We're excited to bring you the culminating event of the Urban Future Prize Competition. Join us at the beautiful World Trade Center in New York City for a full-day summit on the future of sustainable cities. Come for morning panels on smart city and smart grid tech, stay for an afternoon of exciting pitches from our Urban Future Prize Competition finalists who are competing for $100,000 worth of prizes. This promises to be the premier Earth Day event in NYC!
CEO & President of the New York State Energy Research and
Development Authority (NYSERDA)
Alicia Barton has held public and private sector leadership roles advancing clean energy projects and companies for over a decade. She served as co-chair of the Energy and Cleantech Practice at Foley Hoag, LLP, a global law firm based in Boston, where her practice focused on representation of clean energy companies in emerging market areas such as offshore wind and energy storage. She currently serves on boards of several organizations, including Greentown Labs, the Environmental League of Massachusetts, Efficiency Forward, and the Advisory Board for the New England Women in Energy and Environment (NEWIEE). Ms. Barton earned a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources from The Ohio State University and a juris doctor degree from Boston College Law School.
We’ve reduced our business’ environmental impact by contracting to purchase renewable energy certificates, or “RECs,” to match all of the electricity used at the event space. This step reduces our electricity-based carbon footprint by 5 tons of CO2. The renewable energy generation we support has a positive environmental impact similar to growing 130 trees seedlings for 10 years.
