Technology Pioneers Annual Meeting 2015

The document lists various technology entrepreneurs and their companies, highlighting innovations in waste heat recovery, wastewater treatment, sustainable materials, and solar silicon manufacturing, among other fields.

• Several featured companies focus on sustainable energy and resource recovery, including Alphabet Energy, which is commercializing waste heat recovery technology using an "all-silicon thermoelectric approach" designed for "massive scale, low cost, and high sustainability".
• Innovations in water management include Cambrian Innovation, which uses "bioelectric technology" to clean wastewater and generate clean energy, and Oasys Water, which employs "forward osmosis technology" to convert industrial wastewater into freshwater using less energy than other solutions.
• Sustainable materials development is represented by Ecovative Design, which creates alternatives to conventional plastics by using a "self-assembling organism to change agricultural by-products into a strong chitinous polymer".
• In the chemical industry, Genomatica is developing manufacturing processes to produce widely used chemicals with "greater sustainability than petroleum-based processes" by converting alternative feedstocks into target chemicals.
• Silicor Materials has introduced a method for manufacturing solar silicon for photovoltaic cells that is more environmentally friendly, requiring "up to two-thirds less energy than competing methods" and using "no hazardous chemicals".
• Eta Devices provides technology for the mobile communications industry to reduce power consumption, which enables the "use of renewable energy to provide telecommunication services in off-grid regions".

APA

World Economic Forum (2015). Technology Pioneers Annual Meeting 2015. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Media/AM15/AM15_TechPioneers.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Technology Pioneers Annual Meeting 2015. 2015. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Media/AM15/AM15_TechPioneers.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2015technology, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Technology Pioneers Annual Meeting 2015}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Media/AM15/AM15_TechPioneers.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }