SF Climate Week — Citywide Summit Apr 18–26
- Weeklong citywide series April 18–26 with hundreds of panels, workshops and public events across San Francisco. - Programming includes keynotes and speakers such as Al Gore, Mayor Daniel Lurie and Alex Honnold. - Overview and schedule at prnewswire.com.
SF Climate Week is underway through April 26, turning San Francisco and the wider Bay Area into a nine-day climate conference spread across hundreds of separate events. (prnewswire.com) Climatebase, the jobs and networking platform that hosts the week, said this year’s program includes more than 650 events, over 1,000 speakers and more than 60,000 expected attendees, with organizers saying registrations could climb toward 70,000 by the end of the week. (prnewswire.com) The speaker list spans politics, investing, energy and activism, including former Vice President Al Gore, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, climber Alex Honnold, former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, investor John Doerr and former federal loan chief Jigar Shah. (sfclimateweek.org) (prnewswire.com) Unlike a single convention in one hall, SF Climate Week runs as a decentralized network: independent groups host their own panels, meetups, workshops and public events under one shared calendar. Climatebase said the programming covers clean energy, transportation, food systems, finance, policy, adaptation, biodiversity and entrepreneurship. (prnewswire.com) That format shows up in the schedule itself. Events listed this week range from a climate kickoff with Mayor Daniel Lurie on April 23 to Stanford-hosted sessions, Bayview and Ocean Beach cleanups, a Chinatown planting event and a housing policy panel at 415 Natoma Street. (luma.com) (sfclimateweek.org) Organizers describe the gathering as Bay Area-wide, not just San Francisco-only. The official site lists events in Oakland, Stanford and Berkeley alongside San Francisco venues, including an April 18 kickoff at Blue & Yellow Project in Oakland and a UC Berkeley exhibition on climate futures. (sfclimateweek.org) (luma.com) Climatebase said the event is now nearing three times the size it was a few years ago, a sign of how climate organizing in the Bay Area has expanded beyond policy conferences into recruiting, startup pitches, neighborhood volunteer projects and industry summits. (prnewswire.com) (sfclimateweek.org) The week still has several days left, but the shape of it is already clear: one climate event does not define SF Climate Week; the draw is the scale of the calendar and the mix of city politics, business networking and public participation packed into April 18 through April 26. (prnewswire.com) (sfclimateweek.org)
