Planetory Sponsor
Context Labs’ mission is to transform complex data into continuously proven information. Powered by Immutably™, an innovative, trusted data fabric platform, their integrated solutions deliver context-driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends — and reveal the ground truth hidden inside the world’s most complicated, persistent problems including climate change. Context Labs also offers solutions like decarbonization as a service (DaaS) and carbon credit verification via CLEAR path.
Regional Sponsors
The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative team is working hard to be a leading voice in sustainable business and policy, with a mission to provide the best education, apply academic rigor to real world problems, and empower leaders everywhere to take action so humans and nature can thrive. Housed at the MIT Sloan School of Management – birthplace of systems thinking, system dynamics, and modeling of complex human + environment interactions – it is deeply committed to advancing systems change for an equitable and sustainable world.
MIT Sloan Executive Education’s non-degree executive courses are led by MIT Sloan faculty and provide a targeted and flexible means to futureproof your business and your career. Fueled by cutting-edge research and aided by the latest technology, our offerings include 90+ in-person and online courses offered throughout the year, as well as custom programs for organizations, and Executive Certificates.
The Climate Project represents an ambitious new model of accelerated, university-led innovation. It is organized around six Missions where global progress is urgently needed and where MIT can marshal a critical mass of talent and resources: Decarbonizing Energy and Industry, Restoring the Atmosphere, Protecting the Land and Oceans, Empowering Frontline Communities, Building and Adapting Healthy, Resilient Cities, Inventing New Policy Approaches, and Wild Cards. The goal is for MIT to become, within the next decade, one of the world’s most prolific and collaborative sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions for the global climate challenge.
Community & Other Sponsors
Siena Construction is a Cambridge-based construction management firm specializing in building services for the life sciences, higher education, commercial, retail, and non-profit sectors. Siena is dedicated to providing exemplary service to its clients from early development stages through successful project completion.
Since 1991, Siena has established, nurtured, and grown relationships with key contractors, architects, engineers and clients due to its unmatched customer service, unwavering eye for detail, and an obsession for doing things properly.
Thoughtforms started in 1972 as a design-build firm (thought + form) around the vision of “quality homes for the masses.” A decade later, quality was still at the core, and clients and architects began to turn to Thoughtforms for their custom work. The “design” part of its firm continued in a separate sister company and Thoughtforms pursued a path of learning and growth as a custom home builder.
The MIT Office of Sustainability (MITOS) was established in 2013 under the Executive Vice President and Treasurer's Office to integrate sustainability across all levels of our campus by engaging the collective brainpower of our students, staff, faculty, alumni, and partners. It has set out to ensure that sustainability is a critical part of MIT’s standard operating procedures and is fully integrated into the working, research, teaching, social and cultural spheres of our campus.
MIT D-Lab works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges. The mission is pursued through its academics program of more than 15 MIT classes and student research and fieldwork opportunities; its research groups spanning a variety of sectors and approaches; and a group of participatory innovation programs it calls innovation practice.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) catalyzes MIT research, innovation, and technology for ensuring safe and resilient supplies of water and food while reducing environmental impact to meet the local and global needs of a rapidly expanding and evolving population on a changing planet.
Born Global Foundation is an educational 501c3 nonprofit applying nature-based solutions to BiG projects in ecological restoration, environmental technology, and social change making. From organizing enriching activities to fostering mentorship - it supports initiatives that address educational disparities and advocate for equal access to education, and make a meaningful impact in the lives of others.
E14 Fund invests in scalable, deep-tech startups tackling big, meaningful missions. Built from the common culture of the polytechnic university model at MIT, our community has always married discovery with application, invention with purpose.