
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14
COLLABATHON LIGHTNING TALKS
ONBOARDING FOR WORKING GROUPS & TEAMS
Throughout the weekend, the Collabathon will host Break out sessions to help Collabathon participants join established Working Groups and Teams and the new forming Teams.
Sessions will be conducted via Zoom and use Discord to help coordinate the different channels.
Unfamiliar with Discord? Need some guidance? Join us in the Open Climate Collabathon Zoom Conference Hall for assistance. We are available at the top of every hour, starting at 9am and ending at 5pm PDT.

WORKING TOGETHER
TO ADDRESS GRAND CHALLENGES
#RADICAL COLLABORATION
ABOUT THE LIGHTNING TALKS
Are you working on a project in the climate action space?
Please consider signing up to give a lightning talk presentation so other collaborators can:
> Discover, contribute, and accelerate your project’s impact in the climate action and accounting space,
> Hear information and insights from different industries, backgrounds and points of view
Are you new to Open Climate Collabathon and passionate about Climate Change in the Climate Action & Accounting space?

Hear from collaborators all around the world in the climate action space.

Discover a new project that fits your skill set and background.
Want to invite others to join you ?
Spread the news! Your support can help boost collaboration on climate accounting for the Paris Agreement.
Project by rivercon from the Noun Project
Listen by Rémy Médard from the Noun Project
Schedule Breakdown
There will be 12 different lighting talks throughout the day. Signup to get updates on our speaker lineup.
SESSIONS
Session 1: 9-10:45am PST
Session 2: 12:00 -1:45pm PST
Session 3: 3:00-4:45pm PST
Session 4: 6:00-7:45pm PST
SESSION BREAKDOWN
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Welcome
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Intro to Talks
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Lightning Talk 1 (5 min)
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Lightning Talk 2 (5 min)
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Lightning Talk 3 (5 min)
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Q&A or Breakout Prep (10 min)
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Breakouts Rooms (1 hour)
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Discord Guidance and Tutorial (15 min)
SATURDAY PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
The schedule below is changing constantly, check the wiki for the most updated roster of presenters
9:00 - 10:30 am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CET
Recruitment Presentations:
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Hyperledger Climate Accounting: Build a carbon accounting network using Hyperledger Fabric blockchain to improve collaboration on climate action. As part of the Hyperledger Climate Accounting and Action Special Interest Group, you’ll be joining our efforts to create a blockchain for climate change. Learn more > Read the prompt >
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Consumer Disclosure: Our goal is to develop and prototype a product that the WG community deems worthy to address consumer disclosure gaps between products and its end-users (the mainstream audience) and foster more sustainable supply chains. To build on top of previous efforts around the e-commerce entry point for user adoption. Learn more >
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Regen Network Regen Ledger: A public blockchain for ecological data claims and credits. Learn more >
Read the Regen prompt >
Additional Presentations:
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Direct Measurement Forest Carbon Protocol - read more here: https://peerj.com/articles/8891/
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AquaNurch - ‘Natural Intelligence + Artificial Intelligence’ to create Climate-resilient Sustainable Fisheries - naturedots.com/aquanurch
12:00 - 1:30 pm PST / 3pm EST / 9pm CET
Recruitment Presentations:
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CO2ken: Unlocking carbon offsetting for web3. A project to develop a unified, open, collaborative standard for carbon credit tokenization which is agnostic of both carbon methodology and standard body, which creates the first primitive for a more transparent and composable sustainable finance ecosystem. https://github.com/CO2ken
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involveMINT: involveMINT is a Community Exchange Network that empowers “ChangeMakers” to work on impactful projects by earning a currency accepted and exchanged among community business, residents and organizations, affording access to goods and services while keeping wealth local, and building thriving communities. https://github.com/involveMINT
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SurveyStack / SoilStack: SurveyStack is a flexible but scalable Javascript survey tool for collecting survey-type data from a variety of human and machine sources. SurveyStack has integrations with other services (farmOS farm management system, Regen Ledger, or other services) for pushing the finished survey results to any number of additional locations. SoilStack is a version of SurveyStack with a purpose-designed front end for walking a user through a survey at a predefined series of GPS locations, with advanced tools for intelligent point selection (stratification). SoilStack is intended for soil sampling and efficiently producing soil carbon stock estimates based on in-field samples, but could also be used for other stock estimates.”
https://gitlab.com/our-sci/our-sci-pwa, https://gitlab.com/our-sci/soil-client
3:00 - 4:30 pm PST / 6pm EST / 12am CET /
Recruitment Presentations:
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Local Air: Air monitoring sensors in local neighborhoods to track air pollution and keep residents who in low-income communities informed. https://localair.org
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Project Øasis: Project Oasis provides insights for sustainability executives to reduce and remove carbon emissions. At the moment the main service are monthly post for and from Climate Pioneers. The idea is to expand the services and help executives act on climate change. https://projectoasis.ch on Github: https://github.com/smrbu/project-oasis
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BFLO: BFLO technology to track, verify and manage sustainability information around business and finance. This includes Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ESG data, certifications, and carbon. BFLO’s protocol is blockchain-enabled for secure audits around claims and third party verification, and is being designed to help make it easier to manage complex information. https://github.com/BFLOio
6:00 - 7:30 pm PST / 10am HongKong
Recruitment Presentations:
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Eartheum: Independent emissions certification on the blockchain https://eartheum.io
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ValueFlows and Holo-REA: A protocol for describing flows of resources of all kinds within economic ecosystems, and a fractally composable networked https://valueflo.ws/ https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea/
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Global Carbon Reward: Proposing a new international financial mechanism for providing scalable debt-free financial incentives for climate mitigation and social and ecological co-benefits. https://GlobalCarbonReward.or
Special Mention projects (ones that we didn't have room for, this time)
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Clean Planet: Get rewarded to collect trash with 7 crypto-currencies http://cleanplanet.io
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Seeds: Reward participating organizations “The SEEDS community have allocated 400,000 Seeds to reward organizations which are participating in the Collabathon. Each organization can get 4,000 Seeds. https://www.comakery.com/projects/439/ https://joinseeds.com
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