Decarbonizing Our Economy
02/25/25 • 52 min
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.
Important links:
- Roads to Removal report - https://roads2removal.org
- 2024 DECARBONIZING OUR ECONOMY ARTICLE, IMAGES AND VIDEO
- Watch this episode
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.
Important links:
- Roads to Removal report - https://roads2removal.org
- 2024 DECARBONIZING OUR ECONOMY ARTICLE, IMAGES AND VIDEO
- Watch this episode
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The Voice of the Customer Cubed: Meet Monterey AI CEO and Founder, Chun Jiang
Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub, and guest co-host Hazel Wetherford, Deputy City Manager for the City of Dublin, talk with Chun Jiang, CEO and co-founder of Monterey AI, an early stage startup located in Dublin, CA.
Co-founders Chun Jiang and Ben Kramer joined Y Combinator Summer 2022. During the batch, Monterey AI started with a simple generative documentation tool for the product team. It became clear there was a bigger opportunity - voice of the customer, at scale. In mid-2023, they launched copilot for product insights. Monterey AI is building the AI's first product analytics platform for qualitative data, disrupting multi-billions market. Aggregate, triage, and analyze user feedback, tickets, conversations, surveys, and transcripts - smarter, together, and at scale. Monterey AI is the most powerful AI native insights platform for decoding the next growth opportunities.
To get in touch with Chun, find her on LinkedIn and Twitter.
You can view this episode on our Startup Tri-Valley YouTube channel.
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Where AI Meets the Edge: A Conversation with Dr. Brian Spears, Director of the AI3 Incubator at LLNL
Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub, home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative, talks with Brian Spears, PhD, director of AI3, the AI Innovation Incubator at Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), and one of our 2024 Tri-Valley AI Summit panelists.
Brian is passionate about developing deep learning for applied science, especially inertial confinement fusion. A proud Tri-Valley resident, as director of AI3, he focuses on building public-private partnerships to accelerate the development and application of AI. The goal of AI3 is to advance AI for applied science at scale. The AI3 expands LLNL's capabilities through industry collaborations, establishes visible leadership in AI for applied science, develops informed strategies for mission-driven AI investments, and coordinates investments focused on exploring and developing AI. Watch on YouTube .
Below are links to sources of information referenced in this podcast:
- Learn more about AI3 and AI at LLNL by visiting https://ai.llnl.gov/
- Visit the LLNL Careers page to find open positions at LLNL
The Startup Tri-Valley Podcast - Decarbonizing Our Economy
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Startup Tri-Valley Podcast - Dave Metz & Susan Houghton & Katie Marcel
Intro
Yolanda
This is the Startup Tri-Valley podcast featuring in depth conversations with the leaders who are making the Tri-Valley the go to ecosystem for science based startups. I'm Yolanda Fintschenko from Startup Tri-Valley. All right. I am so pleased to welcome my colleagues from an event that we hosted together in November of 2024 ca
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