Sep 10, 2024
By Lauren McCranie
Announcing the Agenda for the SOSV Climate Tech Summit

We have just published the Agenda for the main stage of our fourth annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit. There are 19 main stage programming sessions on Oct. 16 and 17 that cover climate tech challenges, such as the investment slow down; emerging categories, including geologic hydrogen and solar engineering; and well established sectors, including batteries, steel and cement. 

If you haven’t already, we hope you will register today. The Summit is free, online and takes place over Oct. 14-18

The goal of the summit is to help the people at heart of the climate tech ecosystem – the founders, investors, corporates, researchers, and policy makers – learn from each other and establish new connections. Last year over 5,000 people participated, making the summit the largest tech gathering focused on climate. Despite the huge audience, the summit is also designed to connect founders and investors 1:1 based on their interests.


Oct. 16-17, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. PT.  Here is where we host the fireside chats and small panel discussions with top founders and investors, moderated by leading climate journalists and other experts. We just announced the main stage agenda, which currently lists 19 sessions. 

Register here for regular agenda updates and access to the main stage programming. 

Oct. 14-18. These live, Zoom Sessions are organized by SOSV’s Summit partners, and they provide founders and others an interactive forum where they can learn from investors and other founders. Each breakout has its own registration in Zoom.

The breakouts are listed below, each with its own registration link; the same information is on the Summit’s agenda page

Oct. 14 – 18 We invite qualified climate founders and venture investors to join this unique matchmaking event, which last year involved 500 investors and 1,000 founders, generating over 2,000, 1:1 meetings matched based on the stage, location, and other qualifiers. The Matchup has its own registration, separate from the main stage and the breakout registrations. The platform opens to meeting requests September 30. 

To learn more and register, click here.


These are the breakout sessions we have so far! There are at least five more to come and we will post them here, as well as on the agenda, as they are announced. 


Monday, October 14th, 9:00 am PT

  • Shuo Yang, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
  • Ben Tauber, Founding Partner – Velocity

Monday, October 14th, 10:00 am PT

  • Andrew Sparks, Partner, Goodwin Procter
  • David Brekke, Partner, Goodwin Procter

Monday, October 14th, 10:00 am PT

  • Aakash Shah, Partner, Peak Sustainability Ventures
  • Mirik Gogri, Sustainability, Investor, Spectrum Impact
  • Ankit Todi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra Group
  • Parikshit Sharma, Partner, IndieBio, SOSV

Tuesday, October 15th, 9:00 am PT

  • Mike Schroepfer, Founder & Partner, Gigascale Capital

Tuesday, October 15th, 10:00 am PT

  • Coppelia Marincovic, Partner, Solvay Ventures
  • Matt Jones, Managing Partner, Syensqo Ventures

Tuesday, October 15th, 11:00 am PT

  • Hampus Jakobsson, Co-founder & General Partner, Pale Blue Dot
  • Fabian Erici, Principal, Norrsken VC

Wednesday, October 16th, 1:00 pm PT

  • Dawn Lippert, Founder & CEO, Elemental
  • Riddhima Yadav, Vice President, Brookfield Asset Management
  • Alfred Johnson, Co-founder & CEO, Crux Climate
  • Cat Clifford, Senior Science and Economics Correspondent, Cipher

Thursday, October 17th, 2:00 pm PT

  • Rajesh Swaminathan, Partner, Khosla Ventures
  • Pete Johnson, Co-founder & CEO, Koloma
  • Ryan Gilliam, Co-founder & CEO, Fortera

Thursday, October 17th, 3:00 pm PT

  • Zack Bogue, Managing Partner, DCVC
  • Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh, Partner, DCVC

Friday, October 18th, 8:30 am PT

  • Dr. Susan Schofer, SOSV Partner and HAX CSO
  • Ji Ke, HAX Program Director and CTO
  • Andy Gollach, HAX Partner 
  • Will Knapp, Chief Science Officer at Cocoon
  • Dr. Brandy Kinkead, CTO Ayrton
  • Mohsen Asad, CEO Hyperlume