2025 MIT Energy Initiative Annual Research Conference:
Tackling emerging energy challenges

September 9-10, 2025

MIT Media Lab | 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02142



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MITEI’s Annual Research Conference frames the key technology, policy, and economic drivers that are shaping today’s energy system and its future. This year’s theme is Tackling emerging energy challenges. We will explore electrification and energy storage, mobility, carbon capture, low-carbon fuels, and geopolitics, and we will hear from MITEI-funded start-ups on their path from lab to market. We will also review promising discoveries from MITEI’s Seed Fund program, which supports innovative early-stage research, as well as hear from MIT UROP students and Energy Scholars.



PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Tuesday, September 9
8:00-9:00 am

Breakfast and registration
9:00-9:15 am Welcome and opening remarks
9:15-9:45 am Keynote address
9:45-11:00 am Expanding electrification
11:00-11:30 am Break
11:30 am-12:45 pm Carbon capture in power generation
12:45-2:00 pm

Lunch
2:00-3:15 pm MITEI General Seed Fund Project annual check-up
3:15-3:30 pm Break
3:30-4:45 pm Long duration energy storage
4:45-5:00 pm Day 1 closing remarks
5:00-7:00 pm

Reception with MIT UROP student poster presentations
Wednesday, September 10
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast and registration
9:00-10:15 am Decarbonizing marine cargo shipping
10:15-10:30 am Break
10:30-11:45 am Propelling the future: Low-carbon fuels
11:45 am-1:15 pm Lunch with Energy Scholars poster presentations
1:15-2:30 pm Geopolitics of the energy transition
2:30-3:00 pm

Keynote address
3:00-3:15 pm Break
3:15-4:30 pm From lab to market: Paths to commercialization
4:30-4:45 pm Summary
4:45-6:30 pm Reception with Future Energy Systems Center project highlights



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