Past Events
EVENTS
Powerhouse events connect clean energy entrepreneurs to some of the biggest industry executives, investors, and thought-leaders. Check out our past and upcoming events, sponsorship, and corporate partnership opportunities below.
Past Events
EVENTS
Powerhouse events connect clean energy entrepreneurs to some of the biggest industry executives, investors, and thought-leaders. Check out our past and upcoming events, sponsorship, and corporate partnership opportunities below.
UPCOMING EVENTS
watt it takes · May 23 · Leila Madrone
Join Powerhouse in partnership with Greentech Media for Watt it Takes, a monthly event and podcast series. Events are live and recorded on-site at Powerhouse's HQ in uptown Oakland. Sessions feature an array of prominent clean energy Founders & CEOs, who sit down with us to explore the journeys, challenges, and lessons learned in building a clean energy company.
suncode hackathon 2018 · oakland
Want to build an 'intelligent energy' startup and win $10,000 in cash prizes? Powerhouse will host the sixth annual SunCode Hackathon in the Spring of 2018 at the Citizen Engagement Lab in downtown Oakland. SunCode is your opportunity to create solutions that will accelerate clean energy. SunCode success stories include: Powerhive, SunSwarm, UtilityAPI, and OhmConnect.
PAST EVENTS
Powerhouse demo night & holiday party
Powerhouse hosted a demo night and holiday party at Mosaic's new office in Oakland. Powerhouse Accelerator companies, past and present, pitched their companies to a group of investors, industry partners, and the Powerhouse community.
NEW DAWn 2017
We brought back New Dawn back on August 17th and it was our biggest and best year yet. New Dawn brings over 500 clean energy entrepreneurs, professionals, and enthusiasts together to celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship.
Powerhouse Pavilion & Circle 2017
Powerhouse Pavilion & Circle showcases intelligent energy entrepreneurs at Intersolar 2017. Powerhouse Pavilion features a curated selection of startups who demonstrate their energy solutions expo style. Powerhouse Circle brings together 25 founders and CEOs of intelligent energy startups, and 25 industry executives and investors for some intense and effective speed dating.
free electrons silicon valley module
CalCEF and New Energy Nexus's Free Electrons program is a global energy startup accelerator that connects promising startups with leading utility companies. On March 3rd, Free Electrons startups participated in a workshop with Powerhouse mentors, met with a group of Powerhouse's extensive VC network, and networked with Powerhouse startups at a rooftop happy hour.
SUNCODE 2017
On April 7th and 8th, a record turnout of 160 intelligent energy entrepreneurs, software developers, and industry leaders gathered at the Citizen Engagement Laboratory in Uptown Oakland for 2 days of hacking clean energy software solutions to industry challenges posed by sponsors DSM and SunRun. Check out the submissions and winners on Devpost.
CELI San Francisco Inaugural Recruitment
On February 2nd, Powerhouse sponsored the Clean Energy Leadership Institute's networking happy hour to celebrate the launch of applications for CELI’s inaugural San Francisco Clean Energy Leaders Spring 2017 Fellowship Class.
Pitches & Pitchers 2016
Friends and members of the Powerhouse community gathered at Drake's Dealership on Wednesday December 7th for great food, pitches from our graduating cohort of accelerator startups, and satirical awards for Powerhouse entrepreneurs.
Powerhouse pavilion & circle 2016
Powerhouse Pavilion and Circle: Powerhouse Pavilion was Intersolar's first showcase featuring solar software and fintech startups on the expo floor. Powerhouse Circle is the nation's first solar-specific speed dating event for investors, industry executives and entrepreneurs.
Powerhouse Accelerator Graduation & BBQ
Congratulations to SunSwarm, SunFi, Shinbone and Volta for graduating from Powerhouse’s Accelerator. Welcome Sunlytics, PVBid, SunBanc and Solar.ai to the Powerhouse Accelerator. You are the future superstars of new solar software and fintech solutions.
Powerhouse Cocktail Reception
A big thanks to Obvious Ventures and GE Ventures for hosting the Powerhouse Cocktail Reception. The reception brought together thought leaders, investors and industry executives with the shared mission of driving innovation and entrepreneurship in new energy.
SunCode 2016
The energy level reached new heights at the Powerhouse SunCode Solar Hackathon this year with over 120+ participants, 10 sponsors, 12 mentors and 4 judges from the industry's leading solar companies and VC's. At SunCode, developers, designers and solar champions prototyped creative solar software solutions.
Financial Innovation for Energy Access
Powerhouse was thrilled to partner with EnergyAccessSF to host an inspiring panel discussion that explored how innovative financing models that have helped solar scale in the U.S. could be applied to expand energy access in emerging markets.
GE ventures Reception
Some energy corporations fight change, some embrace it, and some lead it. Powerhouse is a proud partner of GE Ventures and GE Current to lead this transition to renewables.
DOE SUNSHOT Jamathon
The SunShot Catalyst Jamathon was a 3.5 hour business brainstorming event that helped build amazing startup pitches. Participants recruited team members to work on a business idea that can be implemented with software, data, or automation.
Solar Week
SolarWeek was a solar energy exhibition in San Leandro that engaged changemakers, solar entrepreneurs, designers, makers, students and citizens to ideate the possibilities of solar energy with the mission to inspire solutions to the challenges of establishing a renewable future.
