Meet the Tailwind Futures team at Climate Week NYC! This year, we’re excited to co-host four events focused on adaptation and resilience tech and investments, with rock star partners – incubators, accelerators, service providers and fellow venture investors active in the resilience tech market.
Below our featured events you’ll find the full list of events we’re attending, which we’ll continue to update.
Our Events
From Lab to Market: Accelerating Adaptation and Resilience Technologies from Universities: Tuesday Sept 22 from 8:30am-12:00pm
Join us for a half day convening exploring opportunities to leverage university-originated research to scale up commercialization of adaptation and resilience (A&R) technologies.
University-generated IP is an underutilized pipeline of resilience solutions to help businesses and communities navigate the disruption, health risks and costs from climate change.
This event is hosted by Activate, Foley Hoag, Hazelwood Network, The New York Climate Exchange, Tailwind Futures and Cisco Foundation. Learn more and register here.
The Invisible Crisis: The Technologies We Need to Navigate Extreme Heat Thursday Sept 24 from 12:30-3:30pm
This event will help grow the robust innovation ecosystem that cities and businesses need to bring heat tech innovations from idea-stage into the market. We will convene a curated mix of heat tech startups, corporate buyers, academics, city officials, and funders across climate philanthropy and adaptation-focused investment.
This event is hosted by Anywhere Ventures, Campus Deep Tech, Hazelwood Network and Tailwind Futures. Learn more and register here.
Adaptation in Action! Tuesday Sept 22 from 5:00-8:00pm
How we invest in resilient buildings, water systems, cooling infrastructure, insurance mechanisms, and community preparedness will determine the livability of our cities in the decades to come. It also represents a multi-trillion dollar investment opportunity. This session will bring together climate adaptation startups, investors, corporate buyers, and policymakers to discuss how adaptation is being implemented in cities across the globe.
This event is hosted by Streetlife Ventures, Burnt Island Ventures, Tailwind Futures, Stepchange Ventures and Brown Rudnick. Learn more and register here.
Project Frame 2026 Convening: Assessing Adaptation Impact Thursday Sept 24 from 11am-2:45pm
This session focused on adaptation impact brings together a select group of stakeholders to collaboratively assess a draft case study and explore actionable strategies for systemic resilience. It will include small-group working sessions focused on core topics including Maladaptation, Qualitative Assessments, and Systems Mapping.
This event invite-only event is hosted by Prime Coalition and Tailwind Futures. Learn more here.
Additional Events
Monday, September 21
- 7:30am-4pm, Transition-IQ’s Climate Week NYC Forum: Emilie Mazzacurati will speak at the Financing Adaptation Strategies session at 4:00pm.
- 8:00-9:30am, Climate Resilience Reframed: Are You Asking the Wrong Questions? Emilie Mazzacurati will join this executive panel focused on challenging conventional assumptions about how businesses build climate resilience, hosted by Bain & Company and WBCSD.
- 1:00-2:00pm, Mind the Gap: Aligning Insurance, Policy, and Nature for Climate Resilience: Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme will join this event hosted by WWF and Fordham.
- 3:30-4:45pm, Pitching for the Planet: Live Solutions, Real Stakes: Brooke Zhang will attend this live climate adaptation solution pitch session hosted by CARE and the CARE/WWF Alliance.
Tuesday, September 22
- 8:30am-12pm, From Lab to Market: Accelerating Adaptation and Resilience Technologies from Universities: See above for details
- 11:30am-6:00pm, InnSure’s 2026 Climate Forum: Katie MacDonald and Brooke Zhang will attend this gathering of insurers and reinsurers, climate-tech founders, investors, sustainability leaders, and policymakers focused on accelerating decarbonization and climate-resilient innovation. This event is hosted by InnSure, GreenieRE, EDF and RMI.
