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2023 Duke University Energy Conference

Fuqua School of Business

Conference Format The 15th annual Duke University Energy Conference will leverage Duke’s reputation as an academic institution at the center of the global energy conversation to address the energy transition. This year, the conference will have a domestic and global outlook. The topics will reflect upon how policy changes are influencing the implementation of new…

BSC Career Speaker Series: Ramsay Huntley

Virtual

Join the Career Speaker Series hosted by the Business Sustainability Collaborative! This series is designed for students interested in gaining insights into business sustainability careers.   Ramsay Huntley is the Senior Advisor for Sustainable Finance in Wells Fargo’s Commercial Bank. In this newly created position, Ramsay advises Commercial Banking clients on a wide variety of sustainability-related…

B Academics 2023 Teaching Roundtable

The B Academics 2023 Teaching Roundtable will focus on a unique experiential learning model, B Impact Teams (BITs), where college/university students work with businesses to measure, manage and improve their impact using the B Impact Assessment (BIA). The Roundtable will provide an opportunity to learn more about BITs, including how to start one on your campus, contribute to…

TECHSTARS STARTUP WEEKEND: SUSTAINABILITY

JOIN US for a transformative weekend of entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity at Durham's Techstars StartUp Weekend focused on Sustainability. In just 54 hours, you will experience the highs, lows and pressure that make up life as a startup. As you learn how to create a real company, you'll meet the very best mentors, Investors, cofounders, and…

Southeast Renewable Energy Summit

This is the ONLY conference covering this burgeoning market that gets key state policymakers, critical decision makers, and leading utility executives and renewable energy players from the most dynamic states in the region — including North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky — to provide definitive updates on the issues you will need to understand…

Climate Career Panel: Alt-Academic Policy+ Careers

The Climate Solutions Collaborative is hosting a climate change career panel discussion for those who are considering work outside of the academic sector. This career panel, with a focus on policy and policy-adjacent careers, is hosted by the Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative, Global One Health Academy, North Carolina State Climate Office, KIETS Climate Leaders…

(Y)Our Health in the Movies: Climate Change

Earth’s climate is warming, storms are becoming more extreme, and the ocean is rising. While this reality has only recently begun to sink into the popular imagination, films have been depicting potential dystopian outcomes of climate change for a long time. Join climate change experts Deja Perkins, Martha Reiskind, Rebecca Ward, and ecocinema professor Jorge Marí…

NC State Make-A-Thon

Make-A-Thon is NC State’s sustainability innovation competition. Collaborating in cross-disciplinary teams, students will research, design and prototype solutions to a sustainability challenge, then pitch their idea to community and industry judges. Yes, there are prizes for the winning teams: $4,000 for first place, $2,000 for second place and $1,000 for third place. Prizes will also…

BSC Career Speaker Series: Tony Pease

Join the Career Speaker Series hosted by the Business Sustainability Collaborative! This series is designed for students interested in gaining insights into business sustainability careers. Tony Pease is a technology executive with over 20 years of experience building early-stage technology and consulting firms. He is the Founder and CEO of Carimus, a brand and digital…