Grab a coffee and pick a table for lightly-moderated, networking-enhanced discussion on some of the more pressing topics impacting fusion commercialization.

Table I: Designing Affirmative Insurance Coverage & Appropriate Risk-Pricing
Commercialization depends on development of fusion-tailored coverage guidelines related to fusion-specific risks.  Are insurers developing appropriate guidelines and policies that will support financeable build and operation? This discussion table offers a dynamic conversation between fusion companies, lenders, EPCs and insurers- to match the policy (and premium) to the risk. 

Table II: How to Manage Waste in Fusion

Table III: AI & Digital Twins to Underwrite Fusion Builds
How can digital models translate into lower contingencies, tighter schedules, and investable risk? This table will focus on the outputs that move capital—what lenders, insurers, EPCs, regulators, and offtakers need to see—and how to govern models so they deliver decision-grade evidence.

Table IV: Fusion for Industrial Heat
Industrial process heat represents one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize—and one of the most promising near-term markets for fusion. How could fusion technologies supply continuous, high-temperature heat for sectors such as steel, chemicals, and cement, and what are next steps to build this market?

Table V: Critical Components: Heat & Exhaust Management
Mastering unlocks faster, more efficient fusion commercialization. What breakthrough technologies are redefining divertor design and reshaping investment potential in the fusion sector? What next-generation innovations are emerging to tackle heat and exhaust across different fusion concepts?

One-on-one with Annie Kritcher who led the team that achieved the world’s first fusion ignition at LLNL—a milestone that definitively proved the science of fusion energy.  Now the team tackle the next challenge: how to turn a historic scientific achievement into a commercial energy system.

• How Inertia’s commercialization strategy differs from other fusion approaches
• Technical and operational milestones on the path to a first-of-a-kind fusion system
• What are the capital requirements for Inertia’s approach and how are investors responding?
   

Fusion technology provider Type One Energy is partnering with one of the largest public utilities in America (TVA) and a global engineering firm (AECOM) to commercialize fusion energy. Project Infinity is on track to put fusion electrons on the grid in East Tennessee by 2034.

• How did early collaboration with TVA shape site decisions, grid integration requirements, and regulatory sequencing?
• How· How does Type One’s OEM role enable clearer interfacing with partners for delivery, operations, and compliance?
• How has AECOM’s role as EPC integrator helped translate fusion concepts into buildable, licensable infrastructure?
•  To what degree does this approach reduce execution risk, improve schedule confidence, and support repeatable deployment?
• How does this delivery model change impact investment profile?

SHINE has established one of the most commercially credible pathways in the fusion sector by building revenue-driving businesses around fusion-driven neutron production, isotope manufacturing, and waste recycling. 

• How is SHINE’s staged model reshaping expectations for valuation, commercialization timelines, and investor confidence?
• Does SHINE’s staged commercialization model translate into a differentiated and compelling investment proposition? How do investors compare SHINE’s risk profile and valuation against traditional fusion companies?
• What are the key milestones—and how well is SHINE tracking toward them?
   

• VNS technology offers fusion investors a near-term revenue opportunity while de-risking downstream reactor development.
• What revenue streams do VNS systems generate today—isotope production, materials testing contracts, industrial applications?
• How can volumetric neutron sources break bottleneck and accelerate fusion commercialization and by enabling materials testing, tritium breeding validation, and component qualification before full-scale reactors are built?
• What's the investment case for VNS versus waiting for full fusion power plants?

• Compact fusion systems designed for defense, aerospace, and extreme-environment testing may offer a pragmatic pathway to early revenue, operational validation, and capital efficiency ahead of grid-scale deployment.
• How can defense and aerospace deployments move physics progress into contracted revenue?
• How can this deployment reframe technical risk, scale-up challenges, and integration requirements?
• Which proof-points matter most to defense procurement and investors?
• Do defense and extreme-environment use cases accelerate or complicate pathways to utility and hyperscaler offtake?
• How should fusion companies sequence non-grid deployments to preserve strategic optionality while aligning VC, hyperscaler, and PE return profiles?

Investing in companies that seek to resolve fusion companies’ challenges with heating, fueling, exhaust, tritium recovery & breeding can give diversified exposure to fusion and a shorter path to revenues. 

• What technical fuel-cycle critical challenges are opportunities for specialist providers? 
• What milestones are being hit towards feasibility of tritium breeding and extraction and what is the scale of opportunity created?
• How are academic and industrial collaborators super-charging the path to fusion commercialization by addressing fuel cycle challenges?
   

Tapping national labs and their infrastructure can address key challenges in fusion and across the fusion supply chain. How can these shared resources be best leveraged to accelerate commercialization without duplicating cost?

• What does successful collaboration between national labs, universities, DOE and the private sector look like in the US, and where are the remaining bottlenecks?
• How can US fusion programs build stronger synergies with international partners on research, supply chains and demonstration pathways?
• How should national labs and shared infrastructure be used while maintaining strong commercial incentives and speed for private companies?
• Where can philanthropic capital most effectively absorb early technical risk and complement public and private funding to accelerate progress?
• Identifying and advancing the most significant opportunities 

Live audience polling on the critical priorities for fusion commercialization. Results displayed in real time with expert panel reaction, translating two days of discussion into actionable takeaways.
Industry sentiment on:

• Which components of a fusion pilot plant are most vulnerable to supply chain disruptions?
• Which enabling technologies require the most attention from researchers to support companies’ deployment timelines?
• What are some opportunities for American companies to own pieces of the fusion supply chain?
• What technical milestones, if achieved, would draw significantly more private capital into the fusion sector?
• Are there remaining technical hurdles that, if unsolved, would render fusion energy uncommercializable?
• Will Chinese research infrastructure eclipse that of the United States in the near future?
   

A candid, structural look at the challenges facing large-scale scientific projects, drawing on first-hand insights from ITER. This session examines the root causes of ITER’s delays and cost overruns, focusing on supply-chain complexity, procurement strategy, and programme management

• Why major infrastructure and science projects so often fail to deliver on time and within budget, and the lessons for emerging fusion companies.
• A case study of the EU’s €7bn supply-chain involvement: how fragmented contracts, integration challenges, and procurement choices contributed to delays.
• How fundamental project-management practices (“the elementary stuff”—FOAK basics, coordination, interfaces) were where issues emerged.
• What the private-sector fusion can learn from ITER’s experience to avoid encountering the same structural and operational challenges.
   

A private tour of PFSC’s fusion facilities, including the new Laboratory for Materials in Nuclear Technology, followed by a Q&A with senior staff.  

Private tours of CFS’s Devens Campus. A guided visit to both CFS’s magnet factory and to the SPARC facility followed by a Q&A with senior staff.  

Craft beers and bites at a nearby brewery