Weekly Energy Symposium ft. Julia(Julie) Black

The energy transition will be one of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century. The world must meet increasing energy demand reliably and affordably while also decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Meeting this lofty goal requires new technologies and business models, advanced by the next generation of entrepreneurs. From Friday, October 10, 2025 9:30AM to Sunday, October 12, 2025 2:00PM, Greentown Houston will host a short course for Texas students as well as interested staff and faculty. The course will be delivered collaboratively by faculty from multiple Texas universities alongside faculty from the pioneering Climate & Energy Ventures Course at MIT, which has educated entrepreneurs who have gone on to launch over 50 ventures over the past decade.

West Gate at NREL is now accepting applications for its 5th Cohort. The program is seeking talented scientists, engineers, inventors, and founding entrepreneurs with promising technologies to commercialize and who are interested in embedding at NREL. The 2-year program will support selected innovators with non-dilutive funding, resources, and entrepreneurial mentorship over a two-year runway.

Weekly Energy Symposium ft. Santiago Grijalva

Texas is leading the emergence of a global hydrogen economy. Join us in Austin, at the University of Texas campus, for a full day of events curated for students, faculty, staff, industry, community engagement stakeholders, and policy leaders.

This year's Mitchell Sustainability Symposium will continue its focus on the intersection of sustainability and student education on UT Austin’s campus and beyond. We’ll look into the state of sustainability at UT Austin through a series of panel discussions, lectures, and student presentations. Dr. Adam Met, Adjunct Professor at Cambridge University, will provide the lunchtime keynote address.

BE Fellows is a global climate program founded by Bill Gates. We provide critical support to scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs with early-stage breakthrough climate technologies - tech with substantial technical risk still to overcome. The Innovator program offers funding, active technology management, access to BE’s world-class network of partners and experts, and top-of-the-line entrepreneurship curriculum. These tools ensure early-stage startups have the resources they need to advance toward commercialization.

Weekly Energy Symposium ft. Wil Burns

The Energy Ventures Practicum is an opportunity for teams of business students, law students, policy students, and technologists to build up skills, capabilities and contacts to create a new venture in the energy sector. Objectives of the class are to provide a framework for commercializing innovations in the energy sector, and the tools that entrepreneurs need to frame and build businesses for this purpose. This class is open to graduate students from Business, Law, Policy, Engineering, and EER programs.

Weekly Energy Symposium ft. Adam Grosser