CERAWeek 2027

Strategic, peer-led discussion for senior leaders across utilities, oil and gas, grids, technology, finance, think tanks, and regulation. Workshops, dinners, and roundtables are intended to produce action plans. The 2027 program is listed as coming soon; no 2027 session titles or speakers are published.

The forum brings together cleantech innovators, investors, corporates, and other ecosystem participants to address grid stability, water scarcity, waste-to-value, critical minerals, and geopolitical pressures on supply chains and energy security. The program includes a closed-door, peer-level executive roundtable and an opening plenary covering cleantech trends, capital flows, innovation, and the 2027 Global Cleantech 100. Agenda topics include nuclear fuel supply and nuclear supply chains; mineral processing, refining, recovery, and the post-mining supply chain; physical AI applications in grid construction, critical minerals, and dual-use; data-center power demand, grid capacity, water use, cooling, and wastewater resource recovery. Other sessions address heat resilience, energy efficiency for AI compute, geopolitical risk across energy and cleantech supply chains, and investor perspectives on cleantech funding. Innovation Showcases feature cleantech companies presenting technologies and business models.

The expo covers the technical ceramics supply chain, from raw materials and powders to components, systems, and finished applications. Cross-sector solutions include aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, energy, electronics, and medical applications, alongside live demonstrations, technical showcases, and conference sessions on research and manufacturing innovations. The 2027 Innovation Hub spotlights advanced ceramics, thermal materials, and next-generation engineering solutions.

Resources for the Future and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation bring together researchers and stakeholders to examine energy economics, policy, and technology, with an emphasis on connecting research and decision-making. In-person attendance is by invitation only. The program includes an opening discussion on how researchers can collaborate with decision-makers amid changes in the US energy research and policy landscapes. Topical breakout sessions use lightning talks, practitioner reflections, and moderated discussion to cover energy supply chains, energy workforce transitions, industrial decarbonization, and energy system resilience. Other sessions address consumer perspectives on electricity rate design, energy efficiency, vehicle purchases, and energy policy choices; clean-energy research and deployment involving nuclear energy, geothermal technologies, carbon capture, and carbon dioxide removal; and the United States’ position in global clean-energy innovation. Facilitated networking focuses on data access, combining quantitative and qualitative research, reaching new audiences, and building communities of practice. The program also includes participant-nominated breakfast salons and a funders’ panel on emerging energy-system research needs and opportunities for impact.

Discussion focuses on delivering new nuclear projects on private and federal sites across the United States. The forum brings together local government and community leaders with federal agencies and industry, including data center companies, host communities, DOE, NRC, and state and Tribal governments. Topics include nuclear energy advancements, business opportunities, project implementation plans, challenges, partnerships, and economic development.

Brings together policymakers, corporate leaders, investors, utilities, legal experts, and clean energy innovators to address pressing policy issues facing the clean energy industry. The program is expected to include panels and presentations on current policy and industry trends.

The program combines a shared market program with concurrent Capital, Markets & Deal Strategy and Energy Innovation & Investment tracks. Sessions address capital availability, tax equity and credit transfers, private credit, project bankability, investment risk, insurance, and the effects of policy and market changes on project finance. Topics include macroeconomic and geopolitical forces affecting U.S. energy investment; capital deployment across renewables, gas-fired generation, storage, transmission, and digital infrastructure; financing firm power amid rising electricity demand; and project-finance trends and capital sources. The innovation track covers emerging energy asset classes, post-tax-credit renewable and storage economics, AI and data-center power demand, permitting and commercialization barriers, small modular reactor economics, construction risk, geothermal, long-duration storage, and distributed energy. Closing discussions consider which energy technologies and business models may scale by 2030, what makes infrastructure bankable, and investment lifecycle strategies including M&A, value creation, and exits.

The program brings together energy, industrial transformation, and advanced manufacturing, with cross-cutting themes of workforce development, standards, finance, AI and digital transformation, policy, and resilience planning. Roundtables, workshops, and demos are designed to address tradeoffs involving affordability, risk, standardization, and deployment speed. Program tracks include Powering Growth, with sample sessions on data-center power and cooling, new nuclear deployment, solar cost reduction, and scaling geothermal; Industry Reimagined, covering industrial heat electrification, next-generation steel, and EPC project-delivery costs and risks; Next-Gen Manufacturing, addressing hardware investment and bankability, additive manufacturing, and sustainability tradeoffs in product design; and Future Workforce, on nuclear workforce readiness, apprenticeships, and aligning training programs with real projects. Additional sessions are in development in areas including energy storage, fusion, industrial efficiency, critical minerals, and sustainability tradeoffs. The listed sessions are samples and subject to change.

The technical program covers mechanical behavior, reliability, failure analysis, and performance of advanced ceramics and composites; structural, environmental, and functional ceramic coatings; solid oxide cells; thermoelectric and thermionic energy conversion and thermal management; bioceramics; rechargeable energy storage; functional nanomaterials and thin films; advanced processing and manufacturing; porous ceramics; computational and data-driven materials design; production technologies; layered carbides, nitrides, and borides; nuclear fission and fusion materials; crystalline materials; additive manufacturing and 3D printing; geopolymers and sustainable construction materials; photonics and energy; ultrahigh-temperature ceramics; and molecular-level processing of functional materials. Focused themes include bioinspiration and green manufacturing; ceramic materials and integrated approaches for industrial decarbonization; smart powder processing of multifunctional ceramics and catalyst materials; ceramic/carbon-reinforced polymers; sustainable design and manufacturing of advanced ceramics for space applications; and critical-materials recovery and reuse. The program also includes a sustainability forum and a focused session on entrepreneurship and commercialization. The expo and poster program features ceramic and glass industry products, materials, processing and characterization tools, and scientific posters.