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The Climate Gap

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The Climate Gap sits at the intersection of climate tech and media. We learn from entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and investors driving meaningful change, and share their stories with a global audience.We produce content across four channels:- Quick Cuts: Short episodes. Sharp insights. No filter.- Pop-Up: Conversations live from the floor.- The Down Low with Joe: Insider views and industry shifts.- Into the Weeds: Where complexity meets clarity.The Climate Gap is powered by Element Six. Element

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49:55

Connecting the Disconnect: Merging CRE and FM Tech

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2025/11/07

From silos to systems: in this bonus episode of The Down Low with Joe, Lewis and Joe sit down with Richard Reyes, Digital Strategy Lead at ConnexFM and CEO & Executive Director of OSCRE International, to unpack how the built world finally starts speaking a common language.Richard shares how his journey from enterprise architecture, data science, and financial services led him into the built environment, and why he now sees his role as a “bridge builder” between CREtech and FM tech. Together,

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12:36

Digital Spin or Digital Twin with Elisa Rönkä,...

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2025/11/04

“If your digital twin can’t prove value in 90 days, it’s not a product, it’s a demo. Elisa Rönkä of Johnson Controls shares what makes digital twins pay back fast.”Most digital twins look great on a screen but collapse under CFO scrutiny.They model every pipe, point, and person in the building yet still fail to show a single verified saving.In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki sits down with Elisa Rönkä, who leads the digital business for Johnson Controls across EMEA, to

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51:15

The Human Side of Smart Buildings

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2025/10/29

The smartest buildings don’t just run on data — they run on people.From intern to Operations Manager, Reed Powell has spent his career helping MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions evolve from a regional mechanical contractor into a leader in smart building service and energy innovation.In this episode of The Climate GAP: Quick Cuts, Reed shares how the company balances cutting-edge technology with the craft, mentorship, and trust that define lasting performance.We discuss:How sustainability became

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52:33

DLWJ: How WSP Is Redefining Smart Buildings

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2025/10/29

Smart buildings aren’t about gadgets — they’re about outcomes.From “digital twin” hype to fragmented vendor promises, owners are often told their buildings are intelligent when they’re really just connected.In this episode of The Down Low with Joe, Jay Wratten, Global Smart Places Lead at WSP, unpacks what true digital transformation looks like at enterprise scale — and why success starts with understanding the problem, not the platform.We discuss:Why most smart building strategies fail before they

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16:43

AI won’t fix your building if your data is scattered...

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2025/10/28

AI won’t fix your building if your data is scattered.Work orders in one tool, cleaning in another, room booking in a third, BMS alarms in a fourth. AI can’t infer what it can’t see.In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki speaks with Brett Fisher, Senior Director at ServiceNow, who is a leader in the Workplace Platform Stack. Together, they get practical about what must live in your platform layer, how to model context across assets, people, and spaces, and which integrations move

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16:17

Direct vs. Channel with Tim Miscovich, Chief...

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2025/10/20

In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki sits down with Timothy Miscovich, Chief Commercial Officer at wtec, to unpack one of the biggest go-to-market decisions in smart buildings and climate tech:Do you scale through partners, or do you build direct?Tim has built teams and channels across 30 countries, leading wtec’s smart lighting and sensor business through direct, channel, and hybrid models. His take is refreshingly grounded. There is no easy button. Markets are different

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12:12

AI, SCI-FI TO ROI with Danielle Radden, VP Global...

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2025/10/20

In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki sits down with Danielle Radden, VP of Global Revenue Operations at Facil.AI, to talk about what it really takes to build trust in AI for buildings and why the conversation shouldn’t start with fear.When people hear “AI in buildings,” they often imagine extremes: shiny dashboards or sci-fi robots. Danielle brings it back to reality. This isn’t a leap into the unknown; it’s the next logical step in control logic we’ve trusted for decades.We

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15:36

Beyond Dashboards Into Control with Omar Tabba, Chief...

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2025/10/14

In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki interviews Omar Tabba, Chief Product Officer at BrainBox AI, to explore what true building autonomy looks like, and why most smart buildings still aren’t there.Omar’s view is that the industry doesn’t have a data problem; it has a control problem. Dashboards keep multiplying, but systems still can’t act safely, measure value, or scale without human intervention.We dig into:The minimum viable data layer — Why 95% of building systems don’t

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1:12:53

From intern to industry leader: How Alex Grace built...

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2025/10/09

From intern army to industry leader: How Alex Grace built one of climate tech’s top commercial machinesIn this episode of The Climate Gap's, In The Weeds segment, Lewis sits down with Alex Grace, Chief Commercial Officer at Clockworks Analytics, to unpack his 15+ year journey scaling one of the most effective commercial teams in the built environment.Starting as a political science graduate with no technical background, Alex went on to shape Clockworks’ go-to-market strategy from the ground

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15:34

Are we optimizing teh wrong line item with Shahar Peleg.

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2025/10/05

In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki sits down with Shahar Peleg, a veteran product and innovation leader in the smart building and IoT space.Shahar’s view: corporate real estate keeps optimising the wrong line item.Energy savings are easy to measure, but people and space drive far greater impact on performance, retention, and the bottom line.We dig into:- People + Real Estate = True Cost Drivers: Why energy is the smallest line item, yet gets the most attention.- Gut Feelings

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23:01

Operating at the Surface, Why Smart-Building Tech...

