2026 Wilkes Climate Summit

Max Nelen is a mission-driven entrepreneur passionate about accelerating climate-smart solutions for smallholder farmers across Southeast Asia. As Founder and CEO of Agros, Max leads the company’s strategy, partnerships, and market development to make irrigation more sustainable... Read More →

Diego Hoter is CEO and co-founder of ucrop.it, the verified field-to-market data layer for agriculture. ucrop.it operates across 72M+ acres in 17 countries, serving 58 enterprise clients including Nestlé, Heineken, Mondelez, Bayer, and Neste with audit-grade compliance records u... Read More →

Adi Yehezkeli is an entrepreneur in the fields of food tech and sustainability, and the co‑founder and CEO of Fabumin. This is the second company she has founded in the alternative protein space, following "Human Nature", a company that produces vegan cheeses. Both ventures were... Read More →

Dougald Coulson is CEO and Co-founder of Gyre Energy, an Oxford‑founded clean energy company that uses AI and thermal energy storage to reduce cooling costs and emissions in cold storage and data centres. Prior to Gyre, Dougald was a corporate lawyer for 10 years and was most recently... Read More →

Yang is the co-founder and CTO of Solidec as well as an Activate Fellow. His work focuses on building electrolyzers at scale to pull molecules out of thin air. Yang received his PhD from Rice University in chemical engineering, where he first built Solidec’s technology, and has... Read More →

Aidan Mickleburgh is co-founder and CEO of SolidSky, a climate-tech startup commercializing CODAH (CO₂-mediated Oxidative Alkane DeHydrogenation) — a catalytic platform developed with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that turns CO₂ into a feedstock for carbon-negative ethylene... Read More →

Satpal Kaur is a Design Activist and entrepreneur advancing equitable, high-performance housing. She designed NYC's first affordable Passive Houses, achieving 85% energy reduction and changing building policy nationwide.

Guided by the belief that the greenest building is the one that already exists, she founded UnBOXED to transform legacy buildings through 3D-printed recycled polymer panels that form a second skin over existing facades. Designed for a 100% tenant-in-place approach; no scaffolding... Read More →

Sean is the Chief Executive Officer and founding partner of WoodSyn, LLC, leading the effort to launch an advanced manufacturing company producing a new category of economically and environmentally sustainable construction materials for the attainable residential and commercial building... Read More →

As Chief Operations Officer at WoodSyn, Ben drives the company’s daily operations, implementing strategies to enhance efficiency, streamline productivity, and align organizational goals with the overarching business vision. He collaborates closely with the executive team to ensure... Read More →