What an insane day yesterday! 30 speakers, an expo of 18 vehicles, and over 170 event attendees. Our expert panelists led the audience through critical conversations on #decarbonization, #EVcharging, #vehicletogrid, #vanpooling, #cybersecurity, and more 🚘🚦 Thank you again to our amazing Driving Mobility 11 sponsors: GOLD 💫 Commute with Enterprise, South Coast Air Quality Management District, GreenWealth Energy, and Ryvid Inc. BRONZE 💫 Orange County Power Authority, ChargeNet Stations, EvGateway Who can you spot in these photos? Tag your new connections in the comments! If you were there, give us some feedback: Which panel segment was your favorite? What did you learn? #cleantransportation #communitymobility #professionalnetworking
Sustain SoCal
Non-profit Organizations
Irvine, CA 1,379 followers
Sustain SoCal accelerates sustainability initiatives & cleantech growth through innovation, collaboration and education
About us
Sustain Southern California accelerates sustainability initiatives and cleantech economic growth through innovation, collaboration and education in the region. As the Southern California region's population, industry, workforce and tourism continues to grow and change, it is vitally important to proactively address the region's sustainability, environmental and infrastructure needs and objectives. Formerly known as Cleantech OC and Sustain OC, Sustain SoCal has a long history of exploring and implementing pragmatic, real-world solutions to the challenges created by growth, change and inefficiency that face Southern California and beyond. We offer many services to the public and even more for members – visit our Website for additional details and to sign up for news and event updates: .: https://sustainsocal.org
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http://www.sustainsocal.org
External link for Sustain SoCal
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Irvine, CA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2010
- Specialties
- CleanTechnology, Alternative Energy, CleanTech, Green Energy, Renewables, Conferences, Advanced Transportation, Water, sustainsocal, Mobility, Sustainability, ESG, Circular Economy, Waste Stream Management, Agriculture, Climate Tech, Investments, CCA, and Energy Efficiency
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Primary
5270 California Ave
Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92617, US
Employees at Sustain SoCal
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Adrian Hightower, PhD, PE, ENV-SP
Sustainability and Resilience Manager
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John Penney
Chief Growth Officer | Board Member | Strategy | Business Development | Business Model & Product Innovation | Sustainability
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Matt Gregori
Technology Development Manager | Program Management, External Communications
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Ibrahim El-Sayed
Updates
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Curious what you might see at the Driving Mobility 11 expo this Thursday? Here's a little sneak peek! https://lnkd.in/gfUcR6av Join us for Driving Mobility 11 on June 27th from 1-7pm at UCI Beall Applied Innovation. Come for the impressive list of speakers (viewable at the link above) and stay for our largest vehicle expo yet ☑ ☑ ☑ Hope to see everyone there! #electricvehicle #hybridvehicle #cleantransportation #mobility #greentransport #charging #charginginfrastructure #cybersecurity Speakers: Eric Curtis, Allison Kale, Elissa Thomas, Karyn Torres, A.K. 'Venus' Jenkins, Bill Beverley, Matt Miyasato, Aravind Kailas, Jonathan Garrett, Blake Lane, PhD, Dong Tran, Robert (Bob) Kruse, Richard Hatfield, Reddy Marri, Srikanth Kanaparthi, Christian Elmassry, Samuel Hersh, Brendan O'Donnell, Jennifer Yturralde, Mandar Padhye, Dr. Kiran Manchikanti, Shahram Farhadi
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New sponsor (thanks GreenWealth Energy!) and new speakers added to Driving Mobility 11 🔜 https://lnkd.in/gfUcR6av You really don't want to miss this event! Join us on Thursday, June 27th from 1-7pm at UCI Beall Applied Innovation. What to expect: 🗣 5 Panels on Prominent Transportation Topics 🔍 3 Intriguing Case Studies 🚙 15 Electric Vehicle Expo The agenda is LIVE on our website (see link above). Comment PRESALESM to access the presale price of $50. We'll see you next week 👀 #transportation #cleantransportation #electricvehicles #carshow #expo #mobility #cybersecurity #fleettransition #electricmotorcycles #energyuse #vehicletogrid #V2G
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Look at the Sustain SoCal ecosystem in action! ⬇ Back in April, our Building Sustainable Communities event provided an opportunity for NileBuilt, Corp. to present their net-zero homes and discuss the future of sustainable housing. The possibilities presented by speaker Scott Long led to collaboration with other event speakers Mayor Farrah N. Khan of Irvine and Dustin McDonald from GO-Biz. Now, the city of Irvine is one step closer to climate resilient housing! Providing a forum for innovation, education, and transformative solutions is the heart of our mission. Looking to be a part of impactful solution development and contribute to a partnership just like this one? Don't miss our next event, this time on the topic of clean transportation: Driving Mobility 11! One week away, this event will examine community mobility, EV funding status, charging infrastructure, electric motorcycles, cybersecurity, and more. Take a look at the agenda live on our website: https://lnkd.in/gfUcR6av #sustainablecommunities #housingsolutions #transportationsolutions #climateresilience #ecomobility #networking #professionaldevelopment
NileBuilt, based in Irvine, is a world class leader in building net-zero homes. They combine the best attributes of construction to quickly build non-combustible, resilient homes. I met with Founder Scott Long and Chief Operating Officer Michael Weber today, along with President & CEO of Sustain SoCal Scott Kitcher, to discuss what’s next for sustainable housing development in Irvine and OC. It’s exciting how we can build sustainably, effectively, and affordably when we have all the right players lined up. #Irvine #affordablehousing #sustainablebuilding
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Very insightful post by our Board Member John Penney! We must all work to encourage innovation at every level of an organization 📈 #Intrapreneurs #innovate #growthmindset
Chief Growth Officer | Board Member | Strategy | Business Development | Business Model & Product Innovation | Sustainability
