Power and the grid
What will it take to connect AI infrastructure to clean power?
Grid access, new generation and who carries the development risk.
An invitation-only lunch
Tech for Impact:
Silicon Valley
The energy behind AI.
Family offices, private investors, founders and industry leaders around the same table. A lunch on the power, hardware and materials behind AI, and the capital needed to build them. Built to bridge Korea, Japan, the US and Europe.
Want to help run the day? Volunteer
- Date
- Time
- 11am-2pm PST Local California time
- Location
- Silicon Valley Venue to be announced →
The conversation
What does AI need
to run cleaner?
The answer involves the people financing infrastructure, the founders building it and the companies that put it to work.
We start with small, chaired roundtables, then continue over lunch and a fireside chat. Bring a question from your work and hear how others are approaching it.
We want this lunch to bridge Korea, Japan, the US and Europe. Seira Yun, the host, works between Europe and Asia, so cross-border questions come up at the tables and over lunch: Japanese and Korean corporates as customers and partners for US founders, capital moving between US, European and Asian investors, and who builds the next plant where.
Part of the Tech for Impact series: three summits in Tokyo, two gatherings in Munich, and Korea in October 2027.
Who the lunch is for
- Investors
- Family offices, private investors, fund-of-funds and corporate investors.
- Founders
- Teams building power, cooling, chips and materials for AI.
- Industry leaders
- People operating energy, data-centre and semiconductor businesses.
Participation is by invitation. Seat requests are reviewed individually.
Four regions, one table
Built to bridge Korea, Japan,
the US and Europe.
Every Tech for Impact gathering brings these four regions to the same table. Each has its own event in the series, and each sends people to the others.
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Japan
Three summits in Tokyo so far. Tech for Impact Summit 2027 at the United Nations University, 18–19 May.
Tech for Impact Asia → -
Korea
Tech for Impact: Korea follows in October 2027. City to be announced.
Tech for Impact: Korea → -
United States
This lunch is our first US gathering. A full US edition is in planning.
Tech for Impact US → -
Europe
Tech for Climate and The Allocators’ Table in Munich this autumn. Tech for Impact Europe follows on 29–30 September 2027.
Tech for Impact Europe →
Previous speakers
Who has spoken at
Tech for Impact.
Three summits in Tokyo and a lunch at Oktoberfest in Munich so far. A few of the people who have taken the stage and chaired the tables. All speakers →
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Audrey Tang Taiwan's first Digital Minister -
Charles Hoskinson CEO & Founder, Input Output Group -
Taro Kono Former Foreign, Defense and Digital Minister of Japan -
Kathy Matsui General Partner, MPower Partners; former Vice Chair, Goldman Sachs Japan -
Tshilidzi Marwala Rector, United Nations University; UN Under-Secretary-General -
Michael Levin Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology, Tufts University -
Yat Siu Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Animoca Brands -
Takuya Kitagawa President, QuEra Computing; former Chief Data Officer, Rakuten -
John Donoghue Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering, Brown University; brain-computer interface pioneer -
Rika Nakazawa Chief Commercial Innovation, NTT -
Jesper Koll Expert Director, Monex Group and the Japan Catalyst Fund -
Kiyoshi Seko President, Kyoto Fusioneering
Discussion themes
One question per table.
Proposed themes. Tables and chairs will be confirmed before the event.
Cooling and chips
Where can better hardware cut energy use?
Cooling, compute efficiency and the path from a working technology to deployment.
Materials and capital
Who finances a cleaner, more resilient supply chain?
Critical materials, industrial capacity and the capital needed to build them.
Across the Pacific and the Atlantic
How do US founders reach customers and capital in Japan, Korea and Europe?
Corporate partners, market entry and investors on three continents.
Roundtables follow the Chatham House Rule: you may use what you learn, without revealing any participant's identity or affiliation.
The day
Coffee, conversation,
then lunch.
Wednesday, 18 November 2026
All times are PST (California).
- 11:00
Doors and coffee
Meet the people joining your table.
- 11:30
Roundtables
One question per table, with a peer chairing the discussion.
- 12:30
Lunch and fireside chat
Continue the conversation over lunch. Speakers will be announced once confirmed.
- 14:00
Close
Time to return to the day, or keep talking.
San Francisco Bay Area
Meeting in Silicon Valley.
Venue to be announced
Our venue search is focused on Menlo Park and Palo Alto. The final address will be shared with confirmed guests.
18 November 2026 · Silicon Valley
Join the conversation.
Tell us about your work and the discussion you'd like to be part of. We'll email you if your request is approved.
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