Dallas-based International environmental nonprofit EarthX will host the Ninth Annual E-Capital Summit April 22-24 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas.

“The EarthX E-Capital Summit stands apart as an essential gathering for anyone serious about driving pragmatic sustainability-related investments and industry innovation,” said Vikram Agrawal, senior director of EarthxCapital, who helps EarthX curate the event. “This event uniquely merges business, investment, and political discussions, fostering candid, productive, and pragmatic conversations and countless opportunities to engage with established and emerging industry leaders that you simply won’t experience elsewhere.”

EarthX E-Capital Summit is a premier industry-leading, invitation-only event that will bring together hundreds of the world’s leading investors and family offices, innovators, industry leaders, dealmakers, and others in the investment and innovation ecosystem to catalyze impact through environmental, conservation, sustainability, and cleantech focused investments and industry innovation.

Networking at the EarthX E-Capital Summit. [Photo: PRNewsfoto/EarthX]

The summit is known for fostering meaningful connections and catalyzing investments and industry innovation in environmental sustainability, conservation, and cleantech across various industry verticals from energy to water to the built environment.

The event has convened more than 3,000 attendees from more than 25 countries, including executives from prominent investment firms and groundbreaking innovators. Participating innovators have secured significant funding, with past attendees collectively having raised more than $5 billion in follow-on funding to advance environmental solutions.

New world in sustainability

Organizers said that this year’s event is a collaboration with Strategic Partners Greentown Labs, Capital Factory, Unreasonable Group, and Austin Technology Incubator.

According to EarthX, the 2025 E-Capital Summit theme, “Sustainability Investing: Navigating a New World,” underscores the urgency and opportunity in accelerating the deployment of transformative environmental solutions during an era of global transition and reinvention.

The EarthX Climate Tech Prize is an impactful pitch competition spotlighting cutting-edge early-stage startups providing innovative solutions to global climate challenges. [Photo: PRNewsfoto/EarthX]

This year’s three-day convening will feature:

• Investment Forum: High-level discussions on sustainability investment trends and opportunities, featuring sessions led by senior industry, investment, and government leaders.
• E-Capital Connections: Curated, high-value networking opportunities pairing investors and innovators for strategic discussions and potential investments.
• E-Commercialization Connections: Innovator commercialization showcase enabling innovators to connect with potential customers or partners from industry.
• EarthX Climate Tech Prize: An impactful pitch competition spotlighting cutting-edge early-stage startups providing innovative solutions to global climate challenges.
• Woman-to-Woman Leadership Symposium: A new opportunity for women leaders in the sustainability investment space to engage with their peers and expand their network.

Family Office Summit and investment forum details

On April 24, EarthX again will host its invitation-only EarthX Family Office Summit convening dozens of the world’s leading families interested in or exploring sustainability-related investments, business, innovation, and philanthropy. EarthX said it expects significant participation of these global family offices in the 2025 E-Capital Summit.

The 2025 E-Capital Summit Investment Forum will feature senior industry leaders for an open dialogue on the outlook for sustainability investing.

Confirmed 2025 speakers include:

• Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, Entrepreneur & Investor, founder and chairman, Tiger 21
• Jack Selby, managing director, Thiel Capital, LLC
• Tim Gallaudet, former U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and NOAA Administrator
• Pablo Vegas, president and CEO, ERCOT
• Pat Wood, CEO, Hunt Energy Network (past Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and of the Public Utility Commission of Texas)
• Dr. Sylvia Earle, American marine biologist and chairman of Mission Blue
• Dr. Vladimir Ryabinin, former executive secretary of IOC and assistant director of UNESCO, oceanographer, climatologist, meteorologist
• Sid Miller, commissioner, Texas Department of Agriculture
• Vijay Manthripragada, CEO, Montrose Environmental Group

Additionally, the keynote luncheon taking place on April 23 during the E-Capital Summit Investment Forum will feature Gen. David H. Petraeus, retired four-star general and former CIA Director and current KKR partner and chairman of the KKR Global Institute.

Photo: PRNewsfoto/EarthX

Congress of Conferences

EarthX said the E-Capital Summit is a centerpiece program of Earthx2025’s Congress of Conferences, a five-day forum that brings together the world’s foremost leaders in business, investment, innovation, philanthropy, academia, government, public policy, and environmental advocacy. Ranked as one of the top 3 sustainability events in the U.S. by Sustainability Magazine, Earthx2025 is a platform that covers the spectrum of industries, policies, and initiatives shaping the future of our planet.

Among its 20-plus conference tracks, Earthx2025 will feature conversations around the future of energy, the circular economy, ocean investment and innovation, regenerative agriculture, and many other themes.

This event is designed to foster dialogue and collaboration across all perspectives, inspiring tangible action in sustainability, finance, environmental advocacy, and conservation, EarthX said. A key focus of this effort is to drive investment into market-based solutions that can address the greatest opportunities and challenges facing our planet at scale.

“This year’s E-Capital Summit takes place at a time where there is great political and market uncertainty around the future of business and investment in sustainability, clean technology, and green innovation,” Agrawal says. “Our forum is an opportunity to engage openly and honestly about what really works, what is not working, and where are greatest opportunities at the moment to catalyze both impactful and pragmatic solutions to our country’s and world’s challenges.”

EarthX said it is seeking applications from investors, startups, corporate leaders, dealmakers, and innovation and investment ecosystem leaders to take part in this invitation-only summit. Interested participants can apply at https://earthx.org/conferences/e-capital-summit/

EarthX was founded in 2010 as Earth Day Dallas in an effort to increase environmental awareness in the local community. From 2010 to 2023, EarthX convened EarthX EXPO, the world’s largest green gathering in the days surrounding Earth Day in April.

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