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ICR25 Conference

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ICR25: Partner, Accelerate, Launch

ICR unites global innovators to tackle the most pressing challenge of our time. This year's theme, "Partner, Accelerate, Launch," invites you to partner with pioneers, accelerate climate solutions, and launch your innovations, emphasizing the critical need for scalable innovations to urgently confront climate issues. The conference highlights include promoting swift carbon neutrality, investing in resilient infrastructure, enhancing future-proof systems, and developing sustainable solutions for upcoming generations.


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  • Ali Zaidi

    National Climate Advisor
    Ali Zaidi serves as Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor. In this role, he leads the White House Climate Policy Office, which coordinates policy development and President Biden’s all-of-government approach to tackle the climate crisis, create good-paying, union jobs, and advance environmental justice. Zaidi is a longtime advisor to President Biden, having provided counsel and leadership on climate policy development, legislation, and executive action from day one of the Administration and on the Biden presidential transition and campaign.  Before his current role, he served as Deputy National Climate Advisor.  

  • Gina McCarthy

    National Climate Advisor
    Gina McCarthy is the first National Climate Advisor—the president's chief advisor on domestic climate policy—and leads the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy focused on mobilizing a whole-of-government approach to tackling the climate crisis, creating good-paying union jobs, and securing environmental justice.

  • Richard W. Spinrad, Ph.D.

    Under Secretary of Commerce, Oceans and Atmosphere & NOAA Administrator
    Richard (Rick) W. Spinrad, Ph.D., was sworn in on June 22, 2021 as the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and the 11th NOAA administrator. Dr. Spinrad is responsible for the strategic direction and oversight of the agency and its over 12,000 employees, including developing NOAA’s portfolio of products and services to address the climate crisis, enhancing environmental sustainability and fostering economic development, and creating a more just, equitable, diverse and inclusive NOAA workforce.

  • Tammy Ma, Ph.D.

    Lead, Inertial Fusion Energy Initiative, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Tammy received her B.S. from Caltech, then M.S. and Ph.D. from UC San Diego. She is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) and currently sits on the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC), providing advice to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (DOE-SC) on complex scientific and technological issues related to fusion energy and plasma research.

  • Dr. Geri Richmond

    Under Secretary for Science and Innovation, Department of Energy (DOE)
    Geraldine (Geri) Richmond is the Under Secretary for Science and Innovation at the Department of Energy (DOE). In this role she oversees DOE's Office of Science, the nation’s largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences, DOE’s applied R&D areas of nuclear, fossil, and renewable energy, and energy system integrity, and the DOE national laboratories and their facilities. She is currently on leave from the University of Oregon where she holds the Presidential Chair in Science and Professor of Chemistry. Richmond's research throughout her career has been on the use of laser-based and computational methods to understand the molecular, adsorption structure and dynamics at liquid surfaces that have relevance to environmental and technological interests. 

  • Kelly Cummins

    Acting Director, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
    Kelly Cummins is the Acting Director for the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In this role, she is responsible for delivering more than $25 billion in funding to support large-scale clean energy demonstration projects. Cummins has worked in the field of national and energy security at DOE for more than 20 years. Prior to her role in OCED, Cummins served as the Associate Deputy Director for Field Operations in the Office of Science, where she was responsible for management and operational oversight of the Office of Science field complex, including 10 national laboratories executing leading scientific research and development.

  • John Conger

    President of Conger Strategies and Solutions, LLC
    John Conger is President of Conger Strategies and Solutions, Director Emeritus of the Center for Climate and Security, Senior Advisor to the Council on Strategic Risks, Senior Advisor to the International Military Council on Climate and Security, and a Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors.

  • Sarah Ladislaw

    Senior Director for Climate and Energy, National Security Council, The White House

    Senior Director Sarah Ladislaw leads the U.S. National Security Council’s (NSC) Climate and Energy Directorate, responsible for coordinating national security policy on issues including the climate crisis, energy security, stability and reliability, and strengthening environmental sustainability. Sarah previously was a Managing Director at RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute), where she led the US Program. She also worked on other global initiatives including the Mission Possible Partnership to reduce industrial-sector emissions and supports the development of green banks.

  • Ben Vinson III, Ph.D

    President, Howard University
    Dr. Ben Vinson III is the 18th president of Howard University and a tenured professor of history in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences. As president, he is tasked with inspiring, innovating, and strategically leading the Howard community which include undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. President Vinson was most recently provost and executive vice president at Case Western Reserve University. During his tenure, Dr. Vinson spearheaded the university’s “Think Big” strategic planning initiative, which received national attention for its innovative and inclusive planning process.

