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Have tech conferences had their day? Sifted seems to think so - while naming THE HEAT’s festival format as the future for tech networking events. It features an interview with VOYAGERS.io founder and THE HEAT’s head of content, David Rowan...

Samudra Oceans showcased its robots that scale seaweed growth and maximise carbon capture at 🔥THE HEAT...

🔥THE HEAT put on its own climate film festival - thanks to our curator Tristan Copley Smith, who selected which submissions were shown at the festival...

looms.world’s Ksenia Starikova sourced some of the most exciting innovations in the new biomaterials space to bring to 🔥THE HEAT 2024. The festival let you get hands-on with sustainable alternatives to leather, textiles, rubber, fabric dyes, and more...

Proxima Fusion believes that stellarators are the key to delivering near-infinite fusion energy. One of its co-founders, Francesco Sciortino, led a workshop on its work to try to crack fusion at 🔥THE HEAT 2024...

Tokamak Energy is trying to crack fusion using tokamaks to deliver near-limitless clean energy. It brought a virtual-reality tour of its ST40 compact spherical tokamak which achieved 100 million degrees celsius to 🔥THE HEAT 2024...

Ever wanted to see the ice caps reappear? That is exactly what Ben Cullen Williams’s artwork Cold Flux does. He showcased it at 🔥THE HEAT 2024...

London-based startups JULIENNE BRUNO and Better Dairy are both on a mission to make authentic-tasting dairy alternatives without using any animal ingredients. They brought alternatives to conventional cheeses for participants to sample at 🔥THE HEAT...

Hedley Studios updates classic cars by making them slightly smaller than the originals, and fully electric. It brought two of its hand-built Bugatti Baby IIs and two Ferrari Testa Rossa Js to 🔥THE HEAT 2024...

Swedish startup Meadow lets consumer-goods companies phase out plastic containers — with help from the mass-recycled aluminium can. Its team demonstrated its visionary packaging design at 🔥THE HEAT 2024...

Ocean Culture Life is a thousands-strong community working to protect our oceans. Its leaders Matt Porteous and Tamsin Raine ran a workshop at 🔥THE HEAT on how to use storytelling to fight climate change...

Stuart Goldsmith struggled to process his own ‘climate dread’, so he started writing jokes about it. Can the planetary crisis really be a laughing matter? Stuart's set at 🔥THE HEAT 2024 suggested it can...

Harwell-based startup Open Cosmos lets you launch satellites to track climate-related data — from deforestation to coastal erosion. It brought models of its satellites and a demo showing use cases of its product DataCosmos to 🔥THE HEAT 2024...

Hoxton Farms grows real animal fat to ensure that plant-based meats taste as authentic as possible. At 🔥THE HEAT 2024, they offered participants the chance to win a meal cooked by a Michelin-starred chef made with their lab-grown fat...

The UK government’s new agency ARIA, modelled on DARPA, is backing “moonshots” to save the planet. At 🔥THE HEAT 2024, its leaders shared their bold approach...

Participants at 🔥THE HEAT were able to sample a wide variety of future foods – thanks to our future-food curator Daniel Skavén Ruben, who organised the festival’s future-food exhibition...

Space Solar is on a mission to fight climate change using solar power from space, and brought its prototype transmitter to 🔥THE HEAT for its first ever demo...

🔥 THE HEAT was almost entirely free of food waste - thanks to our partner Olio, which redistributed any food that went uneaten at the festival...

Participants at THE HEAT were able to enjoy drinks served in edible pouches – thanks to our friends at Notpla, who brought their product Ooho to the festival...

THE HEAT brought carbon capture to a field in Oxfordshire - thanks to our partner CyanoCapture, who brought a photobioreactor to show how much CO2 was being captured in real time...

THE HEAT is entirely powered by renewable energy — thanks to our partner Cold Electric, whose gigantic battery-pack took our festival off the grid...