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)














