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Blue Ocean Gear designs and builds GPS tracking buoys capable of surviving the brutal operational demands of the modern fixed gear fisher. Our patented SmartBuoy product suite allows fishers, aquaculture farmers and ocean scientists to track and monitor data from their gear anytime and anywhere, enhancing operational efficiency and profitability by reducing fuel costs and lost gear while gaining previously unavailable insights into the local ocean conditions. Our 'IoT for the oceans' also directly address the environmental impacts of lost gear and entanglements.

SUBLIME Energie is a company that enables the creation of local supply chains for bioNGV and bioCO 2 and provides access to the methanizable biomass deposit from small farms located far from the networks. Their services include transport, purification, and conditioning of biogas.

Orbital EOS is a provider of satellite-based solutions to challenges in the maritime domain, like oil spill monitoring and ship detection.

e-Zinc is a corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbon energy future.

M1NERAL LLC provides a mineral intelligence platform that provides data, AI insights, and transaction automation to buyers, operators, and sellers. The company is based in Houston, Texas.

BarrelWise Technologies creates technology to improve wine production and analysis, with products used by wineries in British Columbia, California, and Washington. The FS1 System, the company's flagship product, enables wineries to bring routine free SO2 checks to the cellar, reducing the process from days to minutes while maintaining lab-level accuracy.

PanThera CryoSolutions designs and manufactures cryopreservation solutions. The firm allows for the use of less expensive storage and transportation methods, restricting the usage of liquid nitrogen in some cell treatment applications. Their objective is to use their scientific expertise to create evidence-based products that limit ice crystal formation and protect cells, tissues, and organs from freezing damage while also lowering toxicity, enhancing stability, and improving post-thaw performance.

OriGen AI creates physics-informed neural networks that can be used as efficient on-demand simulators for physical processes described by differential equations. OriGen has realized the full potential of this game-changing technology, allowing for unprecedented advances in the modeling and optimization of physical processes described by partial differential equations (PDEs). When compared to traditional numerical simulators of complex real-world phenomena, OriGen's technology runs up to 10,000 times faster while producing more comprehensive predictions with less uncertainty.

Arolytics is a software company that specializes in emissions management and regulatory compliance for the energy sector.

M1NERAL LLC provides a mineral intelligence platform that provides data, AI insights, and transaction automation to buyers, operators, and sellers. The company is based in Houston, Texas.

Westgen is an emissions reduction company helping clients in oil and gas reduce their upstream methane emissions by replacing raw gas used in pneumatics with instrument air. It eliminates methane venting and complies with new and emerging methane regulations while reducing capital and operating costs for website operators.

Yotta is developing a modular energy storage device The SolarLEAF™ - a battery storage device that integrates with photovoltaic (PV). It has been designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency. The SolarLEAFs biggest value is reducing the soft costs of designing, installing, and maintaining an energy storage system compared to traditional centralized systems.

Infinite Composites develops and manufactures advanced composite pressure vessels and structures. ICT was founded in 2010 to revolutionize composite pressure vessel technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling widespread adoption of composite pressure vessels. Our vision is to make the infinite Composite Pressure Vessel (iCPV) the key enabling technology for space exploration and sustainable transport.Infinite Composites Technologies aims to practice continuous improvement to ensure we deliver products that exceed customer and industry quality standards and deliver products free of fault or defect.

Tubular Sciences is an intellectual property, knowledge, and a successful track record in metal-to-metal sealing technology was spun out of META to develop ZIP, the next evolution of M2M sealing technology, using patented designs to provides a multi-seal connection system that technically and economically superior to existing threaded, welded, and other permanent connections.

Modern Wellbore Solutions provides downhole tool development services for advancing multistage oil and gas well completions in unconventional formations. They drive capital and operating efficiencies for oil and natural gas producers using proprietary downhole tools.

CleanO2 Carbon Capture Technologies is set to change the heating industry. In 2007, the founders of CleanO2 CCT began developing technology that would have a positive impact in the industry. Now, 9 years later, the company have deployed the residential carbon capture device in Alberta, Canada and have expanded the technology on a global scale. The company has developed an aggregated commercial carbon capture device called CARBiNX, a sleek, carbon munching addition to businesses. Reducing energy demands through heat recovery and using the carbon capture process to create a valuable by-product. CleanO2 Carbon Capture Technologies was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

SociVolta is a provider of energy management systems and services that specializes in power market operations and inter-jurisdictional electricity scheduling. Their energy management systems provide them with the data and insights needed to make better decisions.

Element 16 Technologies operates in the energy industry. They use high-temperature heat energy storage to improve efficiency and save money for commercial and industrial facilities.

Ondaka delivers visual understanding and contextualized data for facility engineers and project stakeholders. Their asset visualization, AI-powered data surfacing, and IOT integrations have a growing roster of clients under management, including big name operators and oilfield service companies from the well pad to the pipeline to the refinery.

Eavor is a technology-based energy company that provides a clean, carbon-neutral, scalable, baseload power solution. The company's solution represents a truly scalable form of clean baseload power. They achieve this by mitigating or eliminating many of the issues that have hindered traditional geothermal solutions. The system is made with existing commercial componentry configured in a completely novel way. They use the most recent advances in drilling techniques and merge them with the latest heat-to-power generation technology to create a scalable, steady, and reliable source of green power.

