1.5°C Symposium on Climate Change 2024

To drive change, the 7th Annual 1.5°C Symposium on Climate Change is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the pivotal role played by Embodied Carbon in our industry. This issue stands as one of the most pressing challenges we face in our lifetimes(careers). Our mission is to delve into the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of this matter while underscoring the urgency it presents to both ourselves and the environment.

During the event, we will analyze the financial feasibility of low-carbon construction, explore strategies for intelligent material selection, and unveil innovative technologies for reducing carbon in concrete. We invite attendees to immerse themselves in real-world low-carbon projects, gaining valuable perspectives through the lens of the design process.

Additionally, we aim to provide the tools and knowledge necessary to prepare our industry for the evolving landscape of codes and laws, positioning participants as leaders in addressing the threat of embodied carbon. Join us!

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What are leaders in energy and sustainability focused on now and over the next decade? Discover the innovation and opportunities that surround the cleantech space at the 9th annual Energy Innovation Conference on February 16th, 2024, hosted by UCLA Anderson’s Energy and Cleantech Association and Center for Impact. Immerse yourself in this year's theme Accelerating Cleantech Innovation and gain valuable perspectives as industry and public sector leaders discuss practical plans for innovation and adoption. Join this electrifying event to observe how these leaders are contributing to an important era of energy transition, influencing the landscape through 2030 and beyond!

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Black Girl Ventures Foundation is starting the 2023 Fall Pitch Tour in LA on Thursday, October 19th! We will be throwing a BGV Pitch Competition with 7 preselected local Black and Brown women-identifying founders.

A BGV Pitch Competition is like ‘Shark Tank’ mixed with the elements of a classic ‘Rent Party’. At a BGV pitch competition, the audience decides the winner through Raisify.co, our voting platform, with their dollars. The winner is determined by a point system, not the dollar amount raised. The money raised goes to the founders in the form of a grant, despite where they place.

Come out meet the BGV team, network with other founders, investors, and potential customers. Watch these amazing 7 founders pitch, vote with your dollars, and learn about new businesses to interact with. Light refreshments and drinks will be served. You do not want to miss this super dope event.

BGV’s mission is to create access to capital, capacity, and community. This means we want to see ALL Black and Brown women-identifying founders win. We want to help these founders in the communities we serve, scale and grow their businesses, gain the capacity to hire in their communities, and social capital to meet those who will help them grow in partnerships, accessibility, and their industry.

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Work From Home (or “WFH”) has upended traditional notions of both how work gets done, as well as how homes and units are planned. Everything we thought we knew is being upended – or is it?

Please join us for a lively panel discussion from an esteemed group of diverse experts right in the thick of this transition. Come hear what companies in various industries are doing right now to bring people back together to the office. In addition, what are residential developers doing to re-plan their projects and pro-formas to make hybrid-WFH or full-WFH possible for more people? What is the market actually asking for with these two sectors?

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Join the Center for Public Partnerships and Research (CPPR) and Orange Sparkle Ball for a provocative conversation about the power of community.

Tech-Enabled Community Resilience is a model for harnessing the power of networks in a community ecosystem to influence and change social and health outcomes. This model highlights how co-design principles serve as core equity drivers for technology-enabled community data initiatives. Blending data science with the right technology tools gives communities a platform to pilot rapid innovations, simulate conditions and forecast outcomes, and build strategies to tackle entrenched problems.

This Summit brings together thought-leaders and change-makers in community ecosystems. When faced with opportunity or adversity, community-led efforts start and end with on the ground innovation and inclusion. The power of community is the future face of resilience in a rapidly changing world.

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LAVA's Meet the VC event is back to its roots at a hip new high-speed venue in Playa Vista!

Apply now to join us at Verizon's 5G Lab for this unique reverse, speed dating program which introduces 20+ VC funds to 70+ selected founders, and 10+ family offices in a dynamic, fast-moving efficient exchange.

The program concludes with an in-progress, ecosystem celebration upstairs.

Apply now here.

THEN:

LAVA's post-Meet the VC event is back to its origin in Playa Vista!

Come join the party in the high-speed tech space of Verizon 5G Lab.

