E-Capital Summit

Private Capital investing in Environmental Technology

Investment Forum: Thursday, April 25-Friday, April 26
Innovation EXPO: Friday, April 26-Sunday, April 28
Fair Park, Dallas, Texas, USA

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The E-Capital Summit cultivates and convenes private capital, financiers, early to late-stage companies, industry thought leaders, key local and national policy-makers, incubators, accelerators and researchers to form partnerships having substantial, positive impacts on profit, people and the planet.

Cost:

$795

Register by April 5th

Industries Involved:

Energy

Water

Built Environment

Transportation

Materials

Waste and Reuse

Investment Forum

An inclusive forum providing participants with education, inspiration, tools and networking opportunities.
Date: April 25-26, 2019
Location: Fair Park, Dallas, Texas, USA

Forum Registration

Innovation Expo

An exhibition at EarthX featuring exhibits from cutting-edge companies, incubators, accelerators, government, national labs and universities.
Date: April 26-28, 2019
Location: Fair Park, Dallas, Texas, USA

Office Hours

Where potential investors will meet with vetted companies.
Location: Fair Park, Dallas, Texas, USA

Agenda

Day One – Thursday – April 25, 2019

Location: Hilton Anatole Hotel

7:30AM • Networking Breakfast and Registration

8:30AM • Welcome

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

8:50AM • Kickoff

Ryan Kushner, Author, Accelerate This!

9:00AM • Opening Keynote & Forbes Icons of Impact Interview

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

9:25AM • Early-Stage Game Changers

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

10:05AM • Capital Factory + E-Capital Summit Cleantech Challenge Finalists

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

10:45AM • Coffee Break

10:55AM • What's Different About Early-Stage Cleantech Investing--A View From Both Sides

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

11:30AM • Bridging the Valleys

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

12:10PM • Upcoming Plans For Catalyzing The Commercialization of U.S. Energy Technologies

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

12:30PM • Lunch

2:00PM • U.S. Department of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Priorities Over the Coming Year

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

2:00PM • NEXUS Round Table

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.

2:15PM • We Can Do This: Deploying The Future Of Energy

Scott Jacobs, Co-Founder & CEO, Generate Capital

2:30PM • Growth-Stage Game Changers

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

3:10PM • The Growth of Growth Capital

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

3:50PM • Facilitated Collaboration/World Cafe

Ryan Kushner, Author, Accelerate This!

4:30PM • Late-Stage Game Changers

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

5:10PM • ARPA-E Special Announcement

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)

5:15PM • Scaling Environmental Solutions

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

6:00PM • Reception & Banquet

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

Day One – Friday, April 26, 2019

Location: Dallas Fair Park

7:30AM • Breakfast

Dallas Fair Park, Music Hall

Keynotes

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

9:00A • E-Capital Connection

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