2024 SponsorS
LEADING
SUSTAINING
SUPPORTING
LEADING Sponsors
ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions is committed to leveraging its unique combination of capabilities, including its technology expertise and complex project management, to focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen, and advanced biofuels to accelerate emission reductions for its existing businesses and its customers.
That commitment includes the development of new products, approaches, and technologies aimed at integrated, scalable solutions that tackle head-on the challenge of strengthening energy supply security and reducing emissions to support society's net-zero ambitions while enabling our customers to create sustainable businesses.
To help meet that challenge, ExxonMobil has established accelerated ambitions to achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from its operated assets by 2050*. Plus, there are plans to invest approximately $17 billion through 2027 with the dual aim of helping reduce emissions at ExxonMobil operations, as well as those of its customers.
*Source: ExxonMobil Advancing Climate Solutions Progress Report
Russell Reynolds Associates
Russell Reynolds Associates is a global leadership advisory firm. Our 600+ consultants in 47 offices work with public, private, and nonprofit organizations across all industries and regions. We help our clients build teams of transformational leaders who can meet today’s challenges and anticipate the digital, economic, sustainability, and political trends that are reshaping the global business environment. From helping boards with their structure, culture, and effectiveness to identifying, assessing, and defining the best leadership for organizations, our teams bring their decades of expertise to help clients address their most complex leadership issues. We exist to improve the way the world is led.
Sustaining Sponsors
GTI Energy
GTI Energy is a leading technology development organization. Our trusted team works to scale impactful solutions that shape energy transitions by leveraging gases, liquids, infrastructure, and efficiency. We embrace systems thinking, innovation, and collaboration to develop, scale, and deploy the technologies needed for low-carbon, low-cost energy systems.
Hawaiian Electric
Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI) brings three operating companies under one parent company and a shared common purpose to create a Hawai‘i that is thriving economically, environmentally, culturally and socially. The HEI family of companies provides the energy and financial services that empower much of the economic and community activity of Hawai‘i. HEI’s electric utility, Hawaiian Electric, supplies power to approximately 95% of Hawai‘i’s population and is undertaking an ambitious effort to decarbonize its operations and the broader state economy. Its banking subsidiary, American Savings Bank, is one of Hawai‘i’s largest financial institutions, providing a wide array of banking and other financial services and working to advance economic growth, affordability and financial fitness. HEI also helps advance Hawai‘i’s sustainability goals through investments by its non-regulated subsidiary, Pacific Current.
About Hawaiian Electric
Established in 1891, Hawaiian Electric is committed to empowering its customers and communities by providing affordable, reliable, clean and sustainable energy. The company serves 95 percent of Hawaiʻi's 1.4 million residents on Oʻahu, Maui, Hawaiʻi, Lānaʻi and Molokaʻi.
Hawaiʻi has a long history of leading the nation in establishing ambitious climate goals and Hawaiian Electric is at the center of the state’s energy transformation efforts, partnering with stakeholders and community members to help drive a clean energy transition that benefits everyone.
The company is committed to significantly reducing its carbon emissions by adding renewable generation to its stand-alone island grids and retiring oil-fired power plants. By 2045, the utility’s carbon emissions will be net zero.
As Hawaiian Electric leads the community-wide energy transition, working through complex technical issues and social equity considerations, its actions are focused on building a sustainable, resilient Hawaiʻi so that future generations may thrive, together.
Supporting Sponsors
Stanford Ecopreneurship
Building on Stanford’s strengths in both sustainability and entrepreneurship, Stanford Ecopreneurship programs take aspiring sustainability entrepreneurs (or “ecopreneurs”) from idea to launch.
We recognize that development of sustainability technology and policy solutions must be combined with effective models of ecopreneurship. By building public, private, and nonprofit organizations that can take solutions to scale, we aim to accelerate a multi-trillion dollar economic transition to address current global climate and sustainability challenges and create a future where humans and nature thrive in concert and in perpetuity.
Stanford Engineering
Stanford Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly a century, creating pivotal technologies that have transformed the worlds of information technology, communications, health care, energy, business and beyond. Our faculty conduct groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research, and our students graduate with technical excellence, as well as the creativity, cultural awareness and entrepreneurial skills that come from exposure to all that Stanford University has to offer.
Colorado State University Energy Institute
The Colorado State University Energy Institute is a horizontally-integrated organization within the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) with a mission to develop energy and climate solutions at-scale that achieve global impact.
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability draws on a deep understanding of Earth, climate, and society to create knowledge and scalable solutions, in collaborations with partners worldwide. Together, we strive to create a future where humans and nature thrive to concert and in perpetuity through excellence in research, education, innovation, and service.