On Monday, November 3, 2025, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates addressed more than 1,000 Caltech students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff at Beckman Auditorium speaking on his vision of climate resiliency that prioritizes human welfare. "Tonight's turnout and the Beckman buzz here are testaments to Bill Gates's ability to capture the public imagination as an entrepreneur, as a businessman, an inventor grappling with implications of science and technology, and as a