Venue
Beaulieu SA
Beaulieu SA, Av. Bergières 10, 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland

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Event Date Thu Jun 13 CEST - Fri Jun 14 CEST (6 months ago)
In your timezone (EST): Wed Jun 12 6:00pm - Thu Jun 13 6:00pm
Location Beaulieu SA
Av. Bergières 10, 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
Region EMEA
Details

It is the largest gathering of Climate Funders, Founders, LPs and Operators. This event brings together so many impact-driven founders and investors from across Europe, and beyond.

Speakers

2024 Speakers

Lubomila Jordanova
Co-Founder and CEO, Plan A

Uli Grabenwarter
Director, Equity Investments, European Investment Fund

Yair Reem
Partner, Extantia Capital

Jim Mann
Founder and CEO, Undo

Ed Steele
Co-Founder, Hoxton Farms

Marissa Cuevas Flores
Founder and CEO, Microterra

Steve Melhuish
Founding Partner, Wavemaker Impact

Tony Martens Fekini
Co-Founder, Plantible

Yao Huang
Investor, Board of Director, Carbon Optimum & The Hatchery

Raffael Wohlgensinger
Founder and CEO, Formo

Kidus Asfaw
Co-Founder and CEO, Kubik

Konrad Bergström
Founder, X Shore, Marshall Group

Renaud Visage
Co-Founder, Slate Venture Capital

Nicolas Sauvage
President, TDK Ventures

Elisabeth Schrey
Managing Director, Dtcf

Kevin Webb
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Superorganism

Alice Brooks
Partner, Khosla Ventures

Gautam Shah
Founder, Internet of Elephants

Veronique Hördemann
Managing Partner, Future Energy Ventures

Christian Guba
Principal, Foodlabs

Marta Sjögren
Co-Founder & CEO, Paebble

Maya Ziswiler
CEO, UBS Optimus Foundation

Catalina Urrejola
CTO, Ceibo

Susana Reber
Startup Acceleration Lead, Nestlé R+D Accelerator

Alexandre Bastos
Head of Front End Innovation, Givaudan

Jasmin Hume
CEO and Founder, Shiru

Adrian Ferrero
Co-Founder and CEO, Biome Makers

Ulrike Pfreundt
Co-Founder & CEO, Rrreefs

Russ Tucker
Founder, Twig Bio

Christoph Jenny
Co-Founder, Planted

Ariel Barack
Senior Partner, Ordway Selections

David Lunsford
CEO, Streams Ocean

Zoë Balmforth
Co-Founder, Pivotal

Yoann Berno
Founder, Climate Insiders

James Petrie
CEO, Nourish Ingredients

Fabien Koutchekian
Co-Founder and CEO, Genomines

Xavier Lorphelin
Managing Partner, Serena VC

Elizabeth Gilligan
CEO, Material Evolution

Stefano Bernardi
General Partner, Unruly Capital

Johan Attby
General Partner, Norrsken Accelerate

Benjamin Schulz
Founding Partner, Carbon Removal Partners

Fabrice Leclerc
Advisor, EPFL Innovation Park

Sam Davies
CEO & Founder, Flux

Daniel Vetterkind
CEO & Founder, Recarb

Felix Harteneck
Co-Founder and CEO, Inplanet

Till Stenzel
Partner, Set Ventures

Thong Le Hoang
Co-Founder, Tomorrow

Elena Cavallero
Board member, The Grantham Foundation

Toby Parkes
Co-Founder and CEO, Rhizocore Technologies

Maelis Carraro
Managing Partner, Catalyst Fund

Lauren Salz
CEO and Co-Founder, Sealed

Michael Langguth
CSO and Co-Founder, Carbon13

Casper Peeters
CEO, E-Magy

Ole Schaumberg
Co-Founder, Montamo

Eleanor Blagbrough
Co-Founding Partner, Blume Equity

Andres Mitnik
CEO, Strong by Form

Daniel Skavén Ruben
Angel Investor and Advisor

Sonalie Figueiras
Founder and Editor in Chief, Green Queen Media

Hadar Sutovsky
VP Corporate Investments / GM, ICL Group / ICL Planet

Ian Brettell
Policy Director, Crowther Lab

Abby Stern
Climate Culture Officer, Holocene & ClimateHack Ambassador

Erik Byrenius
