Clean Leadership Table Gathering by Reetu Gupta, Daybreak Labs, & ITV
Clean Leadership Table Gathering by Reetu Gupta & Daybreak Labs Hosted by Wente Vineyards
Clean Table
The clean table brings together leaders from public and private spheres to create connections by solving the problems of funding, developing, testing, and deploying clean technology revealed in project focused discussions about the challenges and successes in moving technology demonstrations and capital forward.
Participants will:
Build authentic connections
Gain fresh perspectives on common challenges
Identify concrete partnership opportunities
Access a supportive network of like-minded professionals
Develop actionable insights for their organizations
Create frameworks or turnkey playbooks to support clean deep tech project lab proof concept, first of a kind demonstration (FOAK) and scale-up & commercialization
Program Flow
11:30 - 12:00 PM | Arrival & Welcome Networking
Featuring a welcome by Karl Wente
12:00 - 12:10 PM | Grand Challenge Opening Setting: Decarbonizing Industrial Processes
12:15 - 1:30 PM | Lunch & Discussion
Project intro: Rushnu technology integrates direct carbon capture with green chemical production. It captures CO₂ from biogas and converts it into chemicals used for water treatment, significantly reducing the carbon footprint of the water plant. They have an agreement with the City of Livermore to do a pilot scale demonstration at the Livermore wastewater treatment plant and are currently demonstrating their technology at Silicon Valley wastewater treatment facility.
Matin Hanifzadeh, founder and CEO of Rushnu
Brandon Cardwell, Director of Innovation and Economic Development, City of Livermore
Investor intro: Jason Sydow, partner at Next47 the venture capital investment arm at Siemens, discusses their recent investment push into direct carbon capture despite their investment thesis focused on enterprise SaaS.
Lunch & Roundtables
1:30 - 2:00 PM | Experts/tables Share Insights
2:00-2:30 PM | Wrap Up and Next Steps
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Reetu Gupta is a transformational leader and facilitator passionate about decarbonization & sustainability. With extensive experience as a senior leader in multiple industries and innovative startups, she brings deep expertise in:
Stakeholder management
Strategy & Innovation
Program development, Implementation and Adoption
Mergers & acquisitions
Partnership development
Customer Success & Commercial Leadership
Leadership & management
Reetu is an Advisory Board Member at Maroon Research Institute, on the Silicon Valley Board for How Women Lead and actively advises & works with healthcare and climate start-ups. Connect with Reetu here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guptareetu/
Connect with Clean Table - here
Yolanda Fintschenko, PhD, is a community leader and organizer who has served as the i-GATE Innovation Hub and Daybreak Labs Executive Director since October of 2022. i-GATE Innovation Hub is a non-profit organization focused on increasing economic prosperity through entrepreneurship in the Tri-Valley. i-GATE is sponsored by the Tri-Valley cities of Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, and the Town of Danville, Alameda County Board of Supervisors, and i-GATE Innovation Hub partners Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories. i-GATE also receives corporate support from donors like Stanford Health Care - Tri-Valley.
i-GATE provides startup incubation resources through Daybreaks Labs hard tech incubator in Livermore and connects the regional innovation ecosystem through the Startup Tri-Valley initiative. Daybreak Labs helps startups shorten the time from invention to market by providing hard tech companies in the life sciences, climate tech, and deep tech, a unique combination of expertise, facilities, and equipment. Companies that lease space at the Daybreak Labs get access to our deep tech and biotech facilities and equipment. Daybreak Labs is located at 7683 Southfront Road, Suite 230, Livermore, CA 94550.
The Startup Tri-Valley initiative grows and strengthens our region by connecting founders and innovators to a tightly networked ecosystem of resources built specifically for science-based startups in the areas of women’s health, climate tech, life sciences, and artificial intelligence.
To learn more, visit https://igatehub.org , https://startuptrivalley.org , and https://daybreaklabs.io
Innovation Tri-Valley
Innovation Tri-Valley (ITV) is a network of business leaders working to advance the business climate and quality of life in California’s Tri-Valley. ITV is an interconnected community of leaders who have created a robust ecology of innovation that is unique to the Tri-Valley region. Visit https://innovationtrivalley.org/ to learn more.
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