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New Ideas Drive Virtual Summit on AgTech Forward
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29 Apr 2021, 12:00
29 Apr 2021, 12:00
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: New Ideas Drive Virtual Summit on AgTech Forward |
 By VSAT Executive Committee The 3rd annual Virtual Summit on AgTech (VSAT), taking place May 4-6, will bring together some of the most influential individuals and organizations within AgTech for the purpose of accelerating the spread of knowledge, creating new connections, and generating ideas. The conference addresses topics that are fundamental to our well-being and climate such as the way we grow food, the way we eat, and the way we invest in change. Given the nature of these questions, it attracts a diversity of attendees that span industries and roles—everyone from farmers to investors to entrepreneurs has a stake in the conversation. Hosted by Tuck's Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital and the Tuck Food and Sustainable Agriculture Club, this year's VSAT will bring in over 75 speakers from around the world who represent all corners of the AgTech space. The Tuck VSAT committee drives the entire conference—including deciding the topics to cover, the companies they’d like to hear from, and sponsorship opportunities. Speakers are entirely sourced from the Tuck student planning committee, who prioritized selecting an impressive and diverse lineup of speakers. Students helped craft panels which cover the gamut of cutting-edge AgTech topics, including the fight against food waste, cultivated protein, robotics, and indoor farming. This year, the committee opted to add two topics not previously covered, growers and cannabis, driven purely by student interest. VSAT is no stranger to the virtual environment and has always been rooted in the idea of accessibility. Each summit has taken place within a virtual technology platform, Crowdcast, to ensure that attendees spanning the globe are able to attend without financial burden. Last year, 44 countries were represented across over 900 attendees. The small registration fee exists for the purpose of benefiting local agricultural non-profits. This year’s charity partner is the SUSU commUNITY Farm, an Afro Indigenous stewarded farm and land-based healing center located in Vermont.  Judges Tobin Krieg T’21, Robert Sewell T’21, and Schuyler Dalton T’22 ask questions to Momavlis Glekhebi team, made up of Elena Nikvashvili T’22, Vladislav Azimhodjaev T’22, and Aaron DiPietro T’22. Pitch Competition This year, VSAT is expanding its mission and will incorporate a pitch competition as part of the conference to give visibility and support to the many startups aiming to improve the agriculture and food industry. Last week, 12 AgTech startups pitched their ideas to a panel of Tuck judges during the semi-final competition. Pitches ranged from patented seed technology to hydroponic trees aimed at reducing food insecurity to marketplace platforms which connect Georgian farmers directly with consumers. Four teams, Agryo, Seges Ag, Grain Weevil, and Spornado, were selected as finalists and will present during Day 3 of VSAT. Why You Should Join Us VSAT Executive Committee co-chairs share what makes the Tuck Virtual AgTech Summit stand out as both an opportunity to learn more about this expanding field and to connect with others in the industry. "With over 1,000 attendees at last year’s summit, we thought that VSAT could be a great avenue for early-stage companies to get exposure to a large audience of investors and potential customers. The winner of the competition will receive $3,000 and mentorship from serial entrepreneurs and VCs. We're hoping this event serves as a launchpad for these companies to accelerate fundraising and customer acquisition.” – Robert Sewell T’21 “VSAT is an amazing opportunity for Tuck students to network with leaders in the AgTech community, to gain experience in planning an event of huge scope and scale, and to work with some of the most passionate members of the Tuck community. For the public, it’s an incredible and highly accessible way to learn more about the way that food is produced, how it gets to our tables, and about the entire ecosystem that’s working to bring about lasting and sustainable change, from entrepreneurs to investors to industry leaders. Conferences that are a fraction of the scale of this can charge hundreds of dollars for one ticket. VSAT is unique in that it’s designed to be accessible while providing a high-quality and broad educational experience.” - Kristin Ng T’21 “I attended VSAT before I was even a student at Tuck. It opened my eyes to the degree of impact that food has on our climate and showed me the ability of the Tuck community to bring together change makers and innovators.” – Kelsey Eichman T’22 How to Attend We hope you will join us at the 2021 Virtual Summit on AgTech, May 4 – 6! Learn more and register today |
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Why I Wish I Was a Tuck MBA Exploring the Intersection of Climate Chan
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04 May 2021, 09:00
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| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: Why I Wish I Was a Tuck MBA Exploring the Intersection of Climate Change and Business |
