Gavin McCormick
WattTime | Co-Founder and Executive Director
Speaker
Speaker Bio
Gavin McCormick is cofounder and Executive Director of WattTime, a not-for-profit AI tech startup. WattTime's emissions-reducing technology is currently used in over 1 billion devices worldwide, including over half of all renewable energy projects in the United States. TIME named it one of the best inventions of 2025.
Gavin also co-founded Climate TRACE, a coalition of more than 150 universities, NGOs, and other scientists using satellites and AI to monitor global greenhouse gas emissions. Climate TRACE provides companies, governments, and journalists with free, detailed monthly emissions monitoring for nearly every major emitting facility on the planet. Fast Company named it the #5 most innovative company in the world.
McCormick holds a master's degree in energy economics from UC Berkeley, having dropped out of a PhD program there to grow both projects.