In addition to the 20+ VC funds, 70+ selected founders, and 10+ family offices coming out of Meet the VC, expect over 100 other entrepreneurs, ecosystem partners & investors to join in the party!

Dance and celebrate the LA's venture ecosystem.

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Experience IGNITE22, crafted and curated to bring together innovators shaping the 22nd century, May 4-5 2022.

If you are an entrepreneur, please get in touch with us here.

If you are an investor or potential partner, please get in touch with us here.

At IGNITE22, we bring together innovators shaping the 22nd century:

• entrepreneurs meet investors;

• industry leaders discover emerging technologies;

• and researchers explore market opportunities for their scientific discoveries.

IGNITE22 takes place at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles in a 60,000 sq. ft industrial creative space directly on the LA waterfront. Experience technology exhibits and demonstrations on land and in the water!

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Spring Power Day is a celebration of 34 companies in LACI’s flagship Incubation Program and their outstanding work to build an inclusive green economy.

Join us as we publicly graduate our first cohort of startups and support the scaling of their unique businesses serving our communities. We’ll also welcome our newest cohort, share the inside scoop on our startups’ fundraising and green job creation, and hear the latest findings from those founders driving LACI funded small-scale technology pilots.

We invite all cleantech advocates to participate in this power-packed showcase of progress made in clean energy, zero emissions transportation, and sustainable cities.

AGENDA

• 10:30am: Virtual Platform Launches & Networking

• 10:45am: A Farewell & Welcome to LACI’s Incubation Companies

• 10:50am: Panel: "Capital Raises that Made an Impact"

• 11:10am: Pilots Showcase - meet 10 startups in 30 minutes!

• 11:45am: Closing Remarks & Networking

Spring Power Day will be hosted virtually and a link will be provided to all registrants in advance of the event.

Stay tuned to laci.org/powerday for the latest speaker line-up and additional details.

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Join Next City on April 6, 2022 from 1-2pm (Eastern time) for a virtual discussion with Tiasia O’Brien of co:census regarding how technology can be best used to amplify the voices and needs of overlooked community members.

It’s 2022 and the cities are concerned with IOT, smart cars, and micro-mobility. With all of this technology and enough innovation, we still have yet to figure out how we can empower and lift up the voice of community members to solve local urban issues.

Why? One theory is because we have such a limited understanding of the lived experience.

In this talk & conversation aimed at engaging Urban Planners, Designers & Consultants, the Founder of Seam Social Labs shares the history of human communication & storytelling, our common threads, and how we can transform the future of cities by caring about human narrative and the civic experience using technology.

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Learn about the day the internet came into existence.

About this event

Few cultural revolutions can trace their origins as precisely as the one that took place in 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA on October 29, 1969, the day the internet came into existence. Professor Leonard Kleinrock developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology that underpins the internet. The first node of the ARPANET was established at Kleinrock’s UCLA lab, and a new era of connectivity was born.

Meet Kleinrock at the Fowler, where the Interface Message Processor Log entry for the first message sent over ARPANET is currently on view in Communications Systems in a Global Context. We will walk over to 3420 Boelter Hall with Kleinrock and Sebastian Clough, Fowler’s Director of Exhibitions who re-designed the former lab, now known as the Kleinrock Internet History Center. When renovating an entrance to Boelter Hall, architect Eric Hagan concealed an “Easter Egg” mystery that we will solve during our visit.

Leonard Kleinrock is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. He is considered a father of the Internet, having developed its foundational technology as an MIT graduate student in 1962. Kleinrock has served as Professor of Computer Science at UCLA since 1963 and as department Chair from 1991–1995. He has received eight honorary degrees, published over 250 papers, authored six books, and has supervised the research of 50 PhD students. In 2007, Kleinrock received the National Medal of Science, the highest honor for achievement in science bestowed by the President of the United States.

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Please join us for a Roundtable Discussion on the "Future of Work" as part of Woodbury School of Architecture's Year of Intelligence.

We will be joined by panelists German Aparicio, a Project Manager at Trimble Consulting; Wayne Thomas, Senior Associate at Gensler Los Angeles; Eera Babtiwale, and Director of Sustainability at Mount San Antonio College. The discussion will be moderated by Kishani Da Silva, Chair of Woodbury's new Construction Management program.

