Sponsor Break
Session Six: Energy Storage, Decarbonizaton & Electrification
Moderator: Nick Aster, Director, Marketing, Americas, South Pole
10:30 - 10:50 AM: Various Challenges to Decarbonization Laws
Alicia Legland, Associate, Hodgson Russ
10:50 - 11:10 AM: Breakthroughs in Reversible Fuel Cells
Paul Matter, Founder & CTO, Power to Hydrogen
11:10 - 11:30 AM: Digital Tech to Track
Emissions
Antoine Halff, Chief Analyst & Co-Founder, Kayrros
11:30 - 11:50 AM: Renewables Plus Energy Storage
Desmond Wheatley, CEO, Beam Global
11:50 - 12:10 PM: Investing in Clean Energy in Africa
Nicole Poindexter, CEO & Founder, Energicity Corp
12:10 - 12:30 PM: Another Mode of EV Recharging
Jeff Prosserman, Founder & CEO, Voltpost
12:30 - 1:30 PM: Lunch
Session Seven: New Business Models for Funding Sustainability
Moderator: Bruno Grandsard, Managing Director,
Midori Sustainable Capital & Services
1:30 - 1:50 PM: Green Horizons: The Climate Fund Landscape Explored
Adam Rein, CEO, CIO and Co-Founder, CapShift
1:50 - 2:10 PM: AI for Sustainability Outcomes
Karthik Balakrishnan, Co-Founder, Actual
2:10 - 2:30 PM: New Venture Models for Financing
Micah Kotch, Partner, Blackhorn Ventures
2:30 – 2:50 PM: New Metrics for Green Investing
Krista Tukiainen, CCO & Co-Founder, Climate Aligned
2:50 - 3:10 PM: ESG Fund Strategy
Heather McGeory, Head of Sustainability, Fifth Wall
3:10 – 3:30 PM
TBA
3:30 - 3:50: Sponsor Break
Session Eight: ClimateTech Solutions in Multiple Verticals
Moderator: Julie Davitz, Founder/CEO, Plus Media Solutions
3:50 – 4:10 PM: Regenerative Agriculture for Oceans
Bill Bien, CEO, Forever Oceans
4:10 - 4:30 PM: Investing with Purpose: The Opportunities for Impact
Lorraine Wilson, Chief Sustainability Officer, Novata
4:30 - 4:50 PM: Microgrids in the Commercial and Industrial Sectors
Nick Davis, CEO, Gridmarket.com
4:50 – 5:10 PM: Future-proofing Assets for Climate Extremes?
Adam Omansky, Co-Founder & CEO, ClimaTwin Corp
5:10 - 5:30 PM: Climate Investment's New Frontier:
Circular Supply Chains
Nicole Rycroft, Founder & Executive Director, Canopy
5:30: Conference Ends
