APRIL 20-23, 2017
EARTH DAY TEXAS IS NOT AN INTERMEDIARY, BROKER-DEALER, INVESTMENT ADVISER OR SECURITIES EXCHANGE; EARTH DAY TEXAS IS NOT ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF EFFECTING TRANSACTIONS IN SECURITIES FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS; AND EARTH DAY TEXAS DOES NOT PROVIDE INVESTMENT ADVICE, INVESTMENT ADVISORY SERVICES OR AFFECT THE PURCHASE OR SALE OF ANY SECURITY. THIS PRESENTATION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER, SOLICITATION OR RECOMMENDATION TO SELL OR AN OFFER TO BUY ANY SECURITIES, INVESTMENT PRODUCTS OR INVESTMENT ADVISORY SERVICES.
INVESTMENT FORUM
THURSDAY, APRIL 20 THE WOMEN’S MUSEUM, DALLAS FAIR PARK Families and Foundations Investing in Energy Innovation: Texas and Beyond P OW E R E D BY
S P O N O S O R E D BY
8:00 AM
NETWORKING BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION
9:00 AM
WELCOME Sarah Kearney, Executive Director and Founder, PRIME Coalition Trammell S. Crow, Founder, Earth Day Texas
9:10 AM
CLEANTECH 101: STATE OF THE PLANET Curtis Probst, Managing Director, Rocky Mountain Institute
9:30 AM
CLEANTECH 102: WHY DOES CLEAN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION MATTER? Matthew Nordan, Co-founder and Investment Committee Chairman, PRIME Coalition
9:50 AM
CLEANTECH 103: WHAT COUNTS AS CLEAN TECHNOLOGY? David Danielson, Managing Director, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
INTERVIEWER: Matthew Nordan, Co-founder and Investment Committee Chairman, PRIME Coalition
10:35 AM
BREAK
10:50 AM
BLOOM ENERGY’S STORY Dr. KR Sridhar, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Bloom Energy
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, CONTINUED 11:25 AM
PANEL AND GROUP ACTIVITY: TOOLS FOR INVESTING IN CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES Marilu Hastings, VP Sustainability Programs, Mitchell Family Foundation Joe Speicher, Executive Director, Autodesk Foundation Dipender Saluja, Managing Director, Capricorn Investment Group Regine Clement, CEO, CREO Syndicate
MODERATOR: Alicia Seiger, Deputy Director, Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance
12:30 PM
LUNCH AND GUIDED TOUR OF E-CAPITAL SUMMIT INNOVATION EXPO
2:00 PM
DOE PERSPECTIVE: THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE INTERFACE Johanna Wolfson, Director of Technology-to-Market, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy
2:15 PM
BUILDING A PIPELINE Nate Gorence, Technology to Market Advisor, Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-e) Ilan Gur, Founding Director, Cyclotron Road Emily Reichert, CEO, Greentown Labs
MODERATOR: Richard Adams, Director, NREL Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center
3:00 PM
TEXAS CLEAN TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS Etosha Cave, Co-Founder, Opus 12 Aaron Mandell, CEO and Chairman, Quidnet Amy George, CEO, Earthly Labs
MODERATOR: Mitch Jacobson, Co-Director, Austin Technology Incubator
3:45 PM 4:00 PM
BREAK
4:45 PM
GROUP ACTIVITY: GOAL SETTING Nicole Systrom, Director of Philanthropic Partnerships, PRIME Coalition
5:25 PM
CONCLUDING REMARKS AND CALL TO ACTION
6:00 PM
EARTH DAY TEXAS RECEPTION AND BANQUET The Hall of State, Dallas Fair Park
TESLA’S STORY JB Straubel, CTO and Co-Founder, Tesla Motors
THE E-CAPITAL SUMMIT INVESTMENT FORUM IS CO-HOSTED BY PRIME COALITION PRIME Coalition’s mission is to empower philanthropic foundations and families with the critical tools they need to support new ventures that promise vast reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions.
