This roundtable will focus on the lessons corporations can learn (and not learn) from climateTech startups, on how corporations need to approach climate innovation, including:
• Equity vs. emotional ownership
• Strategies: near term vs long term
• Innovation culture and team
• Storytelling doesn’t always help
• Funding: risk, cap table, location, the role of the Board

SPEAKER

Charlie Curtis – Co-founder/Chair @ ORIGEN | DRYGRO

Charlie is an Associate Fellow and Entrepreneurship Expert at Saïd Business School where he specialised in impact-led innovation, corporate innovation culture, and corporate-led systems change.

He is also working with the Bridge Institute on systemic solutions to carbon dioxide removal.

As an entrepreneur, Charlie is co-founder of Origen (in Direct Air Capture) and DryGro (Alt Protein).

About Origen

Technologies to profitably capture and remove billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

About DryGro

Agriculture technology venture conducting R&D into the next generation of plant-based protein.

CHAIR

Susan Hooper – Chair/NED @ UBER | MOONPIG PLC | Network Chair @ INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP

Susan is Chair of Tangle Teezer and Chair Designate of Inter.Earth, and sits on the Boards of Moonpig plc and Uber UK.

She is a Founding Director of Chapter Zero, and is involved in several start-ups in carbon capture and sustainability.

Susan is also an Ambassador for the World Travel & Tourism Council.

Susan chairs the annual Innovation Partnership advisory board.

This meeting is open to Innovation Partnership members and partners. If you are a board member / C-suite / senior leader and wish to apply to join please email hello@innovationpartnership.co.uk