West Coast Daily Schedule

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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

1:00 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

1:16 PM: Customer Discovery - Mitch Tyson, Board Member, NECEC

2:07 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

2:57 PM: Curriculum Overview, Where You're Going

Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National

Jessica Smothermon, Director of Operations, Cleantech Open National

3:07 PM: Keynote - Vanessa Chan, Chief Commercialization Officer and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions, US Department of Energy

3:32 PM: Sendoff - Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National

thursday, june 3, 2021

8:37 AM: All attendees to log onto Zoom

Welcome to the Joint Session - Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National

8:53 AM: Business Model Canvas - Farzin Samadani, USC and NSF I-Corps National Instructor

9:43 AM: Networking Breakout

10:34 PM: Pitching Training - Tom White, Chief Revenue Officer, Network for Global Innovation

11:30 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

12:10 PM: Lunch Break

1:00 PM: Work with Mentors

Moderator: Yuet Lee, Cleantech Open National Mentor Chair

Panelists:

Jim Tietz, Western Region Mentor, Cleantech Open

Bill Buchan, Western Region Mentor, Cleantech Open

Marc Cortez, Founder and CEO, Liquid8

Amanda Hall, CEO, Summit Nanotech

1:52 PM: Customer Discovery Workshop - Farzin Samadini, USC and NSF I-Corps National Instructor

3:08 PM: Sustainability Workshop - Marsha Willard, CEO, Axis Performance Advisors

4:17 PM: Sendoff

friday, June 4, 2021

8:00 AM: All attendees to log onto Zoom

Introduction

Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National

Beth Zonis, Senior Regional Director, Cleantech Open

8:10 AM: Introduction to the Cohort

8:26 AM: Alumni Inspiration - Kristin Taylor, Co-Founder and CEO, Radical Plastics. CTO's 2018 US Grand Prize Winner

8:42 AM: Legal

Moderator: Ben Stone, Corporate Attorney, Mintz

Panelists:

Sarah Mattern, Senior Associate, Foley Hoag

George Jakobsche, Partner, Sunstein

9:23 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

10:04 PM: Finance 101 - Suzanne Oakley, Owner, New England CFO Strategies

11:00 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

11:46 PM: State of the Industry - Danny Kennedy, Chief Energy Officer, New Energy Nexus

12:11 PM: Final Send Off

Tim Hoffman, Managing Director, Cleantech Venture Exchange and NYSERDA EIR Program.

Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open National