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The power of AND: Entrepreneurs, ecosystems, and the future of climate and energy innovation

Please join the MIT Energy Initiative as we welcome Georgina Campbell Flatter, CEO of Greentown Labs, the world’s largest climatetech startup incubator.

As the world works to meet the dual challenge of expanding energy systems while reducing emissions, entrepreneurs are playing an increasingly important role in turning breakthrough science into real-world solutions. In this seminar, Campbell Flatter will explore what she calls the “Power of AND”—the idea that the energy transition will require multiple solutions advancing together: more energy and fewer emissions, innovation and deployment, science and entrepreneurship, global ambition and local ecosystems.

Drawing on her experience leading Greentown Labs and her earlier work at MIT bridging technology and global impact, Campbell Flatter will discuss the growing importance of innovation ecosystems that connect universities, startups, industry partners, and investors. She will also explore the power of place—why regions such as Massachusetts and Texas have emerged as global hubs for climatetech entrepreneurship, and how proximity between research, talent, infrastructure, and capital can accelerate the path from lab to market.

The discussion will also highlight the critical role universities play in this landscape. With MIT’s long tradition of translating research into companies, Campbell Flatter will reflect on opportunities for deeper collaboration between MIT, entrepreneurs, and industry to accelerate the commercialization of technologies that can shape the future of the global energy system.

The seminar will include a conversation with MITEI Director William Green.

This event is for the MIT Community. Please register with an MIT.edu email address.

About the speaker

Georgina Campbell Flatter is the chief executive officer of Greentown Labs, the world’s largest climatetech startup incubator. Greentown currently supports more than 250 member companies, with over 600 alumni startups, developing technologies that address the global energy transition. Collectively, Greentown companies have raised more than $11 billion in funding and created over 16,000 jobs, advancing solutions spanning advanced materials, clean fuels, industrial decarbonization, energy storage, and climate software.

Prior to joining Greentown Labs, Campbell Flatter spent a decade at MIT leading global initiatives designed to bridge technology, entrepreneurship, and social impact. During this time she worked closely with innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs to help translate breakthrough ideas into real-world solutions.

She is also the co-founder of TomorrowNow.org, a nonprofit initiative with roots at MIT that connects next-generation weather and climate technologies with smallholder farmers across Africa. TomorrowNow has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and works with public-sector partners to expand access to climate information services that help farmers adapt to a changing climate.

Campbell Flatter holds a Master of Engineering in materials science from the University of Oxford and a Master of Science in technology and policy from MIT.