GeologicAI is a software company specializes in Oil and Gas software.

Hygge Power ensures everyone is comfortably powered with clean, reliable energy through our CO-Z family of products, accelerating electricity decarbonization and empowering renters, homeowners, and businesses with advanced control, automated savings, and power failure protection. Standing alone, the CO-Z App provides users with real-time insights and peace of mind as they can easily see their outage risk, their current electricity price, and the emissions generated from producing their power. With that insight and relevant suggestions and advice from the app, users can prepare for outages, rather than being surprised by them, and can choose cheaper or greener times to use power, reducing their carbon footprint. These app functions are enhanced when paired with the CO-Z energy storage system (“ESS”). The ESS allows customers to shift power usage automatically to greener/cleaner times and to have backup light and power at key locations in an apartment, house, or business when an outage does occur. The user-friendly design requires only plug-and-play installation, has a small footprint, and is utility-integrated for additional energy savings/benefits.

Eosense (formerly Forerunner Research Inc., ) is a product company that designs and builds weatherproof gas monitoring devices for soil gas flux research. They are dedicated to equipping research and industry with accurate, go-anywhere tools. Their products capture concentration and flux data for greenhouses gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, and perform exceptionally well in soil, mud, shallow water, and snow.

Mangrove Water Technologies is developing a technology that simultaneously converts saline waste-water and waste-gases into desalinated water and value-added chemicals for on-site utilization. The technology is modular and mobile and is currently being demonstrated at the commercial scale. We have advanced the technology from a concept at the lab scale to a field pilot over the last four years. The technology was developed in the Wilkinson research group at the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia with funding through Emissions Reduction Alberta, Western Economic Diversification and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Whitecap Scientific helps offshore oil and gas companies make faster, more informed decisions about the integrity of their subsea assets.

Swirltex builds custom water treatment systems for a wide range of applications. The company's patent membrane works by separating and filtering liquids according to their buoyancy, which allows for greater production with less pollution of the water. The ability to manipulate the buoyancy of different contaminants within the liquid stream allows the Swirltex system to treat water that would be considered unusable.

Terrapin specializes exclusively in finding and utilizing heat to drive profitability. In an era of volatile commodity prices, punitive carbon taxes and economic pressures on all sides, Terrapin deploys technology and expertise to turn heat into value for our clients and partners. The company does this by mapping available waste heat, matching that with optimal cutting edge technology and building strong financial models to make for slam-dunk investment decisions.

Interface Fluidics is an international technology company offering innovative reservoir fluid analysis services. Interface Fluidics'​ proprietary and industry-leading nanofluidic technology platform enables companies to better understand their reservoirs and have greater confidence in their production decisions.

Salient Energy is commercializing a revolutionary new battery based on research at the University of Waterloo. Their zinc-ion battery is perfectly suited, both technically and economically, for storing electricity in the grid. The company's proprietary cathode materials store energy in zinc in a way that has never been commercialized before – Salient Energy has made unique cathode materials that can actually incorporate zinc in their crystal lattice instead of just reacting on the surface. This allows the batteries to have a relatively high energy density. It also allows the user to use of traditional battery designs that are compatible with standard manufacturing equipment. This means that the cheaper, safer, and the longer-lasting battery can be made in existing battery factories around the world.

Unsist is a predictive analytics company creating technology for the oil & gas industry that never stops. It is composed of a team of international scientists and engineers, part of the NextAI Program, a global innovation hub for artificial intelligence. The program is partnered with Next Canada, Google Canada, IBM Canada, and NVIDIA to leverage Canada's leadership position in artificial intelligence.

Currently, inline inspection in the oil and gas sector is a series of staged engineering events, designed to assess the condition of pipeline assets. It is costly, infrequent, and only addresses those lines that are within reach. In fact, it is estimated that 40% of the world’s pipelines are unpiggable. The vulnerabilities between inspections, which are typically years apart, or the inability to conduct inspections at all, puts the world’s aging pipeline infrastructure at risk. In order to address these issues, we have focused on changing the economics, the technology, and the workflow associated with inline inspection. We have introduced the industry’s first self-serve inspection model that eliminates significant engineering and downtime costs. We have developed miniature, multi sensor Pipers® technology that freely flows within any and all active pipelines, regardless of location, condition, material or configuration. This technology is capable of inspecting pipelines as small as 2 inches in diameter, and surveying for leaks, geometric defects, magnetic anomalies, and deposits in a single run. Further, we have reduced the cost of inline inspection by a factor of 10, making it possible for integrity programs to be more present, more often, across all of their assets. Finally, such accessible technology has given us the opportunity to work with a complete range of clients – large and small, private and public – resulting in rich datasets libraries that offer unprecedented contextual analysis and continuous advancement of our data analytics capabilities. Our approach provides clients with uninterrupted access to up-to-date condition-critical data, allowing them to optimize planning, decision-making, and actions.

Validere is a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company that helps energy organizations transform disconnected, incomplete emissions data into clear and immediately actionable pathways to financial and environmental value. Modernize your carbon tracking and reporting with an emissions management platform built by industry experts.