Drawing from their expertise in the technology, architecture and construction industries, the panelists will discuss what the ‘future of work’ could look like with the rise of automation, the use of big data, AI, mixed reality, and other forms of technology.

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America’s founding document states that the pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right. But this question has preoccupied philosophers, fascinated scientists, inspired artists, launched an enormous self-help industry—and continues to elude many of us.

The Atlantic will host a live event that explores the human hold on happiness—and aims to find ways to build a more meaningful life. The event will consider happiness and relationships; the role of spirituality; how social media and other technology are affecting our happiness; and the ways in which a year of social isolation has reframed our understanding of a lasting sense of joy.

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Join us online Thursday Dec. 10 at 10:00am PST for the second of three VerdeXchange webinars focused on Green Hydrogen, the energy resource that utility engineers, executives, and advisors identify as a “game-changer” for reliably powering, at scale, global clean energy economies. This special briefing series for utility leadership, energy innovators, and environmental stewards seeks to chart the pathway and connect the dots to accelerate Green Hydrogen’s consideration as a major part of California’s future fuel mix.

Each two-hour (120 min) session will include opening remarks, three consecutive panels followed by 30-minutes of hosted, small-group discussion to dive deeper into questions arising from panel presentations and provide attendees additional contact points for post-conference collaboration.

Session #2 Demonstrating Viability & Scalability of Green H2
December 10, 2020 (10:00 am to 12:00 noon PT)

Panel Topics:
• Green H2 & California’s Future Fuel Mix
• Getting Green H2 to Market: Production & Distribution
• Best Uses for Green H2: Fuel Cells for Mobile & Stationary Applications
+ 30-minute hosted small-group Breakout Sessions

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Wander through a digital matrix of virtual exhibition galleries at 2×8: Domum, the first year that the AIALA’s 2×8 Student Exhibition and Competition goes completely virtual.

As designed by Garet Ammerman, THR.D studio, Inc, and developed by Bryan Zheng, WbML at USC, the virtual exhibition space offers an untethered immersive gallery experience within a field of equally accessible student pods distributed by a graphic scaffolding.

The 2×8 annual exhibition showcases exemplary student work from 16 Architecture and Design Universities throughout California to celebrate the diversity of architectural philosophy and encourage conversation around a central theme. This year’s theme reflects on the dialogue surrounding housing in Los Angeles and other urban centers across the country. Students were encouraged to submit presentation materials and 3d models that respond to the theme with innovative solutions.

Winners of the competition are award scholarships which will be awarded at the opening November 5.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Exhibition Design: Garet Ammerman, THR.D studio, Inc
Developer/UX: Bryan Zhang, Worldbuilding Media Lab at USC

Find out more and RSVP here.

This event will give community organizations a space to discuss the challenges and opportunities of virtual programming and service delivery during COVID-19. The event will feature a panel of nonprofit leaders in education, community organizing, and social services who will share their experiences adapting to the demands of our time and respond to audience questions.
Please RSVP through this form no later than Thursday, October 22 at 5 pm.
You will receive a confirmation of your registration via email with the Zoom link one week before the event and a reminder one day prior. Contact connect@la2050.org if you have any questions.

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The cascading crises of 2020 have not only brought into stark relief the immediacy of the global climate emergency but also the deadly costs of racial and economic inequities. With little hope for another round of stimulus funding from Congress before November, VX Hack-a-thon Session #3 will explore opportunities, regardless of the election’s outcome, for paving the road to recovery with multi-benefit and community-driven green infrastructure investment.

Continuing the conversation sparked at VX2020 in January, join Milken Institute Director, Dan Carol; Stockton Sr. Economic Development Advisor, Ann Rogan; and i(x) Investments President, Christine Harada, who lead this hack-a-thon highlighting mechanisms for aligning, expediting, and optimizing green infrastructure investment with local, state, and federal COVID recovery efforts in the months to come.

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Join AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles for the first of back-to-back webinars focused on the blue economy.

