Boston Climatetech Summit 2026

Summary

Half of US water sources are too polluted for drinking, swimming, or fishing, and that holds after 50 years of the Clean Water Act. Somerville Mayor Jake Wilson has a practical question for Brazil grows one out of every three cups of coffee the world drinks. When a drought hit in 2024, coffee prices doubled, and the ... Modern cities run on a single invention, the flush toilet. Safe sanitation let cities grow denser, healthier, and wealthier, and today ... Some American facilities have watched their power bills double since 2020. A battery can charge when electricity is cheap and ... What do electric vehicles and wind turbines have in common? High-performance magnets, and those magnets depend on rare ... It takes about four lemons to power a battery. Getting a new battery material from the lab to a customer takes a good deal more. When did you last use a magnet? If you drove or flew here, magnets helped power or steer the trip, and they sit inside every ... The world needs energy, and heavy-duty industries have few good ways to cut their emissions. Hydrogen has long looked the ... Greentown CEO Georgina Campbell Flatter opens Reversing aging is possible, and the patient is a battery. Sasha Gao, CEO and co-founder of Evidion Energy, opens with that line ... This panel explores the early stages of