CERAWeek Innovation Agora
About the Agora Program
The Innovation Agora at CERAWeek is a vibrant and interactive marketplace of ideas on energy innovation and emerging technologies. This exciting program includes opportunities to learn, connect, and create.
The Agora is dedicated to advancing solutions to the greatest challenges facing our energy and environmental future. It brings together a community of technologists, startup entrepreneurs, VCs and investors, thought leaders, policy makers, and corporate innovators—all committed to exploring new pathways for lower emissions, affordability and reliability.
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Agora Themes
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Agora Topics
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Agora Session Formats
Agora Themes:
- AI and Digital
Powering AI: Harnessing the Revolution - Electrification Technologies
Electrification: Technologies for the Future - The Innovation Ecosystem
Maintaining the Innovation Momentum - Managing Emissions
Emissions: Managing Cost and Scaling Solutions - Low-Carbon Fuels and Mobility
Scaling Solutions for Decarbonization
- Climate and Sustainability
Fractured Climate Policies, Actionable Pathways - Chemicals and Materials
Chemicals: Strategies For Market Challenges - Investment and Financing
Financing Growth for Energy Expansion - Workforce Strategy
Talent and Tech: The Future of Work in Energy
Transformational technologies featured in the Agora program include:
- Hydrogen & low carbon fuels
- Clean power generation
- Next-gen renewable energy
- Decarbonizing industry & transport
- Electrification & energy efficiency
- Carbon management, CCUS & direct air capture
- Advanced nuclear technologies
- AI & Digital technology
- E-mobility & charging infrastructure
- Innovation ecosystems
- Quantum computing & network
- Automation, robotics & drones
- Agribusiness, biofuels & waste-to-energy
- Reimagining electricity grids
- Digital ledger technology & blockchain
- Agile design & additive manufacture
- Cities and buildings of the future
As an integral part of CERAWeek, the Innovation Agora is physically located on the third level of the George R. Brown Convention Center, just across the skywalk from the Hilton Americas Hotel, and takes place simultaneously with our CERAWeek Executive Conference.
- Agora Studios – Dialogues among innovation leaders on emerging and disruptive technologies.
- Voices of Innovation – Up-close conversations with foremost innovators and thought leaders.
- Agora Hubs – Dedicated zones for sharing ideas and insights, exploring the technology frontiers around a central theme and topic area. Each Hub includes Meetups, displays and demonstrations, Discovery Pods for start-ups and presentations and receptions and informal meetings for connections.
- Agora Pods – Start-ups and innovators showcase new ideas, technologies and innovations across the energy ecosystem.
- Lyceum Program – High-impact learning on emerging topics through engagement, collaboration and timely briefings.
- Agora Partner Houses – Dedicated spaces for Delegates to experience transformative technologies.
- Clean Energy Commons – A space for informal interactions and connections in a casual setting with refreshments and beverages.
- Technology Corridor – Featuring startup stations where participants can meet entrepreneurs building promising companies.
- Book Signings – An opportunity to meet and receive a personally autographed book by a leading energy authority.
