Climate change does not have one solution. It needs many. Come help move them forward.
The Climate Solutions Prize Festival brings together the researchers, startups, investors, industry leaders, policymakers, and emerging talent advancing the solutions the world needs. Across two days in Montréal, the Festival creates the conditions for serious connection, candid conversation, and the recognition of this year’s prize recipients.
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Some climate solutions exist and are ready to scale. Others still need to be built.
The Climate Solutions Prize exists to do both: to accelerate the technologies that are ready for deployment, and to galvanize the breakthroughs that haven't happened yet. We support researchers and startups at critical moments, connecting them with the investors, industry leaders, and policymakers who can help their work move from idea to impact.
The Festival is where the full ecosystem convenes. The conversations, connections, and recognition that change what's possible.
Built around tracks, so you can follow what matters most, fast:
AgTech: resilient food systems, methane reduction, soil health
Built Environment: low-carbon buildings, materials, resilient cities
Changemakers: policy, capital, procurement, and the pathways to adoption
Energy & Power: grids, storage, clean fuels, electrification
H2O: water resilience, treatment, reuse, leak detection
Nature & Bio Tech: restoration, biodiversity, monitoring, verification
Resource Tech: circularity, critical materials, industrial decarbonization
Meet the people building what is next. See what is working. See what is ready to scale. Leave with stronger context, stronger connections, and a clearer path to action.
This isn’t just another conference. It’s where you can witness impact and innovation in motion.
Researchers & Startups
Your expertise is needed on specific, urgent problems. Some climate challenges are ready to scale. Others still do not have solutions. If you are working on either, the Festival gives you visibility, credibility, and direct access to the investors, industry partners, and policymakers who can help your work move from idea to impact.
Investors
The next decade of climate solutions is being built right now. The Festival surfaces credible technologies across stages, from emerging research to deployment-ready startups, before the broader market catches up. Two days. High-signal conversations. Direct access to the innovators shaping what comes next.
Industry Leaders & Corporate Partners
Some solutions are ready now. The question is who can adopt them, test them, buy them, and help scale them. The Festival brings industry leaders directly into the room with researchers, startups, investors, and policymakers so promising solutions can move faster from breakthrough to implementation.
Policy Leaders
Some solutions are ready to deploy. Others need the right conditions to exist at all. The Festival connects decision-makers directly with researchers and startups working on both, and with the investors and industry leaders who can help bridge the gap between innovation and adoption.
Students & Emerging Researchers
The next generation of climate solutions will not come from the sidelines. The Festival gives students and emerging researchers direct exposure to the people moving ideas into the real world: founders, investors, industry leaders, and policymakers. If you are building expertise, exploring where to focus, or looking for a pathway into climate, this is where you see the ecosystem in motion.
DISCOVER
Explore the full landscape of climate innovation, from technologies ready to deploy today to the breakthroughs that are still being invented. Hear directly from the researchers, founders, and scientists doing the work.
CONNECT
Engage with the ecosystem that makes climate solutions scale. Investors, industry leaders, policymakers, researchers, and startups, all in one room, for two days, with time built in to make the connections that matter.
DEPLOY
Move from conversation to action. The Festival is structured to create real pathways to funding, partnerships, pilots, procurement, and adoption that help promising solutions move further, faster.
Mainstage Keynotes & Spotlights – Hear from world leaders, tech pioneers, and policy shapers on scaling solutions at speed.
Startup Showcase – Meet the ventures redefining energy, food, water, the built environment, and industry, and see the technologies shaping what comes next.
Academia & Research Frontiers – Explore emerging discoveries from leading universities and labs, and the pathways that can help move them toward real-world use.
Investor–Founder Matchmaking – Curated 1:1 conversations designed to unlock funding, pilots, partnerships, and long-term collaboration.
Corporate & Public Sector Innovation Tracks – Hear how industry and government are identifying, testing, adopting, and scaling climate solutions.
Interactive Workshops & Masterclasses – Join practical sessions led by experts, operators, and ecosystem builders working across the climate landscape.
Networking Zones & Climate Village – High-energy spaces to connect with peers, partners, and innovators shaping the next decade of climate action.
Youth & Next-Gen Leaders – Engage with the rising voices, emerging researchers, and future builders bringing fresh ideas and serious ambition to the field.
