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.

Participants at 🔥THE HEAT were able to enjoy drinks served in edible pouches – thanks to our friends at Notpla, who brought their product Ooho to the festival.

🔥THE HEAT brought carbon capture to a field in Oxfordshire – thanks to our partner CyanoCapture, who brought a photobioreactor to show how much CO2 was being captured in real time.

🔥THE HEAT is entirely powered by renewable energy — thanks to our partner Cold Electric, whose gigantic battery-pack took our festival off the grid.