Connect with leaders and innovators at the forefront of advancing a net-zero economy

November 26, 2024 | Vancouver Convention Centre

  • Interactive discussions on important topics from trends in venture capital and investing in climate tech, industry approaches to adopting new tech for decarbonization, to an in-depth exploration of the critical phase of capital allocation in the transition to sustainable energy.
  • A celebration of excellence and innovation as we announce up to $10 million in funding to the outstanding recipients of CICE’s July 2024 Call for Innovation and up to $3 million in funding in solutions focused on the prevention, mitigation, and adaptation of wildfires.

Join us for an inspiring and impactful event as we set the stage for continued progress and collaboration and advance our shared vision of building a climate-resilient and sustainable economy. At CONVERGE 2024, we aim to bridge gaps between sectors, spark new ideas, and catalyze collective action toward a sustainable future.

  • Startups and climate tech investors
  • Leaders in clean energy and climate tech
  • Investors in hard tech and climate tech solutions
  • Corporations seeking climate or clean energy projects/solutions
  • Members and partners of Canada’s tech and clean energy community

Speakers

Jonah Goldman

Head of External Affairs and Impact at Generate Capital
At Generate Capital, Jonah oversees communications, government engagement, and impact assessment and strategy. Before Generate, Jonah led Breakthrough Energy, a network founded by Bill Gates including investment funds, nonprofit and philanthropic programs, and policy efforts linked by a common commitment to scale the technologies we need to achieve a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

Sarah Goodman

President and CEO of the B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy
Sarah Goodman is an executive and climate policy expert known for her ability to work across sectors to drive climate action and sustainable economic opportunities. Prior to her appointment at CICE, she was a Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where she advised leading companies and governments around the world on advancing climate solutions and green industrial policy.

Parham Peiroo

Partner at Boston Consulting Group & CICE Board Member
Parham is a Partner in Boston Consulting Group’s Principal Investor & Private Equity and Climate and Sustainability practices. He is part of BCG’s leadership team on the fund strategy and operations and climate tech topics.

Sarah Applebaum

Partner at Pangea Ventures
Sarah brings more than a decade of venture capital and company-building experience to the team. Sarah has cultivated expertise in building entrepreneurial teams, scaling early-stage ventures, and venture financing. Sarah is an active mentor to early-stage entrepreneurs and a startup community activator and advocate.

Jack Chang

Industrial & Climate Tech Partner at Fort Capital Partners
Jack previously founded Canadian Resources Capital, an exempt market dealer that specialized in Sino-Canadian investment transactions, with sector focus on clean technologies, industrials, resources and general technologies. His past experience includes corporate lending and investment management.

Marty Reed

Partner at Evok Innovations
A long-time Bay Area executive and investor, Marty Reed moved to Vancouver in 2015 to launch Evok Innovations, a novel approach to corporate innovation, that integrates Silicon Valley start-up culture and venture capital into existing R&D / innovation efforts. Marty leads the firm’s efforts on strategy, team building and investments.

Erin Flanagan

Director at Canada Growth Fund Investment Management Inc.
Erin Flanagan is a Director at Canada Growth Fund Investment Management Inc. (CGF Investment Management). In this capacity she supports the $15B Fund’s portfolio construction strategy and investment execution activities, in alignment with the Canada Growth Fund’s decarbonization and energy transition mandate. Erin leads CGF Investment Management’s impact measurement, stakeholder relations, and public affairs efforts. 

Todd Sayers

COO of the B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy
Todd has over two decades of experience working in energy systems across value chains connecting customers and suppliers. Todd has led small teams to extraordinary results and is passionate about the energy transition opportunity as well as taking the challenges head on to expedite innovation in affordable, secure, low carbon energy solutions for BC and the world.

Kari Montrichard

Manager, Capacity Products at BC Hydro
Kari Montrichard started as a summer student at BC Hydro in 1998 with the Community team. Kari has more than 15 years of experience in energy efficiency program management. Since 2022, Kari has led a team that is focused on delivering capacity solutions at systems and localized levels. Her team is responsible for all demand response programs at BC Hydro in all sectors (residential, commercial, and industrial) and non-wire alternative solutions. Kari has a Bachelor of Business with a marketing concentration.

Keith Mayhew

Director, Decarbonization and Innovation at Teck Resources
Keith has over 20 years of commercial and technology leadership experience within Teck, focused on mineral processing, metallurgy and decarbonization.  He has a Masters of Engineering degree in Mining from UBC and a GDBA from Simon Fraser University. Currently Keith manages Teck’s Decarbonization & Innovation teams and is focused on Teck’s pathway to reduce the carbon intensity of operations by 33% by 2030. 

Erin Bradley

Business Integration & Decarbonication Manager at Shell Canada
Erin Bradley has 25 years’ experience in the energy industry in Canada and globally. She brings the benefit of her broad knowledge and experience in bioenergy, renewable power, hydrogen, conventional gas, and LNG.

Ben Goodier

Head of Bio-Innovation at Canfor
Ben Goodier leads a team of innovators reimagining the forest sector in a carbon constrained world. His work to deliver greater value from its biogenic carbon includes acting as a Board Director and overseeing Canfor’s interest in Arbios Biotech, which is commercializing a first-of-kind biofuel technology. With more than 20 years’ experience in transformation strategies, Ben has held production roles within pulp and paper mills, advisory roles as a consultant, and most recently leadership roles at Canfor. 

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