EdenBase Learning Circle: Opportunities for Energy & Sustainability Entrepreneurs
This is an in-person event.
About this event
Join us for an insightful discussion on the opportunities for energy and sustainability entrepreneurs.
Our panel of tech and industry experts:
Isabelle Gough - Co-founder and CEO of Cercula, the sustainability platform helping construction design out carbon.
Edward Hubbard - Global Sales Director of Faradai, a London based fast-growing scale-up providing digital sustainability services in 15 countries.
Viola Jardon - Senior Programme Manager at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
In a discussion, moderated by Gokce Gizer (Founding Team Member of the UK’s EdenBase.com, a fund plus a supergrowth hub and ecosystem), our panellists will share their experiences, insights and views on the future opportunities for energy and sustainability entrepreneurs.
At our next EdenBase Learning Circle, you will hear about:
The potential of tracking carbon metrics
The grants and resources available for startups in the industry
Whether big companies are beneficial for startups and how to win amongst them
How to allocate limited resources while focusing on sustainability
17:00 - Doors open & networking
18:00 - Panel Discussion
Fireside Q&A with Viola Jardon of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership about their accelerator and advice for startups
Panel with two founders Isabelle Gough of Cercula.io and Edward Hubbard of Faradai.ai sharing the opportunities, challenges & lessons learned of their journeys.
AMA (Ask me anything)
19:00 - Networking over snacks & drinks
At our EdenBase Learning Circle, we enjoyed an insightful and informative discussion on the opportunities and challenges for sustainability startups, emphasising the importance of tech innovation to tackle the urgent environmental challenges we are facing.
Isabelle Gough
CEO & Co-founder of Cercula, API first Carbon data for construction. A sustainability consultant by trade, specialising in construction whole life carbon and life cycle assessment. Isabelle started building Cercula to scale up the application of carbon metrics in the design decision space. Isabelle’s passion for the mitigation of climate change was catalysed during her MSc fieldwork in the Greenlandic Arctic with the University of Copenhagen. Her goal is to reduce potential CO2 emissions by one million tonnes by 2024.
Edward Hubbard
Edward is Global Sales Director at Faradai who provide data analytics to help organisations reach Net Zero. Edward is passionate about the environment and has committed his career to helping organisations reduce their impact on the planet. He has a BA in Geography and has spent the last 12 years in the environmental services sector promoting the circular economy, most recently as Business Director at BPR Group.
Edward has worked closely with property and facilities companies and corporates to encourage them to make better procurement decisions that allow for maximum recycling rates to be achieved. He has brought his sustainability passion and experience in the built environment to Faradai to help more organisations across the globe reduce energy and C02 by taking data driven decisions.
Viola Jardon
Viola is a Senior Programme Manager at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. As a Canopy Sustainability Hub and Accelerator member, she designs and delivers Accelerator programmes around CISL’s ten themes to support innovations. She has worked with more than 100 startups with sustainability innovations.
Her expertise and experience are in community and eco-system building, stakeholder and investor relationship management, go-to-market strategy, and sustainability storytelling in the tech industry, creative industry, and the built environment. In her spare time, she is also a business mentor for Digital Catapult, Plug & Play, and MSDUK Accelerators, a business advisor for a few sustainability innovation startups, and a proud mother of a 3-year-old son.
Gokce Gizer
GG is leading the EdenBase fund’s investments and developing supergrowth programs with portfolio companies.
During her time in New York, she served as Contest Director of the Extreme Tech Challenge.
She has taught courses on Innovation and Design for Sustainability and Sustainable Business Models at The New School in New York. She's a mentor for global programmes including Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, WeWork Labs, Innovation Norway and Katapult Accelerator.
She’s passionate about leveraging technology towards a more sustainable future.
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EdenBase is a fund, hub and ecosystem powering sustainable supergrowth with Frontier Technologies. By building a community and ecosystem, EdenBase supports portfolio companies to deliver responsible growth and valued impact to create a better future.