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2025/09/22

In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki interviews Andy Frank, founder of Novant and a 25-year veteran of smart-building tech. Andy's POV is that most smart-building failures aren’t technical; they’re human. We chase dashboards and pilots, but skip coordination, outcomes, and the basic question: why are we doing it this way?We dig into:“Closing the loop” beats dashboards: data is noise until a corrective action happens.Outcomes first, tech second: start with the problem, then pick

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41:51

Episode 37: Market Updates

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2025/09/22

In this market-update episode of The Down Low with Joe, Joe Aamidor and co-host Lewis bring on Elizabeth Redmond (R-Zero) to unpack the headlines reshaping proptech, HVAC/services, and compliance in NYC and beyond.🔎 Topics Covered:AirThings’ strategy reset and what it signals about post-RTO demandLegence’s IPO: why roll-up MEP + data centers ≠ “energy transition” (and why it still works)OEM cloud stacks (Forge, OpenBlue, EcoStruxure…) and the push to proactive operationsR-Zero’s new LL97 tool:

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18:59

Beyond the pilot graveyard with Ben Dwyer SVP, Global...

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2025/09/12

In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki interviews Ben Dwyer, who is SVP Global Sales at KODE Labs. Ben explains why pilots must now prove readiness for scale, not just technology, as CIOs and CTOs become the new power brokers for smart-building decisions. He shows how platforms can relieve staffing pressure, deliver finance-grade ROI, and avoid the classic trap of pilots that can’t roll out. Most pilots don’t fail because the idea is bad. They fail because the design,

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16:02

From pilot to portfolio with Elizabeth Redmond, Head...

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2025/09/09

In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki interviews Elizabeth Redmond, Head of Sales at R-Zero.Most healthy building pilots don’t fail because the technology isn’t promising. They fail because they can’t prove value beyond a teaser.Elizabeth shares how R-Zero pivoted from health-only pilots to energy-first pilots that validate kWh savings and flip cleanly into portfolio-wide rollouts.We dig into:Why pilots should cover a whole building, not just a floorHow to anchor success in

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16:12

Scaling demands more than tools with Andy...

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2025/09/01

In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki sits down with Andy Schonberger, VP of Client Services at Intelligent Buildings.Too many smart building pilots stall, not because the tech fails, but because the support does. Andy has seen it from both sides, as an operator managing facilities at scale and as an advisor guiding Fortune 500s through digital adoption.We dig into:How to spot if a client is truly ready to scaleWhy “bare bones support” kills productivity and momentumThe tools,

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19:19

Security is not just ITs job with George Rushin SVP,...

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2025/08/25

In this episode Ben Muwoki sits down with George Rushin, VP of Technology at NavigatorCRE, where he leads platform development, data engineering, and technology operations. With a career spanning Deloitte, Microsoft, and consulting for global brands like Walmart, Marriott, and Airbnb, George brings a risk-focused lens to scaling enterprise proptech. We dig into how risk, adoption, and data governance shape every deployment and why “meeting buyers where they are” is the only path to lasting

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13:51

Rewriting the playbook - GTM that actually works with...

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2025/08/18

In this episode Ben Muwoki sits down with Andy Boliek, Founder & CEO of BLUME, who has helped over 150 climate tech and proptech companies crack their go-to-market strategy.We break down why the old sales playbook is broken, and how founders can rethink messaging, outbound, and buyer engagement to actually scale.What You’ll LearnWhy mass outreach is dead and research-led targeting winsHow to reframe your value prop around the buyer’s pain, not product featuresWhy curiosity is the most underrated

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15:42

Why GTM Starts in the Basement with Saheel Chandrani...

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2025/08/04

“You can’t launch a product in a building unless the incumbent engineer is on your team.” Saheel Chandrani, CEO PingCXIn our latest Climate Gap Quick Cuts, Saheel flips the GTM playbook upside-down. Rather than chasing CIOs or VPs, he courts the people who actually touch the pipes and wires because true adoption (and real ROI) happens underground.Key takeaways• Institutional knowledge is your secret weapon• Ops teams won’t buy in if you add to their plate they need tools to “do more with less”• Real

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27:36

From Buildings to Business Platforms: The Operational...

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2025/07/29

Justin Segal, President of Boxer Property and Co-Founder of Stemmons Enterprise, joins Joe Aamidor and Ben Muwoki live from Realcomm 2025.We explore how Boxer’s vertically integrated model gives it an edge in scaling smart building tech, why most CRE firms are still outsourcing their outcomes, and what it actually takes to unify operations, data, and ownership. Justin shares his take on energy upgrades, tech fatigue, M&A trends, and the myth of “plug-and-play” solutions.This one’s about shifting

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27:50

Episode One: The Climate Gap - The Future of Clean...

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2025/07/24

Is fusion still the holy grail—or finally within reach?In this episode of The Climate Gap, we go inside Tokamak Energy’s S40 facility in Oxfordshire for an exclusive look at the company leading the race to deliver commercially viable fusion power.🎙️ Host Lewis sits down with Michael Ginsberg, President of Tokamak Energy US, to discuss the physics, funding, and future of this multi-trillion-dollar clean energy bet.🔎 Topics Covered:How Tokamak Energy hit 100 million °C—the threshold for net energy

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