I am part of the?SOSV?team organizing our upcoming event (www.sosvclimatetech.com) and I'll talk a bit about what goes on behind the scene (Part 1 is here).
When we started to plan the event we had some ideas about what kind of sessions would be interesting. We also knew that more ideas would come on the way, and that there were many interesting speakers we did not even know about yet.
So we asked registrants for ideas, and oh boy did you have ideas!
Some unexpected names: Slavoj Zizek (my favorite Slovenian philosopher), Arnold, Leo, Emma Watson, an inordinate number of academics, a few politicians (AOC, etc.),
Jean-Marc Jancovici
(French energy and carbon accounting expert and entrepreneur, also a best selling 'graphic lecture' author), a few sci-fi writers, Yuval Noah Harari and many, many more. The two most requested speakers are Bill Gates (by far) and Elon Musk. Maybe Bill Gates will join again, maybe Elon Musk, maybe both!
Here are 400+ suggestions shared by the 2000+ registrants so far:
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- AgFunder
- Airminers
- Akiva Goldsman
- Akshat Rathi
- Akshay Singhal - Log9 Material
- Al Gore
- Albert Wenger
- Alex Blumberg
- Alex Greenhalgh
- Alex Zachery
- Alexander Shkolnik of Liquid Piston
- AlgiKnit => Coming soon!
- Ali Emadi - Enedym
- Aliette de Bodard
- Alper Güven
- Alpesh Doshi
- Amazon Web Services
- Amy Harder => Interviewed Bill Gates in 2021, maybe back this year
- Azeem Azhar
- Anastasia Volkova
- Anders Bjartnes
- Andrew BeeBee (Obvious Ventures)
- Andrew Brynes
- Annalee Newitz
- Anne Hidalgo
- Anne Sophie Mertgen
- Anthony Buonassisi
- António Guterres
- AOC
- Arcady Sonav
- Arch Rao
- Arman Atoyan (ARLOOPA founder)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Arthur from Time for The Planet
- Arthur Russell Rogers
- Arumugam Aramvalarthanathan (GestAlt Network)
- Arunas Chesonis
- Ashoka
- Aunie Patton
- Autodesk sustainability efforts in manufacturing
- Ayana Johnson
- Azeem Azar
- Azolla Ventures
- Azolla Ventures
- Barack Obama
- Benjamin Joffe => Coming soon!
- Benjamin Tincq (Marble)
- Benjamin Tintignac
- Bernard Arnault
- Bertrand Piccard
- Bhaktha Keshavachar - Chara Technologies
- Bilal Bomani
- Bill Gates => Spoke in 2021
- Bill Gross => Spoke in 2021
- Bill Russo of Automobility
- BJ Johnson (ClearFlame Engines)
- Blackrock
- Bob Mumgaard of Commonwealth Fusion Systems
- Bradford Vorhees from Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol
- Brainbox
- Brant Richards, Managing Director, Third Derivative
- Breakthrough Energy Ventures
- Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
- Bruce Cahan, Stanford Professor
- Bruce Friedrich
- Calwave
- Camus
- Cana
- Cara Chacon
- Carbon Engineering
- Carbon13
- Carlos Araque => Speaking!
- Carmichael Roberts
- Cassandra Yip-Lee
- Cathy Wood
- CEO of Ocean Cleanup and Seabin
- Chante Harris
- Chris Sacca => Speaking!
- Chris Theriault
- Christian Kroll
- Christian Rangen
- Christiana Figueres
- Christina Shim, VP Strategy and Sustainability, IBM
- Dr. Christoph Gebald (Climeworks) => Speaking!
- Clea Kolster of LowerCarbon => Spoke in 2021
- Closed Loop Partners
- Cody Simms, MCJ => Speaking!
- Coller Initiatives
- Convention des entreprises pour le climat
- Corentin de Chatelperron
- Crusoe
- Cyril Ebersweiler
- Cyril Yee, Chief Innovation Officer, Third Derivative => Coming soon
- Daimler Mercedes
- Dambisa Moyo
- Daniel Goldman (Clean Energy Ventures)
- Danijel Vi?evi?
