The Invisible Crisis: Innovating for the Age of Extreme Heat

Description

​Campus Deep Tech, Anywhere Ventures, The Hazelwood Network, and Tailwind Futures are bringing together a curated group of startups, investors, industry leaders, and academics during Climate Week NYC to explore the mounting challenges posed by extreme heat globally and novel technologies being developed to help people and industries adapt.

​Industry leaders & investors will present 'reverse pitches' where they will identify specific challenges and opportunity areas where they would like to see innovators focus next.

​Startups and leading academics will share the cutting-edge technologies they are developing and their commercial potential.

​Why Attend:

• ​Discover breakthrough technologies

• ​Engage directly with scientists working at the frontier of extreme heat resilience and cooling technologies

• ​Identify investment and partnership opportunities

• ​Become part of the region's growing deep tech ecosystem

​Run of Show:

1. ​Reverse pitch presentations from industry leaders and investors

2. ​Startup and researcher presentations from across Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and other leading universities

3. ​Networking reception (drinks & light bites included)

​Extreme Heat X Technology Challenges:

• ​People and communities: Heat stress & disease, productivity, access to AC, essential services, wildfires

• ​Agriculture: Disrupted photosynthesis and pollination slashing crop yields

• ​Energy systems: Power-plant cooling constraints, declining solar output, transmission derating, transformer failures, and peak-demand blackouts

• ​Cooling & electronics: Overloaded / overheated HVAC, data-center cooling systems, telecom, electronics

• ​Transportation and supply chains: Buckling roads and rails, stressed bridges, aviation disruptions, vehicle breakdowns, cold-chain failures

• ​Water and wastewater: Pipe leakage, water-supply interruptions, failures of pumps and treatment systems

• ​Industrial operations: Machinery overheating, shortened equipment life, material expansion, product defects

​Big thanks to our venue sponsor, SOSV!