Advance Your Energy and Sustainability Solution

Join the world’s largest multi-sector innovation program.

The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge spotlights energy and sustainability innovation to accelerate solutions addressing national security, infrastructure resilience, and resource efficiency.

Challenge finalist will pitch at TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo, March 10-12 in Raleigh, NC. It is the world’s largest multi-sector innovation event connecting breakthrough technologies with leaders from government, industry, and investment.

Selected participants will have the opportunity to:

• Present your technology to industry, government, and investor leaders
• Engage with funding programs representing over $8 billion annually (SBIR, OTA, federal grants)
• Build partnerships that lead to licensing, procurement, and collaborative development
• Join the largest global gathering of technology scouts, federal agencies, and investors

Areas of interest:

• Advanced energy storage systems with battery innovation
• Carbon management and industrial decarbonization
• Circular economy models and waste reduction strategies
• Electrification and energy efficiency
• Energy generation, conversion, and transmission technologies
• Grid modernization, flexibility, and system resilience
• Hydrogen, fuel systems, and alternative energy carriers
• Lifecycle and systems-level sustainability solutions
• Water and resource conservation technologies
• and other high-impact energy and sustainability innovations

Position your innovation where it matters most, at the intersection of science, strategy, and impact.

Submit by October 24. We look forward to seeing your innovation on the national stage.