  • Franco Amalfi

    Director, Sustainability Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships - North America, Capgemini
    Franco is a sustainability expert and digital transformation global thought leader with more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of sustainability and digital transformation. He is currently the director of sustainability strategic partnerships and initiatives for Capgemini. He is responsible for working with hyperscalers and climate techs to bring to market innovative sustainability solutions to customers in all industries in North America. Prior to joining Capgemini, Franco was the Head of Sustainability Strategy, Global Public Sector for Google Cloud.

  • Nancy J. Balkus, P.E., SES

    Deputy Assistant Secretary, the Air Force for Environment, Safety and Infrastructure, Headquarters U.S. Air Force.
    Nancy J. Balkus, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Environment, Safety and Infrastructure, Headquarters U.S. Air Force.  She provides executive leadership on all matters pertaining to formulation, review and execution of plans, policies, programs and budgets for Air Force built and natural infrastructure, environmental, installation energy, safety, occupational health, and resilience integration programs. These include facility management, military construction, utilities privatization, energy security, contingency energy, environmental compliance and restoration, occupational safety and workplace health.  

  • David Balton

    Executive Director, Arctic Executive Steering Committee
    David Balton is the Executive Director of the U.S. Arctic Executive Steering Committee, which advances and coordinates and U.S. policies and activities in the Arctic region. He previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries in the U.S. Department of State, attaining the rank of Ambassador in 2006.  Ambassador Balton was responsible for coordinating the development of U.S. foreign policy concerning oceans and fisheries, and overseeing U.S. participation in international organizations dealing with these issues.

  • Meredith Berger

    Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations, and Environment)/Chief Sustainability Officer
    The Honorable Meredith Berger assumed the responsibilities of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations & Environment on July 28, 2021. She is responsible for providing oversight and policy for Navy and Marine Corps energy and climate resilience; infrastructure sustainment, restoration and modernization; military construction; acquisition, utilization and disposal of real property and facilities; environmental protection, planning, restoration and natural resources conservation; and safety and occupational health.

  • Annalise Blum, PhD.

    Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, Department of the Interior
    Dr. Annalise Blum is a hydrologist with expertise in climate, water and national security policy. She serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior working closely with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation. Previously, she served at the U.S. Department of Defense as Senior Advisor for Climate Policy and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow, for which she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service.

  • Sharon Burke

    President, Ecospherics and Co-Founder, Ecosecurity Council

    Honorable Sharon E. Burke is the President of Ecospherics, a research and consulting firm that focuses on climate change, energy, critical minerals, and food security. She is also the Co-Founder with Dr. Rod Schoonover of the Ecosecurity Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to policy solutions for ecosphere security. Throughout her career, Burke has worked to balance national security and environmental sustainability, with a focus on ideas that scale through public policy.

  • Douglas Chan

    Chief Operating Officer, Climeworks
    Douglas Chan oversees the Operations of Climeworks, building on his experience leading manufacturing and energy projects around the world. Douglas is responsible for Climeworks’ plant operations as well as structuring the supply chain, project execution, and production teams that are needed to enable direct air capture and storage (DAC+S) to reach gigaton capacity by 2050. He also serves as General Manager US, leading Climeworks' business expansion into the United States. Before Climeworks, Douglas was latest with Tesla, where he contributed to scaling operations internationally.

  • Julia Kumari Drapkin

    CEO and Founder, ISeeChange
    Julia Kumari Drapkin is the CEO of ISeeChange, a climate data and engagement platform to help cities monitor, design, and maintain climate ready infrastructure. Cities have used ISeeChange to generate over 25M in infrastructure investments in low income communities. Drapkin founded ISeeChange after reporting natural disasters and climate change for 12 years across the globe and in her own backyard on the Gulf Coast. Under her leadership, ISeeChange has received national awards and recognition from the White House Climate Data Initiative, NASA, MIT Solve, Echoing Green, Village Capital, Grist, AGU, the AAAS, Verizon, Exelon, Morgan Stanley, and the National Science Foundation. Drapkin also serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Board on Environment and Health. 