  By Madeleine Bothe Assistant Director, Program Management & Center Operations, Revers Center for Energy and the Center for Business, Government & Society Sometimes I wish I was a Tuck student exploring the intersection of climate change and business. Let me explain. Prior to Tuck, I enabled and empowered post-graduate level students to take their science focused master’s degree and commercialize their ideas that hatched in the lab and create a business. I was based in London, UK but led a team across different countries in Europe to ensure that in five weeks, students visited at least two cities in Europe and explored the “pain points” attributed to climate change. For example, pollution in major capital cities created ideas such as improving urban design, integration of smarter utilities and mobility, and improving current city resources to reduce carbon output (think heating and cooling buildings and capturing heat from urban transportation). As a year-round cyclist in London (fortunately came out unscathed), I pitched to students that improving cycling infrastructure in London would be an easy win to reducing congestion. Students came up with business models for pollution sensors attached to bicycles to collect data, creative business models for more cyclists to take to the roads, smart engineering ideas to adjust existing infrastructure, and more. Given that European countries are small, efficiency in agriculture was also a hot topic and a student brought to market a shipping container retrofitted as an aquaponics system to grow microgreens on disused site in inner cities. It was so inspiring, to say the least! What does this have to do with Tuck and you? After my career with Climate-KIC, a start-up when I joined them, I felt equipped to join Tuck as an ambassador to climate change innovation. As future business leaders, regardless of your chosen career, industry, or role, you will make decisions based on climate change as a strength, weakness, opportunity and/or threat to your organization. I started this career in the Revers Center for Energy Center at Tuck, but I now also support the Center for Business, Government & Society. I found they are both uniquely positioned to address and overlap on global issues such as climate change from all angles: energy, policy, business, marketing, local versus national or international, and even for those pursuing finance and consulting jobs to prepare you for these peak moments in your career. The two Centers offer co-curricular programming through myriad avenues but experiential learning is our strength. We enable students to contextualize and customize their Tuck education and here are a few examples:
Partnerships around campus. In my experience (and I’m sure yours too), collaboration = impact so having access to a network of different resources on your doorstep will make your Tuck experience that much more valuable. Revers Center for Energy and the Center for Business, Government & Society have strong cross-campus connections and resources so we aim to open the door to make all the opportunities available to you too: Independent projects with support from Centers are a unique way for students to bridge their classroom learning and apply it to a short-term, real-world scenario that is close to home. For example, past Revers Center for Energy independent projects include Validating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for a local Private Equity firm, and several projects on carbon emission and clean energy blockchain (the trend toward sustainability accountability). These projects enable students to support the local community while also accumulating a tangible resume booster. The Center for Business, Government & Society Non-Profit Board Fellows program is also a great example of students giving back to the community using their pre-Tuck experience and gaining experience board-member. Organizations include Upper Valley Trails Alliance, Vital Communities, and the Vermont Institute for Natural Science who are all advocates for nature, sustainability, and the climate. Tuck Social Venture Fund, a student-run early-stage investment fund that explores a huge range of early-stage companies. They invest in for-profit social enterprises that deliver a measurable social impact and financial return. The fund is also aimed at facilitating experiential learning opportunities for the next generation of leaders in impact investing. The Centers also support Tuck Sustains, a student-run club focused on raising sustainability issues on- and off-campus!  Admittedly, I got carried away here with so many climate change related programs and initiatives but I wanted this to be a one-stop shop to all the ways that your MBA experience can support the fight against climate change regardless of which career path you follow. I didn’t even mention some of the amazing speakers we have had to campus and they all talk about climate change as a huge part of business in the future. Just to name a few: Secretary Madeleine Albright, Beto O’Rourke, Governor Deval Patrick, and Auden Schendler, Vice President of Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Company. The Revers Center for Energy is building a thriving energy community at Tuck, Dartmouth, and beyond as we work to inspire and shape tomorrow's leaders in energy while engaging today's energy community. We believe that regardless of industry, tomorrow's wise leaders will need to make informed energy, climate change, and sustainability decisions during their careers that drive innovation for a sustainable future. The Center for Business, Government & Society empowers business leaders to navigate immediate stakeholder interests and the broader, deeply intertwined interests of both governments and society to help build a more sustainable global economy and contribute to the common good. |
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The 2020 Tuck Renewable Energy Finance Case Competition
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04 May 2021, 10:00
04 May 2021, 10:00
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: The 2020 Tuck Renewable Energy Finance Case Competition |
