London-based startups JULIENNE BRUNO® and Better Dairy are both on a mission to make authentic-tasting dairy alternatives without using any animal ingredients. They will be bringing alternatives to conventional cheeses for participants to sample at 🔥THE HEAT.

Hedley Studios updates classic cars by making them slightly smaller than the originals, and fully electric. It will be bringing two of its hand-built Bugatti Baby IIs and two Ferrari Testa Rossa Js to 🔥THE HEAT for participants to test drive around Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

Swedish startup Meadow lets consumer-goods companies phase out plastic containers — with help from the mass-recycled aluminium can. Its team will be demonstrating its visionary packaging design at 🔥THE HEAT.

Ocean Culture Life is a thousands-strong community working to protect our oceans. Its leaders Matt Porteous and Tamsin Raine will be running a workshop at 🔥THE HEAT on how to use storytelling to fight climate change.

Stuart Goldsmith (Climate Comedian) struggled to process his own ‘climate dread’, so he started writing jokes about it. Can the planetary crisis really be a laughing matter? Come find out as Stuart brings his set to 🔥THE HEAT.

Harwell-based startup Open Cosmos lets you launch satellites to track climate-related data — from deforestation to coastal erosion. It will bring models of its satellites and a demo showing use cases of its product DataCosmos to 🔥THE HEAT.

Hoxton Farms grows real animal fat to ensure that plant-based meats taste as authentic as possible. At 🔥THE HEAT, they’re offering the chance to win a meal cooked by a Michelin-starred chef made with their lab-grown fat.

The UK government’s new Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), modelled on DARPA, is backing “moonshots” to save the planet. At 🔥THE HEAT, its leaders will share their bold approach.

Participants at 🔥THE HEAT will be able to sample a wide variety of future foods – thanks to our future-food curator Daniel Skavén Ruben, who is organising the festival’s future-food exhibition.

Samudra Oceans will showcase its robots that scale seaweed growth and maximise carbon capture at 🔥THE HEAT.