2nd Annual Northeast Massachusetts Climatetech Conference

Speaker Name

Secretary Rebecca Tepper

Details

The goal of the 2^nd Annual Northeast Massachusetts Climatetech Conference is to build upon the work of the Northeast Massachusetts Climatetech Consortium to leverage regional strengths and to increase equitable, sustainable and innovative economic competitiveness.

Join us as we

• Convene regional partners in person to offer networking opportunities.
• Cross-pollinate information, knowledge, and make introductions across Merrimack Valley – North Shore MA CEC-defined corridor.
• Share action/successes over the last year around our regional assets (which were defined by stakeholders at 2025 conference report).

• Highlight examples of what Climatetech looks like in our region.

 CONFERENCE AGENDA

7:30am                 Registration, Breakfast & Networking

8:00am                 Program Opening

8:15am                 Keynote Speaker – Secretary Rebecca Tepper, Executive Office of Energy and

Environmental Affairs

8:45am                 Climatetech Workforce Update (Ed O’Sullivan, Executive Director, MassHire North                                             Shore Workforce Board)

9:15am                 UMass Amherst GMS Economic & Ecological Resilience Study (Katherine J. Kahl, PhD

Director, UMass Amherst Gloucester Marine Station)

9:45am                 IMPLAN analysis for Essex County (Nataly Medina & Kate Quigley, NOAA OCM

Economics)

10:15am              UMass Lowell Rist Institute (Ruairi O’Mahoney, Associate Vice Chancellor for

Sustainability and Enterprise Development, Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy)

10:45am              Regional Innovation Update  (Chris Ilsley, President & CEO, InnoVenture Labs)

11:15am              Mass CEC Program Offerings (Ben Downing, CEO, Mass CEC) (TO BE CONFIRMED)

11:30am              Conference Recap, Next Steps, Adjournment

 

Northeast Massachusetts Climatetech Consortium

A regional public-private consortium leveraging regional strengths to increase equitable, sustainable, and innovative economic competitiveness.

Consortium Conference Co-Sponsors

• City of Salem                                                    https://www.salemma.gov/
• Essex County Community Foundation      https://www.eccf.org/
• Greater Lowell Community Foundation                  https://www.glcfoundation.org/
• InnoVenture Labs                                                         https://innoventurelabs.org/
• MassHire North Shore Workforce Board                https://masshire-northshorewb.com/
• Middlesex 3 Coalition                                                  https://www.middlesex3.com/
• North Shore Alliance for Economic Development               https://northshorealliance.org/
• Northern Middlesex Council of Governments                      https://www.nmcog.org/
• UMass Amherst Gloucester Marine Station           https://www.umass.edu/gloucester-marine-station/
• UMass Lowell                                                                https://www.uml.edu/

 

Free to attend Registration Required

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Speaker Bio

Rebecca Tepper is the Secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA). She was most recently the Chief of the Energy and Environment Bureau in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where she served as Attorney General Healey’s chief advisor on energy and environmental policy. She was responsible for the office’s three environmental and energy divisions, including executing the statutory duties of the Commonwealth’s ratepayer advocate. She worked in the Attorney General’s Office from 2015-2023, and previously served as General Counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and Director of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board. Before entering state government in 2009, Tepper worked in the private sector for 15 years as a Partner at Rubin and Rudman LLP. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin/Madison and Boston University Law School. She lives in Lexington with her husband and twin boys.