 By Tiago Rosa T’21 Working for Petrobras, one of the largest integrated oil and gas companies in the world, over the past decade I witnessed two key market forces changing the oil & gas industry. First, investors are putting real pressure on corporations to adopt clear ESG standards and to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Second, wind and utility-scale solar generation technology have had dramatic declines in costs and significant improvements in efficiency becoming competitive with conventional sources of energy. Energy transition is a key challenge to the long-term sustainability of the Oil & Gas industry and at Tuck I had the opportunity to deep dive into this important subject. As a Fellow in the Revers Center for Energy, I had direct access to experienced leaders in the renewables space. It was through the Center’s strong network that I was able to have two great summer experiences. First, I joined the business development team of Swift Current Energy, a utility scale developer headquartered in Boston, and later joined the corporate development team of Spruce Finance, a leading owner and operator of a portfolio of distributed solar and residential energy assets in the U.S. While at Swift Current Energy I had the opportunity to deep dive into the energy transition. I presented to the firm’s partners my research on how the oil majors are approaching energy transition, strategic acquisitions and investment mandates in the renewable energy sector in U.S. and Europe. I found this research so interesting that I decided to approach April Salas, Executive Director of the Revers Center for Energy, with a bold idea: organize Tuck’s first renewable energy case competition! The idea was inviting teams from top business schools around the world to recommend an energy transition strategy to a fictitious oil and gas producer that is looking to transition to a low carbon business. The teams also had to identify one acquisition opportunity that would become the platform for the recommended strategy. In July, the idea started to take shape. I formed a great team of T’21s and T’22s that believed in my ambitious idea and made it all possible: Alex Krass, Cristian Molina, Gautam Jagannathan, Joe Dalton, Michael Zanko, and Susie Peerson. I can’t thank them enough for making it possible. The competition was a great success! For the first round, in the beginning of October, we received 15 applications from 12 top MBA Schools. The quality of the teams’ recommendations was impressive! It was very interesting to see their creative solutions to address the problem. Their investment recommendations were also very consistent with the major market trends in the renewables space. Most teams proposed the acquisition of utility-scale solar developers. Utility scale solar is on track for a record high 2020. Through Q3 2020, solar PV accounted for 43% of electricity-generating capacity additions in the U.S, according to SEIA and Wood Mackenzie. Over the same period wind added 26% and natural gas added 30% new generating capacity. Large-scale solar market is expected to carry the overall industry growth in 2020, representing 70% of all solar capacity brought online. Despite the slowdown in procurement from C&I offtakers, the pandemic has caused virtually no delays in utility project construction. The other major trend that the teams captured is the rapid growth of the electric vehicle market. Europe and China have been leading the sales of EV market and are expected to be driving the market in the short-term. According to a McKinsey recent report, the market share for electric vehicles in Europe is expected to grow despite of COVID-19 pandemic from 3% in 2019 to 15% in 2022 and the market share in China is expected to grow from 5% in 2019 to 14% in 2022. Even though the U.S. EV market looks vastly different from that in China or Europe (US market is expected to grow from 2% in 2019 to 6% in 2022), stricter emission regulation and governmental incentives brought by the Biden-Harris administration may change that scenario. For the second round of the competition, five teams were selected to deliver a 15-minute online presentation detailing the recommendations followed by a 10-min Q&A session. The final presentations were evaluated by a panel of experienced leaders in the renewable space: Ammad Faisal (Senior Managing Director of NYC Office) and Aygul Sanzyapova (Associate) from Marathon Capital, Aashna Mehra (Associate) and Jeph Shaw (Principal) from New Energy Capital, Jim Marett (Director of Business Development) and Caroline Mann (Principal) from Swift Current Energy, and Justin Johns (New Energies Renewable Power Finance Manager) and Tom Stokes (Head of M&A and Commercial Financial for the Americas) from Shell. Overall, organizing this case competition was not only a great learning experience that helped me gain a clear insight into the energy transition challenges that oil & gas companies are facing but it was also a great opportunity to meet fantastic people committed to creating a positive impact in the world through renewable energy. I cannot wait to see next year’s edition of Tuck Renewable Energy Finance Challenge!  Tiago Rosa is a T’21 and a student fellow at the Revers Center for Energy at Tuck. Prior to Tuck, he worked for Petrobras in Brazil as head of the Planning and Control team developing business plans for a portfolio of projects in the upstream division and evaluating investment opportunities. During the summer, Tiago supported the corporate development team at Spruce Finance and Swift Current Energy doing evaluating M&A opportunities, performing project finance modeling and investment research in the renewables space. He holds a B.S. in business administration from Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and a Masters in Oil & Gas Business Management from Brazilian Petroleum Institute. The Revers Center for Energy supported Tiago’s internship at Spruce Finance through the Career Exploration Fund generously donated by Thad Hill T’95. |
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