Ocean Culture Life is a thousands-strong community working to protect our oceans. Its leaders Matt Porteous and Tamsin Raine ran 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? Stuart’s set at 🔥THE HEAT 2024 suggested it can.
Harwell-based startup Open Cosmos lets you launch satellites to track climate-related data — from deforestation to coastal erosion. It brought models of its satellites and a demo showing use cases of its product DataCosmos to 🔥THE HEAT 2024.
Hoxton Farms grows real animal fat to ensure that plant-based meats taste as authentic as possible. At 🔥THE HEAT 2024, they offered participants the chance to win a meal cooked by a Michelin-starred chef made with their lab-grown fat.
The UK government’s new agency ARIA, modelled on DARPA, is backing “moonshots” to save the planet. At 🔥THE HEAT 2024, its leaders shared their bold approach.
Participants at 🔥THE HEAT were able to sample a wide variety of future foods – thanks to our future-food curator Daniel Skavén Ruben, who organised the festival’s future-food exhibition.
Samudra Oceans showcased its robots that scale seaweed growth and maximise carbon capture at 🔥THE HEAT.
Space Solar is on a mission to fight climate change using solar power from space, and brought its prototype transmitter to 🔥THE HEAT for its first ever demo.
🔥 THE HEAT was almost entirely free of food waste – thanks to our partner Olio, which redistributed any food that went uneaten at the festival.
🔥THE HEAT put on its own climate film festival – thanks to our curator Tristan Copley Smith, who selected which submissions were shown at the festival.
