

Investing in a Resilient Future by Syntax Data
Investing in a Resilient Future: Innovation, Data & Capital for Energy, Food, Water, and Climate Solutions
UN Climate Week 2025 | Midtown Loft, NYC
Main Event: 3:00–5:00 PM
Cocktail Hour, Hors D'oeuvres, & Networking to Follow
Join global leaders, innovators, and investors for an afternoon of insight and action during UN Climate Week 2025. This dynamic event will explore how data, AI, and emerging technologies can drive smarter capital allocation toward critical climate, food, water, and energy solutions. Through keynote remarks, a fireside chat, and expert-led panels, we’ll examine how to scale resilience through breakthrough innovation and data-driven finance.
Immediately following the program, connect with fellow attendees during a rooftop cocktail hour overlooking Midtown Manhattan.
Agenda:
3:30pm - Biotech Meet Bytes: How AI and Gene editing are reshaping Food, Water and Energy
Breakthrough technologies are reshaping the global response to climate change and resource stress. This session will explore how artificial intelligence and biotechnology are accelerating progress across the food-water-energy nexus. AI can accelerate innovation, optimize resource planning and forecast climate and energy trends, while gene editing is enabling more sustainable agriculture through reduced reliance on water, fertilizers, and pesticides. The panel will also touch on the growing energy demand from AI technologies and the importance of balancing digital innovation with environmental sustainability.
4:00pm - Data-Driven Finance: How AI Guides Capital to Climate and Transition Solutions
Precise, auditable insights can deliver a powerful imperative to act and a road map for profitability to a private capital landscape often hesitant to support climate and development initiatives. This conversation will outline how AI-powered analytics platforms can use sophisticated risk analysis frameworks to recontextualize climate and development goals as opportunities. From how insights can highlight investment de-risking pathways to the long-term value of energy transition, water infrastructure, and resilient food systems, we’ll discuss the crucial role data and capital play in transforming the future.
4:30pm - Scaling Resilience: Investment for Resilience: Financing Food, Water, Energy and Climate Futures
Capital is an incontrovertible catalyst for change. Unlocking that potential, however, requires translating the imperative to deliver new solutions for energy, climate, food, and water challenges into demonstrable value for institutional investors. This panel will discuss how investors, development banks, and catalytic partners can collaborate to bring large-scale capital to where it is needed most – sustainable infrastructure and systems that impact human futures. The discussion will highlight the role of analysis and the “data-driven narrative of change” that provides an investment thesis for making the world a better place. From economic opportunity to facilitating climate resilience in newly industrialized nations, we’ll present a gameplan on how capital can manifest its best intentions as action.
5:00pm - Cocktail hour with Hors D'oeuvres & Networking