- Danny Kennedy
- Daria Saharova, World Fund => Speaking
- Dave Danielson
- David Friedberg
- David Keith (Carbon Engineering)
- David Sacks
- Davide Casaleggio
- Dawn Lippert
- Dell Foundation
- Demis Hassibis
- Department of Defense
- Dickon Pinner
- Didier Toubia Aleph Farms
- Diego Pachamama
- Diego Saez-Gil
- Donald Sadoway
- Donnel Baird
- Doug Bernauer
- Dr. Alan Hudd
- Dr. Caspar Donnison (UC Davis - BECCS and wildfire mitigation)
- Dr. Edda Sif Pind Aradóttir, CEO of Carbfix
- Dr. Jacob wood
- Dr. James Hagan (UPenn)
- Dr. Jonathan Foley
- Dr. Surya Kalidindi
- Duncan Turner, HAX / SOSV
- Edda (Carbfix)
- Edward Muller, Chairman of the UCLA Institute for Carbon Management
- Elaine Hsieh, Principal, Third Derivative
- Ellen MacArthur
- Elon Musk
- Emily Kirsch
- Emily Reichert => Spoke in 2021
- Emma Watson
- Emmanuel Faber
- Eric Ingersoll
- Eric Schmidt
- Eric Trusiewicz
- Ethan Brown of Beyond Meat
- Etosha Cave (Twelve)
- EU regulators
- Farmers Business Network
- Fifth Wall
- Finless Foods
- First Movers Coalition
- Flow Carbon
- Footprint Coalition
- Form Energy => Spoke in 2021
- Franklin Servan Schreiber
- Frederik Hagenauer
- Frontier Group
- Garry Cooper (Rheaply)
- Gene Berdichevsky
- General Motors
- Gianmauro Calafiore (on solar power in Italy)
- Gina McCarthy
- Girish Nadkarni - Climate tech investor
- Giulia Siccardo
- Glaciologist Dr. Jean Robert Petit
- Global South
- GO Lab
- Greentown Labs
- Greg Smithies from Fifth Wall Climate Fund
- Greta Thunberg
- Gurinder Nagra (Furno Materials)
- H2GO Power
- Halil ibrahim dursunoglu
- Hampus Jakkobsson, Pale Blue Dot
- Hana Kajimura
- Head of the EPA
- Heirloom
- Helion Energy => Speaking!
- Herman Gyr
- Horace H. Dediu
- https://carbonlanddao.com/?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_C._Goldmark_Jr.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu
- https://www.carbonlandtrust.com/
- https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/andrewshebbeare
- https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/anne-lamp-4aa574b5/
- https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/ashishgadnis/
- https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/claus-mathisen-25468b
- https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/rafaeljorda/
- Hugh Bowen
- Hydrogenics (Cummins)
- Ibrahim Alhusseini (Fullcycle)
- Iggy Basso @ Cervest
- Ilan Gur
- Ilham Kadri
- Ilya Sheyman
- Insolight
- IPCC experts
- IREC Foundation
- Iveco
- James C. fish Jr.
- James Geshwiler
- James Litinsky
- Jamie Beck Alexander, Drawdown Labs
- Jan-Henk Welink 1st Secretary and Initiator at Knowledge Platform Sustainable Resource Management
- Jared Blumenfeld
- Jason Jacobs at MCJ Collective => Spoke in 2021
- JB Straubel, Redwood Materials
- Jean Marc Jancovici
- Jean Moreau
- Jean Shi
- Jeff Bezos
- Jeff Brown
- Jeff Holmstead https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/jeff-holmstead-80814118/
- Jen-Yu Huang
- Secretary Jennifer Granholm
- Jennifer Holmgren, LanzaTech => Spoke in 2021
- Jenny Rooke
- Jesse Jenkins
- Jigar Shah => Speaking!
- Joanna Klitzke
- Joe Biden
- Joe Manchin
- Johan Rockstr?m
- John Doerr
- John Kerry
- John Thackara
- Johnson & matthey
- Joshua Posamentier
- Judith Rodin
- Jules Kortenhorst
- Julia Brady, Valo Ventures
- Julio Friedman
- Kate Raworth
- Katherine Hayhoe
- Kathleen Alexander, Savor
- Kathy Hannun
- Katie Rae => Spoke in 2021
- Kavickumar
- Ken Caldiera
- Kerry Bowie
- Kevin Kelly
- Khosla Ventures => Speaking!
- Kiko Ventures
- Kim Le
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Kimberly Henderson
- Kiran Bhatraju (Arcadia)
- Kirsten Dunlop (EIC Climate-KIC)
- Larry Fink, Blackrock
- Lawrence Ang, Climate Smart Ventures
- Leo DiCaprio
- Liam Hardey
- Lightship Energy
- Lloyd Alter
- locus joppa microsoft
- Lourenco Goncalves
- Lubomila Jordanova
- M. P?nar Mengü?
- Maarten Van Aalst, Director of Climate Center
- Maija Itkonen, CEO Onego Bio
- malkom
- Margarita Quihuis, CEO Peace Innovation
- Mari-Ann Meigo Fonseca
- Marisa Cuevas
- Mark Carney, former head of the Bank of England and Canada
- Mark DeSantis
- Mark Gallogly
- mark kearney
- Mark Russell - CEO of HyperSciences
- Marshall Shepherd
- Masayoshi Son
- Mateo Jaramillo => Spoke in 2021
- Matias Muchnick => Speaking!
