Interested in speaking at Green Things Summit 2025?

Our speakers make our events truly special. We look for great speakers who have truly unique perspectives on green initiatives. All speakers must be non-biased, non-promotional, and have verifiable experience in the area that they speak about.

We are now considering applications for Green Things Summit 2026 taking place April 23rd, 2026.

We look forward to receiving your entries and typically respond to applications within 24 hours.

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• 30 Minute Sponsored keynote, panel discussion or fireside chat
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• and more!

Opening Panel and Live Q&A

11am-12:30pm PST

Speakers: Tiffani Neilson, Johannes Beckman, Nader Jandaghi, and Rieshin Toolsi

This opening panel brings together industry leaders to explore how AI, IoT, edge computing, and energy innovation are converging to drive real-world sustainability outcomes in 2026. The discussion will cut through the hype to focus on what’s actually working—from turning waste into energy to using data and intelligent systems to reduce inefficiencies at scale. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how to align technology, data, and infrastructure with measurable sustainability impact.

🔑 Key Takeaways

• Sustainability is shifting from initiative → core operational infrastructure.

• AI, IoT, and edge must work together as a connected system, not siloed tools.

• Data strategy is sustainability strategy—what you keep matters as much as what you use.

• Renewable energy solutions like RNG unlock local, resilient energy models.

• The biggest gap isn’t technology—it’s execution, alignment, and decision-making.

• Organizations that win in 2026 will align digital transformation with sustainability outcomes.

The AI Energy Challenge: Why Power Observability Matters for Sustainable Cloud Computing

12:30-1pm PST

Speaker: Zouhir Bellal

The rapid growth of AI is turning energy efficiency into a defining challenge for cloud computing. Meeting this challenge requires more than better hardware or smarter scheduling: it requires power observability. Without accurate and fine-grained visibility into where and how energy is consumed, sustainable cloud computing remains difficult to achieve in practice. 

🔑 Key Takeaways

• Explore power observability as a foundational enabler of cloud sustainability in the age of AI.
• Examine the technical barriers introduced by cloud-native environments.
• Discusses the key requirements and emerging open-source directions needed to enable true power observability in Kubernetes systems.

Two Hemispheres, One Composite Mind

1-1:30pm PST

Speaker: Dr. Scott Gerard

Modern multiagent systems reach their full potential not when intelligence is concentrated in the cloud or pushed entirely to the edge, but when the two hemispheres work in concert; each contributing what the other cannot. This session explores architectural patterns that make cloud-edge multiagent systems coherent, resilient, and genuinely autonomous, using a precision agriculture example. Attendees will leave with a transferable mental model for designing composite intelligence across any domain where the stakes are real and the network is unreliable. 

🔑 Key Takeaways

• Composite AI = Multi-Agent + Multi-Tool + Multi-AI.
• Realistic AIoT/Physical AI systems need agents in both the cloud and at the edge.
• Learn agentic patterns to optimize these kinds of systems.

From Waste to Sovereign Energy: Renewable Natural Gas in an Unstable World

1:30-2pm PST

Speaker: Maureen Kinyua

In a world shaped by volatile fuel markets, geopolitical tension, and growing pressure to decarbonize, this keynote reframes waste as a strategic asset. It introduces renewable natural gas (RNG) not just as a climate solution, but as a tool for energy sovereignty, resilience, and local economic strength.

🔑 Key Takeaways

• Understand how renewable natural gas (RNG) from waste works and why it matters for energy security, not just climate goals.

• See concrete examples of turning wastewater, food and farm waste into reliable, dispatchable energy using existing gas infrastructure.

• Learn how RNG projects can cut methane, generate new revenue streams, and support circular, local economies during global fuel shocks.

• Explore where RNG is a strong fit (and where it is not) within broader decarbonization and just transition strategies.

• Leave with a simple framework to spot high‑value RNG opportunities in their own utilities, cities, or supply chains.

ESG Was the Beginning. Carbon Capture is the Reality.

2-2:30pm PST

Speaker: Shreeya Shukla

For years, ESG has played a critical role in bringing sustainability into boardrooms and investment decisions. But as climate targets become more urgent, a clear gap has emerged between what companies report and what they actually reduce. This keynote explores that transition, from ESG as a framework of accountability to carbon capture and industrial technologies as mechanisms of real, measurable impact.

Drawing from experience across ESG strategy, global frameworks, and on-ground deployment of carbon capture solutions, the session will unpack how hard-to-abate sectors are beginning to move beyond targets and into engineered decarbonisation.

It will also examine the evolving role of carbon markets, MRV systems, and policy alignment in determining which technologies scale.

🔑 Key Takeaways

• Why ESG has been essential but is no longer sufficient for achieving net zero

• Understanding the gap between sustainability reporting and real emissions reduction.

• The role of carbon capture in decarbonising hard-to-abate industries like cement, steel, and power.

• How MRV (Measurement, Reporting, Verification) and carbon markets are shaping adoption of climate technologies.

• What it takes for companies to move from ESG ambition to operational decarbonisation.

• Role of politics/government in creating the reality.

From Energy Intelligence to Carbon Intelligence: Building Living Systems for Real‑Time Decarbonization

2:30-2:50pm PST

Speaker: Sunthar Subramanian

Most sustainability programs struggle to deliver material carbon reduction because they focus on reporting outcomes rather than changing decisions. Carbon emissions are not created at reporting time—they are created when factories, stores, and supply chains decide how, when, and where energy is consumed.

Plugging the Gap: The State of EV Charging in Commercial and Multifamily Real Estate

2:50-3:15pm PST

Speaker: Diana Cwick

As EV adoption accelerates, commercial and multifamily properties remain the largest untapped opportunity for charging infrastructure. In this fireside chat, EV charging operations leader and Charge Talk podcast host Diana Cwick shares what it really takes to bring EV infrastructure to the places where people live, work, and spend their time.

🔑 Key Takeaways

• Why commercial and multifamily real estate represents the largest untapped opportunity in EV charging, and why it's been so hard to crack

• The unique electrical, financial, and operational challenges across property types: apartments, offices, hotels, retail, and mixed-use

• How emerging business models are removing barriers and making EV infrastructure viable for property owners of all sizes

• Real-world lessons from deploying and managing stations across a nationwide portfolio: what works, what doesn't, and what surprises you

• How competitive grant funding can offset costs, and what it takes to secure it successfully

• What property owners, managers, tenants, and the sustainability community can do right now to accelerate adoption