INVESTMENT FORUM
FRIDAY, APRIL 21 COTTON BOWL, 4TH FLOOR SUITE, DALLAS FAIR PARK 8:15 AM
COMMENTS BY RICK PERRY, U.S. SECRETARY OF ENERGY
9:00 AM
BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLE P OW E R E D BY
Sarbjit Nahal, Managing Director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Ken Locklin, Director, Impax Asset Management
John Hodges, Managing Director, Business for Social Responsibility
MODERATOR: Rich Brown, SVP of Global Environmental Group, Bank of America
11:00 - 5:00 PM INVESTOR OFFICE HOURS
Facilitated by the Austin Technology Incubator, the E-Capital Summit Investor Office Hours provides an opportunity for investors to be matched one-on-one with a select group of early-stage clean energy companies that fit their desired profile and specifications in private meeting spaces. This invitation-only event provides a unique platform for leading philanthropists, family offices and foundations to explore the expanding clean technology landscape and learn about the financial benefits of investing in these cuttingedge companies. Participating pre-qualified early- to mid-stage company categories include energy, water, infrastructure, transportation/mobility, materials and waste/reuse.
6:00 PM
EARTH DAY TEXAS RECEPTION AND BANQUET The Hall of State, Dallas Fair Park
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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
THE E-CAPITAL SUMMIT INVESTOR OFFICE HOURS IS FACILITATED BY AUSTIN TECHNOLOGY INCUBATOR The Austin Technology Incubator is the startup incubator of the University of Texas at Austin. A program of the University’s IC2 Institute, ATI has a 25-year track record of helping founding teams achieve success.
EARTH DAY TEXAS IS NOT AN INTERMEDIARY, BROKER-DEALER, INVESTMENT ADVISER OR SECURITIES EXCHANGE; EARTH DAY TEXAS IS NOT ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF EFFECTING TRANSACTIONS IN SECURITIES FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS; AND EARTH DAY TEXAS DOES NOT PROVIDE INVESTMENT ADVICE, INVESTMENT ADVISORY SERVICES OR AFFECT THE PURCHASE OR SALE OF ANY SECURITY. THIS PRESENTATION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER, SOLICITATION OR RECOMMENDATION TO SELL OR AN OFFER TO BUY ANY SECURITIES, INVESTMENT PRODUCTS OR INVESTMENT ADVISORY SERVICES.
P OW E R E D BY
I N N OVAT I O N E X P O
FRIDAY - SUNDAY, APRIL 21-23 CENTENNIAL HALL, DALLAS FAIR PARK 10 AM - 6 PM
The Innovation Expo features cutting-edge clean technologies from early-stage companies, national laboratories and universities. Advano
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Skyven Technologies
Argonne National Laboratory – Chain Reaction Innovations
Maalka
Smarter Sorting
Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies
Solar Via
Austin Technology Incubator Beam Energy Group
Nano Gas Technologies
BlyncSync Technologies
Norton Point
Capcell
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Cerahelix Cleantech Open ClearFlame Engines Columbia Power Dioxide Materials Earthly Labs EdgePower Emergy Labs FGC Plasma Solutions Hover Energy ilumi Iris PV ITC Power Solutions Leaptran
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ocean Exchange Onboard Dynamics Opus 12 Organiponic Phytosynthetix PrimoWind QCoefficient Saros Sawatch Group Simplify Solar Simplo SkyCool Systems
Sprinkl Sun Buckets SunlytiX Switched Source Thermolift TouchLight Innovations University of Colorado at Boulder U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Patent and Trademark Office U.S. Trust Vartega Water Lens Watertech Wells Fargo WrightGrid Xyber Technologies Yotta Solar
SPEAKER BIOS TRAMMELL S. CROW
MATTHEW NORDAN
FOUNDER, EARTH DAY TEXAS
CO-FOUNDER AND INVESTMENT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, PRIME COALITION
Trammell S. Crow is the founder of Earth Day Texas, the world’s largest Earth Day celebration, a year-round initiative and exposition teaching visitors, businesses and investors the benefits of living green and environmental sustainability. His personal philanthropy is focused strongly on protecting human health, improving livability and supporting our planet’s natural systems to stem climate change.
Matthew Nordan is a Managing Partner at MNL Partners. MNL develops energy and environmental projects in global markets, with a focus on China. Matthew has focused on breakthrough technologies for two decades as an investor, advisor, and analyst.