  • Dina Esposito

    Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security (REFS) at USAID
    Dina Esposito serves as the Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security (REFS) at USAID, Feed the Future Deputy Coordinator for Development, and the Agency’s Global Food Crisis Coordinator. Most recently, Dina served five years at Mercy Corps (MC), a global organization focused on helping build more resilient, inclusive communities in some of the most fragile contexts in the world through development, humanitarian response, and peacebuilding programs. She served there as Vice President for Technical Leadership, guiding a team of subject matter experts who provide strategy, program design and technical support for Mercy Corps’ global vision and for country teams in more than 40 countries. 

  • Sherri Goodman

    Senior Fellow, Environmental Change & Security Program and Polar Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center
    Sherri Goodman, Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute, and Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security, is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, “threat multiplier,” to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic. Sherri serves as Vice Chair of the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board and on the EXIM Bank's Council on Climate. 

  • Rachel Jacobson

    Assistant Secretary of the United States Army Installations, Energy and Environment
    Ms. Rachel Jacobson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 15, 2022, and sworn in as the 17th Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Army for Installations, Energy and Environment (ASA(IE&E)) on April 4, 2022. As ASA (IE&E), she is the primary advisor to the Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army for all matters related to Army installation policy and oversight, and coordination of energy security and management. In addition, she is responsible for policy and oversight of sustainability and environmental initiatives; resource management; Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC); privatization of the Army real estate portfolio and installation Safety and Occupational Health programs.

  • Alex Laplaza

    Advisor, Lowercarbon Capital
    Alex has nearly a decade of experience scaling decarbonization and adaptation solutions globally. Most recently, Alex was a Partner at Lowercarbon Capital where he joined as the firm's first hire, raised $2B in early-stage equity, built a portfolio of over 100 decarbonization and adaptation investments, and established the firm as one of the most active climate tech investors the world. Before Lowercarbon, Alex worked on clean energy infrastructure, climate policy, and food and water security in emerging markets, including India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Kenya.

  • Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D.

    Senior Research Scientist, Lecturer, and Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, the Yale School of the Environment
    Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D. is the founder and Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of the Environment. He is an internationally recognized expert on public climate change beliefs, attitudes, policy support, and behavior, and the psychological, cultural, and political factors that shape them and conducts research globally, including in the United States, China, India, and Brazil. 

  • Katie MacDonald

    Co-Founder, Tailwind
    Katie MacDonald is a climate activist, investor, and innovation policy expert who has been working on climate change since she skipped school at 17 to protest for offshore wind. She is the co-founder of Tailwind, an innovation studio focused on accelerating innovation for climate adaptation and resilience solutions. Before Tailwind, Katie served as Director of Tech to Market at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) where she was responsible for the organization’s early-stage startup investment portfolio. 

  • Dr. Jennifer Mercer

    Head of Arctic Sciences in the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation
    Dr. Jennifer Mercer is Head of Arctic Sciences in the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where she oversees the facilitation of scientific research across the Arctic through myriad disciplines and approaches. She previously held positions at the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Mercer has been conducting research, leading projects, and overseeing scientific research in the Arctic and Antarctic environments for over two decades and has peer-reviewed publications in the fields of organic geochemistry, atmospheric and cryospheric science, polar engineering, and Arctic science diplomacy. 

  • Brendan Owens, ASD (EI&E)

    Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Energy, Installations, and Environment)
    The Honorable Brendan Owens was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment on January 26, 2023. In this role, he is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment for all matters relating to operational and facility energy; installations real property planning, operations, and sustainment; environment protection, compliance, and restoration; natural, historical and cultural resources; and accompanied and unaccompanied military housing.

  • Roger S. Pulwarty Ph.D.

    Senior Scientist, NOAA
    Roger S. Pulwarty is the Senior Scientist in NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Pulwartys’ research and over 120 publications focus on climate, water, disaster reduction, and resilience. He has also helped develop and lead landmark programs integrating science and services, including the National Integrated Drought Information System, the NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments/Climate Adaptation Partnerships, and GEF Mainstreaming Adaptation in the Caribbean. Roger has served as a convening lead author on the IPCC, the UN Office of Disaster Risk Reduction, the International Science Council, and the U.S. National Climate Assessments, among others. 

  • Ben Reinke

    Vice President of Global Business Development, X-energy
    As Vice President of Global Business Development, Dr. Reinke leads the Business Development organization at X-energy and is responsible for end-to-end commercial reactor business development and sales – strategy and marketing, analytics, organizational management, customer relationship development, contract negotiations, capture management, and early-phase project management.

  • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

    Senior Advisor, Akin; Member of Congress 1989 - 2019
    As the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress with a public service career that spans nearly four decades, Ileana brings institutional knowledge, expertise, and experience across diverse domestic and international affairs policy matters. Throughout her Congressional career, in her various roles on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, including as Chair, she led on pressing foreign policy issues, including championing the advancement of freedom and democracy for all; fighting Islamist extremism; supporting and strengthening the U.S. – Israel partnership; supporting free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea; imposing sanctions on human rights violators in Venezuela; and fighting against tyranny and oppression, particularly in her native homeland of Cuba.  

  • Aaron Salzberg, Ph.D.

    Director of the Water Institute and Distinguished Holzworth Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina
    Aaron Salzberg is the Director of the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina. The goal of the Water Institute is to contribute to a more water secure by advancing research, policy, and practice.  From 2010 to 2017, Aaron served as the Special Coordinator for Water at the U.S. Department of State where he managed the development and implementation of U.S. foreign policy on drinking water and sanitation, water resources management, and transboundary water issues.  He was the first person to hold this title.  In this role, Aaron led the development of the first U.S. Global Water Strategy.

  • Mónika Serrano

    Resilience Program Manager, Turner Construction Company
    Mónika Serrano leads Turner Construction's resilience program and brings 20 years of experience in the construction industry. Passionate about addressing climate change, she actively promotes climate adaptation in the built environment. Mónika serves on the Board of Advisors for the National Institute of Building Sciences, is a member of the ASTM Property Resilience Assessment task force, and contributes to the LEED v5 Resilience Working Group.

  • Raina Thiele (Tentative)

    Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Alaska and Strategic Priorities, Department of the Interior
    Raina Thiele serves as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior for Alaska Affairs and Strategic Priorities. She serves as the Department of the Interior’s policy lead on issues related to Alaska, which comprises a large proportion of the Department’s overall portfolio. She has spent her career in public service, the private sector, and the nonprofit sector. In her previous public service role she was President Obama’s tribal liaison and led planning for President Obama’s historic 2015 trip to Alaska. Raina was born and raised in Alaska and her family hails from Pedro Bay Village on Lake Iliamna and Alexander Creek. She is Dena’ina Athabascan and Yup’ik.

  • Sonam Velani

    Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Streetlife Ventures
    Sonam Velani is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Streetlife Ventures, an early stage venture fund that invests at the intersection of cities and climate. Sonam has worked across the world and across the public and private sectors, connecting the dots between the built environment and urban infrastructure. Prior to co-founding Streetlife, Sonam financed $10 billion of transportation, energy, and water infrastructure projects at Goldman Sachs, helped build coastal protection and water systems in Asia at the World Bank, launched drone mobility solutions in Africa at Zipline, and developed New York City’s $15 billion Green New Deal at the NYC Mayor's Office.

  • Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti

    Ambassador of Brazil to the United States
    Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti presented her credentials to President Joe Biden on June 30, 2023. Before assuming her duties in Washington, Ambassador Viotti served as Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (2017-2021), Under Secretary General for Asia and the Pacific at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2016), and Ambassador of Brazil to Germany (2013-2016).

  • Richard Kidd

    Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Environment & Energy Resilience), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Sustainment)

    Mr. Kidd provides policy and governance for programs and activities that enable resilience and cyber-secure energy for weapon systems and installations. This includes budgetary, policy, and management oversight of programs related to climate change, compliance with environmental laws, prevention of pollution, management of natural and cultural resources, and cleanup of contaminated sites, as well as energy resilience, risk, and performance.

  • Alice Hill

    Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations

    Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work at CFR focuses on the risks, consequences, and responses associated with climate change. Hill previously served as special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff where she led the development of national policy to build resilience to catastrophic risks, including climate change and biological threats.

  • Kenneth Høegh

    Head of Representation, Greenland Representation in Washington D.C.
    Mr. Kenneth Høegh was posted to the Greenland Representation in Washington D.C. in August 2021. He has acquired in depth experience and knowledge within Greenland and the Arctic, Greenlandic social and business conditions, the Kingdom's foreign and security policy in the Arctic, including in particular bilateral cooperation between Greenland, Denmark and the United States. Mr. Høegh has a large network around Greenlandic society as well as networks in Nordic, Greenlandic-American and Arctic co-operation.

  • Brent Constantz

    Founder and CEO, Blue Planet
    Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Planet Systems Corporation, a serial entrepreneur with expertise in biomineralization. Dr. Constantz founded Calera to address global climate concerns with aspirations to permanently sequester gigaton quantities of carbon dioxide in the form of carbonate minerals.

