Agenda

​Morning | Keynotes & Panels

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Coffee

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks, Cypher Founding Partners

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM

Keynote - The Funding Landscape in the New Energy Industrial Revolution

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Panel 1: From Scarcity to Strategy. The Global Race for Critical Minerals

Critical minerals are the chokepoint of the entire industrial economy. This panel brings together a perspective on where the investment is flowing, where the supply gaps are most acute, and how companies across the value chain are building resilience into the system.

​10:30 AM – 10:40 AM

Lightning Round Announcements from Cypher Startups

​10:40 AM – 11:10 AM

Panel 2: Grid Infrastructure & Distributed Energy

The demand for power has never grown this fast or this unpredictably. This panel takes a frank look at the gap between what the grid was built to deliver and what the next decade of industrial and digital growth actually requires, and where the most promising solutions are emerging to close it.

11:10 AM – 11:20 AM

Lightning Round Announcements from Cypher Startups

11:20 AM – 11:55 AM

Panel 3: Industrial Decarbonization: From Lab to Plant: Closing the Scale-Up Gap in Industrial Decarbonization

From Lab to Plant: Closing the Scale-Up Gap in Industrial Decarbonization. The technology to decarbonize heavy industry exists but the challenge is in scaling. This panel examines what it actually takes to move a decarbonization technology from promising prototype to commercial deployment, the capital, the infrastructure, the risk tolerance, and the partnerships that make the difference between a pilot that stalls and one that reaches market.

11:55 AM – 12:10 PM

Closing Remarks

​Midday | Lunch & Showcase Floor

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch Break – Showcase floor open, sponsor & resource tables, matchmaking sessions

​Afternoon | Pitches & Alternative Programming

​Main Stage:

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Pilotathon Intro

​1:30 PM – 2:20 PM

Pitches 1–7 (10 min each)

2:20 PM – 2:40 PM

Networking Break

​2:40 PM – 4:00 PM

Pitches 8–14 (10 min each)

4:00 PM

Program Close

​Afternoon | Pitches & Alternative Programming

​Stage 2 | Alternative Programming:

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Category Panels & Fireside Chats (titles TBC)