Events

​​Rain is finally over! Come meet up with the Bay Area MCJ and larger climatetech community.

​More details about the MCJ climatetech online community and podcast: 

​This will be a casual meetup, no set agenda.

 legacy business located at 199 Valencia St. Great drinks options, outdoor patio if it is not too cold (take jacket / scarf!) and some food too. 

MCJ Drinks & network in San Francisco 

Come meet up with the MCJ members and larger climatetech community. I (Matthieu Soulé) will be in San Diego with a few of my colleagues from BNP Paribas and would love to meet SoCal climate tech enthusiasts while in town.

​This will be a casual meetup, no set agenda. 

​Venue details: Nolen rooftop bar, 453 SIXTH AVE #7007, SAN DIEGO 

 (open-air lounge is a quick elevator ride up to the 14th floor at the 

Courtyard Gaslamp - might be a little chill on Wednesday so take warm clothes)

MCJ / ClimateTech Drinks & network in San Diego - March 1 2023

2023 is starting well for the climate tech community and we want to keep the good vibe for our Bay Area Community after the first meetup in January with 120+ people that came, we can do even more! 

Come meet up with the Bay Area MCJ members and larger climatetech community.

​More details about the MCJ climatetech community, content and membership: 

​This will be a casual meetup, no set agenda. We will improve the networking component so people with similar interest and objective can connect easily.

MCJ Drinks & network in San Francisco - March 2023

Happy to get together the MCJ community and climateTech friends from Paris together. Matthieu Soulé who is the San Francisco MCJ community host at night will be visiting Paris and would love to connect with you all locally. 

We will do the social mixer with Techstars sustainability in Paris as we were thinking it would be great to connect more the climate tech circles in Paris. For those who wants we will have a short panel around sustainable venture and green fintech at 5:30pm and will be followed by the networking part with drinks. It will take place at Le Village by CA 55 Rue La Boétie 75008 Paris France, more info here : 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-build-a-sustainable-venture-green-fintech-tickets-611037679147

​Venue details: Le Village by CA, 55 Rue La Boétie, 75008 Paris 

MCJ Drinks & network in Paris - April 17 2023

Peter Brambl: Co-Founder, Creative Director of 

Joanna Ellis: Co-Founder, Creative Director of 

How do we reimagine transportation, medicine, energy?

How do we educate young people for tomorrow’s careers?

Future Days is a podcast that explores these questions, diving into the forces that are shaping design and creativity today and how we plan for a world of tomorrow.

Join us, Peter Brambl and Joanna Ellis, Co-Founders of the creative strategy company Belmondo. We’ve spent years collaborating with innovators working at the intersection of business, technology, and culture. Tune in as we talk to a special guest about the trends of our changing timeline.

Casey Hogue: Founder and Executive Creative Director of 

Cynthia Lohr: Co-Owner & Chief Brand Officer of 

The goal of Darts in the Dark is to amplify the voices of businesses, organizations, and individuals enacting positive change and impact. We talk about branding, marketing, communication, and sustainability, and through our conversations with leading voices throughout business and culture, we help shed some light on how to move your audience to take meaningful action for your business and the planet.

"How the public and private sectors are communicating about climate" panel lead by 

Matthieu Soulé: San Francisco/Bay Area community host, 

Janelle Kellman: Sausalito City Council (Mayor 2022) and founder of 

MCJ Collective powers collective innovation for climate solutions by breaking down silos and unleashing problem-solving capacity. We’re a platform for the flow of information, ideas, and capital needed to accelerate individual climate journeys and enable

J. Lohr takes very seriously its leadership role in “Growing Sustainability” throughout the wine industry. In acknowledgment of its many contributions to the cause of furthering vineyard and winery sustainable practices, J. Lohr received the Green Medal Leader Award from the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance.

101 Cider House partnered with the eco-friendly folks at Tentree, who are making big changes accessible to everyone. When you buy 101 Cider, they’ll plant a tree on your behalf.

Evolving the Climate Narrative: Live Podcasts, Panel & Mixer

2023 is starting well for the MCJ climate tech community and we want to keep the good vibe for our Bay Area Community after the first meetup in January with 120+ people that came and 250+ people registered in March, we can do even more! 

We want to have a nice event for San Francisco climate Tech week (check other events here 

San Francisco Climate Tech week - MCJ Drinks & network - April 21 2023

Join us for an evening of drinks, networking and climate-focused conversation between the MCJ and Pebblebed communities. We'll be joined by the Pebblebed team, in their incredible offices, alongside MCJ's very own Jason Jacobs. 

Collective powers collective innovation for climate solutions by breaking down silos and unleashing problem-solving capacity. We’re a platform for the flow of information, ideas, and capital needed to accelerate individual climate journeys and enable collaboration.

We're a bunch of builders backing early stage founders with a nerdy secret. The cast is Pam Vagata (founding eng of OpenAI, AI lead for Stripe, builder of FBLearner Flow); Keith Adams (former chief architect at Slack, founder of FB's AI Research team, builder of HHVM, engineer #20 at VMWare); Luke Byrne (all around tinkerer, former partner at Tapestry in Europe); Tammie Siew (former Sequoia and GGV backed founder in consumer healthtech x mobile gaming, investor at Sequoia Singapore).

+1s/2s/3s are welcome, but please ask all your guests to register via this event page in advance. Spaces are limited, and we'll be operating a waitlist for when capacity is reached. 

We'll be kindly hosted at the Pebblebed offices (1417 15th street, San Francisco) in their amazing mission space. 

If you have any questions, reach out to Leone (MCJ's Community Lead) via 

MCJ Collective x pebblebed: Climate and AI

Join us for a great panel and networking event around Climate tech and the future of mobility co-organized by Goodwin and BNP Paribas in San Francisco on June 15, 2023!

As transportation activities represent one of the largest sectors to decarbonize in the coming years, let's see what are the opportunities and challenges for existing and new players in the industry to stay on the Paris agreement trajectory for 2050. 

Juan Pablo Soulier, Head of data science, Rivian 

, head of BNP Paribas C.Lab Americas, will do a short introduction before the panel.

Goodwin Office, Three Embarcadero Center 28th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111, United States

Goodwin is a global law firm in the business of building authentic, long-term relationships with clients, who are some of the world’s most successful and innovative investment managers, investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors in the technology, private equity, real estate, life sciences and financial industries. Their immersive understanding of these industries – combined with their fund structuring expertise across multiple asset classes and countries – sets them apart. To learn more about our global law firm, please visit 

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. During the event, we will have some members of our full-service vehicle leasing and new mobility solutions business called

(8,000 employees operate in 29 countries, and we leased 1,600,000 vehicles in end of December 2022). BNP Paribas Arval is actively support and advise their customers in 

, empowering them to be more sustainable. Their strategy is to rethink the mobility mix by balancing vehicle leasing with alternative forms of mobility such as car sharing, carpooling, bikes and electric scooters. 

Mobility - How can we accelerate the climate transition? 

Hi everyone, 2023 has been a great year already for MCJ collective with many events and new members joining, let's get together for a pure networking event to celebrate the summer!

Come meet up with the Bay Area MCJ members and the climatetech community.

 legacy business located at 199 Valencia St. Great drinks options, outdoor patio if it is not too cold (take jacket / scarf!) and some food too.