Founding Partner, Mudcake

Erika Styger
Director Climate-Resilient Farming Systems, Cornell University

Donovan Maire
CFO, Transmutex

Keely Anson
Head of Shared Future Fund, Collaborative Fund

David Brandes
Co-Founder and CEO, Planetary

Jonny Everett
Founding Partner, Marble

Alexis Houssou
Founder and Managing Partner, HCVC

Jakob Kleihues
Co-Founder & CEO, Enapi

Martin Schichtel
Founder and CEO, Kraftblock

Antonia Sariyska
Executive Director, CIO, UBS Global Wealth Management

Lena Thiede
Co-founder & General Partner, Planet A Ventures

Antony Yousefian
Partner, The First Thirty Ventures

Jacob Nathan
Co-Founder & CEO, Epoch Biodesign

Martin Diaz Plata
Head of Private Equity Investment, BlueOrchard

Sonja Stuchtey
Founder, The Landbanking Group

Jonathan Ledgard
Co-Founder & CEO, Interspecies Money

Richard Barker
Partner, Counteract VC

Mark Warner
Co-Founder and CEO, Liberation Labs

Thomas Elliott
CEO, Restor

Gregor Tegl
CEO and Founder, Arkeon

Helena Wasserman
Founder & CEO, Unstoppable

Michal Klar
General Partner, Better Bite Ventures

Hadar Ekhoiz Razmovich
CEO and Co-Founder, Meala FoodTech

Andrew Lala
CEO, Ignitia

Vassily Carantino
CEO & Co-Founder, CarbonFarm

Joyeeta Das
CEO and Co-Founder, SamudraOceans

David Gonahasa
Co-Founder, The Naturalist

Harry Grocott
CEO and Co-Founder, Treeconomy

Govinda Upadhyay
Founder & CEO, Smarthelio

Mathieu Nohet
Co-Founder & CEO, Lastix

Roman Teslyuk
CEO & Co-Founder, Earth AI

Francis Field
CEO & Founder, Searo Labs

Sieste Wouters
Program Director, Innovative Finance, UBS Optimus Foundation

Roman Plewka
COO & CFO, Formo

Myke Näf
Co-Founder, Übermorgen Ventures

Mihir Pershad
CEO, Umami Bioworks

Ted Christie-Miller
Director, BeZero Carbon

Jacqueline Ros Amable
CEO & Co-founder, Matereal

Ana Lima
Director for Nature and Climate Science, Recarb

Thomas Gmeiner
Chief Venture Officer, Brainforest

Maria Cho
Co-Founder and CEO, TripleBar

René Haas
Co-Founder & CEO, Neocarbon

Ion Padilla
CEO, Wegaw

Anthony Chow
Director, All G Foods

Leroy Nyangani
Co-Founder & CEO, NeedEnergy

David Klingen
Co-Founder & CEO, Northern Wonder

Selcuk Aslan
Co-founder, Lastix

Daan Luining
Founder and CTO, Meatable

Yohan Hadji
Co-Founder, R2Home

Maricel Saenz
Founder and CEO, Minus Coffee

Alina Truhina
CEO, Managing Partner, The Radical Fund

Jan Wilmking
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Project Eaden

Alex Prather
Director of Ventures, Newlab

Frederic Fournier
CEO and Co-Founder, Open Forest Protocol

Topher White
Founder and CEO, Rainforest Connection

Alison Filler
Head of Innovation, Climate Collective

Maximilian Webers
Co-Founder and CEO, Colipi

Aureline Grange
Co-founder & Chief Climate Officer, Open Forest Protocol

Stéphane Chen
Founder and CEO, Another Food

Nicolas Cruaud
Co-Founder, Neolithe

Philipp Staudacher
Head of Portfolio, Innovate4Nature

Namratha Kothapalli
Principal, Speedinvest

Jonathan Berger
CEO, The Kitchen Hub

Adrian Dellecker
Senior Research Writer, IMD

Alessa Berg
CEO, Top Tier Impact

Tim Duehrkoop
CEO, Xilva

Jacob Bro
Partner & Co-Founder, 2150

Jürg Germann
Co-Founder, Inverto

Barbara Dubach
Executive Director, Innovate4Nature

Rebecca Ravenni
Investment Associate, Techstar & ClimateHack Ambassador

DJ Lampitt
Founder, Ideation Colab & Foodhack Ambassador

Amanda Williams
Research Fellow, IMD

Jacqueline van den Ende
Co-founder and CEO, Carbon Equity

Sam Zak