DR. DAVID DANIELSON MANAGING DIRECTOR, BREAKTHROUGH ENERGY VENTURES
SARAH KEARNEY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER, PRIME COALITION Sarah Kearney is the Founder and Executive Director of PRIME Coalition, a public charity that empowers philanthropists to place charitable capital into the market-based solutions to climate change. PRIME works closely with foundation grantmakers, DAFs, corporate donors, and individuals/family offices to facilitate investments into earlystage investment opportunities that are optimized for climate impact, attractiveness for commercial follow-on investment, and fitness for charitable capital.
CURTIS PROBST MANAGING DIRECTOR, ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE Curtis Probst is a Managing Director at Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading energy think tank. He is based in New York and leads RMI’s sustainable finance practice with over 24 years of prior Wall Street experience.
Dr. David Danielson is a Managing Director at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a new Bill Gates-led $1 billion dollar investment fund focused on building the breakthrough energy technology companies of tomorrow. He also currently serves as a Precourt Energy Scholar at the Precourt Insitute for Energy at Stanford University.
DR. KR SRIDHAR FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN, AND CEO, BLOOM ENERGY Dr. KR Sridhar is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Bloom Energy. Prior to founding Bloom Energy, Sridhar led a team developing technologies to sustain life on Mars for NASA. For his work, Fortune Magazine cited him as “one of the top five futurists that are inventing tomorrow today.”
MARILU HASTINGS VP SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS, MITCHELL FAMILY FOUNDATION Marilu Hastings is Vice President of Sustainability Programs for the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation in Austin. She directs the foundation’s programs in clean energy, shale sustainability, land conservation, water, and sustainability education.
SPEAKER BIOS JOE SPEICHER
ALICIA SEIGER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AUTODESK FOUNDATION
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, STANFORD STEYER-TAYLOR CENTER FOR ENERGY POLICY AND FINANCE
Joe Speicher is the Executive Director of the Autodesk Foundation. Prior to Autodesk, Speicher led operations for six years at Living Goods, a global health organization. He began his career in the banking and finance sector, working with Deutsche Bank and Cambridge Associates.
DIPENDER SALUJA
Alicia Seiger is Deputy Director of the Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, a joint initiative of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School. She leads the center’s work to develop and deploy financial innovations for philanthropic and longterm sources of capital to catalyze a rapid decarbonization of the global economy.
MANAGING DIRECTOR, CAPRICORN INVESTMENT GROUP Dipender Saluja is Managing Director at Capricorn, an investment firm founded to demonstrate that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. Capricorn manages about $5 billion in assets for Jeff Skoll, the Skoll Foundation, and others who strive for extraordinary investment results by leveraging market forces to accelerate large scale impact.
REGINE CLEMENT CEO, CREO SYNDICATE Régine Clément joined the CREO Syndicate in January 2016 as its inaugural CEO to help build a global ecosystem of family offices actively deploying private capital into Cleantech, Renewable Energy and Environmental Opportunities.
NATHANIEL GORENCE TECHNOLOGY TO MARKET ADVISOR, ARPA-E Nate Gorence is currently a Technology-toMarket Advisor at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-e), a semiautonomous arm of the Department of Energy that invests $300 million a year in high risk but potentially transformational energy technologies.
ILAN GUR FOUNDING DIRECTOR, CYCLOTRON ROAD Ilan Gur is Founding Director of Cyclotron Road, a new incubation and seed funding platform for breakthrough energy technologies. He previously served as Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-e), where his technical focus areas included: energy storage, solar energy, and advanced materials.
DR. EMILY REICHERT
AARON MANDELL
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, GREENTOWN LABS
CEO AND CHAIRMAN, QUIDNET
Dr. Emily Reichert serves as Chief Executive Officer of Greentown Labs, the largest clean technology startup incubator in the United States. As the company’s first employee, Emily has spearheaded the rapid growth of Greentown Labs into a global center for clean technology innovation, attracting visitors and partners from around the world.
Aaron Mandell is an engineer, operator, and entrepreneur. He has co-founded several emerging energy companies, including WaterFX, Oasys, Altarock, Coskata and GreatPoint. Through his leadership, this portfolio of companies is advancing new products in fields such as solar water treatment, desalination, enhanced geothermal energy, coal gasification and alternative chemicals.
