ACTIVATION ENERGY
DECEMBER 7–8, 2021
DAY 1:
4:00–7:00pm PST, Tue, 7 December
Join us as we unveil our latest cohort of startups, share climate tech insights, and offer opportunities to learn and engage with our network of investors, corporates, experts, mentors, and startups. This session is free and open to the general public.
DAY 2:
7:00am–12:30pm PST, Wed, 8 December
Day 2 is a private deep dive event for all D3 ecosystem members (portfolio startups, corporate & investor partners, mentor network).
AGENDA
Time in PST
DAY 1: TUE, 7 DEC (PUBLIC)
4:00 pm
WELCOME: OPENING REMARKS
D3’s CEO and CMO kick off our second annual summit.
4:05 pm
ACTIVATION ENERGY: GREETINGS FROM OUR ECOSYSTEM
Meet D3’s growing ecosystem of staff and partners around the world.
4:15 pm
CREATING A CONTINUUM: D3’s JOURNEY THUS FAR
D3 leadership shares highlights on where we’ve come over our first year post-launch, and a taste of where we’re headed in 2022.
4:35 pm
CRUCIAL YET OVERLOOKED: EQUITABLE GLOBAL CLIMATE TECH OPPORTUNITIES
A rich panel discussion featuring startup and investor leaders in underrepresented geographic regions to explore what global equality means for climate tech innovation, and how to get there.
5:05 pm
SOUTHEAST ASIA FRONTIERS: THE MARKET OPPORTUNITY
D3’s Southeast Asia lead provides insights into this emerging and booming market.
5:10 pm
FOUNDER INSIGHTS: LESSONS FROM COHORT 417 STARTUPS
Climate tech founders tackling billion dollar markets from the original D3 cohort share lessons from the journey.
5:15 pm
UNVEILING COHORT 419!
An unveiling of the startups from our latest cohort, with perspectives from the diligence team on why we believe in these climate tech solutions.
5:45 pm
STARTUP VILLAGE: NETWORKING/ BREAK
Enter our virtual startup village to network with 62 of D3’s portfolio startups.
6:00 pm
LIGHTNING BOLTS: CLIMATE TECH AND MARKET INSIGHTS
D3’s Research & Insights team highlights the technologies and markets we are watching.
6:05 pm
MEET D3'S NEWEST INVESTORS!
D3 announces the latest investor partners and what they bring to our network.
6:10 pm
COMBINED ACTION: ACCELERATING DECARBONIZATION PATHWAYS THROUGH COLLABORATION
Canary Media leads a discussion about how coalition building and collaborative approaches create faster pathways toward decarbonization.
6:40 pm
FIRST GIGATON CAPTURED: WHY SCALING UP DIRECT AIR CARBON CAPTURE MATTERS
Don’t miss this big unveiling of our latest DAC initiative.
6:55 pm
CLOSING REMARKS
Main stage closes, but networking continues!
7:00 pm onward
INTERACTIVATE:
Continued opportunities for guided platform networking navigation
Continued opportunities for guided platform networking navigation
Open networking time (visit Startup Village, participate in Roundtables, attend Happy Hours, etc.).
7:30 pm
STARTUP HAPPY HOUR:
(invitation only)
(invitation only)
Dedicated time for Cohort 419 and 417 startups to meet and mingle.
PLATFORM REMAINS OPEN
We’re leaving our virtual event platform open all night for people in global time zones who cannot attend the live event but wish to view the sessions on-demand.
DAY 2: WED, 8 DEC (MEMBER-ONLY)
6:00 am
STARTUP BREAKFAST MIXER:
(Invitation only)
(Invitation only)
Dedicated time for Cohort 419 and 417 startups to meet and mingle.
6:55 am
PLATFORM OPENS TO ALL
7:00 am
ORIGIN STORY REVISITED: HOW IT ALL STARTED
D3 Board members Jon Creyts and Danny Kennedy re-enact the special story of how D3 came to be.
7:05 am
DAY 2 WELCOME: WE ARE THE D3 ECOSYSTEM!
D3's CEO and CMO kick off this "member only" day and give you a rundown of what to expect.
7:10 am
HINDSIGHT IS 2020: CO-FOUNDER LESSONS AND OUR JOURNEY AHEAD
Highlights, lessons, and insights from the D3 leadership team and co-founders.
7:20 am
FOUNDERS FIRST: INSIGHTS AND LEARNINGS FROM COHORT 417 FOUNDERS
Q&A with the startups from our inaugural cohort as they share lessons and insights from their respective journeys with D3.
7:50 am
LESSONS FROM A VETERAN CLIMATE TECH ENTREPRENEUR
A seasoned climate tech entrepreneur shares insights on building successful climate tech companies.
8:05 am
ECOSYSTEM ACTIVATION 2022: MEET YOUR CONNECTORS!
Meet the team that is building the connective tissue within our ecosystem, how we're helping our ecosystem, and learn about what to expect in 2022 as a community member.
8:25 am
LIGHTNING BOLTS: CORPORATE-STARTUP DEAL MOBILIZATION
Findings from D3's corporate task force addressing corporate-startup deal mobilization challenges.
8:30 am
CORPORATE STRATEGIES TO SUPERCHARGE DECARBONIZATION PATHWAYS
Some corporates move too slow. Some startups aren't ambitious enough. How can these partnerships be more impactful faster together? Corporates across the energy and industrial sectors share their challenges and learnings about what it will take to "overcome incrementalism" to achieve decarbonization at the speed and scale that's necessary.
