Our mission is to help Alaska become a global leader in developing, deploying, and commercializing emerging energy technologies. Those include innovations that:
- Provide clean, abundant, and cheap heat and power
- Turn air and water into fuels and useful compounds
- Store carbon underground (including to enhance oil recovery)
- Help us monitor and respond to environmental fluctuations
We are a network of more than 20 organizations led by Cook Inlet Tribal Council with funding from the US Economic Development Administration.
This year, we are pursuing a variety of efforts to become a hotspot for energy tech innovation. These efforts include: developing and supporting initiatives that will develop, retain, and attract talented energy tech entrepreneurs; aligning our state around a short list of high impact projects (and seeking funding for them); bringing more energy tech funders and funding into the state; mapping anticipated workforce and policy needs to current institutions and programs; raising the profile of existing energy tech firms, initiatives, and opportunities in our region.
Talent. We are supporting and developing a set of initiatives to develop, retain, and attract the brightest minds in tech.
Workforce and Policy. We map future needs to existing programs to identify gaps and pain points.
Investments. We work to bring VC, government, and philanthropic funding and funders of climate tech to Alaska.
Our Impact
After winning a Strategy Development Grant Award from the Economic Development Administration, we’ve been hard at work taking initial steps in a long journey toward an exciting future. Our impact has included:
- Forming a Steering Committee of some of Alaska’s best and brightest founders, economic developers, and leaders
- Developing a prioritized list of strategic initiatives for the state to pursue
- Helping secure hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial resources for partners across the state
- Reviving and reimaging a Global Entrepreneurs-in-Residence initiative
- Working with the Governor’s Office to plan the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference
- Co-hosting the 2024 the Launch Alaska Innovation Showcase
- Presenting on strategies for growing our innovation economy to a half dozen audiences of Alaskan leaders
- Sharing the impact of energy technology innovation and entrepreneurship with more than 100 young Alaskans across three events
Strategy
We embrace a three-pronged strategy to lead in climate innovation:
We attract essential investments to fuel technology advancements.
We assist local businesses and Native corporations in commercializing sustainable technologies.
We strengthen our startup ecosystem, encouraging the development of new businesses focused on climate solutions.
The Alaska Tech Hub is a consortium of more than twenty entities spanning economic development, education, tribal government, workforce development, and every manner of private sector firm.
We are led by Cook Inlet Tribal Council
and funded by the
U.S. Economic Development Administration
Core Partners
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