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[Open Climate] What the FOAK is going on?
A 60-minute LIVE Open Climate Session + rapid-fire Q&A with four FOAK-scarred, FOAK-savvy insiders who’ve been on the frontlines of taking tech from first slide deck to first steel in the ground:
Deanna Zhang
Climate tech deal whisperer. Deanna’s worked across finance, energy, and strategy — she knows what gets funded and what just gets foaked.
Nik Baumann
Industrial exec turned climate operator. From scaling COVID tests at warp speed to tackling the Keeling Curve — now helping corporates and startups survive the FOAK phase.
Tim Woodcock
Engineer turned scale-up guide. Tim’s helped climate ventures go from lab to gigaton — and lived the chaos in between.
+ 1 mystery panellist
(We’re not saying who yet. Trust us, they’re worth it.)
From financing nightmares to manufacturing hell, team chaos to tech pivots, this is the unfiltered truth about what it takes to scale climate solutions for the very first time and what is going on in FOAK right now.
🚫 No fluff
🚫 No sales pitch
✅ Just war stories, sharp insights, and a few well-earned FOAK puns
Come for the real talk. Stay for the FOAKing solutions. 💥