BACKROOM AGENDA
Event agenda
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Roundtables
By Invitation Only
Nature and Biodiversity
Food Supply Chains Are Breaking. What Secures Them Now
Food supply chains are under growing pressure from climate disruption, soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and geopolitical instability. The challenge is no longer just agricultural innovation. It is securing ingredient supply in ways that protect ecosystems and strengthen resilience. This discussion brings together food companies, agricultural innovators, and investors to examine what it will take to build resilient agricultural systems at scale.
Nature Markets: What Must Be Fixed Before Capital Flows
Nature markets will not scale on ambition alone. Without trusted data, robust verification, and credible measurement, institutional capital will stay cautious. This discussion focuses on the infrastructure required to make nature markets investable, credible, and trusted by both corporates and investors.
Energy Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation
Five Energy System Decisions Europe Cannot Delay
Europe’s energy transition is entering a critical phase. Electrification, grid constraints, and industrial competitiveness are now colliding in real time. This closed-door discussion brings together utilities, infrastructure investors, industrial operators, and climate technology companies to examine the decisions that cannot be postponed.
The Carbon Removal Reality Check
Carbon removal is moving from theory to early deployment, but infrastructure and capital alignment remain unclear. Corporates are making commitments. Technologies are advancing. Yet the path to infrastructure-scale deployment remains fragmented across regulation, procurement structures, and capital availability. This session focuses on which carbon removal pathways are commercially credible and what infrastructure must exist for scale.
Circular Economy and Biotechnology
The Circular Materials Transition: What Must Scale by 2030
Circular materials are no longer held back by innovation alone. The real constraint is alignment across capital, procurement, and infrastructure. This discussion brings together corporates, investors, and circular technology companies to examine what must change for circular materials to become part of Europe’s industrial base.
Alternative Food Systems
The Next Food System: Ingredients, Fermentation and Industrial Scale
Food tech is moving beyond consumer-facing brands and toward ingredient platforms, fermentation infrastructure, and scalable food inputs. The next phase of the food system transition will depend on what can integrate into real industrial production. This discussion examines which systems are most likely to scale, and what is still blocking them.
Built Environment and Urban Infrastructure
Why Retrofitting Europe Is Stalling And What Unlocks It
Europe’s buildings are central to the climate transition, but large-scale retrofitting remains slow and fragmented. This session brings together investors, start ups and infrastructure players to focus on what actually gets built before 2030, and what is still blocking deployment across capital, materials, and delivery.
Deep Tech and AI for the Physical Economy
AI Meets Infrastructure: What Is Investable And What Is Still Hype
Artificial intelligence is transforming digital systems. The harder question is whether it can transform the physical economy. Energy grids, industrial production, supply chains, and agriculture generate vast amounts of operational data. AI promises optimisation, efficiency, and new forms of climate intelligence. But most deployments remain early, fragmented, or confined to controlled environments.
Additional Sessions in Development
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We are selectively shaping a small number of additional closed-door sessions across key clusters. These are developed with partners operating at system level across capital, infrastructure, and industry. If you are actively deploying, building, or enabling at scale, we are open to shaping a session together.
Event Agenda & Participants
Discover Backroom Agenda At Momentum Summit
Roundtables
By Invitation Only
Alternative Food Systems & Agriculture
Food Supply Chains Are Breaking. What Secures Them Now
Food supply chains are under growing pressure from climate disruption, soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and geopolitical instability. The challenge is no longer just agricultural innovation. It is securing ingredient supply in ways that protect ecosystems and strengthen resilience. This discussion brings together food companies, agricultural innovators, and investors to examine what it will take to build resilient agricultural systems at scale.
Oliver Chmiel
Open Innovation and Venturing Manager, Nestle
Javier Duquet
Sr. Open Innovation Manager, Nestle
Nature and Biodiversity
Nature Markets: What Must Be Fixed Before Capital Flows
Nature markets will not scale on ambition alone. Without trusted data, robust verification, and credible measurement, institutional capital will stay cautious. This discussion focuses on the infrastructure required to make nature markets investable, credible, and trusted by both corporates and investors.
Pawel Skarul
Innolab Lead & Biodiversity Focus Area Lead, F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Energy Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation
Five Energy System Decisions Europe Cannot Delay
Europe’s energy transition is entering a critical phase. Electrification, grid constraints, and industrial competitiveness are now colliding in real time. This closed-door discussion brings together utilities, infrastructure investors, industrial operators, and climate technology companies to examine the decisions that cannot be postponed.
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The Carbon Removal Reality Check
Carbon removal is moving from theory to early deployment, but infrastructure and capital alignment remain unclear. Corporates are making commitments. Technologies are advancing. Yet the path to infrastructure-scale deployment remains fragmented across regulation, procurement structures, and capital availability. This session focuses on which carbon removal pathways are commercially credible and what infrastructure must exist for scale.
Renat Heuberger (Host)
CEO, Terra Impact Ventures & Co-Founder, South Pole
Circular Economy and Biotechnology
The Circular Materials Transition: What Must Scale by 2030
Circular materials are no longer held back by innovation alone. The real constraint is alignment across capital, procurement, and infrastructure. This discussion brings together corporates, investors, and circular technology companies to examine what must change for circular materials to become part of Europe’s industrial base.
Alternative Food Systems & Agriculture
The Next Food System: Ingredients, Fermentation and Industrial Scale
Food tech is moving beyond consumer-facing brands and toward ingredient platforms, fermentation infrastructure, and scalable food inputs. The next phase of the food system transition will depend on what can integrate into real industrial production. This discussion examines which systems are most likely to scale, and what is still blocking them.
Oliver Chmiel
Open Innovation and Venturing Manager, Nestle
Javier Duquet
Sr. Open Innovation Manager, Nestle
Raffael Wohlgensinger
CEO, Formo