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Impossible Foods may have a big new offering soon: filet mignon

Impossible Foods first shared its ambitions to expand beyond ground meat, sausage, and chicken and into steak products with The Spoon in 2019, after debuting its Burger 2.0 at that year’s Consumer... Read more »

How hydrogen and electricity can clean up heavy industry

Take cement production, for example—I won’t get too deep into the chemistry, but basically cement starts its life as limestone, which is mostly calcium carbonate, and it needs to be turned into... Read more »

What it will take to clean up our food supply

12.13 The Engine invests in early-stage companies solving the world’s biggest problems through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership. Boston Metal is one of the companies in its portfolio, which... Read more »

The far-reaching climate impacts of war in Ukraine

12.15 Tough tech, by its definition, recognizes that addressing some of the biggest problems takes time. The current US innovation system is optimized to support faster-growing technologies, which means exciting and disruptive... Read more »

It’s time to think not just about carbon capture but carbon transformation

11.55 Our climate dream team James and Casey explained why carbon removal is such a big deal for this year’s TR10 list of breakthrough technologies. The hope is that building more and... Read more »

Why it’s so important to revamp energy-intensive industries like cement

12.06 That’s it from Dumas and Kolster. Our final session before lunch is with Katie Rae, the founding CEO & Managing Partner of The Engine, a venture capital firm built by MIT... Read more »

Why it matters to invest in tough tech

12.13 The Engine invests in early-stage companies solving the world’s biggest problems through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership. Boston Metal is one of the companies in its portfolio, which... Read more »

How to clean up carbon

11.55 Our climate dream team James and Casey explained why carbon removal is such a big deal for this year’s TR10 list of breakthrough technologies. The hope is that building more and... Read more »

Why the world needs energy breakthroughs

09.20 Our first discussion is with Yet-Ming Chiang, professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He’ll be talking us through what’s needed to bring us closer to a fossil fuel-free economy.... Read more »

Machine learning operations offer agility, spur innovation

The main function of MLOps is to automate the more repeatable steps in the ML workflows of data scientists and ML engineers, from model development and training to model deployment and operation... Read more »