Where will the solutions to deal with climate change come from? How will innovation, art and culture bring about change? What is the role of ordinary people?
Join us online as we bring together pioneers in technology, business and the arts to consider our collective response to climate change. Speakers include Brad Smith, president of Microsoft. Philanthropist Lauren Powell Jobs. Venture capitalist John Doerr. Linda Chan, Ford’s chief engineer of electric pickups.
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Live stream programs include:
9am PDT “Treelogy: The Coast Redwood”: Musicians from the Delirium Musicum Chamber Orchestra perform “Treelogy,” a musical portrait of California’s trees, inspired by the New York Times report on California wildfires. The redwood portion of “Treelogy” was composed by Steven Mackey.
9:20 am Can tech save us? Part 1: The dynamics: Linda Chang, chief engineer of Ford’s all-electric F-150 Lightning, and Peter Rawlinson, CEO of Lucid Motors, speak with Times reporter David Gereth.
10 a.m. Can Tech Save Us? Part 2: A Fix Out of Thin Air?: Zeke Hausfather, climate research leader at payments firm Stripe, speaks with Times editor Matt Thompson. Then Sean Meehan, co-founder and principal scientist at Charm Industrial, a start-up working on carbon removal. Orya Ilzak, founder and CEO of Frostmethane. Also, Twelve co-founder and chief science officer Etosha Cave will speak with Times reporter Erin Griffith.
11:05 am Nature’s Technology: What We Can Learn: Botanist and medical biochemist Diana Beresford-Kruger speaks with Times reporter Carla Buckley.
11:40 AM Food Tech: Food Systems Solutions: Ethan Brown, founder and CEO of Beyond Meat, and Claudio Nuñez, conservation manager for the Santa Lucia Reserve, speak with Times columnist Melissa Clarke.
12:15 break
1:15 p.m. “Treelogy: Giant Sequoia”: Musicians from the Delirium Musicum Chamber Orchestra perform an excerpt from “Treelogy,” composed by Billy Childs and dedicated to the giant Sequoia.
13:30 Money and problems: Venture capitalist John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins, and philanthropist Lauren Powell Jobs, founder and president of The Emerson Collective, meet with Times reporter David Gelles.
14:25 feel the fear: Intersection Environmentalist founder and activist Leah Thomas and Youth Vs Apocalypse Hannah Estrada interview psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach.
15:30 break
4:25 pm Wielding Power: The Leader’s Role in Dealing with Crisis: Brad Smith, Vice Chairman and President of Microsoft, speaks with David Gelles.
17:05 Will art save us? Part 1: Imagining the future: Louie Psihoyos, filmmaker and executive director of the Marine Conservation Society; Ayana Jamison, Professor of Ethnology at Cal Poly Pomona and scholar of Octavia E. Butler. Also, All We Can Save co-founder Katherine Wilkinson speaks with Times reporter Carla Buckley.
17:40 Will art save us? Part 2: Creative Reactions: Thor Steingraeber, Executive and Artistic Director of the Nazarian Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles, and composer Gabriella Smith meet with Times reporter Somiya Karlamangla.
6 p.m. “Arborology: The Joshua Tree”: Musicians from the Delirium Musicum Chamber Orchestra perform excerpts from “Herdrology”, composed by Gabriella Smith and dedicated to Joshua Tree.