2026 Programming

Mad Max. Blade Runner. Black Mirror. What if we stopped seeing dystopian stories as the dominant visions of our future? Climate Spring invites you to challenge these narratives - and the idea that Big Tech's vision of the future is inevitable. Join us for a session exploring how storytelling can connect big ideas about technology and climate to human experience, illuminate solutions, and expand our imagination of what a healthier, fairer future could look and feel like.

Hosted by Climate Spring

Plastic is everywhere, even inside our bodies. It's harming our health and our communities, making this crisis deeply personal. How can we break up with plastic and reclaim our health? This session spotlights the new Netflix documentary, The Plastic Detox, in an interactive conversation with storytellers, experts, and advocates.

Sponsored by Minderoo Pictures

A live pitch show down for storytellers brave enough to tackle our broken food system. Take the stage in LA, win up to $50,000 and help us figure out what on earth we’re supposed to be eating.

Sponsored by Who Let the Docs Out

A Collider between Creatives x Climate Campaigns

Urgent climate issues. Expert organizations. One room of creatives ready to build what comes next. The topics on the table: Public Transit/Car Culture, Arctic Oil Leasing, and Support For Science through the lens of the 'Doomsday Glacier'

The session will begin with three organizations presenting short, high-impact updates on what's happening, what's at stake, and what they need. 

Following the presentations, attendees will join roundtable discussions led by each organization.

Part One: Ask Me Anything. Open Q&A from participants. 

Part Two: Creative Incubator. Creatives work together to develop communication and awareness strategies that can focus people’s attention and get them activated. Leave with new collaborators, a sharper read on urgent climate fights that need creative firepower.

From greenlighting High Speed Rail development projects to keeping film and TV production in LA, California stands at a pivotal crossroads for the future of its industries. LA's climate infrastructure is directly linked to Hollywood's long-term viability, and this session brings together cross-industry coalitions to imagine and shape what that future could look like.

Sponsored by US High Speed Rail

An interactive comedy, sketch, and variety show to close out the 2026 Hollywood Climate Summit!!!

Sponsored by Hip Hop Caucus and Spike Center for Sustainability at CU Boulder

The food on our plates and the stories we tell are two of the most powerful levers we have for the planet. But how do we connect the two in a way that actually moves people? This conversation brings together plant-based chefs, storytellers, and advocates to explore how transmedia food messaging is shifting culture and, from the internet's tiniest herbivore chef to the frontlines of plant-based food advocacy, and what it looks like when the kitchen and creativity become catalysts for climate action.

Sponsored by Rebel Cheese

Got Milk, the food pyramid, free range labels, sustainability pledges… What do these all have in common? They were deliberate disinformation strategies backed by decades of Big Industry investment. This conversation with the filmmakers behind The Game Changers, Cowspiracy, What the Health, Fed Up, and Poisoned goes inside how those narratives were built, the backlash that comes with challenging them, and what it takes to make a documentary that actually changes minds in a world increasingly resistant to being changed.