**Free meetups for Rebels of all kinds, to connect, learn and share.**

This is a special one-off subject-specific event, focused on startups & entrepreneurship in the climate and sustainability space, featuring a fireside chat with Jamie Burrows, founder of Vertical Future – sound like you? Come along!

Casual networking events with the occasional fireside chats from founders, creators and successful business owners.

No formal agenda, or dress code (please wear *something* though).

Meetups active globally since 2013. 🌍 🚀

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Business Growth

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Young Professionals

Business Strategy

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Young Entrepreneur

Startup Businesses

Small Business

Creatives

Career Transition

Founders

Jamie Burrows is a British/American Health Economist with a background in healthcare, life sciences, and economic regeneration. Prior to establishing Vertical Future in 2016, Jamie worked in EY’s EMEIA Life Sciences team, transitioning from a similar role at Deloitte where he was also seconded to the Department of Health. Jamie is educated up to PhD level, primarily in Economics, sits on the Board of The Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Alliance, is a member of Barclays’ “Unreasonable” Fellowship, and Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Jamie also attended the U.S. Air Force Academy and is a graduate of its Leadership Enrichment and Development (LEAD) Programme. He is married with three children and currently resides in London, UK.
 
[Vertical Future](https://verticalfuture.com/) (“VF”) is a global Controlled-Environment-Agriculture (“CEA”) technology company, headquartered in London and founded in 2016. VF designs, manufactures, and deploys autonomous vertical farms across the world into multiple use cases, from food through to pharmaceuticals, and reforestation. VF’s fully integrated model is unique globally with a goal of contributing to healthier people and planet. VF has raised over £37 million of funding to date, has received over 12[ Innovate U.K.](https://www.ukri.org/councils/innovate-uk/) grants, and operates with a team of over 50 staff across engineering, software engineering, plant sciences, operations, and commercial. As a fellow of Barclay’s[ Unreasonable Impact](https://unreasonablegroup.com/initiatives/unreasonable-impact) programme, Global Innovator and member of the Resilience Consortium in the[ World Economic Forum](https://www.weforum.org/organizations/vertical-future/), member of the[ World Green Economy Organisation](https://worldgreeneconomy.org/), and party to negotiations around the E.U. Green Deal, VF is also a recognised global leader beyond its technology and plant science.

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Rebel Meetups (London) by Rebellious Co

Meetup for climate founders, creators, freelancers + rebels ⚡

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