Sustainable Innovation: From Breakthrough to Impact
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Explore how sustainable innovation moves from concept to commercialization and impact.
This interactive leaders' exchange brings together the innovation pipeline, from forward-thinking academia and industry leaders to bold entrepreneurs and investors, driving green innovation from early-stage breakthroughs to market solutions at scale.
Discover how startups are advancing the frontier in energy, materials, mobility and beyond. Learn from pioneers behind the world’s first non-stop, zero-emission green hydrogen flight around the world. And explore how we can move from pilots to production at scale – navigating policy landscapes, aligning capital, and forging the cross-sector collaboration needed to turn bold ideas into real progress toward global climate goals.
Speakers:
Titta Rosvall-Puplett, Chief Sustainability Officer, Syensqo
Ulrike Sapiro, Chief Sustainability Officer, Henkel
Rachel Barré, Vice President of Sustainability, Environmental Leadership, L'Oréal
Shyam Kamadolli, Managing Director, Fine Structure Ventures
Erica Nemser, CEO, Ardent
James Cole, Chief Innovation Officer, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Tonilyn P. Lim, Chief of Programmes, United Nations Global Compact
About the speakers and host
Ardent - Ardent delivers novel membrane-based separation systems for carbon capture, olefin recovery and other tough chemical separations. Our Optiperm™ platform provides a scalable, modular, energy-efficient alternative proven in real industrial conditions. With 4,000+ pilot hours and partnerships with Braskem, Chevron, and other leading players, Ardent combines technical credibility with near-term commercial momentum — accelerating industrial decarbonization today.
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership - The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership is an impact-led institute within the University of Cambridge that activates leadership globally to transform economies for people, nature and climate. Through our global network and hubs in Cambridge, Cape Town and Brussels, we work with leaders and innovators across business, finance and government to accelerate action for a sustainable future. Trusted since 1988 for our rigour and pioneering commitment to learning and collaboration, we create safe spaces to challenge and support those with the power to act.
Fine Structure Ventures - Fine Structure Ventures is a venture capital fund affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments. We focus on early stage investments in disruptive scientific and technological innovation. Our portfolio boasts over 300 active patents covering world-changing innovations. We back the teams we believe are best able to deploy revolutionary technologies.
Henkel - With its brands, innovations and technologies, Henkel holds leading market positions worldwide in the industrial and consumer businesses. The business unit Adhesive Technologies is the global leader in the market for adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With Consumer Brands, the company holds leading positions especially in laundry & home care and hair in many markets and categories around the world. The company's three strongest brands are Loctite, Persil and Schwarzkopf. Henkel was founded in 1876 and today employs a diverse team of about 47,000 people worldwide – united by a strong corporate culture, shared values and a common purpose: "Pioneers at heart for the good of generations.”
L’Oréal - For 115 years, L’Oréal, the world’s leading beauty player, has devoted itself to one thing only: fulfilling the beauty aspirations of consumers around the world. Our purpose, to create the beauty that moves the world, defines our approach to beauty as essential, inclusive, ethical, generous and committed to social and environmental sustainability. With our broad portfolio of 37 international brands and ambitious sustainability commitments in our L’Oréal for the Future programme, we offer each and every person around the world the best in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility, while celebrating beauty in its infinite plurality.
Syensqo - Syensqo is a science company developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance the way we live, work, travel and play. Inspired by the scientific councils which Ernest Solvay initiated in 1911, we bring great minds together to push the limits of science and innovation for the benefit of our customers, with a diverse, global team of more than 13,000 associates. Our solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices and health care applications. Our innovation power enables us to deliver on the ambition of a circular economy and explore breakthrough technologies that advance humanity.
United Nations Global Compact - The UN Global Compact is the world's largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative, launched in 2000 to encourage businesses worldwide to align their operations with ten universally accepted principles on human rights, labour, the environment, and anti-corruption. It provides a leadership platform for companies to implement responsible policies, take action to support broader UN goals like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive future.
IndieBio (Host venue) - IndieBio, the world’s first life sciences accelerator, was created by venture fund SOSV in 2014. In the past five years, SOSV/IndieBio has backed nearly 200 life science startups with a combined valuation of over $3 billion, raising more than $700 million and employing over 2,000 people.
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