Verge 2023 | GreenBiz Group Inc. | 24 October 2023 | Signia by Hilton San Jose, 170 S Market St, San Jose, CA 95113, USA

This events is the leading climate tech event accelerating solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. It is the center of gravity for the climate community — leaders from business, government, solution providers and startups — working together to address the climate crisis.

The unprecedented challenges we face today present equally unprecedented opportunities to reimagine and redesign our world to be more prosperous, sustainable and resilient. The key programs that comprise this Buildings, Carbon, Energy, Food, Startups and Transport — focus on seizing these opportunities.

Join the growing this events ecosystem of more than 5,000 professionals for this solutions-oriented event. By attending, you’ll gain access to inspiring keynotes, engaging breakout sessions and tutorials, innovative exhibit displays, networking events and more.

2023 Speakers

Abby Sturges
Cofounder & Managing Executive Coach & Consultant, Regenerous,

Adam Klauber
World Energy

Adam Browning,
Global Sustainability Leader, Forum Mobility

Adrienne Pierce,
Chief Executive Officer, New Sun Road

Ahmad Thomas,
CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group

Alex Gershenson
CEO, SupplyShift,

Alex Haring,
Advanced Transport, BloombergNEF

Alex Smith,
Food and Agriculture Analyst, Breakthrough Institute

Alexandra Iljadica,
BHP Ventures, Investor

Alexandra Harbour,
Venture Climate Alliance, Founder & Chair

Aly Bryan,
Closed Loop Partners, Investor, Ventures Group

Alyssa Rade,
Chief Sustainability Officer, Sustain.Life,

Amanda Li,
COO, Co-Founder, Banyan Infrastructure

Amy Bond
MBA, Sr. Sustainability Manager, T-Mobile,

Amy Chen
Chief Operating Officer, Upside Foods

Amy Skoczlas Cole
President, Trust In Food, Farm Journal

Andrew Chen
Principal , RMI

Andrew Solberg
Global Market Solutions Director - Energy Decarbonization , Jacobs

Andrew Mayock
Federal Chief Sustainability Officer, Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President

Andrew Tanner
Technology and Commercialization Leader, Yotta Energy

Andrew Beebe
Managing Director, Obvious Ventures

Angel Veza
Senior Manager, Capital, Innovation & Engagement, ReFED

Anna Robertson
Co-Founder, Head of Content & Partnerships, The Cool Down

Anastasia Volkova
CEO and Co-founder, Regrow Ag

Anastasija Kuprijanova
Director, Amogy

Andrea Murphy
Director - Environmental Affairs, Panasonic

Andreas Aepli
CFO , Climeworks

Andrew Knueppel
Workplace Engineering Manager, Cushman & Wakefield

Andrew Connors
Green Impact

Dan Baldi
National Head of Climate Tech, SVB

Dan Connors
Chief Executive Officer, Green Impact

Dan Riegler
Co-founder, Karana

Dana Clare-Redden
Founder , Solar Stewards

Daniel Sanchez
University of California, Berkeley

Danielle Conkling
ESG , Silicon Valley Bank

Darryll Harrison
General Motors (GM)

David Young
Managing Director & Senior Partner, BCG Henderson Institute

David LeZak
Food System 6

David Felix
Clean Energy Infrastructure Development & Finance, Inspiration Mobility

David Groarke
Managing Director, Indigo Advisory Group

David Tyler
Co-Founder & Commercial Director, Artemis Technologies

Dawn Owens
Head of Development and Commercial Markets, Fervo Energy

Deepa Lounsbury
Managing Director, LabStart

Desiree Munoz
Ohlone Sisters

Devon Wright
Lumo Ag

Dick Cameron
Vice President of Science, Pachama

Dimitry Gershenson
Co-Founder and CEO, Enduring Planet

Donna Lee
Co-Founder, Calyx Global

Doug Park Ph.D.
ERM

Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome
White House Council on Environmental Quality

