East Coast Daily Schedule

***All times are in Eastern Time on this block***To find Pacific Time, go back***

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

4:00 PM: All attendees to log onto Zoom

Welcome to Cleantech Open Academy

Beth Zonis, Senior Regional Director, Cleantech Open

Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National

Ramsay Huntley, Sustainable Finance Strategy Leader, Wells Fargo

4:16 PM: Customer Discovery - Mitch Tyson, Board Member, NECEC

5:07 PM: Sustainability Overview

Moderator: Matthew Gardner

Panelists:

Kim Bawden, Senior Pollution Prevention Engineer, NYSP2I

Ted Dillon, Director of Marketing, Clean Energy Ventures

Marsha Willard, CEO, Axis Performance Advisors

5:57 PM: Curriculum Overview, Where You're Going

Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National

Jessica Smothermon, Director of Operations, Cleantech Open National

6:07 PM: Keynote - Vanessa Chan, Chief Commercialization Officer and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions, US Department of Energy

6:32 PM: Sendoff - Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National

Thursday, june 3, 2021

8:00 AM: All attendees to log onto Zoom

Introduction - Peter Rothstein, President, NECEC

Beth Zonis, Regional Director, Cleantech Open

8:11 AM: Work with Mentors

Moderator: Alice Nichols, Chair Mentor Committee, Cleantech Open National

Panelists:

Trish Fleming, Director of Mentoring, North Shore InnoVentures

Claudia Maldonado, Founder and CEO, Atrevida Science

Cody Soodeen, Co-Founder and CEO, Kara Water

Raleigh Ormerod, Board Member, Business Advisor, and Previous Fortune 500 Executive

9:06 AM: Customer Discovery Workshop

*Not suitable for mentors*

10:27 AM: GHG/ERP Workshop

Kim Bawden, Senior Pollution Prevention Engineer, NYSP2I

Ted Dillon, Director of Marketing, Clean Energy Ventures

*Not suitable for mentors*

11:47 AM: Welcome to the Joint Session - Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National

11:53 AM: Business Model Canvas - Farzin Samadini, USC and NSF I-Corps National Instructor

12:43 PM: Lunch Break

1:34 PM: Pitching Training - Tom White, Chief Revenue Officer, Network for Global Innovation

2:30 PM: Working with Ecosystem

Moderator: Pat Sapinsley, Managing Director of Cleantech Initiatives, Urban Future Lab

Panelists:

Steve Wolk, Senior Project Manager, NYSERDA

Scott Dupak, Managing Director, Constellation Technology Ventures at Exelon

J.A. Colantonio, Program Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

3:10 PM: Networking Breakout

3:55 PM: Sendoff

Friday, June 4, 2021

11:00 AM: All attendees to log onto Zoom

Introduction: Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National

Beth Zonis, Senior Regional Director, Cleantech Open

11:10 AM: Introduction to the Cohort

11:26 AM: Alumni Inspiration - Kristin Taylor, Co-Founder and CEO, Radical Plastics. CTO's 2018 US Grand Prize Winner.

11:42 AM: Legal

Moderator: Ben Stone, Corporate Attorney, Mintz

Panelists:

Sarah Mattern, Senior Associate, Foley Hoag

George Jakobsche, Partner, Sunstein

12:23 PM: Build Team - Diversity

Jacquie Ashmore, Founding Board Member, Browning the Green Space

Kerry Bowie, Founder, President and Executive Director, Majira Project

Spencer Irvine, Emerging Business Manager, Analog Garage

1:04 PM: Finance 101 - Suzanne Oakley, Owner, New England CFO Strategies

2:00 PM: Fundraising

Moderator: Tibor Toth, Managing Director of Investments, NECEC

Panelists:

Edison Almeida, Business Incubation Leader, Schneider Electric

Bhargavi Chevva, Investor and Company Builder, Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Judy Li, Vice President, Energy Foundry

2:46 PM: State of the Industry - Danny Kennedy, Chief Energy Officer, New Energy Nexus

3:11 PM: Final Send Off - Tim Hoffman, Managing Director, Cleantech Venture Exchange and NYSERDA EIR Program.

Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National