This isn’t your usual climate tech event. It’s not about press releases, polished pitch decks, or panels you’ve already heard. This is about the emotional resilience, and tangible shifts necessary it takes to face headwinds and navigate what’s next—sometimes in the trenches—with grit, smarts, and a drive to build better solutions.

​Because let’s be honest: the climate world is ffing hard. And we need  to have each others’ backs.​

This gathering is for the founders, funders, and operators in the thick of it—navigating enterprise customers, thorny leadership challenges, and the mental load of building through uncertainty.

​How do you lock in big customers, scale a team without breaking the culture, and stay grounded when the going gets hard?

​Through candid insights from a seasoned CEO who has led through shaky times without a playbook, actionable advice from coaches who’ve guided leaders through similar storms, and peer-to-peer feedback sessions, gearing you up to navigate your toughest business challenges head-on.​

​What’s Happening

• ​Fuel for the Climb – Van Jones, CNN Host and Founder of Dream.Org and Magic Labs Media, opens with hard-won wisdom from the political trenches—sparking the courage, connection, and conviction for the road ahead.
• ​Financing the Big Gap – The debut of a new financing model designed to close the price parity gap and fast-track sustainable materials to commercial scale. Matt Schmitt, Co-Founder, CEO of Structure Climate, Jason Berns, Head of Sustainability & Product Innovation at Ralph Lauren, and Josh Felser, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Climactic, and Material CEO (TBA) will unpack the opportunities, challenges, and realities of aligning innovators, funders and corporates that could redefine how these solutions can scale.
• ​Leading When the Playbook Breaks – Alexi Robichaux, Co-Founder, CEO of BetterUp shares raw lessons from the trenches of scaling - navigating the leap to enterprise, steering through market headwinds, and layering in AI without breaking what worked. Expect unfiltered insights on what bends, what breaks, and what endures.
• ​CEO Coaching Panel & Peer Circle – Veteran coaches, Adena Philips, and Ray Foote, share raw, in-the-trenches stories from working with startup CEOs - from burnout and co-founder conflict to culture strain—the patterns, pivots, and personal moments that have shaped real leadership, and the frameworks that actually work under pressure. Attendees then carry those insights into small, high-trust groups to share their own challenges and trade rapid-fire feedback. Leave with practical tools, fresh clarity, and the reminder you’re not navigating headwinds alone.