2024 Schedule

Tuesday, March 12th
Tuesday, March 12th
11:30am–01:00pm EDT
2024 Climate
Climate Solutions Showcase

The Climate Solutions Showcase will highlight a diverse set of early stage entrepreneurs sharing their climate solutions. They'll do so with fast paced pitches targeted at investors, potential clients, colleagues and anyone interested in climate tech.

1st Floor, Expo Hall C, Breakout 1
2024 Climate
The Wolfsonian Exhibition Tour

Meet at the Wolfsonian Museum, 1001 Washington Ave, to attend this tour. Join this guided tour of the Wolfsonian Museum’s exhibit The Big World. The Big World, focusing on depictions of the land in The Wolfsonian's collection, challenges expectations of landscape art as it goes beyond bucolic scenes to reveal changing vistas of the modern era rendered in paintings, the decorative arts, and...

Wolfsonian-FIU
1:00pm–02:30pm EDT
2024 Climate
Cross-discipline How-to: Collaborating for Climate

To succeed, the climate movement needs people with completely different backgrounds and skills who can break down national and disciplinary borders. In this hands-on training with an unlikely duo, a musician and a scientist, participants will explore the highs and lows of collaborative effort and test it out in the room.

2nd Floor, Workshop 2 (Room 218)
2024 Climate
What is Nature? (Sustaining Hope)

You protect what you love, it is said, but the reality is that many people do not have the privilege of a direct connection to the natural world. The very concept of “nature” can sound elusive—even elitist. But as we think about the future of environmentalism, there is no way to circumvent our connection to—and love for—nature. This workshop will shine light on historical contexts of the word “nat...

2nd Floor, Workshop 3 (Room 219-220)
2024 Climate
Breaking Open the Film and TV Black Box

Storytelling is key to delivering on a sustainable future, but the secrets of TV and film funding and production are hidden away. In this practical session, learn from filmmakers about documentary films and scripted stories, and how to unlock the power of storytelling in your organization, individual activism, and philanthropic ambitions.

2nd Floor, Workshop 1 (Room 217)
2024 Climate
Exponential Change and Imagining Better Climate Futures

Exponential change is possible, as technologies such as renewables accelerate toward universal adoption—but first we have to let ourselves imagine. Hear about surprising places where exponential change is already happening and participate in a guided visioning session to imagine what a clean, green, and just future could look like.

2nd Floor, Workshop 4 (Room 221)
1:30pm–02:15pm EDT
2024 Climate
Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis: Two Live Performances

Part 1: Reflecting on the complex relationship between the climate crisis, public health, and our collective wellbeing, Miami-based artist Smita Sen’s performance “Breaths of Care” offers a dance-based performance on the ripple effects of our changing natural landscape. Part 2: Alexis Alleyne-Caputo of Afro Diaries presents “Crisis and Echoes,” a visual conversation, performance, and statement o...

1st Floor, Expo Hall C, Breakout 1
1:30pm–02:30pm EDT
2024 Climate
Bringing Climate Journalism Above the Fold

Every day brings dozens of new climate stories in the media, but substance often falls prey to click-chasing and brevity, and predominantly-white newsrooms often give less coverage to the disproportionate impact that climate change is having on communities of color. Hear from environmental journalists, working within these newsrooms, about how they are striving for greater coverage, reach, and div...

2nd Floor, Breakout 2 (Room 203-205)
2024 Climate
Keeping It Cool: Solutions for Extreme Heat

In 2023, Miami experienced its worst heat wave on record, with temperatures breaking 100 degrees for 46 consecutive days. Humans need safe spaces during life-threatening temperatures, and this session will explore challenges and solutions for cooling homes, buildings, and public spaces, using Miami-Dade as an example of a much wider problem.

2nd Floor, Breakout 3 (Room 206-208)
2024 Climate
Solving Industry’s Dirty Problem

The industrial sector—think steel, cement, chemicals, heat and cooling—accounts for approximately 30% of emissions in the United States, making industry our biggest emissions problem. Learn about how emerging scalable solutions in technology, finance, and policy promise to decarbonize the sector.

