The Invisible Crisis: Innovating for the Age of Extreme Heat

​Campus Deep Tech, Anywhere Ventures, and The Hazelwood Network are bringing together a curated group of startups, investors, industry leaders, and academics during Climate Week NYC to explore the mounting challenges posed by extreme heat globally and novel technologies being developed to help people and industries adapt. ​Industry leaders & investors will present 'reverse pitches' where they will identify specific challenges and opportunity areas where they would like to see innovators focus next. ​Startups and leading academics will share the cutting-edge technologies they are developing and their commercial potential. ​Why Attend: ​Discover breakthrough technologies ​Engage directly with scientists working at the frontier of extreme heat resilience and cooling technologies ​Identify investment and partnership opportunities ​Become part of the region's growing deep tech ecosystem Programming: ​Reverse pitch presentations from industry leaders and investors (to be announced shortly) ​Startup and researcher presentations from across Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and other leading universities (to be announced shortly) ​Networking reception (drinks & light bites included) ​Technology Challenges: - ​People and communities: Worker heat stress, disease, limited access to AC, disrupted essential services - ​Energy systems: Power-plant cooling constraints, declining solar output, transmission derating, transformer failures, and peak-demand blackouts ​- Cooling & Electronics: Overloaded / overheated HVAC, data-center cooling systems, telecom, electronics ​- Transportation and Supply Chains: Buckling roads and rails, stressed bridges and overhead cables, aviation disruptions, vehicle breakdowns, cold-chain failures, and crop losses - ​Water and wastewater: Pipe leakage, water-supply interruptions, and failures of pumps, controllers, and treatment systems - ​Industrial operations: Machinery overheating, shortened equipment life, material expansion, and temperature-sensitive manufacturing and curing failures