Adapting for the Future: Unlocking the $2 Trillion Climate Resilience Opportunity
Join us for an exclusive gathering at SF Climate Week, where investors, top-performing climate-adaptation companies, and aspiring entrepreneurs come together to explore the $2 trillion opportunity in climate resilience. This intimate panel discussion will delve into the urgent challenges of air pollution, extreme heat, flooding, and more while showcasing innovative solutions shaping the future of climate adaptation.
Engage with industry leaders, gain valuable insights into the market’s growth potential, and network with like-minded professionals driving change. Whether you're looking to invest, scale your climate-adaptation business, or start your venture in this rapidly evolving space, this is the perfect opportunity to connect and collaborate.
Agenda:
5:30 PM – Check-In, Networking, Drink & Refreshments
6:00 PM – Opening Remarks
6:10 PM – Panel
7:00 PM – Community Networking
About Echoher
Our Host
1. EchoHer is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering women and non-binary founders and funders by increasing their representation and success in entrepreneurship. We foster a supportive ecosystem to drive meaningful change and create impactful opportunities through monthly events, co-working opportunities, curated networking sessions, pitch nights, and insightful panel discussions.
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2. AirVitalize engineers hardware that captures outdoor air pollution AKA PM2.5 or black carbon. This pollution is the number one environmental threat to public health, causing more deaths per year than smoking, and has a global warming potential 1,000x higher than Co2.
Connect with AirVitalize: LinkedIn
@AirVitalize on all socials
3. Emily Dinino is the Founder & CEO of ThermoShade. She spent two years studying the problem of extreme heat as her master’s thesis and is passionate about finding solutions to protect people and animals impacted by heat stress. Emily has extensive experience in finance and entrepreneurship across investment banking, venture capital, and nonprofit finance. She holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
ThermoShade's mission is to make cities and communities more resilient to climate change by providing a cooling alternative that is clean, effective, and affordable. ThermoShade is a high-tech passive cooling shade panel that can be affixed to any outdoor structure, creating a shady space that feels up to 20°F cooler than under a basic awning. Our panels use radiative cooling to directly cool both people and animals.
4. Jason Nyeh
Investor & Managing Director
Lamarka
5. Kyle Heyblom, PhD is an Earth System Scientist at Planette AI, where he develops cutting-edge subseasonal to seasonal weather and climate forecasts. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University of Victoria, where his research explored how climate dynamics shape the global water cycle—including rainfall and drought—under natural and human influence. Today, Kyle applies his expertise in Earth system physics to advance predictive technologies that support climate adaptation, resilience planning, and informed decision making in a changing world.
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