Deep Sky: the world's first gigaton-scale carbon removal project developer 

As the world's first gigaton-scale carbon removal project developer, Deep Sky aims to remove billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere and oceans, and put it back underground where it belongs. This process will not only slow global warming, but reverse it. Co-Founder Frederic Lalonde will explain how Deep Sky got started, the urgency of the climate crisis, and why mass-scale carbon removal is the solution.

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Biography

Frédéric Lalonde

Frederic Lalonde is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hopper, the most downloaded travel app in North America. Hopper has ranked as the #1 travel app in over 55 countries and has ranked as one of the top 10 travel apps in over 120 countries. The company sells $7 billion of travel and travel financial services each year. Frederic is also the Co-Founder of Deep Sky, a commercial venture aiming to develop technologies to capture CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere and mineralize it – at gigaton scale. Frederic previously co-founded Newtrade Technologies, which was acquired by Expedia in 2002. As a VP at Expedia, Frederic was responsible for developing the Direct Connect product strategy and signing up over 10,000 hotels to the Expedia platform, including major brands such as Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Carlson, Cendant and Choice Hotels. He later moved on to participate in various Expedia M&A activities, including the acquisition of Hotels.com, TripAdvisor and eLong.
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