THE HEAT will bring 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 are working on content.
There will be no dull panels or over-long keynotes at THE HEAT.
Instead, festival-goers will experience short, lively presentations from some of the key people leading the battle to decarbonise our planet.
It’s a festival. Not a conference. So participants will get hands-on at THE HEAT.
Festival-goers will taste tomorrow’s food — including innovative approaches to meat, cheese, chocolate and more, curated by future-food expert Daniel Skaven Ruben.
Festival-goers will broaden their knowledge in compelling interactive sessions led by experts.
There will be the chance to get hands-on with sustainable alternatives to leather, textiles, rubber, fabric dyes… This showcase, curated by looms.world‘s Ksenia Starikova, will celebrate the most exciting innovations in new biomaterials.
The talented team that are putting THE HEAT together.
THE HEAT's head of content
MARTINS
THE HEAT's curator of participants
THE HEAT's partnership curator
THE HEAT's curator of stories
From drumbeats to DJs and films, we will bring the festival vibe to THE HEAT.
Henrietta Moon is the CEO and co-founder of Carbo Culture, drawing down CO2 and storing it in a functional, stable form for thousands of years. Originally from Finland, Henrietta speaks five languages and has lived in four countries.
Tessa is co-founder and CEO of Olio, an app tackling the climate crisis by solving the problem of waste in the home and local community. Olio does this by connecting people with their neighbours so they can give away rather than throw away their spare food and other household items, and lend and borrow instead of buying brand new. They also have over 100,000 volunteers who collect unsold food from local businesses such as Tesco, Iceland and Holland & Barrett, and redistribute it to the community via the Olio app. Eight million people have joined the Olio community to date, and each month over 3 million items are successfully shared.
Dr Liz Gilligan is founder and CEO at Material Evolution. She and the team are working on decarbonising the cement industry at scale using both a hardware and software solution.
David is the CEO/founder at CyanoCapture — a climate-tech company using synthetic biology to make industrial-scale CO2 removal affordable worldwide. The core technology uses genetic engineering to manipulate the photosynthetic machinery found in cyanobacteria to bring down the energy cost of carbon capture below 350 kWh/T CO2.
David Rowan is founder of VOYAGERS and chief curator of THE HEAT. He was founding UK editor-in-chief of WIRED and wrote the book “Non-Bullshit Innovation” (Penguin). David also runs the VOYAGERS Climate-Tech Fund.
Mariana is the VOYAGERS Community Builder, responsible for building valuable connections between the 3,500+ people in the VOYAGERS community of people working on impactful things in climate tech, health tech and more. Her role includes organising three-day adventure weekends in magical places; local dinner meetups in 24 cities; online workshops and networking; direct introductions between VOYAGERS; and other online and offline activities that build peer support.
What started off as a marketing career in the corporate world turned into a mission to support climate-tech founders solving what I believe is the most pressing issue of our era: the rapid collapse of our natural world. A large part of my time is devoted to enabling dialogue, fostering collaboration, creating inspiration-inducing, action-triggering events and experiences that I hope will lead to a better tomorrow. Another big part goes to enjoying the here and the now with my wife and two kids, most likely playing outside near our home in Hamburg, Germany.
Joe Rowan is VOYAGERS’ Chief of Staff and curator of stories at THE HEAT. He’s writing stories about participants for the festival magazine, as well as all other content that goes out on THE HEAT’s social-media channels.
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