AGENDA
8:00AM
Breakfast and Check-in
9:00AM
Opening Remarks
White Auditorium
9:10am
What Everybody Needs to Know About Climate Change
White Auditorium
Meghan Busse - Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
9:40am
Morning Keynote Address
White Auditorium
Beth Hart - Chief Sustainability & Social Impact Officer at McDonald’s
Matt Roling - Abrams Climate Academy & Kellogg School of Management
10:30AM
Coffee Break
10:40AM
Center Stage Panel - Powering Intelligence: Climate Leadership in the Age of AI
White Auditorium
Alex Ghanem - Independent, former Piclo
Michael Botello (‘08 MBA) - Open Origin
So-Bin Cho - Argonne National Laboratory
Holly Benz - Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering
11:30am
Break
11:40am
Breakout Panel #1 - A Tonne of Value: Carbon as a Financial Asset (White Auditorium)
Sinclair Vincent - Verra
Sergio Gonzalez - Microsoft
Kevin Schwartzenerg (‘15 PHD) - Assistant Vice President - Global Sustainability, WSP
David Besanko (‘82 PHD) - IBM Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Breakout #2 - Under Constraints: Powering the Energy Transition in Latin America (Room 1420/30)
Carlos “Ucho” Barrera (‘15 EMBA) - Atlas Renewable Energy
Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez - Aurora Macro
Breakout #3 - Turning the Tide: Financing the Ocean Economy (Room L110)
Melissa Garvey - The Nature Conservancy
Chris Gorell Barnes - Ocean 14 Capital
Jorge Barbosa - International Aid Transparency Initiative
12:30PM
Lunch and Networking Session, White Auditorium
1:25PM
Abrams Climate Academy Spotlight
White Auditorium
1:30PM
Afternoon Keynote Address
White Auditorium
Rohini Sengupta - Director of Decarbonization at United Airlines
Meghan Busse - Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
2:20Pm
Coffee Break
2:35Pm
Breakout Panel #1 - Climate Leadership: The People, Vision, and Skills Required to Scale Solutions (White Auditorium)
Steven Won (‘09 MS, ‘12 PHD) - Power Insights
Darpan Kapadia (‘00 MBA) - LS Power
Matt Roling - Abrams Climate Academy, Kellogg School of Management
Breakout Panel #2 - Climate Venture Capital Now: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t (Room 1420)
Chris Wu (‘19 E&W MBA) - Builders Vision
Eve Hanson (‘18 PHD) - Energy Impact Partners
Henry Heitzer (‘15 PHD) - Earth Foundry
Soham Dalal (‘23 MBA) - gener8tor
3:25PM
Moving Break
Center Stage Panel - The Next Bite: Scaling the Future of Protein
White Auditorium
Rachel Cheatham - Foodscape Group, LLC
Erin Augustine (‘04 BS) - Oatly
Kantha Shelke - Corvus Blue LLC
Chris Ix - Clever Carnivore
3:35PM
4:20PM
Closing Remarks and Raffle
4:30PM
Networking Happy Hour
NOTE: All agenda items are subject to change