  • Patricia Hoffman

    Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity

    Serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity (OE) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Ms. Patricia A. Hoffman also served as Acting Under Secretary for Science and Energy from January 2017 until November 2017 when the U.S. Senate confirmed Mark Menezes as Under Secretary of Energy. Ms. Hoffman served as Acting Assistant Secretary for OE from January 2017 until October 2017 when the OE Assistant Secretary was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

  • Eric M.V. Hoek, Ph.D.

    Professor, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering; Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Director, UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.

    Dr. Eric Hoek is a professor in the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a faculty scientist in the Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and also the director of UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.

  • Alice Caponiti

    Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Energy, DOE

    Alice Caponiti serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reactor Fleet and Advanced Reactor Deployment in the Office of Nuclear Energy. She leads a diverse portfolio of research, development and demonstration programs focused on the technical and economic sustainability of the existing U.S. fleet of commercial reactors and the development and deployment of innovative advanced reactors. Ms. Caponiti is managing a new cost-shared program with industry to demonstrate multiple advanced reactor designs that offer expanded market opportunities for clean energy.

  • Erin Sikorsky

    Director, Center for Climate and Security (CCS), the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS)
    Erin Sikorsky is Director of the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), and the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS). Previously, Erin served in the US intelligence community for over a decade, most recently as the Deputy Director of the Strategic Futures Group on the National Intelligence Council (NIC). While on the NIC, she co-authored the quadrennial Global Trends report and led the US intelligence community’s environmental and climate security analysis. She is an expert in strategic foresight and the geopolitical and conflict risks associated with climate change.

  • Elie Bou-Zeid

    Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
    Elie Bou-Zeid is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. An expert in atmospheric physics and micrometeorology, Prof. Bou-Zeid serves on the executive board for the Princeton-Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System and is Editor of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 

  • Amanda Staudt

    Director, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC), National Academies of Science
    Amanda Staudt is Senior Director for Climate, Atmospheric, and Polar Sciences at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She provides strategic direction and leadership to climate-related activities that span the National Academies, and manages the day-to-day operations of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) and the Polar Research Board (PRB).

  • Linnea Avallone

    Chief Officer for Research Facilities, National Science Foundation
    Linnea Avallone is the Chief Officer for Research Facilities at the National Science Foundation, where she has oversight of the agency’s major and mid-scale research infrastructure. Prior to her current role, she served as the program manager of the Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities in the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences and subsequently as Senior Advisor for Facilities in the Geosciences Directorate.

  • Kenya Stump

    Executive Director, Office of Energy Policy, Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet
    Kenya Stump was appointed as the Executive Director of the Kentucky Office of Energy Policy in March of 2020. Prior to that, Kenya served Assistant Director for the Division of Energy Assistance within the Office of Energy Policy. Before her work in energy, Kenya managed the environmental assistance programs at the Cabinet including environmental leadership, brownfields, and compliance assistance with the Division of Compliance Assistance. She also served as environmental scientist and policy advisor for the Director’s Office at the Division for Air Quality. 

  • Karen Boyd

    Senior Manager Carbon Services, Truterra
    Boyd leads the Carbon Operations team at Truterra, the sustainability business of farmer-owned cooperative Land O’Lakes, where she works to advance regenerative agriculture practices through the company’s carbon program.

  • Sally Benson

    Deputy Director for Energy, Office of Science and Technology Policy
    Dr. Benson serves as Deputy Director for Energy & Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition at OSTP. Trained as an earth scientist and engineer, she is an expert on wide variety of topics related to energy and the environment. For the past 25 years, she has focused on deep decarbonization of the global energy system. She comes to OSTP from Stanford University where she is the Precourt Family Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences.

  • Christine King

    Director, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN)
    As Director of the Gateway for Acceleration in Nuclear (GAIN) initiative, Christine King facilitates a range of public-private partnerships to help move innovative nuclear energy technologies toward commercialization, while ensuring the continued safe, reliable, and economic operation of the existing nuclear fleet. In addition, GAIN works to ensure that clean energy plans value the opportunity nuclear energy provides to meet decarbonization and sustainability goals.

  • Ranveer Chandra

    Managing Director, Research for Industry, CTO Agri-Food, Microsoft Research
    Ranveer Chandra is the CTO of Agri-Food, Managing Director of Research for Industry, and Head of Networking Research at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. Ranveer’s research has shipped in multiple Microsoft products, including XBOX, Azure, Windows, and Visual Studio. He started the FarmBeats project in 2015, which shipped as a Microsoft product in 2019. Bill Gates has featured Ranveer’s FarmBeats work on GatesNotes and was invited to present to the Secretary of Agriculture.

