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Our festival curators, speakers, demos & performers

THE HEAT 2024 brought alive the optimism of climate-tech — with future-food tastings, product demos, music, art, expert workshops and storytelling. Here are some of the creative minds who worked on content.

Our speakers

There were no dull panels or over-long keynotes at THE HEAT 2024.
Instead, festival-goers experienced short, lively presentations from some of the key people leading the battle to decarbonise our planet.

HENRIETTA MOON

CARBO CULTURE

LIZ GILLIGAN

MATERIAL EVOLUTION

DAVID KIM

CYANOCAPTURE

ANNA ALEX

NALA EARTH; PLANETLY

NICK ZUMBÜHL

NALA EARTH

OLIVER FRANKLIN-
WALLIS

AUTHOR, "WASTELAND"

MARTIN WEBER

ONE•FIVE

SIMON MUNDY

FINANCIAL TIMES;

AUTHOR

DANNY DORLING

GEOGRAPHER, AUTHOR

PAUL SHEARING

ZERO INSTITUTE

CONNOR TESKEY

BROOKFIELD ASSET
MANAGEMENT

PARMY OLSON

BLOOMBERG; AUTHOR

Our product demos

It’s a festival. Not a conference. So participants got hands-on at THE HEAT.

CARBON CAPTURE

BY CYANOCAPTURE

OFF-GRID POWER

BY COLD ELECTRIC

ENERGY FROM SPACE

BY SPACE SOLAR

FUSION SHOWCASE

BY FIRST LIGHT FUSION

MANGROVE DRONES

BY INVERTO EARTH

OCEAN-FARMING
ROBOTS

BY SAMUDRA OCEANS

100m°C TOUR

BY TOKAMAK ENERGY

FUSION SHOWCASE

BY PROXIMA FUSION

ELECTRIC
SPORTS CARS

BY HEDLEY STUDIOS

VR-CONTROLLED
ROBOTS

BY EXTEND ROBOTICS

MYCELIUM TENT

BY MAGICAL MUSHROOM CO

Our future-food tastings

Festival-goers tasted tomorrow’s food — including innovative approaches to meat, cheese, chocolate and more, curated by future-food expert Daniel Skaven Ruben.

ALT-CHOCOLATE

BY WIN-WIN

NEW PROTEINS

BY FERMTECH

DAIRY 2.0

BY BETTER DAIRY

PLANT-BASED FOODS

BY JULIENNE BRUNO

EDIBLE PACKAGING

BY NOTPLA

PLANT-BASED
CHEESE

BY WILLICROFT

Our workshops

Festival-goers broadened their knowledge in compelling interactive sessions led by experts.

ARIA

BY THEIR CLIMATE TEAM

PROXIMA FUSION

BY FRANCESCO SCIORTINO

PLANET WINTER
SCHOOL

BY THE PWS TEAM

CITY.SOLUTIONS

BY URBAN IMPACT &
STARTUP GUIDE

DEEPSENSE

BY STAFFAN QVIST & FINN ARETZ

CONTRARIAN
VENTURES

BY RUTA SKARULSKE

THIRD
DERIVATIVE/
AURUM IMPACT

BY EMILY ROGERS &
MATS MULTHAUPT

OCEAN
CULTURE LIFE

BY TAMSIN RAINE &
MATT PORTEOUS

Our New Materials showcase

There was the chance to get hands-on with sustainable alternatives to leather, textiles, rubber, fabric dyes… This showcase, curated by looms.world‘s Ksenia Starikova, celebrated the most exciting innovations in new biomaterials.

OTTAN

Bio-composites from
food and ag waste

PACT

Biomaterials made from collagen

FIBRITECH

Biomaterials from
cellulose fibres

FABA-FORMA

Bean waste repurposed
by Nikoleta Dimova

RESELO

Birch bark to disrupt
the rubber industry

FIIBA

Banana waste to replace
cotton and viscose

ARDA
BIOMATERIALS

Beer waste into
leather-like materials

KELPI

Waterproof coatings

NETTLE CIRCLE

Regenerative natural fibre
from nettles

THE TYRE
COLLECTIVE

Capturing tyre wear to
minimise microplastics

OSTREA DESIGN

Low-carbon eco-materials
from the sea

TRACELESS

Novel biomaterials from
plant waste

NUATAN

Bioplastics for design

ATELIER LUMA

Bioregional design

BINDETHICS

Better adhesives

Our festival curators

The talented team that put THE HEAT 2024 together.

DAVID ROWAN

THE HEAT's head of content

DANIEL SKAVEN RUBEN

THE HEAT's future-food curator

NATHALIE NAHAI

THE HEAT's music curator

LEONORA CHANCE

THE HEAT's art curator

HUGO PAQUIN

THE HEAT's partnership curator

MARIANA MELA

MARTINS

THE HEAT's curator of participants

EMMA SOUTHWELL-

SANDER

THE HEAT's energy-tech curator

KSENIA STARIKOVA

THE HEAT's new-materials curator

TRISTAN
COPLEY SMITH

THE HEAT's climate-film curator

PATRICK MEIER

THE HEAT's climate robotics curator

MICHELLE MILES

THE HEAT's logistics curator

JOE ROWAN

THE HEAT's curator of stories

FREDDY
SANCHEZ

THE HEAT's curator
of images

JULIETTE
DEVILLARD

THE HEAT's curator
of social interactions

NILS
SÖDERSTRÖM

THE HEAT's curator
of pitch coaching

RABIN
YAGHOUBI

THE HEAT's VOYAGERS
Band curator

Our musicians, performers & art

From drumbeats to DJs and films, we brought the festival vibe to THE HEAT 2024.

DEMBIS THIOUNG

SENEGALESE DRUMMING

HOT POETS

LIV TORC & CHRIS REDMOND

BLANCHE ELLIS

MUSICIAN & ARTIST

ART: COLD FLUX

BEN CULLEN WILLIAMS

FILM FESTIVAL

"HOT TAKES"

ART: THE BELLS

MAGICAL SOUNDSCAPE

SOUND MEDITATION

BY EDO PERRY