ESG, Sustainability and Impact Investing - A LIVE Smart City Podcast with Julia Wilkinson

10/20/22 • 59 min

Learn About ESG, Sustainability and Impact Investing with Guest Julia Wilkinson on The Smart City Podcast LIVE - Please Join Julia Wilkinson founder and CEO of Imvest, along with Jim Frazer as they explore the answers to:
• What is ESG?
• What is impact investing?
• What is Net Zero?
• How has the ecosystem evolved?
• What are trends and opportunities in the sector?
• What are complications, obstacles and impediments?
• What are the implications for industry?
• What recommendations can be made?
• What does the future hold?
Julia Wilkinson is founder and CEO of imvest, committed to building a sustainable future through social entrepreneurship, ESG, and impact investing. She helps funds, family offices, foundations, endowments and entrepreneurs to integrate impact into their models and investments. To unlock value and sustainable growth, she advises on portfolio construction, manager diligence, growth strategy, and impact measurement.
She is an angel investor and accelerator to high-impact startups, where she helps incubate their growth and sustainable value. Her VC experience includes several years with SV Latam Fund, investing at the intersection of high impact hardware and software innovation in the US and Latam.
Julia brings to the table 15 years of experience in capital markets. She has worked in private wealth management at Goldman Sachs, and alternative investing across asset classes and regions.

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· The various catalysts sparking sustainability in the real estate industry

· How electricity plays a key role in this process

· How the rapid and expansive deployment of battery technologies will increase the resiliency of the nation’s power grid and improve outcomes for people across socio-economic spectrum

· The complications and challenges facing the electrification of buildings

· The power requirements for lighting compared to other applications

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