The founders of two South Australian climate tech companies will join Deputy Premier Susan Close in Egypt this week for the UN climate conference - COP27.
Val.Ai and Project Green Group will use this opportunity to pitch their innovations to a global audience of potential investors, collaborators and customers.
They join about 40,000 delegates at COP27 which runs from 6-18 November.
The conference is an ideal opportunity for the local businesses to pitch their respective technologies to an international audience.
The Australian government has announced it will seek to host COP31 and South Australia will actively support that bid.
Our world-leading intermittent renewable energy profile makes South Australia a great location as a potential host city.
Val.Ai and Project Green Group are attending COP27 as part of the South Australian Government’s participation in the CivTech Alliance’s Global Scale-Up Program.
The CivTech Alliance is an international network of government representatives, coordinated by the Government of Scotland. Its Global Scale-Up program is designed to support climate startups to increase their visibility, access global markets, and to accelerate growth.
Last year, Rohan Hamden, co-founder and CEO of Adelaide-based startup XDl:Cross Dependency Initiative (XDI), travelled to the UK for COP26 and met with some of the world’s largest financial firms.
Mr Hamden and XDI has since fast-tracked business growth and expect to employ 100 staff by the end of 2022.