- 2:00-6:00pm, GARI Working Group Meeting: Emilie Mazzacurati will join the Global Adaptation & Resilience Investment Working Group for its convening on mobilizing private investment for climate adaptation and resilience.
- 5:00-8:00pm, Adaptation in Action! See above for details
Wednesday September 23
- 9:00-11:00am, Capital for Resilience: Investing in Climate’s Next Wave: Arindam Bhattacharya will speak at this event by E8 Angels.
- 9:00am-4:00pm, MSCI Climate Week NYC 2026: Emilie Mazzacurati will speak on the 1:20pm panel, “The Hidden Adaptation Economy: Where Is the Opportunity Right Now?”
- 8:30am-5:30pm, Resilience Finance Day – A Deep Dive on Water: Frank Freitas will join RBC Capital Markets’ convening of investors, innovators, corporates, municipalities, and thought-leaders for an immersive exploration of water as a critical investment imperative.
- 8:30am-12:30pm, Aon’s Risk and Resilience Summit: Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme will attend this convening of experts across insurance, finance, business and academia examining the evolving risks and emerging solutions for a changing world.
- 8:00am-5:00pm, The Sorenson Impact Natural Capital Summit: Brooke Zhang will attend this nature finance convening.
- 11:30am-1:00pm, Extreme Heat and Beyond: Power Infrastructure for a More Demanding Future: Arindam Bhattacharya will attend this event focused on leveraging innovation and investment to ensure operational continuity of critical services, hosted by C2ES.
- 12:00-2:00pm, Capturing the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Opportunity: Elle Hempen will join this event exploring what’s holding adaptation back and how to scale investment in adaptation and resilience, hosted by McKinsey.
- 1:30-5:30pm, Scaling Resilience Through Policy, Partnerships & Capital: Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme will attend this event examining what it takes to move resilience solutions from ideas to implementation, hosted by Duke University.
- 2:00-5:00pm, Small Funds, Big Alpha: Matching LPs with Climate’s Emerging Managers: Elle Hempen will attend this event.
- 2:30-5:30pm, C2ES Scale-Up Summit: Emilie Mazzacurati will attend this event bringing together climate technology startups with investors, corporate buyers and other capital sources to examine opportunities to accelerate commercialization.
- 3:30-5:00pm, From Thirsty to Resilient: Water Stewardship for the Data Center Era: Arindam Bhattacharya will attend this event exploring what water risk means for sustainable data center development, resource availability, and financial exposure and prudent steps to address it.
- 3:30-6:30pm, The Resilience Dividend: Proving Climate Adaptation Pays, by American Family Institute for Corporate and Social Impact: Brooke Zhang and Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme will attend this event.
- 4:00-6:00pm, Hot Takes: Big Bets & Bold Predictions: Brooke Zhang and Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme will attend this happy hour hosted by Hitachi Ventures, Yamaha Ventures, Burnt Island Ventures, Remarkable Ventures, Aligned Climate Capital, Mitsubishi Electric, and Rho.
- 6:00-8:00pm, Stanford Sustainability Accelerator Reception, Emilie Mazzacurati will attend.
Thursday, September 24
- 3:00pm, Climate Adaptation Investment Framework: Katie MacDonald will speak on this panel presenting Schroders’ adaptation investment framework and how it can be applied to portfolios.
- 11:00am-2:45pm, Project Frame 2026 Convening: Assessing Adaptation Impact: see above for details.
- 12:30-3:30pm, The Invisible Crisis: The Technologies We Need to Navigate Extreme Heat: See above for details.
- 8:30-10:30am, Investor Roundtable – Turning Risk into Resilience: Local Data for Smart Climate Investment: Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme will join this discussion on catalyzing investment in place-based climate resilience, hosted by CDP and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network.
- 1:00-6:00pm, Resilience at Scale: From Risk Data to Real Decisions: Emilie Mazzacurati will attend Moody’s convening of senior leaders from across finance, insurance, and the public sector to explore what resilience means and what it costs when it fails.