100th NY Hardware Meetup | Climate Week NYC
It's ClimateWeek in NYC and it's time for our annual climate tech themed NY Hardware Meetup. This also happens to be our 100th NY Hardware Meetup! Can you believe we've been meeting for 13 years? We can't think of a better way to celebrate than meetup about the biggest hardware challenge of them all: saving our planet.
This event is made possible by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), SecondMuse (in NYC), and NextCorps (based in Rochester, New York), which together run the For ClimateTech programs (Scale For ClimateTech & Venture For ClimateTech) that help fast track the commercialization of businesses with breakthrough climate technologies.
We have an awesome panel planned for the evening:
Nathan King, Co-Founder of itselectic, is a LEED certified licensed architect with 20 years of experience building sustainable cities. Across his career he has designed and managed large-scale and complex urban construction. It was during the COVID-19 Pandemic when he was leading the team designing the new NYC Public Health Laboratory as the Senior Technical Architect at the global architecture firm SOM that the idea for itselectric took root and allowed his expertise in permitting and implementation within the built environment to translate into the acceleration of electrified transportation for cities across the U.S.
Ellie Rusling, CEO & Co-Founder of MicroEra Power, a thermal energy storage firm, its systems focus on large building, campus and district energy systems by making heat pumps and fuel cells more efficient and affordable. Previously, Rusling was executive director of AHEAD Energy and a board member of Highland Hospital Foundation Board. Earlier in her career, she was an international communications specialist.
Brian Zimmerly, Thalo Labs’s Head of Engineering, has led the engineering and operational deployment of thousands of renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions across the U.S. He was a founding leader at Dandelion Energy (spun out of Google’s X Innovation Lab) and held senior engineering roles at Tesla and SolarCity. At SolarCity, he launched a first-of-its-kind smart home product in Hawaii that integrated solar, battery storage, and smart home technologies to manage solar interconnection without net metering. His work involved advanced control algorithms, GTM strategy, and collaborations with utility operators and regulators to ensure compliance. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
Agenda
6:00-7:00pm: Arrive, mingle, grab some food and a beverage
7:00-7:10pm: Opening remarks
7:10-7:45pm: Panel + Q&A with the audience
7:45-8:15pm: Community announcements open mic
8:15-9:00pm: Mix + mingle.
Thanks for our partnering organizations:
Scale For ClimateTech (S4C) provides climate tech hardware innovators with immersive training on manufacturing, and an extensive network of mentors, experts, investors, manufacturers, suppliers, and more – all dedicated to supporting business growth and commercialization, and making manufacturing easier.
Particle provides an integrated IoT platform-as-a-service that delivers individuals and businesses the fastest way to connect, manage, and deploy software applications to connected devices from prototype to commercial production. Sign up for a free account and enjoy a generous offer on your first device.
informal is a freelance collective for the best independent professionals in hardware and manufacturing. Whether a client is looking for a single contractor, a full time employee, or an entire team of professionals to work on everything from product development to go-to-market, informal has the right collection of people for the job. With projects as varied as 3D printers to electric vehicles, informal members work with companies at every scale to design, manufacture, and ship physical products.
If you want to help support the next meetup, please reach out to nate@informal.cc for sponsorship inquiries. See you soon!