RICHARD ADAMS DIRECTOR, NREL INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER
AMY GEORGE CEO, EARTHLY LABS
Richard Adams joined NREL in 2011 and draws on his 20 plus years of international experience with small, medium, and large corporations across a broad range of industry sectors. He is recognized as proven driver of organizational performance and is the author of Results Ladder — a model for successful strategic planning and execution.
Amy George is CEO and Co-founder of Earthly Labs, a technology company with a mission to capture and recycle 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide from small scale emission sources. Earthly Labs ™ is a member of the CleanTech Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), and a first round finalist in the Carbon Xprize competition.
ETOSHA CAVE
MITCH JACOBSON
CO-FOUNDER, OPUS 12
CO-DIRECTOR, ATI CLEAN ENERGY INCUBATOR, UT AUSTIN
Etosha Cave is a Houston native, CoFounder and Chief Science Officer of Opus 12, a startup recycling CO2 into higher value products. Opus 12 uses metal catalysts and renewable electricity to convert CO2 into one of 16 new molecules, which include a precursor to plastics and diesel fuels.
Mitch Jacobson has been a leader in bringing together government, industry, academia, utility and community interests to organize and shape a Clean Technology and Clean Energy Cluster in Central Texas. Since 2009 he has served as the lead advisor to Austin Technology Incubator (ATI)’s clean energy companies.
SPEAKER BIOS JB STRAUBEL
SARBJIT NAHAL
CTO AND CO-FOUNDER, TESLA MOTORS
MANAGING DIRECTOR, BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH
JB Straubel is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Tesla Motors. He manages the technical direction for Tesla products including, battery technology, power electronics, motors, software, firmware and controls, and also led the creation of and manages the new Tesla Energy business unit (Powerwall) and the Tesla Gigafactory.
Sarbjit Nahal is a Managing Director and heads the Thematic Investing Strategy team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research. The global strategy team works to implement the enterprise-wide “A Transforming World” (ATW) framework (earth, government, innovation, markets, people).
KEN LOCKLIN NICOLE SYSTROM
DIRECTOR, IMPAX ASSET MANAGEMENT
DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERSHIPS, PRIME COALITION
Ken Lockin is a Director of Impax Asset Management (US) LLC, having joined in 2011. He leads our North American activities on issues related to climate change and sustainable investment, and our collaborations on these issues with interested institutions.
Nicole Systrom is the Director of Philanthropic Partnerships at PRIME Coalition. She is passionate about facilitating investments for climate impact and growing support for early-stage clean technology innovators, which she has done through her roles with Cyclotron Road, Sutro Energy Group, and the Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance.
RICK PERRY U.S. SECRETARY OF ENERGY Rick Perry is the 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy, serving in the Trump Administration. He previously served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015 and was the longest-serving governor in Texas history.
JOHN HODGES MANAGING DIRECTOR, BUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Johm Hodges has more than 20 years of sustainable development experience, He leads BSR’s global infrastructure and financial services practices, advising companies on corporate sustainability strategy, responsible investing and project development, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk management.
RICH BROWN SVP OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP, BANK OF AMERICA Rich Brown is responsible for environmental sustainability, which includes strategic direction for business activities such as climate finance, operational initiatives, employee programs, corporate policy and governance, philanthropy and supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
EARTH DAY TEXAS IS NOT AN INTERMEDIARY, BROKER-DEALER, INVESTMENT ADVISER OR SECURITIES EXCHANGE; EARTH DAY TEXAS IS NOT ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF EFFECTING TRANSACTIONS IN SECURITIES FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS; AND EARTH DAY TEXAS DOES NOT PROVIDE INVESTMENT ADVICE, INVESTMENT ADVISORY SERVICES OR AFFECT THE PURCHASE OR SALE OF ANY SECURITY. THIS PRESENTATION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER, SOLICITATION OR RECOMMENDATION TO SELL OR AN OFFER TO BUY ANY SECURITIES, INVESTMENT PRODUCTS OR INVESTMENT ADVISORY SERVICES.
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