SF Climate Week: Stanford Climate Showcase
Please join Stanford Alumni in Climate Tech (ACTs), The Stanford Alumni Association (SAA), and The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability for our inaugural SF Climate Week Showcase, co-hosted with The Westly Group.
The event will provide Stanford climate tech alumni with the opportunity to network and hear a series of “lightning talks” about the latest initiatives across climate-focused institutes at Stanford.
Event Agenda:
2:00pm: Doors open
2:45-3:30pm: Lightning Talks, featuring speakers from:
TerraDot (presented by Co-Founder Sasankh Munukutla) - Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) innovation and adoption
Tarpeh Research Group (presented by Asst. Prof. William Tarpeh) - Reactive capture and conversion of nitrous oxide emissions
Majumdar Research Group (presented by PhD candidate Richard Randall) - Pioneering atmospheric methane removal
3:30pm-5:00pm: Networking Happy Hour
Ticket proceeds will contribute toward food and drink for the event.
Big thank you to the Westly Group for hosting and providing the venue, as well as to our incredible speakers for sharing their knowledge with our community.
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About The Westly Group
The Westly Group is an industrial tech fund investing in companies transforming the world's largest physical industries such as energy, manufacturing, industrials, mobility, and other related sectors. With our seasoned operating backgrounds and ability to leverage relationships from across our 40+ strategic LP base, we support ambitious founders across every step of their entrepreneurial journey from preseed to pre-IPO. We’re excited to be supporting the next generation of founders making the world’s largest industries more sustainable and efficient.
About Sasankh Munukutla (TerraDot CPO & Co-Founder)
Sasankh Munukutla is a Co-Founder of Terradot, a climate-tech startup with a mission to accelerate gigaton-scale carbon removal through Enhanced Rock Weathering. Sasankh is from Singapore, and grew up across the tropics experiencing firsthand the effects of climate change and its impact on sustainable development. He previously published AI+Remote Sensing for Climate research in the Stanford ML group under Prof. Andrew Ng. He graduated from Stanford with a BS and MS in Computer Science (AI) while completing significant coursework in sustainability and cognitive science and received an SIF-Ecopreneurship Fellowship to build Terradot. His past work is at the intersection of technology and social impact across three domains: refugees, accessibility, and climate. He is a 776 Foundation Climate Fellow, served two years as a commander (Platoon Sergeant) in the Singapore military and has represented Singapore as a Youth Delegate at COP28.
About Dr. William Tarpeh (Tarpeh Research Group, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering)
Dr. William Tarpeh is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University. The Tarpeh Lab uses catalysis and separations to advance wastewater refining, which generates tunable portfolios of products from water pollutants and advances circular economies. Will completed his B.S. in chemical engineering at Stanford, his M.S. and Ph.D. in environmental engineering at UC Berkeley, and postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan. His recent awards include the NSF CAREER Award, Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Forbes 30 Under 30 Science, and the Electrochemical Society Young Investigator Fellowship.
About Richard Randall (Majumdar Research Group, PhD Candidate)
Richard Randall is a 5th-year PhD student in Prof. Arun Majumdar's lab in Mechanical Engineering. His thesis focuses on processes and devices to mitigate methane point sources and to remove methane from the atmosphere. He previously completed his BS and MS at Stanford with depths in design for manufacturing, mechatronics, and thermodynamics.
Please reach out to Amy Zhao (azhao@cleanenergyventures.com) with any questions about the event.
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