Fireside chat in SydneyTuesday 10 March 2026
From Silicon Valley to Sydney: Bringing the Clean Energy Test Bed Model Down Under
Sam Wood's bringing the Silicon Valley clean energy playbook to Sydney — hear how test beds accelerate hardware startups and what that means locally.
AusTestBed launches as Australia's new national testing platform, modeled on California's successful CalTestBed program, providing early-stage climate tech founders with affordable access to university and research facility networks to validate their hardware and de-risk commercial development. The event brings together the program's founding companies, California Energy Commission leadership, and experts from EnergyLab and New Energy Nexus to discuss how Australian innovators can leverage this equity-free testing and regranting opportunity to accelerate their clean energy technologies to market.