Lab to Market Commercialization of Climate Technologies

Join us for a fireside chat about the ins and out of commercializing lab technologies in the fight against climate change. We will be joined by Megan Holcomb, COO at Labstart. We will be diving into the important role lab technology can play in addressing climate change, the opportunity this current moment in time presents, and how people can engage in the process.

This will be an incredible opportunity for those interested in developing solutions in the climate space, entrepreneurs looking to augment their technology profile or anyone interested in the dynamics of commercialization and go-to-market strategies for lab technology.

Attendees will learn about: - How to work with and engage with national labs - The opportunities presented by the national lab infrastructure - How LabStart engages with this ecosystem - Pathways to commercialize lab technology

Speaker Information

Sedale Turbovsky, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenGrants

Sedale Turbovsky is the CEO and co-founder of OpenGrants, a venture-backed startup focused on building modern infrastructure for funding. He has been an entrepreneur since childhood. After honing his leadership skills as an outdoor guide in his younger years, he started his professional career as an independent consultant focused on delivering data products and digital strategies to enterprise clients in South America.

Megan Holcomb, COO, Labstart

Megan Holcomb is the COO at Labstart. She is a climate scientist and collaboration architect with 13 years in federal and state agencies. She is an expert in high-conflict consensus building, disaster planning, and community-led alliances.

LabStart is building accessible pathways for underrepresented entrepreneurs to bring climate technologies from lab-to-market. A trove of valuable, scalable climate technologies continues to sit dormant - untapped and hidden behind research institution walls. To unlock these ready-innovations in a way that generates equitable market opportunities for underserved communities, LabStart matches market-ready tech with talented entrepreneurs selected from the front lines of climate change.

LabStart is a team of entrepreneurs, national lab researchers, commercialization consultants, investors, and programmatic experts. They fund full-time entrepreneur-minded fellows to discover, build, and launch startups based on technologies developed in premier research laboratories.