Climate Games: Future-Proofing Place and People

1. Future-proofing communities against climate disasters, such as flooding, hurricanes, forest fires, and sea rise.

2. We gamify workforce training for disaster preparedness, management and recovery through hackathons, job fairs, workshops and community building at our Climate Games events, which are open to multi-generational teams from all sectors of the community.   

3. Our goal is to enable Climate Game attendees and participants to train and find climate-related (green) jobs by training them in exponential technologies (VR/AR, IoT, AI, 3D printing  and/blockchain) to develop local climate solutions.

Local governments, families, businesses and communities exposed to disasters who need training and education to prepare resilience plans,
manage first-responder services, and disaster recovery and rebuilding.  Examples: Capacity building efforts from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Early Adoption Technology Conference and Pop-Up Hackathons as part of the One United Globe Platform. CNMI's post-typhoon and Sacramento's post-wildfire assistance to fire disaster zones.   

We gamify workforce training for disaster preparedness, management and recovery through hackathons, job fairs, workshops and community building at our Climate Games events, which are open to multi-generational teams from all sectors of the community.  Gamification occurs in several ways:

1.  Leveraging Unity and Unreal VR gaming engines for local resource, weather, building and disaster visualization,  

 2.  Hackathon contests among competing teams, with awards for local winners and advancement to regional, national and international hackathon competitions.

 3.  Competition among towns/cities for the best teams, practices and solutions.

 4.  Professionalization through team pitches to angel investors, VCs and corporate venture funds  (i.e. "Shark Tank for climate ventures")  5.  Database of climate players and teams, which are shared with employers and investors 

We are developing a Training-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for green job training and education at the local level.

Climate Games are the premier community-building opportunity of our lifetime. We take local hackathons and provide training to inclusive and diverse teams across the globe to solve local climate issues. The teams will include members from Low-Moderate-Income (LMI) communities, along with other actors who can provide guidance and capacity-building skills to ensure  knowledge is transferred and shared. The team members will be trained from technology companies and  leverage  the exponential power of emerging technologies to solve local climate issues around the globe. An A.I.-driven database of the climate players will be shared with employers and investors. We will close the global employment skills gap and link the new green jobs as the pathway for the future of work 

We envision leveraging Unity and Unreal VR gaming engines for local resource, weather, building and disaster visualization. The Climate gamers will train and identify new climate-related (green) jobs by training them in exponential technologies (VR/AR, IoT, AI and/blockchain) to develop local climate solutions. 

The A.I.-driven database will house climate participant data that will provide skills-learned and obtained, and other data in each community where the games  occur. Creating the globes largest HR database that will provide predictive analysis for current jobs and provided a concrete path for the new jobs and skills as known as the future of work.

Our approach is systematic and includes all domains of entrepreneurial  ecosystem including the 99% that are not represented and typically not included in policy decisions. By providing access, opportunity and connecting resources to all the diverse participants across the globe, by leveraging emerging technologies. We create organic ecosystems where all people can provide their input and ideas to solve local climate issues.

Currently we served the communities in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and Sacramento, CA. We expect to tour four communities in the U.S. and two International Cities through 2020. From 2021 and beyond we expect to double our visiting communities year over year impacting the global population by 2030.

1. Funding-we made connections at conferences including the UN A.I for Good, shared the deck with Google, community-connectors in Oakland,CA and Geneva for grass-roots awareness and connected with Tech VC's regarding the games. We have also presented the our deck to State Economic Development Agencies for their feedback on our approach. We will continue to identify funding and resources to institutionalize games. 

Currently, we have three full-time staff and two part-time staff. Once we receive funding we will identify more on-site connectors (full and part-time) and continue to follow this pattern as we scale up.  

David Rixter: Founder and Former U.S. Department of Treasury Official that managed 20+  U.S.-based state/territory small business programs. Policy expert for enabling inclusive ecosystems, creative thinker and influencer. Hands on experience in driving innovation through Hackathons and convenings in Northern Mariana Islands and Sacramento,CA.

Sheridan Tatsuno: Serial Entrepreneur, Co-Founder One Reality, Virtual Gaia and MyPass.

Neil Sahota: IBM Inventor, Author and United Nations Vice Chair Workgroup: Climate Change and Emerging Technology

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Climate Games Business Plan

Mission:   Leverage exponential technologies to develop climate solutions and future proof the workforce and places.

Concept:  “March Madness” national tour with corporate and government sponsors.   Hackathons, job festivals, training workshops, elimination rounds at local and national level.   Local officials, businesses and citizens identify top climate challenges; hackathon teams of 5 people choose their climate challenge and develop feasible solutions using exponential technologies (VR/AR, IoT, drones, AI, blockchain, robotics, smart grids/mobility/cities, etc.) 

Job Training: 

• New green job analyses and openings
• Green education & training workshops
• Carbon offset training
• Green entertainment festivals

Schedule:  U.S. regions (Northeast, South, Central & West) and International communities

Event Management:  Hire local teams and leverage Olympic and UN event planning teams.

Financing

• Subscription model
• Corporate sponsors:  equipment, facilities, labor, product and cash donations
• Local/state workforce development agencies
• Event ticketing
• Merchandising
• Other

Marketing: 

• Social media
• Corporate advertising
• Local/state government promotionals

Requests/Needs

• Local/state government sponsors
• Corporate donations
• Other

Cash Flow Forecast:

• Administrative overhead:  management (top & local), legal, marketing, etc.
• Event costs, by location
• Event revenues, by location

Financing

• Subscription model
• Corporate sponsors:  equipment, facilities, labor, product and cash donations
• Local/state workforce development agencies
• Event ticketing
• Merchandising
• Other

Cash Flow Forecast:

• Administrative overhead:  management (top & local), legal, marketing, etc.
• Event costs, by location
• Event revenues, by location

We believe Solve can further provide national and global awareness for the Climate Games. We want to enlist support from key stakeholders who hold the keys to funding. Our approach aims to break down barriers for the 99% link them to path of prosperity while solving local climate issues. 

Key Climate stakeholders: Leonardo DiCaprio, Richard Branson, Mr. Luis de Alba, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the U.N. 2019 Climate Summit

The United Nations: The UN has platform to amplify the Climate Games and host in UN cities.

Microsoft: Technology resource partner

Unity: Technology resource partner

Google: Technology resource partner

FaceBook:Technology resource partner

Amazon:Technology resource partner

Lyft:Technology resource partner

Uber: Technology resource partner

Boeing: Technology resource partner

NASA: Technology resource partner

DOD: Technology resource partner

IBM: Technology resource partner

Intel:Technology resource partner

Apple: Technology resource partner

Samsung: Technology resource partner

AirBnB: Resource Partner

Audi: Technology resource partner

Toyota:Technology resource partner

Nissan:Technology resource partner

Ailbaba: Technology resource partner