Some corporates move too slow. Some startups aren't ambitious enough. How can these partnerships be more impactful faster together? Corporates across the energy and industrial sectors share their challenges and learnings about what it will take to "overcome incrementalism" to achieve decarbonization at the speed and scale that's necessary.
9:10 am
STARTUP VILLAGE:
Networking / break
Networking / break
Dedicated time to engage more deeply with our 62 portfolio startups.
9:25 am
LIGHTNING BOLTS: DEEPER DIVE ON D3'S TECH AND MARKET INSIGHTS
From global EV charging infrastructure, building sector technologies, carbon removal, and new market opportunities - learn more from our Research & Insights team on our thesis areas.
From global EV charging infrastructure, building sector technologies, carbon removal, and new market opportunities - learn more from our Research & Insights team on our thesis areas.
9:35 am
Q&A WITH D3'S DILIGENCE TEAM
Follow up time to ask deeper questions into the technologies and market opportunities discussed in our Lightning Bolts.
9:50 am
MONETIZING CARBON MARKETS
Carbon markets 101: Demystifying carbon credits, carbon offsets, and how to monetize carbon markets so that they are beneficial and additive for the planet.
10:15 am
INVESTOR-STARTUP COLLABORATION:
HOW INVESTORS CAN BETTER ALIGN TO SCALE STARTUP SOLUTIONS
HOW INVESTORS CAN BETTER ALIGN TO SCALE STARTUP SOLUTIONS
Get a VC insider’s perspective on how various investors (including CVCs) think about investments, especially in harder-to-abate emissions categories, and can better align to more rapidly scale startup solutions.
10:45 am
BREAK / TRANSITION
Head into 45-min deep dive discussions. (Listed below are 6 parallel breakout options combining D3, RMI, and New Energy Nexus insights, or create your own roundtable!)
11:00 am
BREAKOUT 1
SCALING CARBON REMOVAL
The IPCC indicates that emissions reduction may not be enough alone, and carbon removal has a big role to play to limit warming to 1.5C. Direct Air Carbon Capture (DACC) is an important technology "insurance policy" for carbon removal to achieve deep decarbonization and emissions reduction. D3’s Industry Sector Lead digs in further.
11:00 am
BREAKOUT 2
FLEET ELECTRIFICATION & EV CHARGING
FLEET ELECTRIFICATION & EV CHARGING
D3’s Transportation Sector Lead leads a discussion on the global opportunities in scaling fleet electrification and charging with RMI’s Carbon Free Mobility team, New Energy Nexus’s ElectronVibe program in India, and the Hyundai Kia EV Open Innovation Challenge in Korea.
11:00 am
BREAKOUT 3
BUILDING SECTOR DECARBONIZATION
BUILDING SECTOR DECARBONIZATION
D3’s Buildings Sector Lead leads a discussion on decarbonizing buildings at scale, including RMI’s Carbon Free Buildings and Advanced Building Collaborative program and New Energy Nexus and NYSERDA's The Clean Fight (NY Energy Efficiency Pilot fund and program).
11:00 am
BREAKOUT 4
SUPERCHARGING INDUSTRIAL DECARBONIZATION & GREEN HYDROGEN CATAPULT
SUPERCHARGING INDUSTRIAL DECARBONIZATION & GREEN HYDROGEN CATAPULT
Learn about how RMI’s Climate Aligned Industries program is leveraging industry coalitions to decarbonize across the entire value chain of the world’s highest-emitting industries in the next 10 years. Including industry and transport. This includes diving into Green Hydrogen Catapult’s expansion of world-leading green hydrogen deployment.
11:00 am
BREAKOUT 5
URBAN TRANSFORMATION DEEP DIVE
URBAN TRANSFORMATION DEEP DIVE
Join the Managing Director of RMI’s Urban Transformation program to discuss how they are helping cities move from climate commitments to climate action.
11:00 am
BREAKOUT 6
U.S. FEDERAL POLICY DEEP DIVE
U.S. FEDERAL POLICY DEEP DIVE
The Managing Director of RMI’s US Program demystifies US federal policies relevant to climate innovation and discusses RMI’s work with policymakers, advocates, and researchers to support unified and sustained US clean energy and the climate movement.
11:45 am
STARTUP VILLAGE:
Networking / break
Networking / break
12:00 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE: THE INTERSECTION OF CORPORATE-STARTUP-INVESTOR-POLICY OPPORTUNITIES AND WHAT'S AHEAD
Jigar Shah has spent his private-sector career working to bring long-shot clean technologies to multibillion-dollar commercial scale, from utility-scale solar at SunEdison to community solar, electric buses and other “sustainable infrastructure” projects at Generate Capital.
Now as the head of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office ($46 billion in current lending authority), he’s in charge of what could be the federal government’s single biggest catalyst for pulling the same act on the next generation of climatetech.
This will be a private interview not open to press, so bring your questions!
12:30 pm onward
INTERACTIVATE:
Continued opportunities for guided platform networking navigation
Continued opportunities for guided platform networking navigation
Open networking time (visit Startup Village, participate in Roundtables, attend Happy Hours, etc.).
1:30 pm
PLATFORM CLOSED