E-Capital Summit

• Tony Keane, CEO, EarthX
• Trammell S Crow, Founder, EarthX
• Matt Myers, Vice President, EarthxCapital

• Ryan Kushner, Author, Accelerate This!

• Brendan Doherty, Co-Founder and Head, Forbes Impact (Moderator)
• Billy Parish, Co-founder & CEO, Mosaic

We’ll hear from early-stage companies you need to keep on your radar.

• Richard Amato, Director, Clean Energy, Austin Technology Incubator (Moderator)
• Tony Bova, Co-founder and CEO, Mobius
• Jill Fuss, Founder and CTO, Cinder Biological
• Amy George, CEO, Earthly Labs
• Andrew Ponec, Co-founder and CEO, Antora Energy
• Jason Salfi, Co-founder and CEO, Dimensional Energy

The increase in venture capital has changed the game for cleantech and impact investing as a whole.  We will explore the issues and opportunities that accompany this new reality.

• Chris Ripley, CEO, Smarter Sorting (Moderator)
• Sara Chamberlain, Managing Director, Energy Foundry
• Johanna Wolfson, Principal, PRIME Impact Fund
• Abe Yokell, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Congruent Ventures
• Jason Cahill, Managing Partner, McCune Capital

The increase in venture capital has changed the game for cleantech and impact investing as a whole.  We will explore the issues and opportunities that accompany this new reality.

• Chris Ripley, CEO, Smarter Sorting (Moderator)
• Sara Chamberlain, Managing Director, Energy Foundry
• Johanna Wolfson, Principal, PRIME Impact Fund
• Abe Yokell, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Congruent Ventures
• Jason Cahill, Managing Partner, McCune Capital

New tools are being developed and deployed to address the valleys of death spanning a cleantech company’s life cycle. We’ll hear from leaders of the pack expanding the cleantech investing tool box. 

• Peter Martin, Philanthropic Director, Tides (Moderator)
• Racquel Moses, CEO, The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator
• Anurag Gupta, Vice Dean, H. Clark Ford Professor of Banking and Finance, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western University
• Nolan Browne, Managing Partner, ADL Ventures
• Jon Bonanno, CXO, New Energy Nexus

• Conner Prochaska, Chief Commercialization Officer, United States Department of Energy

• Daniel Simmons, Assistant Secretary (EERE), United States Department of Energy

Achieving Consensus for a Sustainable Future: Earth Overshoot Day Media Strategy

It is clear to see that in the decades since starting the debate on climate change, the US has been losing it’s leadership role by focusing on whether or not something should be done, rather than what should be done. It is time to restart the conversation and achieve a foundational consensus. As Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them.”

Earth Overshoot Day is the day of the year on which human society has reached the limits of the planet’s environment (this year, August 1st). This narrative, focusing on resource conservation, has been agreed upon by both ends of the debate, and should be the new foundation from which we build our plans for a more sustainable future.

Join the NEXUS Global Community as we brainstorm on what a media strategy around this might look like, and how we can change the conversation to something productive.

• Scott Jacobs, Co-Founder & CEO, Generate Capital

• Shana Rappaport, VP and Executive Director, VERGE (Moderator)
• Sandra Kwak, Founder and CEO, 10Power
• Reenst Lesemann, CEO, Columbia Power Technologies
• Arun Gupta, Founder and CEO, Skyven Technologies
• Chantal Emmanuel, Co-founder and CTO, LimeLoop
• Killian Tobin, CEO, Omega Grid

As cleantech companies mature, funding beyond venture capital is becoming crucial to fuel the rapid growth and deployment of clean technologies and businesses.  New funds have been raised to fill this gap between VC and IPO.

• Geoff Eisenberg, Partner, Ecosystem Integrity Fund (Moderator)
• Steven Kantowitz, Vice President, Warburg Pincus
• Rick Needham, Partner, TPG Global, The Rise Fund
• Cassie Bowe, Vice President, Energy Impact Partners

• Ryan Kushner, Author, Accelerate This!

Hear from a select group of later stage companies that will forever impact the global energy landscape.

• Thomas King, Managing Partner, CrossRiver Capital LLC (Moderator)
• Leila Madrone, CTO and Founder, Sunfolding
• Stephan DeLuca, President and CEO, Energy Materials Corporation
• Eric McCarthy, SVP of Government Relations, Proterra
• Gia Schneider, CEO, Natel Energy
• Simon Irish, CEO, Terrestrial Energy

ARPA-E seeks your input on a new program funding structure being considered for promising technologies to prove scalability, reliability, and manufacturability in real world scenarios.

• Chanette Armstrong, Acting Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E)

We will explore how public-private partnerships can better support the deployment of growth and late-stage environmental solutions at scale.

• Taite McDonald, Partner, Holland & Knight (Moderator)
• Raymond Wood, Managing Director, Head of Global Power and Renewables, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Puon Penn, EVP and Head of Technology Capital, Wells Fargo
• Kristina Nilsson, Executive Director of Technology Investment Banking, JP Morgan
• Steven Berkenfeld, Managing Director of Investment Banking, Barclays Capital
• Stephan Feilhauer, Associate Director, Macquarie Capital

Cleantech Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Capital Factory + E-Capital Summit Cleantech Challenge Winners

Keynotes

• Michael Levy, CEO, Crow Holdings
• Joel Sartore, Photographer, National Geographic

Musical Performance

• The Seastars

Dallas Fair Park, Music Hall

Keynotes

• Mark Victor Hansen, Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul
• Crystal Dwyer Hanson, CEO, Metamorphosis Energy

Facilitated by Austin Technology Incubator, companies and investors will participate in 30 minute one-on-one meetings curated by technology and stage.

VIP tours of the EarthX Expo Halls. 600+ exhibitors and 100k+ visitors expected.

Purchase tickets at www.earthx.org/banquet