Cleantech Forum North America 2027

Cleantech Forum North America 2027 is a three-day cleantech and investment forum taking place from 25 to 27 January 2027 in San Diego, California, United States. The event brings together innovators, investors, corporates, financial institutions, and other cleantech leaders to explore technologies and business models addressing energy, climate, infrastructure, water, waste, and industrial resilience. The 2027 edition is centred on the theme of radical resilience, reflecting growing attention to supply-chain security, climate risks, and the resilience of critical infrastructure.

Purpose and Objectives

The primary purpose of the forum is to connect companies developing cleantech solutions with investors, corporate partners, and other stakeholders that can help scale them. The programme focuses on the relationship between clean technology, industrial resilience, climate adaptation, and economic security, while examining how investment and innovation can address challenges across critical infrastructure and resource systems.

Key Activities

The event uses a curated, retreat-style format combining keynote discussions, interactive sessions, meetings, networking, and opportunities for deal-making. Discussions cover grid stability, critical minerals, water scarcity, climate risk, waste and resource recovery, supply-chain resilience, insurance innovation, and the effects of geopolitical developments on cleantech markets.

You’ll explore

• Critical minerals and resilient industrial supply chains
• Grid stability and energy-system resilience
• Water scarcity, drought and flood resilience
• Waste and resource recovery technologies
• Climate risk and innovative insurance models
• Investment and corporate strategies for long-term resilience

Significance

The forum is significant because it connects cleantech investment with a broader discussion about resilience across energy, water, materials, infrastructure, and supply chains. Its curated format is designed to facilitate direct interaction between investors, corporates, innovators, and other decision-makers, with an emphasis on commercial opportunities and solutions that can address emerging systemic risks.

Expected Outcomes

Participants can expect exposure to emerging cleantech solutions, investment perspectives, and business opportunities across multiple sectors. The event is intended to support investor-founder connections, corporate partnerships, technology deployment, deal-making, and collaboration around solutions that strengthen infrastructure and long-term business resilience.

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