Project Specialist, Ocean Innovation, World Economic Forum

Patrick Meier
Founder, Climate Robotics Network

Daniel Watson
Co-Founder & CEO, Safetynet

Somil Aggarwal
Co-Host, Cleantechies

Bastiaan Gielink
Board member, Meatable

Olivier de Richoufftz
General Secretary, Family Enterprise Foundation

Gregoire Letort
Founder, Xinomavro Ventures

David Chen
Founder, Agri G8

Bharath Bakaraju
Founder, Phyx44 Labs

Marco Möeller
CEO and Co-founder, Pionix

Nelson Dumas
Co-founder, Eltenemo SA

Andrea Biscia
Principal, Decalia

Rebekah Braswell
CEO, Landlife

Fernando Casado
Co-Founder & General Partner, Inclimo

Ann Limley
Founder, Pivot Eat

Jon Ho
CEO and Co-Founder, Allium Bio

Valentin Gönczy
CPO & Co-Founder, Cloover

Jina Li
Founder, Endgame Capital

Tanja Markotic
Investment Manager, Romande Energie

Gregory Belt
CEO, Innovopro

Matt Reynolds
Senior Writer, Wired

Freya Pratty
Senior Reporter, Sifted

Sadia Nowshin
Editorial Assistant, Sifted

Ryan Grant Little
Principal & Co-Founder, RGL Strategic & Foodhack Ambassador

Zack Kong
Founder & CEO, Originnovation

Christian Poppe
General Manager APAC, Formo

Marina Schmidt
Founder & Editor in Chief, Red to Green

Sam Baker
Investor, Planet A Ventures

Yves Speeckaert
Managing Director, Emergy Capital Markets

Bernard Couvreur
Head of Business Development, Innpact

Xavier Pierluca
Managing Partner, Enabling Qapital

Aurianne Legris
Investor, Honda Innovations

Michael Napper
Founding Member, Satgana

Hugo Vautier
Associate Partner, Opportunity Financial Services

Robert Jones
Vice President & Global Public Affairs, Mosa Meat

Christian Gonzalez
Investor, Planet A Ventures

Uri Weinheber
Managing Partner, Urika Partners

Daniel MacGowan von Holstein
Founder, Kynda

Matteo Leonardi
Investment Manager, Grey Silo Ventures

Massimo Portincaso
Founder & CEO, Arsenale

Alessandra Rojas
Head of Tech4Impact, E4S (EPFL, UNIL AND IMD)

Kim Dang
Network, Talent, and Corporate Relationships, Planet A

Ilanit Kabessa
Managing Partner, Urika Partners

Denis Weinberg
Founder & Co-founder, Umami

Ruedi Ryf
Founder & CEO, Swiss Blue Salmon AG

Brett Bivens
Founding Partner, Radian Holdings

Derek Brooks
Principal, 2150

Adrien Rollé
Partner & CEO, Opportunity Financial Services

Maya Sapir-Mir
CEO & Co-Founder, Polopo

Itai Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, Gavan

Christian Sobolta
Managing Director, CSM Ingredients

Cara Tobin
Sustainable Business Development Coach, Innosuisse

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Partners

HEADLINE PARTNERS:
• Givaudan
• The Accelerator
• UBS
• Vaud

ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS:
• Kapital
• FoodLabs
• Invest in Skane
• E4S
• Planet A
• Tech4 Regeneration

SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
• ICL Planet Startup Hub
• Planetary
• MEALA
• Nourish Ingredients
• Project Eaden
• CSM Ingredients
• Recarb
• Opportunity Financial Services
• Innovopro

LUNCH PARTNERS:
• Originnovation
• Tibits

PRODUCT PARTNERS:
• Planted
• Redefine Meat
• Better Nature
• Beelong.ch
• IFCO
• Paleta Loca
• Revyve
• Vegan Finest Foods
• Betta Fish
• Northern Wonder
• Goodlife
• ChariTea
• Migros V-Love
• Sproud
• Tindle
• Urban Kombucha
• Super Mate
• Baabuk

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• Better Bioeconomy
• Carbon Herald
• Climate Insiders
• ClimateU
• Climate Robotics Network
• Green Queen
• Foodtech Weekly
• Carbon Pulse
• Global Insights
• Keep Cool
• SwissDevJobs.ch