2025 Direct Air Capture Conference

Learn and Engage: Join the world’s leading experts, policymakers, business leaders, engineers, and technologists at the 2025 Direct Air Capture Conference – the Energy Conference Network’s groundbreaking conference focusing entirely on Direct Air Capture innovation. Here, the top industry leaders and researchers will share their latest findings, opinions, and forecasts, as well as future predictions for DAC from cutting-edge start-ups and industry disruptors. Engage with your industry peers and discover how DAC will be a transformational driver of future global carbon management and contribute to tomorrow’s green economy.

Affect the Future: Through expert-led panels and in-depth case studies, this event will address the critical topics impacting DAC technology, policy, and finance in their global context, as well as share difficult lessons learned along with actionable data. Come along and benefit from the expertise, know-how and insights of renowned experts and DAC business leaders in this one place and time. This is an unmatched opportunity to affect the future of direct air capture innovation and global carbon management.

Business Leaders Panel: Mission-Critical Perspectives on a DAC Future - Industry leaders will share their strategies and experiences to optimize their DAC business models to drive the future of carbon removal.
Policymakers & Policy: A Deep Dive into Current Initiatives - Explore the impact of international carbon removal programs in the DAC landscape with a particular focus on how these policies are accelerating the construction of carbon removal facilities.
Projects’ Progress: A Global Report Card on DAC - Learn about the latest DAC projects across sectors from stand-alone DAC facilities to large-scale energy and manufacturing initiatives.
Government Incentives: Accessing and Optimizing Public Funding - Understand how to optimize public funding opportunities and maximize benefits from key government incentives, including the full spectrum of the Inflation Reduction Act and tax credits tied to job creation and clean energy investments in the U.S.
Finance Panel: Investing in the Future of DAC - Dive into the financial mechanisms supporting DAC development and align with DAC’s real-world, realpolitik, investment landscape. Hear from financial leaders from industries like electricity, concrete, and paper manufacturing, as they share insights on project development.
Technological Innovation: Tomorrow’s DAC Technologies - A forward-looking panel focused on cutting-edge technologies, including the use of alternative sorbents, biologically enhanced capture methods, advancements in compression techniques, and breakthroughs from the open-source community.
Ancillary Industry Growth: Unlocking Dynamic Downstream Opportunities in Carbon Capture - Explore broader economic opportunities and discover collaborations with dynamic off-takers as a vibrant secondary industries sector emerges from the carbon transition.
CarbonTech Products: Creating New Markets for Carbon-Based Products - Experts will explore the $1 trillion market potential for carbontech, highlighting how captured carbon is being repurposed into commercial products and driving a new circular economy.
Mastering Measurement: Developing Effective Carbon Accounting - Discover the critical importance of accurate carbon measurement methodologies, including lifecycle CO2 emissions tracking, and the business benefits of effective reporting and verification standards for carbon removal.
Governance & Transparency: Ensuring Inclusivity in Carbon Removal - Discussions on governance frameworks for the DAC industry, focusing on responsible carbon removal, transparency, community inclusion, and setting standards for measuring and verifying carbon outcomes.
Equitable Transition: Ensuring a Just Clean Energy Future - Learn how DAC projects are fostering inclusive, community-based economic opportunities through prevailing wage jobs, apprenticeship programs, and regional economic diversification.
Workforce Development: Building a Skilled Workforce for the DAC Industry - Addressing the need for robust strategies for workforce development and professional engagement, sustainable job creation, training programs, and partnerships between labor, businesses, and governments.
Scaling & Expansion: Advancing DAC for Widespread Adoption - Explore emerging phased approaches to scaling DAC technologies from small pilot projects to mid-scale and large-scale implementations, as well as gain insights on energy communities and frontier innovations with scale-ready technologies.
Industry Resilience: Moving Beyond the Existential Challenges to the DAC Sector - Tough talk on industry resilience and sustainability for the DAC sector, focusing on overcoming political, environmental, and economic challenges while bolstering stakeholder buy-in.
Case Studies: The Role of Oil & Gas, Hydrogen Production, Transitioning Coal-Burning, Carbon Storage, and more.