Light Dao Salon: Climate Risk & Resiliency with Spencer Glendon (NYC)
Join Light Dao and conscious entrepreneurs and investors for an evening filled with connection, deep conversations, and a fireside chat with Spencer Glendon, a founder of Probable Futures, and Aryuna Merdygeeva, Light Dao's Founding Partner (New York).
Light Dao is a fast-growing trusted global community of over 600 entrepreneurs and investors with curated in-person and online gatherings and experiences in LA, NYC, SF, Dubai, and Taipei, with plans to expand to Puerto Rico, Lisbon, Shanghai, London, Australia and beyond in 2024. Our heartfelt mission is to expand the collective consciousness and co-create a thriving regenerative future for humanity.
Special guest: Spencer Glendon, a founder of Probable Futures
Probable Futures is a non-profit climate literacy initiative that makes practical tools and educational resources available online to everyone, everywhere.
They exist to help communities, governments, businesses, and individuals prepare for the climate futures that are likely, and work to avoid the ones that carry the most profound risks for our world.
Spencer earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he focused on the history of urbanization and industrialization. He has extensive training and experience in finance, history, and languages and has worked and lived in Michigan, Chicago, Germany, Russia, China, and Boston.
For 18 years, Spencer was a Macroanalyst, Partner, and Director of Investment Research at Wellington Management, a firm with more than $1 trillion in client assets. In that role, he endeavored to understand issues that could affect markets, but that fell outside of the typical silos in finance, such as the modernization of China, the consequences of ubiquitous information and computing, political risk, inequality, and eventually, climate change.
In 2017, Spencer began collaborating with scientists, business leaders, designers, technologists, and educators to research the effects of climate change and to share those findings publicly. This work helped underpin initiatives such as a first-of-its-kind partnership between Wellington Management and the Woodwell Climate Research Center, as well as McKinsey & Co.’s 2020 Climate Risk and Response report. Inspired by these collaborations, he founded Probable Futures in 2020 to help democratize climate science and build bridges between climate science and many other disciplines.
In addition to his role at Probable Futures, Spencer serves as a senior fellow at Woodwell Climate and spends time as a pro bono consultant and public speaker across industries and communities. In 2023, Spencer joined Harvard Business School as an Executive Fellow, where he works in collaboration with Michael Toffel and Peter Tufano on research and education around climate risk.
7:00-7:30pm - Welcome and snacks served
7:30-7:40pm - Introduction
7:40-8:10pm - Connection Experience
8:10-8:40pm - Fireside chat with Spencer
8:40-9:00pm - Business Connect
9:00-9:30pm - Hang out & Wrap-up
VENUE DETAILS: The gathering is in Manhattan, New York. The exact address will be sent to confirmed guests.
GUIDELINES: This is an invite-only gathering, so please RSVP. Please note that this invitation is not a guarantee for entry and we invite you to thoroughly answer the approval questions. Friends or +1s must RSVP individually. Unapproved show-ups will not be granted entry.
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