Tim Latimer On Scaling the Biggest Clean Energy IPO on Wall Street

Jeremy Pitts (Managing Director, Activate Houston) introduced Tim Latimer (CEO & Co-founder, Fervo Energy), who talked through what could be the largest clean energy IPO of the decade in conversation with David Baldwin (Executive Director, OpenMinds, and Partner, SCF Partners). Tim Latimer didn't just prove that next-generation geothermal works, he built a company that went from early-stage startup to public markets, from founding to opening bell in under a decade, faster than almost anyone thought possible in hard infrastructure. In this candid fireside chat, Tim returns to the Greentown stage to pull back the curtain on what that scaling journey looked like from the inside. In this session, we're going deep into the decisions that don't make the press releases: how Tim thought about timing a rare energy IPO, what he'd do differently at the earliest stages knowing what he knows now, and why he made the deliberate choice to plant Fervo's flag in Houston. For a room full of founders, investors, and corporate partners building the next generation of energy infrastructure, the Fervo journey offers a blueprint full of lessons learned for today's energy and climate leaders. We'll dig into what it takes to move fast in a hardware-heavy industry, how to build investor conviction before the market narrative catches up, and what Fervo's trajectory signals for the next wave of climate companies eyeing scale.