Smart Cities: Can technology make them sustainable?

Description:

The panel discussion will highlight the role climate technologies have in transforming our cities. What will power and connect us in the future? What is really going to work and what needs to be debunked so we focus on the vision and future while we transform Australia into a sustainable technology driven economy.

After a 15-year career in building startup and impact ecosystems, leading a VC fund and influencing multi-sectoral collaborations, Grace Sai, co-founder and CEO of Unravel Carbon is determined to bring all that together to solve climate change. In a panel discussion led by Michael Bromley, with Grace and tech entrepreneurs - they will have us envision the smart tech cities of tomorrow.

There will be a networking opportunity at the end of the panel session. Feel free to join us for nibbles and great conversations.

Visiting Entrepreneur: Grace Sai, Co-Founder and CEO, Unravel Carbon

Moderator: Michael Bromley, CEO, Stone & Chalk Group

Panelists:

• Ross Sharman, Executive Chair, Accurassi
• Cecille Weldon, Founder & Key Consultant , Weldonco
• Wayne Herbert, Founder & CEO, AI Assets

About Grace Sai:

Grace is the co-founder and CEO of Unravel Carbon, an enterprise software that helps companies track and reduce their carbon emissions, backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator. Grace was a VC who invested in early staged tech startups, a Kauffman Fellow and is widely regarded as a node of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Asia. She has been nominated as Gen T by Singapore Tatler (2018), Great Women of our Times by Women's Weekly (2017) and is a UN Women Entrepreneurship Day Ambassador. She holds two Masters degrees with Distinction from Oxford and INSEAD.

About Stone & Chalk:

From supporting the world’s largest enterprises’ efforts to power their operations with clean energy, to utilising AI models when calculating the risk of future natural catastrophes on cities, Stone & Chalk Group founders are pushing the boundaries of everyday practices in the quest for a more sustainable future.

Climate technology innovation and advancement are integral to reducing climate change and rising emissions. Stone & Chalk Group is committed to fostering local climate technology startups and scaleups pursuing purpose-driven growth for impact, not only locally but abroad.

This event is supported by the Proptech Association of Australia. The Proptech Association of Australia is a not-for-profit trade association that is a champion of the real estate technology industry, and a leader in driving the proptech conversation and connecting proptechs to industry. The association grows the property technology marketplace by helping the property industry feel more confident about adopting and investing in innovation, and building a community of bold thinking innovators who share their knowledge.

This event is part of the Visiting Entrepreneur Program, an annual City of Sydney initiative that connects international entrepreneurs with our local startup ecosystem. The 22 June – 1 July 2022 program will explore what might the future look like for cities, technology and innovation in FUTURE T.B.D. This year, we will question everything, from a travel guide to decarbonisation to the future possibilities of the Metaverse and global health game changers. See the full program at city.sydney/vep #VEPSyd

The 2022 edition of the Visiting Entrepreneur Program is kindly supported by Tech Central and the Greater Cities Commission.