87th Hardware Meetup: Climate Edition!

The 87th Hardware Meetup is hosted during ClimateWeek NYC so we are featuring technologies that help address climate action! This event is brought to you in partnership with Women Who Hardware x Newlab x Scale For ClimateTech. We'll be meeting in-person at Newlab in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

If you can't be there in person, tune in online via Zoom!

This month we're sponsored by Duro, an award-winning Product Lifecycle Management tool for agile and distributed hardware teams. The platform is the single source of truth for all product design and supply chain data, giving engineers, suppliers and manufacturers uninterrupted access to the latest information.

We'll have a different format for this meetup - a panel discussion! Panelists include:

• Sashti Balasundaram, Founder, We Radiate, a smart-sensor for compost systems and network of connected compost sites to create healthier soils faster, and educates composters and elected officials to improve their operations
• Abigail Jablansky, Business Development Lead, Amogy, a novel portable carbon-free energy system using ammonia as a renewable fuel
• Jeffrey Prosserman, Co-founder and CEO, Voltpost, a solution to retrofit lampposts into smart electric vehicle charging stations.
• Krystal Persuad, Founder, Grouphug Solar, a window solar charger, and Co-Founder of Wildgrid Solar, a solar marketplace dedicated to connecting and educating Millennials & Gen Zers to affordable renewable energy options.
• Moderated by Shelby Thompson, Program Director, Scale For ClimateTech

Here’s the agenda:

• 6:30 - 6:45pm: Mix, mingle, and grab a drink
• 6:45 - 7:00pm: Welcome notes
• 7:00 - 7:45pm: Panel discussion with climate hardwarians
• 7:45-8pm: Audience Q&A
• 8-8:45pm: Open Mic! Anyone can take center stage for a hardware demo or talk—lasting up to 2 minutes. It's a great opportunity to showcase your project or startup provided it's in a hardware or hardware adjacent space.
• 8:45-9:30pm: Networking
• After Hours: In keeping with IRL Hardware Meetup tradition, we'll head to the Randolph Beer DUMBO after the event to continue the conversation over a drink or two.

About our partners:

Women Who Hardware
WE DO HARD SH*T.
WE DO IT WELL.
WE DO IT TOGETHER.
We do. We're a kickass group of women and gender-diverse founders, leaders, techies and doers working to grow the NYC Hardware ecosystem and support each other as we build our orgs, products and teams.

Newlab
Newlab is a center of invention mobilizing people, capital, and intelligence to solve systemic challenges in energy, mobility, and materials. Newlab acts as a facilitator, connector, and translator for its community of innovators and experts helping to build, test, and scale world-changing ideas through its platforms, infrastructure, and structured collaboration.

Scale For ClimateTech
The For ClimateTech initiative, which includes Venture For ClimateTech and Scale For ClimateTech, is supported by the New York State Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and is administered by non-profit entrepreneurship catalyst NextCorps and impact innovation company SecondMuse. The goal of For ClimateTech initiatives is to accelerate innovations likely to have substantial climate impacts for all, and limit greenhouse gas emissions to 40% of 1990 levels by 2030 as established by The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of New York State.