  • Kelly Olson

    Sustainable Buildings Lead, Department of Defense Climate Action Team, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment & Energy Resilience (ODASD(E&ER))
    Kelly Olson, P.E. is the Sustainable Buildings Lead on the Department of Defense Climate Action Team in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment & Energy Resilience (ODASD(E&ER)). Her focus is creating the policy and technical framework to decarbonize new and existing DoD buildings. She received her MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University with a concentration in Sustainable Design and Construction. She is a licensed Professional Engineer. 

  • William Solecki, Ph.D.

    Professor, City University of New York – Hunter College
    William Solecki’s research focuses on urban environmental change and transitions generally, and urban climate vulnerability and adaptation specifically. He has served as leader or co-leader of numerous international, national, and local climate impacts projects, panels, and assessments including those of the IPCC, US National Climate Assessment, US National of Academy of Sciences and the New York City on Panel on Climate Change. 

  • Joseph Wilkins, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Howard University
    Dr. Joseph L. Wilkins works as an Assistant Professor at Howard University. His research focuses on remote sensing tools and air quality model development. He earned a B.S. in Atmospheric Science and minored in Physics at the University of Louisville, and later completed his M.S. and PhD in Meteorology with a concentration on Air Quality and Pollution at Saint Louis University. Dr. Wilkins is one of the leading researchers in the fire modeling community, and has published manuscripts, spoke at technical conferences, and communicates his research across many governments and academic institutions globally. 

  • Matteo Pasquali

    A. J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science & NanoEngineering, Rice University
    Matteo Pasquali is the A. J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science & NanoEngineering at Rice University.  Concurrently, Prof. Pasquali serves as the Director of the Carbon Hub, a Rice-led initiative whose mission is to build a zero emissions future, where clean hydrogen and carbon materials are co-produced sustainably at large scale from hydrocarbons.

  • Brad Ringeisen

    Executive Director, The Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)
    Brad Ringeisen is the Executive Director of the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), founded by Jennifer Doudna in 2014 on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The mission of the IGI is to bridge revolutionary gene editing tool development to affordable and accessible solutions in human health and climate. Brad’s primary role is to guide IGI’s scientific and development strategy.

  • Jessica Cross, Ph.D.

    Research Oceanographer, NOAA
    Dr. Cross is a research scientist that works at the interface between the research and engineering communities to develop new tools to explore how our oceans support sustainable development and contribute to climate risk management. As an oceanographer with NOAA, she leads the agency's Carbon Dioxide Removal Task Force and manages the carbon system observing, research, and development for the Alaska and Pacific Arctic regions. 

  • Kel Markert

    Cloud Geographer, Google

    Kel Markert is a Cloud Geographer at Google. His work focuses on enabling users to leverage cloud computing for sustainability solutions and geospatial analyses. He is an expert in Google Earth Engine as well as geospatial processing using cloud technology. Prior to Google, Kel was a research scientist at the NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office based in Huntsville, AL, USA supporting international organizations in leveraging satellite data and geospatial technology to address climate challenges, particularly for water resources.

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The summer of 2023 set a new record as the hottest ever, with the year witnessing unprecedented extreme weather worldwide. In response, the world's top innovators are uniting at ICR25 to forge actionable solutions for climate resilience.

Join leading scientists, researchers, and policymakers from academia, industry, and government at the forefront of climate innovation. Together, we aim to craft a sustainable future by restoring ecosystems, adapting infrastructure, and mitigating climate change drivers. ICR25 is your chance to contribute to scalable solutions that will benefit generations to come.

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ADAPTATION
Investing in Climate Resilient InfrastructureNavigating Climate Risks: Modeling and Risk AssessmentHarnessing Ecosystems & Biodiversity for Climate ResilienceEmpowering Resilience with Technology and DesignPrioritizing Resilience: Policy, Collaboration, and Environmental Justice

MITIGATION
Empowering Rapid Carbon NeutralityDecarbonizing Hard-to-Abate SectorsCarbon Capture & Storage: From Concept to ImplementationNet-Zero Energy & Conservation MeasuresPolicy Perspectives on Accelerating Carbon Emission Reduction

SUSTAINABILITY
Next Gen Sustainability & ImplementationUnderstanding and Addressing the Water CrisisProtecting, Expanding, & Maintaining Agricultural SustainabilityStrategies for a Successful Sustainable TransitionTranslating Climate Science into Effective Policy & Community Acceptance

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