Presentations

Refrigeration Market Trends

Leading North American suppliers delivered strategic and visionary presentations, highlighting recent success stories, key lessons learned, ongoing challenges, and future plans for natural refrigerant-based technologies.

End User Panel

Leading end users shared their experiences using different types of natural refrigerant technologies, including benefits, challenges and future plans.

Policy & Standards Session

This session provided critical insights from leading policymakers and industry representatives on the challenges and opportunities in today’s evolving regulatory landscape.

Refrigeration Case Studies – part 1

Case studies presented by leading manufacturers, about commercial and industrial applications of natural refrigerants.

HFOs and TFA: The Growing Threat of PFAS

This session explored why f-gases such as HFOs are considered PFAS and how their atmospheric degradation product trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is proliferating in the environment and turning up in human blood, with potential health implications.

Market Trends in Commercial HVAC – The Rise of CO₂ Heat Pumps

Leading North American suppliers and industry experts delivered strategic and visionary presentations on the CO₂ heat pump market in North America, highlighting recent success stories, key lessons learned, ongoing challenges, and future plans. Panelists will also discuss the growing potential of propane heat pumps, exploring barriers to widespread adoption and the solutions needed to overcome these challenges.

HVAC Panel

This REEF-led HVAC panel brought together experts that shared insights from real-world projects in the U.S. market—from field installation and workforce training to system design and implementation at scale. It will highlight how natural refrigerants are being applied to meet performance metrics, safety standards, and decarbonization goals across different applications.

HVAC & Heat Pump Case Studies

Case studies presented by leading manufacturers on HVAC and heat pump applications using natural refrigerants.

Refrigeration Case Studies – part 2

Case studies presented by leading manufacturers, about commercial and industrial applications of natural refrigerants.

Alternative Cooling Technologies

Roundtable discussion with leading experts and start ups exploring advancements, challenges, and opportunities in alternative cooling technologies and more.

Independent Food Retailer Panel

Retailer discussion, brought independent grocer perspectives as they explored the facts on funding, financing and compliance pathways available under New York’s evolving refrigerant regulations.