Join us for a half-day convening exploring opportunities to leverage university-originated research to scale up commercialization of adaptation and resilience (A&R) technologies. University-generated IP is an underutilized pipeline of resilience solutions to help businesses and communities navigate the disruptions, health risks, and costs of rising temperatures, surging seas, increased water stress, stronger storms, and more intense wildfires.
There is an urgent need to harness research breakthroughs and bring early-stage innovators into the A&R ecosystem to scale solutions to these growing challenges. This event will bring together university researchers, technology transfer professionals, early-stage investors, corporate buyers, and ecosystem builders to explore success stories, surface ongoing friction points, and identify opportunities to support the lab-to-market pathway better. Aligning these groups is critical to transforming research into impactful tech that builds adaptation and resilience capabilities.
The event will include:
Keynote Remarks: Victoria Salinas, Climate Leader in Residence, Duke University and former Deputy Administrator for Resilience, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
The Road from Initial Research to Commercial Traction for Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling Panel
Investor Perspectives on Early-stage A&R Ventures Panel
Ecosystem Enablers From Lab to Market Panel
Resilience Game Changers report launch: Tailwind Futures with share highlights from the forthcoming report, supported by the Quadrature Foundation, exploring A&R-relevant technologies originating in university labs, such as passive daytime radiative cooling, metal-organic frameworks, 4D printing, genomics and gene editing and solvent-based desalination.
Look out for a more detailed agenda and speakers to be announced soon.
Hosted by Activate, Foley Hoag, Hazelwood Network, The New York Climate Exchange and Tailwind Futures