One Day of Risk Resilience – a Munich Climate Week Event
About the event
"What if" is no longer a thought experiment. Physical climate risk is already affecting how companies operate, how cities plan and how economies grow.
For one afternoon, we bring the data, the technology and the decision-makers into one room to work through a practical question: what does it take for a business, a city and an economy to absorb shocks, adapt and keep moving?
We welcome around 100 senior leaders, researchers and climate-tech innovators from the Munich Re and TUM ecosystems. Hosted by Risk Management Partners - Munich Re and TUM Venture Labs as part of Munich Climate Week.
13:30 Registration
14:00 Opening & fireside chat
We open by setting the scene: why resilience to physical climate risk needs research, entrepreneurship and risk expertise working together, in Munich and beyond.
Welcome
Lars Eiermann, Managing Director, TUM Venture Labs Climate & Circular
Gyri Reiersen, Founding Member, Munich Climate Week
Dr. Kiri Trier, CMO, Risk Management Partners - Munich Re
Opening remarks
Prof. Dr. Helmut Schönenberger, CEO, UnternehmerTUM
Christof Reinert, CEO, Risk Management Partners - Munich Re
Fireside chat
Prof. Dr. Helmut Schönenberger in conversation with Christof Reinert
Moderator: Dr. Kiri Trier, CMO, Risk Management Partners - Munich Re
14:45 Session 1 – Climate risk & resilience: the C-level view
How do leaders turn physical climate risk into decisions they can act on? A climate scientist and leaders from insurance, telecoms and consumer goods share how they read the science, price the risk, protect critical networks and keep supply chains running.
Panel
Silke Jolowicz, Head of Sustainability, Munich Re
Claudia von Bothmer, Chief Sustainability Officer, Telefónica
Dr. Christopher Schwalm, Vice President of Science, Woodwell Climate Research Center
Alena Caro, Senior Sustainability Program Lead, L'Oréal
Moderator: Dr. Kiri Trier, CMO, Risk Management Partners - Munich Re
15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Session 2 – Climate adaptation across the agricultural and building sectors
After a summer that gave Europe a glimpse of the future, we look at how wildfires, heat, drought and heavy rain affect buildings, farmland and water, and how research, insurance and innovation can help the region adapt.
Impulse
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Grün, Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP
Panel
Marie Ammann, Senior Agricultural Business Development, BayWa
Diego Santamaría Razo, Managing Director, Breakthrough Energy Fellows / Activae
Alexa Mayer-Bosse, Senior Underwriter, Munich Re
Jason Prapas, Rapid Evaluator, X, the Moonshot Factory
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Werner Lang, Vice President for Sustainable Transformation, TUM
16:30 Coffee break
16:45 Session 3 – Scaling resilience: the founder & investor view
Climate-tech founders and the investors backing them on the technologies that help companies and cities prepare for climate impacts at scale, and on how to finance the resilient technologies in hard-to-abate, asset-heavy industries.
Fireside chat
Fireside chat on the relationship between founder and investor with Daria Saharova, Founding Partner, World Fund and Emanuel Heisenberg, CEO, ecoworks
Moderator: Lars Eiermann, Managing Director, TUM Venture Labs Climate & Circular
Startup pitches
Four startup pitches (4 mins each)
Panel discussion on the difficulties and opportunities of financing climate-tech
Dennis Stahl, Co-Founder & Partner, One Purpose Capital
Dr. Sonja Stuchtey, Co-Founder, The Landbanking Group
Daria Saharova, Founding Partner, World Fund
Moderator: Lars Eiermann, Managing Director, TUM Venture Labs Climate & Circular
17:45 Wrap-up & Climate Intelligence Award 2026
We draw the threads of the day together, and Risk Management Partners - Munich Re presents the winner of the Climate Intelligence Award 2026.
18:15-21:00 Drinks & networking
Continue the conversation with speakers, founders and fellow guests.