Dr. Jonathan Melville
ARPA-e

Dr. Joseph Allen
Harvard

Dr. Kendra Kuhl
Twelve

Drew Wilkinson
Climate Leadership Collective

Drew Turner
Global Head of Sector Integration, Danfoss

Dylan Siegler
SVP, Sustainability , GreenBiz Group

Ebony Twilley Martin
Executive Director, Greenpeace

Elaine Hsieh
Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy

Elias Habbar-Baylac
Climate Investor, Cisco

Emily Pape
Senior Associate, Electrification Coalition

Emily Bass
Federal Policy Manager for Food & Agriculture, Breakthrough Institute

Emma Armstrong
Executive Director, Anthesis Group

Eric Adams
Founder, Dog and Whistle

Erika Myers
Executive Director, CharIN North America

Ethan Steinberg
CEO & Co-Founder, Propagate

Eva Goulbourne
Founder & CEO, Littlefoot Ventures

Faraz Ahmad
Head of Net Zero Grid, Amazon

Francesca Whitehead
VP, Fifth Wall

Frank Reig
Co-Founder & CEO, Revel

Gabe Kleinman
Operating Partner, Venture Investing, Emerson Collective

Gabriel Kra
Managing Director and Cofounder, Prelude Ventures

Gesina Beckert
Director of Operations, Food for Climate League

Gilbert Campbell
Founder & CEO, Volt Energy Utility

Greg Twinney
Chief Executive Officer, General Fusion

Greg Belt
Founder & CEO, EverGrain

Gregory Davis
President & CEO, Eviation Aircraft

Gus Manke
Venture Clienting Associate, Siemens Energy Ventures

Hamideh Bitaraf
Advisory and Power Systems Manager- NAM & EU , Hitachi

Hanh Nguyen
VP Global Sustainability , OCI

Hannah Hauptman
Climate & Energy Strategy and Policy, U.S. Department of Energy

Hannes Junginger PhD
Carbonfuture

Hasitha Sridharan
Head of Growth, Greenly

Heather Clancy
Editor At Large, GreenBiz Group

Heidi Creighton
Skanska

Henrik Holland
Prologis

Henry Richardson
WattTime

Husein Kitabwalla
Sodexo

Maaz Haider
EDF+Business

Mahesh Ramanujam
The Global Network for Zero

Manoj Sinha
Husk Power Systems

Marc Bradbrook
Drax Group

Marc Coltelli
EY

Maria Curry-Nkansah
Argonne National Laboratory

Mariah Kennedy
Microsoft

Marisa Sweeney
S2g Ventures

Mark Dyson
RMI

Mark Richardson
Inspiration Mobility

Mark Warner
Liberation Labs

Marla Stevenson
WWF

Mary Purdy
The Culinary Institute of America

Maryline Daviaud Lewett
Black & Veatch

Matt Rubin
True Essence Foods

Matt Horton
Voltera

Matthew Claxton
Plug and Play

Matthew Muenster
Breakthrough

Maureen Gillespie
Enel North America

Max Elder
Founder & CEO, Nowadays

Megan Goodman
Associate Director, CDP

Megan Lorenzen
Director, Climate & Energy, Salesforce

Megan Farrell
Senior Director, Sustainability, Rivian

Melanie Knight
Corporate Partnerships Manager, Gold Standard

Melanie Nakagawa
Chief Sustainability Officer, Microsoft

Mia Overall
VP ESG, Newmark

Michael Roeth
Lead Trucking Efficiency & Decarbonization, North American Council for Freight Efficiency

Michelle Romero
Dream.org

Mikal Lewis
Director of Proptech and Innovation, Nuveen

Mike Mattera
Director of Corporate Sustainability & ESG Officer, Akamai

Mike Schroepfer
Partner , Gigascale Capital

Mikhail Davis
Director of Technical Sustainability, Interface

Muffi Ghadiali
General Manager, Ford Pro Charging, Ford Pro

Neal Okarter
Investment Manager, BASF

Neha Palmer
CEO , TeraWatt Infrastructure

Val Miftakhov
Founder & CEO, ZeroAvia

Val Fishman
Advocacy and Development Consultant, Netafim

Vartan Badalian
Director, Transport, GreenBiz Group