The July 16 webinar will be moderated by multi-Emmy award-winning journalist, Val Zavala. Panelists will include:
Tim McOsker, CEO of AltaSea
Bill Allen, CEO of LAEDC
Rusty Jehangir, Founder & CEO of Blue Robotics
Kelly Stromberg, Co-Founder & COO of Holdfast Aquaculture

Tim McOsker, AltaSea’s CEO, will be joined by the LAEDC CEO, Bill Allen, for the July 16 webinar. Allen has been active in regional economic development for over 20 years, and as CEO of the LAEDC, he led the effort in February 2020 to designate the Ocean Economy as a new category of jobs in Los Angeles – the first addition in over a decade. The LAEDC and AltaSea’s Economic Report on the Ocean Economy states that this new economic engine will support more than 126,000 direct jobs and pay wages upwards of $37.7 billion by 2023 in LA County alone.

Rounding out the group of panelists on July 16 will be the founders of two of the most innovative ocean tech companies in LA – Holdfast Aquaculture and Blue Robotics.

Rusty Jehangir, founder and CEO of Blue Robotics. Blue Robotics has developed the first professional quality underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) at a price point that’s accessible to all users, not just giant oil and gas companies. Blue Robotics currently tests its ROVs and other technological innovations at AltaSea, which provides a rare secure, quiet place to access the water.Kelly Stromberg, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Holdfast Aquaculture. Holdfast produces top-quality seed for bivalves, including mussels, clams, oysters, and seaweeds, which act as nature’s own filtration systems, keeping our oceans clean and providing a healthy, local, and scalable source of food. Holdfast’s products promote sustainable aquaculture, and tap into a growing market for these superfoods.

Moderating the July 16 event will be the multi-Emmy award-winning journalist, Val Zavala. Zavala spent 30 years as a broadcast journalist at KCET in Los Angeles, winning numerous journalism awards. During her career, Zavala has covered a broad spectrum of Southern California issues, including politics, the environment, and the economy.

RSVP here.

BlueTech Expo is fighting back against COVID-19 by going virtual in 2020! Fully integrated with Capitol Hill Ocean Week, this exciting day of outstanding online content and virtual tradeshow is charting a new course for our industry. While the format is compressed into a one-day program, there will a high-value in attending and taking the rare opportunity this year to meet with our exhibitors live and discuss their technology solutions!

How will it work? It's free to attend and we'll post all the links to the various event components right here. They will also be available on the CHOW web site. We'll have our own exhibitor directory published on this web site with a direct link to each. We obviously encourage you to visit with all the exhibitors and catch the best content from CHOW, but you'll get a convenient snap-shot of the BlueTech Exhibition right here on www.bluetechexpo.org!

Our combined events are expected to draw over 1,000 attendees with CHOW continuing its focus as nation’s premier annual conference examining current marine public policy issues and BTE20 contributing a strong, interactive, technology exhibition. And don't forget there will be virtual networking sessions taking the place of our face-to-face OceanSocial business networking function. With the complimentary focus-areas and integrated platform, even online BTE20 and CHOW is all about ocean and attendees having a more complete "blue" experience!

Find out more details and register here.

This season’s First Fridays is connecting NHM and L.A. to you live, directly into your home. Dive into timely discussions and rock out to music right in your living room. Grab your own cocktail, put on your best home attire, turn up the volume, and get ready for an amazing Friday.

Schedule

5 pm: Secrets From the Vault (Zoom Webinar, Members-only)

6 pm: Discussion - Future of Food (Zoom Webinar)

7 pm: Dino 101 - Interview & Interactive Quiz (Zoom Webinar)

8 pm: Live Performance - Choir Boy (YouTube Live)

8:30 pm: DJ Lounge - KCRW DJ Novena Carmel  (YouTube Live)

Find out more and register here.

The technology industry has revolutionized the world.

Through groundbreaking innovation, it is reimagining how people access information, connect with each other, and changing the way we do business globally.

Despite its significant impact, the innovation economy still has a diversity and inclusion problem. Women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups continue to make up a small fraction of its founders, executives and investors. Yet studies show that tech companies with more diverse management yield higher financial returns.

The Atlantic will gather industry leaders and stakeholders to assess the health of the innovation economy and examine the diversity and inclusion challenges it faces. We’ll explore what ambitious initiatives are underway, the solutions that can make an impact, and how can we create lasting equality across the tech industry.