Dan Vermeer

Conservation X Labs is creating a new model for conservation, built on the exponential technologies & connectivity, coupled with financial and behavior change innovations, and scaled through the private sector, partnerships with conservation organizations, and collaborations with governments and intergovernmental entities. By harnessing the democratization of science and technology, we can finally allow conservation to operate at the pace and on the scale necessary to keep up with and even get head of the planet’s most intractable environmental challenges. There is a clear need to accelerate conservation solutions, harness new technologies, and draw upon new solvers and new solutions through new approaches. Importantly, we also know we can work through the private sector to improve the efficacy, impact, sustainability, and scale of conservation efforts while building sustainable income for communities that rely on those resources. Finally, humans are at the center of conservation problems. Any approach to conservation needs to change the incentive structures, both in biodiversity-rich countries, and in those countries that generate the demand for products and goods that put pressure on those systems. We can apply what we know from behavior and psychology, marketing, and social media to shift demand and incentive structures. Much as humans have created the problems, we have the means to solve them.

The Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) accelerates growth and leadership of the cleantech economy, leveraging the unique concentration of industry, academic, and government leaders in the Research Triangle to create benefits through innovation, deployment, and talent in the region, North Carolina, and beyond. • Business Development and Collaboration - We serve as a connector, facilitating meaningful relationships between organizations, among individuals, and between our members and opportunities to accelerate cleantech innovation and deployment. • Innovation - We advance the development of new technologies and facilitate partnerships that lead to innovative cleantech deployments. • Education and Talent - We serve as the authority on cleantech in the region and state, educate stakeholders on deploying cleantech in their communities, and connect companies with the talent they need. RTCC supports a diverse and growing network of members, sponsors, and partners that enable RTCC to deliver on its vision to create sustainable communities through cleantech innovation and adoption. We welcome all innovators and leaders who make up the cleantech ecosystem while focusing on three key technology areas that target solutions that will transform the economy and create jobs. • Clean Energy Systems - Carbon-free power generation and transmission, grid modernization, battery storage, microgrids, carbon capture and storage, system security, emerging technologies • Smart Utility Technologies - Technologies that promote the efficient use of resources, digitization, communications, cloud computing, data analytics and management, AI, machine learning, cybersecurity • Clean Transportation - Electrification of vehicles, fleet conversion, retirement of internal combustion engines, low- or no-carbon energy generation for vehicle charging, battery and fuel cell technologies, charging infrastructure RTCC actively pursues transformation through collaboration.

Conservation X Labs is creating a new model for conservation, built on the exponential technologies & connectivity, coupled with financial and behavior change innovations, and scaled through the private sector, partnerships with conservation organizations, and collaborations with governments and intergovernmental entities. By harnessing the democratization of science and technology, we can finally allow conservation to operate at the pace and on the scale necessary to keep up with and even get head of the planet’s most intractable environmental challenges. There is a clear need to accelerate conservation solutions, harness new technologies, and draw upon new solvers and new solutions through new approaches. Importantly, we also know we can work through the private sector to improve the efficacy, impact, sustainability, and scale of conservation efforts while building sustainable income for communities that rely on those resources. Finally, humans are at the center of conservation problems. Any approach to conservation needs to change the incentive structures, both in biodiversity-rich countries, and in those countries that generate the demand for products and goods that put pressure on those systems. We can apply what we know from behavior and psychology, marketing, and social media to shift demand and incentive structures. Much as humans have created the problems, we have the means to solve them.

The Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) accelerates growth and leadership of the cleantech economy, leveraging the unique concentration of industry, academic, and government leaders in the Research Triangle to create benefits through innovation, deployment, and talent in the region, North Carolina, and beyond. • Business Development and Collaboration - We serve as a connector, facilitating meaningful relationships between organizations, among individuals, and between our members and opportunities to accelerate cleantech innovation and deployment. • Innovation - We advance the development of new technologies and facilitate partnerships that lead to innovative cleantech deployments. • Education and Talent - We serve as the authority on cleantech in the region and state, educate stakeholders on deploying cleantech in their communities, and connect companies with the talent they need. RTCC supports a diverse and growing network of members, sponsors, and partners that enable RTCC to deliver on its vision to create sustainable communities through cleantech innovation and adoption. We welcome all innovators and leaders who make up the cleantech ecosystem while focusing on three key technology areas that target solutions that will transform the economy and create jobs. • Clean Energy Systems - Carbon-free power generation and transmission, grid modernization, battery storage, microgrids, carbon capture and storage, system security, emerging technologies • Smart Utility Technologies - Technologies that promote the efficient use of resources, digitization, communications, cloud computing, data analytics and management, AI, machine learning, cybersecurity • Clean Transportation - Electrification of vehicles, fleet conversion, retirement of internal combustion engines, low- or no-carbon energy generation for vehicle charging, battery and fuel cell technologies, charging infrastructure RTCC actively pursues transformation through collaboration.

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