- Matt Peterson
- Matt Soule
- Matthew Nordan
- Mattias Josephson
- Max Shusteff LLNL
- Megan O'Connor (Nth Cycle)
- Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation
- Melissa Lott
- Mery Crystal Ra- public artist/ visionary/ underground art activist/ peace activist /energy art activistart activist
- Michael Beck
- Michael Liebreich
- Michael Selden CEO, Finless Foods
- Microsoft
- Mike Barlow- author/ writer NYC, USA
- Mike Berners-Lee
- Mike Cagney
- Mike Cannon-Brookes
- Mike Lin (Dangerous Ventures)
- Mitt Romney
- Naked Energy
- Nan Ransohoff (Stripe)
- NASA
- Nate Adams
- Navin Danapal
- Neal Stephenson => Speaking!
- Neeraj Berry
- Next meat CEO
- Nick Chadwick, Mission Zero CEO
- Nick Ellis
- Noah Horowitz, Director of ClimateWorks Foundation
- Noah Planavsky - Yale professor
- Northvolt
- Novoloop => Spoke in 2021
- NovoNutrients
- Ocean Health
- Olya Irzak (Frost Methane)
- Oscar Ramos, SOSV / Orbit Startups
- Pae Wu, SOSV / IndieBio
- Patagonia's Circular Economy Responsible employee
- Patrick Brown
- Patrick Ehlen on the latest in Cognitive AI + Quantum Computing helping in climate matters
- Paul Anastas (Yale)
- Paul Fischbeck
- Paul Hawken
- Pela/Lomi - Matthew Bertulli
- Pete Buttigieg
- Peter Diamandis
- Peter Gajdo?
- Peter McHale - Gaia.AI
- Phoenix Tailings
- Pieter Bakker WBSDC
- Planet A
- Po Bronson, SOSV / IndieBio
- Prescinto
- Prime Coalition
- Prime minister Bainimarama
- Prof. Dr. Maximilian Fichtner
- Project Drawdown
- Rachel Slaybaugh
- Raffael Jovine, Brilliant Planet => Speaking!
- Rajesh Swaminathan, Khosla Ventures => Speaking!
- Ramazan Sari
- Ramez Naam
- Rapid Mode Shift
- Ray Kurzweil
- Remi Bouteille
- Remora
- Richard Reed
- Risk managers from Moody’s
- Rob Genieser, ETF Partners
- Robert Downey Jr (Footprint Coalition)
- Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez & Pierre Paslier (Cofounders & Co-CEOs of Notpla)
- Russell Smith of Rizome
- Sama Bilbao y León
- Sandhya Sriram
- Sarah Hunter, X => Speaking!
- Sarah Lemaison
- Sarah Sclarsic, founder Voyager ventures => Speaking!
- Saul Griffith
- Scott Hamlin, CEO of LooptWorks
- Scott Nguyen (Bodhi)
- Sean O'sullivan
- Sebastian Born, founder of lilium
- Sequoia Climate Fund
- Shannon Miller, Mainspring
- Shaun Seaman
- Shayle Kahn, EIP => Speaking!
- Sheridan Tatsuno- author / writer /urban planner
- Shift Project
- Sir David Attenborough
- Slavoj Zizek
- Smart Helios
- Solitaire Townsend (Futerra)
- Someone from Japan and Korea who can speak about their blue hydrogen /?ammonia plans
- Sophie Purdom of Climate Tech VC => Coming soon!
- SouthPole
- Square Climate Fund
- Stella McCartney
- Stephen Chambers, SOSV / IndieBio
- Steve Howard, CSO of Temasek => GenZero is speaking and Temasek spoke in 2021
- Steve Oldham
- Stewart Brand
- Sundar Pichai
- Sunfolding
- Suzanne DiBianca
- Terracycle
- Terraformation => Speaking!
- The Earthshot Prize
- Thomas Annicq
- Thomas Nann, CEO of www.Allegro.energy
- Tiger Global Management
- Tim Cook
- Tim Davies (Hiiroc)
- Tim Swager
- Tom Chi (At One)
- Tom Rand (ArcTurn Ventures)
- Tom Steyer
- Tom Szaky
- Tony Fadell, Principal at Future Shape => Spoke in 2021
- Tony Robbins
- Toucan Protocol
- Toyota
- TPG Rise
- Ufuk Dundar
- Uma Valeti (Upside Foods) => Spoke in 2021
- USV => Speaking!
- Vanessa Chan
- Venna von Lepel
- Vera Schroeder
- Verdox (DAC company)
- Vinod Khosla => Spoke in 2021
- Vitalik Buterin
- William Bien
- World Fund => Speaking!
- X => Speaking!
- Yet-Ming Chiang => Speaking!
- Yin Yan
- Yuval Noah Harari
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2 年Should’ve asked me! Benjamin Joffe