TRACE THE UNSEEN: Climate Intelligence Build Day

Join us for a one-day, in-person Build Day at the Microsoft Garage in Soho, on Friday September 25th, hosted by the NYU Ethical Tech CoLab as part of Climate Week NYC 2026. ​Over a single day, teams will build working prototypes powered by Sayari and Tradeverifyd's MCP, using entity, ownership, and trade-relationship data to tackle real problems across sourcing, sanctions evasion, transparency, and beneficial ownership. Teams can enrich their findings with Tavily for AI-powered web search and data retrieval, then use Microsoft Fabric to process and visualize what they surface: turning raw query results into dashboards, network maps, and risk visualizations. You'll go from idea to demo in one sitting, with partner engineers on hand throughout. ​Tracks ​Forced labor & ethical sourcing ​Sanctions & evasion ​Deforestation & environmental risk in commodity chains ​Critical minerals & strategic supply security ​Corporate transparency & beneficial ownership ​You'll pick your track(s) when you register, so we can group teams around the problems you care about most. Whether you're a developer, designer, domain expert, or just curious, you'll leave having shipped something real: and connected with a community working at the intersection of technology and social impact. ​Presented with The AI Collective. ​Event Agenda ​8:30–9:00 Arrival, coffee, MCP access check ​9:00–9:15 Kickoff: welcome, opening talk ​9:15–10:00 Partner intros: Sayari, Tradeverifyd & Microsoft Fabric demos + hand out problem briefs ​10:00–10:30 Team formation ​10:30–1:00 Build block 1: engineers roaming ​1:00–1:45 Working lunch ​1:45–4:30 Build block 2: feature-freeze warning at 4:00 ​4:30–5:00 Demo prep, code freeze ​5:00–5:45 Demos: 3 min each, hard cutoff ​5:45–6:00 Judging & wrap ​**Doors open at 8:15 - we strongly recommend arriving early to get set up with tool access and catch the opening talks, which frame the day's challenges. Tool access is provisioned during the morning check-in, and late arrivals may not be able to get set up with MCP access, so please come on time. ​This Build Day is one of a series. Follow the NYU Ethical Tech CoLab to hear about future hands-on events at the intersection of emerging technology and social impact, including exclusive access to tools and platforms from this event. ​Tradeverifyd® is the Trade Intelligence Platform that helps supply chain, procurement, and compliance teams ask questions of their supply chain - and get answers before a crisis reaches their desk. Powered by AI agents that monitor continuously and auto-ingest new data sources, Tradeverifyd delivers better operating intelligence so your business can see further, faster. Our proprietary approach translates supply chain complexity into confident, defensible decisions. Learn more at tradeverifyd.com. ​Sayari is the commercial risk intelligence platform that helps compliance, supply chain, and investigative teams see the corporate ownership and trade relationships hidden behind any company. By resolving billions of entities and relationships across global corporate registries and trade records, Sayari surfaces the connections: hidden owners, upstream suppliers, sanctions exposure: that manual research would miss. Our knowledge graph turns fragmented public data into a clear picture of who's really connected to whom, so teams can make faster, better-founded decisions. Learn more at sayari.com. Tavily is the web access layer built for AI agents, helping developers bridge the gap between static language models and the live internet. With a single API, you can search, extract, and crawl real-time web data in formats optimized for RAG and agent workflows, with low latency and built-in safety. Learn more at https://www.tavily.com/.