**This Is Why the World Needs More Intrapreneurs** Is there any group of people more fetishized than ultra-wealthy entrepreneurs? Think of Elon Musk. The late Steve Jobs. Or former Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd. We place them on dizzyingly high pedestals. We study their careers as a blueprint for success. Their personal and professional lives are dissected in endless documentaries and thought pieces. And they’re idolized by scores of ambitious young people. The thing is, to save the planet and solve the climate crises we’re in, we don’t just need more entrepreneurs. What we’re really in need of is more intrapreneurs. Intrapreneurship applies all the principles of entrepreneurism - boldness, innovativeness, agility, to name but a few - and applies them within the framework of an established organization. Intrapreneurs leverage the existing resources, capabilities, and support they can access and use to roll out new ideas, products, or services, often at a massive scale. We desperately need that growth mindset driving corporate sustainability. Think about it. Just 100 companies worldwide are responsible for 71% of all corporate GHG emissions. And one of our biggest opportunities for steering corporate behemoths toward a more sustainable way of doing business? The intrapreneurs within their ranks. A few forward-thinking organizations are already extremely good at unlocking the benefits of intrapreneurism. Others are starting to follow suit. At 3M, for example, they deploy a ‘15% rule’ that encourages employees to dedicate 15% of their time to developing new ideas for the business. That policy led to the creation of Post-it Notes, no less. Amazon’s ‘Just Do It’ ethos, with its nod to Nike, is another example of cultivating an innovation-supporting culture. And at Airbus, the team has developed an open innovation platform on which all employees can collaborate and share ideas. It takes really hard work by senior management to create the type of environment in which intrapreneurs can thrive. The C-Suite must fully embrace questioning the status quo and reward those who do. Companies need to think about allocating capital and resources to driving innovation, designing structured programs aimed at intrapreneurs, and finding ways to acknowledge their input, too. Jeff Bezos even created a ‘Just Do It’ award. Yes, the award includes a Nike shoe. At a more granular level, it can also be helpful to align the work of intrapreneurs with the focus of internal VC groups, when they exist, to create a more robust corporate innovation support framework. The bottom line is that we need to start putting great intrapreneurs on pedestals right next to traditional founders. That’s how we can change the world for the better. #cleantech #climatechange #sutainability #climateaction #greeneconomy Jayshree Seth Angela Baker Molly Wood University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business Sustain SoCal Consumer Technology Association
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Thanks ChargeNet Stations and EvGateway for joining Driving Mobility 11 as Bronze Sponsors! This event featuring crucial conversations on clean transportation and a green vehicle expo (our largest ever) is just over ONE WEEK away 👀 Register now! https://lnkd.in/gfUcR6av Comment PRESALESM to save $30 on registration! See you soon ⏳
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Two weeks until Driving Mobility 11 🚘 https://lnkd.in/gfUcR6av Take a look at this phenomenal list of speakers! Join us on June 27th from 1-7pm at UCI Beall Applied Innovation @ the Cove for engaging discussions on community mobility, long-term EV investment potential, charging infrastructure, transportation policy, decarbonization efforts, cybersecurity, and more. An EXPO of electric vehicles will occur from 5-7pm ✅ Comment PRESALESM to save $30 on registration! #cleantransportation #electricvehicles #mobility #mobilitypolicy #charging #energy #vanpooling #cybersecurity #drivingmobility
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Join us tomorrow at The Fast Future Blur Summit presented by Executive Next Practices Institute (ENP Forums). Use our code for a discount on registration: LNC20 https://lnkd.in/gKTFHyP Learn how to navigate our current period of rapid and radical transformation aka the ‘Fast Future’ phase. Examine key areas of change and network at UCI Beall Applied Innovation @ the Cove. See you tomorrow! #innovation #evolutionaryera #regenerative #digitaltransformation #futureofwork #AINative #technology Scott Hamilton
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New sponsor means a new flyer! Thanks Ryvid Inc. for joining us at Driving Mobility 11. https://lnkd.in/gfUcR6av Support from sponsors such as Commute with Enterprise, South Coast Air Quality Management District, and Orange County Power Authority is what makes our events possible. Driving Mobility 11 is just three weeks away! Have you registered? Comment PRESALESM to access the presale price of $50 💬
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"They often tweak and iterate existing business operations under the fear of regulation, while entrepreneurial challengers set their sights on changing the world." WOW what a quote! We highly recommend you read this article by Sustain SoCal Board Member John Penney. John challenges us to stay proactive in the climate investment space. He gives kudos to another one of our Board Affiliations, Siemens, for their leadership and collaborative ventures. ✅
Chief Growth Officer | Board Member | Strategy | Business Development | Business Model & Product Innovation | Sustainability
The Largest and Most Important Investment Opportunity…Ever. Full stop. -What if we reframed climate change as opportunity rather than risk or pesky compliance? -What if some of the world's biggest companies set their sights on the extraordinary business opportunity to gain a slice of the $9trn it will cost annually to transition to a global greener economy? -What if they stopped fiddling around the edges and started trying to change the world? I believe the impact would be transformative, and it's why I felt compelled to put pen to paper—figuratively speaking—and share why I believe the current corporate approach to climate change, as one of risk management rather than a platform for innovation, is fundamentally flawed. We need executives at small and large companies to think differently if we're to get where we need to be on carbon pollution. I'd love it if you could have a read. #cleantech #climatechange #sutainability #climateaction #greeneconomy Unilever Microsoft Brookfield Renewable Siemens Energy Panasonic North America Paul Polman Barbara Humpton Megan Myungwon Lee Molly Wood Shannon Houde, MBA, PCC David Kirsch University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business