2nd Floor, Breakout 5 (Room 211)
2024 Climate
Cows, Corn, CRISPR: Understanding Biotech’s Promise

Interested in gene-edited cows that burp less methane, drought resistant wheat, and lab-made palm oil that could reduce rainforest destruction? Learn more about these and other biotechnology approaches to confront climate change and supercharge conservation

2nd Floor, Breakout 4 (Room 209-210)
3:15pm–04:15pm EDT
2024 Climate
The Global Promise of the US Climate Agenda

The IRA’s $369 billion for climate measures has impacts beyond its domestic agenda, but its delivery globally has been met with criticism of protectionism. What can the IRA really do for global decarbonization, and how can the US better support efforts in Africa, India, and the Global South?

1st Floor, Expo Hall C, Breakout 1
2024 Climate
Women and Girls are a Critical Climate Solution

The climate crisis disproportionately affects women and girls globally, exacerbating existing gender inequalities and threatening their livelihoods, health, and safety. In this session, we’ll discuss the burden on women and girls—particularly in securing resources like food and water—and how their innovation and ingenuity can be major contributors to climate solutions.

2nd Floor, Breakout 2 (Room 203-205)
2024 Climate
Climate Litigation 101: The Courts as a Climate Solution

In 2023, a group of youth plaintiffs won a historic victory against the state of Montana, which they sued for violating their right to a clean environment. The attorney who represented that case and other legal experts weigh in on where climate litigation stands today, and how and when the law can be used as a tool to protect people and advance solutions

2nd Floor, Breakout 3 (Room 206-208)
2024 Climate
When Cities Set the Global Agenda

Detroit is leaning into the financial opportunities of a net zero economy, setting itself as an example for other cities, from nearby Northeast Florida to further small Asian nations to copy. Hear about these cities successes and the promises of climate-smart economic development for cities everywhere.

2nd Floor, Breakout 4 (Room 209-210)
2024 Climate
Wet and Wild or High and Dry: Creative Solutions to the Water Crisis

Storms are inundating coastlines, groundwater is drying up, and the world is beset by unprecedented floods and droughts. There are creative technologies—both high- and low-tech—that can lessen the devastation, but large scale projects are hard to deploy for political and economic reasons. Hear about promising approaches to our interconnected water crises.

2nd Floor, Breakout 5 (Room 211)
5:00pm–06:30pm EDT
2024 Climate
Evening Plenary

Bezos Earth Fund's Lauren Sánchez shares how to innovate out of big problems, lllinois Governor JB Pritzker talks with water experts, and a biotech entrepreneur shares a plan to get rid of palm oil. All the Light We Cannot See’s star joins a panel to discuss climate joy, a mayor gives an update on offshore wind, and we'll hear an announcement from Detroit. Then, an energy expert narrates the power...

1st Floor, Expo Hall C, Main Stage
Wednesday, March 13th
7:30am–08:20am EDT
2024 Climate
Tuning into True Nature: Garden Immersion and Writing Excursion (Sign-Up Only)

Sign-up here: as.pn/aic2024 Start your morning with an immersive journey connecting with the natural world and the self at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens. Together we will awaken our senses, practice presence, and tune into our somatic experience through a slow and meditative visit with nature. Our salutation to the new day will be a mixture of guided exercises, deliberate movement, consci...

Miami Beach Botanical Garden
8:15am–12:00pm EDT
2024 Climate
Tour of Stiltsville: Then and Now (Sign-Up Only)

Sign-up here: as.pn/aic2024 Participants will take a boat to Stiltsville, a one-of-a-kind maritime community of fishermen, partiers, and squatters who lived in upwards of 27 structures in the flats of Biscayne Bay. Let expert historians from Miami Dade College take you through the rich, nonpareil history of Stiltsville from the vantage point of its most ornate stilt home: the fabled A-frame....

Miami Beach Convention Center
8:30am–10:30am EDT
2024 Climate
City of Miami Beach Resilience Tour (Sign-Up Only)

Sign-up here: as.pn/aic2024 Join this exclusive guided tour discussing the climate challenges Miami Beach faces everyday and highlighting the mitigation and adaptation efforts facilitated by intergovernmental and community collaboration. The tour, led by a City of Miami Beach resilience expert, will start in South Pointe Park and continue to Sunset Harbour, the blueprint neighborhood for sea-...

Miami Beach Convention Center
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