Jennifer Turliuk is a technologist, keynote speaker, published author, climate tech investor and entrepreneur. She is Practice Leader, Climate and Energy AI at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and a MIT Sloan Fellow; she builds, researches and instructs AI for climate and energy solutions at MIT. She has delivered talks on AI for climate and energy solutions at Davos, COP29, ARPA-E Summit, TEDx, New York Climate Week, MIT, Yale, Climate Change AI and Terra.do. Recently, she was Partner of Climate Capital Syndicate (one of the most active funders of climate tech startups), and Partner and Co-Instructor of Climate Angels (an educational program about climate tech angel investing). Previously, she co-founded an education company, bootstrapped to self-sufficiency, raised VC funding, and exited through acquisition. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Huffington Post, NBC, FOX, CBS, Fast Company, and Wired, and she has written for Forbes, VentureBeat, and Business Insider. She has been a board member, consultant, and mentor for entrepreneurs. She graduated from Queen’s University and Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program (at NASA Ames), and was awarded an honorary degree from Humber College.