Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub, home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative, speaks with Susan Houghton, Climate Resiliency and Carbon Management Portfolio Manager for the Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF), and David (Dave) Metz, partner at FM3 Research, and Katie Marcel, CEO of the Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group (ITV), about the inspiration for and outcomes from their most recent event, Decarbonizing our Economy, co-organized by the University of California, LLF, ITV, STV, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Chabot-Las Positas Community College District (CLPCCD) in November of 2024. This episode reviews some of the key insights about direct carbon capture from the Roads to Removal Report written by LLNL and promoted by LLF, the Tri-Valley climate tech workforce survey conducted by FM3, and the needs of Tri-Valley industry and investors in the climate tech startup ecosystem revealed in that half day event. Learn how the Tri-Valley climate tech workforce needs compare to other regions, as well as important takeaways for the Tri-Valley region as it moves towards achieving California's net zero goals.
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