NextGen Highlights

At CERAWeek, the University Partnership Experience places academic leaders, faculty, and students at the center of the global energy conversation. Across premier stages and closed-door forums, universities engage directly with industry, government, and capital—bringing research, talent, and ideas into the arena where the future of energy is being shaped.

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NEXTGEN AMPHITHEATRE

Set within the Nexus, the NextGen Amphitheater is a convening stage where universities, industry, government, and emerging innovators examine the forces reshaping energy. In 2026, it spotlighted university-industry collaboration, workforce transformation, and the next generation of talent and ideas moving into the energy arena.

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NextGen Pod and Lyceum

The NextGen Pod gives university research and early-stage innovation a global stage through concise, 25-minute sessions recorded in high definition and hosted on the CERAWeek website—creating enduring visibility for the ideas and technologies shaping the energy future.

The NextGen Lyceum offers an intimate, classroom-style forum enabling candid dialogue among academia, industry, government, and innovators on the research and collaborations needed for a changing energy system.

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NEXTGEN COLLIQUIUM

The NextGen Colloquium is an exclusive CERAWeek Partner forum convening senior leaders from academia, industry, and government for high-level dialogue on the forces reshaping energy. In 2026, discussions explored reliability, sustainability, trust, industrial-academic collaboration, innovation permitting, policy, capital, and the demands of powering AI reliably.

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Innovators Row

Innovators Row gives University Partners a fully branded, multi-day presence in the Innovation Agora—a flexible setting to showcase research, breakthrough technologies, new initiatives, faculty engagement, and digital or poster presentations in the flow of CERAWeek.

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Nexus

The Nexus is the vibrant hub of the Innovation Agora, linking Innovators Row with the stages and spaces where CERAWeek’s energy conversation comes alive. It brings together the NextGen Amphitheater, Agora Studio, CERAWeek Exchange, and NextGen Pod, alongside cafés, refreshment stations, professional headshots, the Podcast Studio, a book-signing library, and reservable NextGen Huddles for Partner meetings and engagement.

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NextGen Cohort

The NextGen Cohort brings more than 200 select graduate students and postdoctoral researchers—nominated by University Partners—into the heart of CERAWeek. Through direct engagement with industry leaders, policymakers, innovators, human resource executives, and researchers across the energy value chain, students gain a career-defining view of the forces shaping the energy future.