A panel of fusion innovators explore the path to commercialisation, the challenges, and their expectations, across laser-based ICF approaches.

• What challenges remain to surpass break-even in private-sector laser ICF?
• What are the drivers of valuation, the key risks and milestones?
• How are advances in laser optics, power electronics, and target fabrication de-risking laser-based fusion approaches?
• What new technologies and cost pathways – for lasers and for targets – are needed to make ICF fusion commercially viable, and how close are they?

Moderated by: Antonia Schmalz, Innovations Manager, SPRIND & CEO, Pulsed Light Technologies