Lessons from a climate career in food and industrial decarbonization

Akshai Baskaran will share learnings of his journey from studying at Stanford (BS Chemical Engineering ‘15, CISAC Honors Program) to management consulting at Bain & Company and finally making his mark at climate companies, including Impossible Foods (plant-based meat), Brimstone (carbon-negative cement), and Gravity (industrial and commercial carbon measurement and decarbonization). The talk will provide his perspective on challenges with consumer climate companies, scaling hard tech companies, and opportunities in industrial decarbonization.