Northeast MA Climatetech Consortium to Host 2nd Annual Conference on May 13

REGISTER HERE   Free to attend. Registration required.

Goal: Build upon the work of the Northeast Massachusetts Climatetech Consortium to leverage regional strengths and to increase equitable, sustainable and innovative economic competitiveness.

Join us as we:

• Convene regional partners in person to offer networking opportunities.
• Cross-pollinate information, knowledge, and make introductions across Merrimack Valley - North Shore MA CEC-defined corridor.
• Share action/successes over the last year around our regional assets (which were defined by stakeholders at 2025 conference report).

• Highlight examples of what Climatetech looks like in our region.

  AGENDA

7:30am                 Registration, Breakfast & Networking

8:00am                 Program Opening

8:15am                 Keynote Speaker – Secretary Rebecca Tepper, Massachusetts EEA

8:45am                 Climatetech Workforce Update (Ed O’Sullivan, Exec. Director, MassHire North Shore Workforce Board)

9:15am                 Regional Economic & Ecological Resilience Study (Katie Kahl,  Director, UMass Amherst Gloucester Marine Station)

9:45am                 IMPLAN analysis for Essex County (Nataly Medina & Kate Quigley, NOAA Office for Coastal Mgmt.)

10:15am              UMass Lowell Rist Inst. for Sustainability and Energy (Ruairi O’Mahoney)

10:45am              Regional Innovation Update  (Chris Ilsley, President & CEO, InnoVenture Labs)

11:15am              Mass Clean Energy Center: Program Offerings (Ben Downing, CEO, Mass CEC)

11:30am              Conference Recap, Next Steps, Adjournment

Northeast Massachusetts Climatetech Consortium: A regional public-private consortium leveraging regional strengths to increase equitable, sustainable, and innovative economic competitiveness.

Consortium Conference Co-Sponsors

• City of Salem                                                          https://www.salemma.gov/
• Essex County Community Foundation                   https://www.eccf.org/
• Greater Lowell Community Foundation                  https://www.glcfoundation.org/
• InnoVenture Labs                                                   https://innoventurelabs.org/
• MassHire North Shore Workforce Board                https://masshire-northshorewb.com/
• Middlesex 3 Coalition                                             https://www.middlesex3.com/
• North Shore Alliance for Economic Development  https://northshorealliance.org/
• Northern Middlesex Council of Governments        https://www.nmcog.org/
• UMass Amherst Gloucester Marine Station           https://www.umass.edu/gloucester-marine-station/
• UMass Lowell                                                         https://www.uml.edu/