CDR Innovation & Impact 2025

​Join us for the Carbon Removal Booster's annual event at Kraftwerk Zurich, where we gather stakeholders from across Switzerland's CDR ecosystem. Discover the ideas and challenges from the Booster's innovation teams and gain insights from policy, research and industry on their views on innovation in CDR. The event will conclude with an apéro, offering plenty of time to connect and exchange ideas.

​Agenda

​17:30 Door opening

​​18:00 Welcome and introduction by the Carbon Removal Innovation Booster

​​18:20 Keynote speeches and Q&A

• ​​Pirmin Aregger, Co-Founder of Recoal

• ​Lorenzo Massa, Professor at Aalborg University, Director at Change Logic LLC, Member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network (Innovation), and Author of Sustainable Business Model Design: 45 Patterns

​​19:10 Innovation team pitches

​​Cohort Spring ‘25

• ​​Aquaforge – Dom van der Waals

• ​​Arrhenius – Reto Tamburini

• ​​Open Climate Solutions – Bojan Martin & Matyas Csiky

• ​​INPLUGS-CO₂ – Eleni Stavropoulou

• ​​DeltaSpark – Luc Bondaz

• ​​Radiofrequency Heating – Florian Kiefer

​​Cohort Autumn ‘25

• ​​CDR Experience Hub – Karin Zürcher

• ​​Potassium carbonate beads for PCC – Mathieu Soutrenon

• ​​CO2 Purity Testing on-site – Serge Niederkorn

• ​​SmartCapture – Matija Salej

• ​DiligenceDone – Friedel Pretorius

• ​​Biochar-backed Collateral for Smallholder Finance in the Global South – Patrik Brandenberg

​​20:00 Thank You, Prizes, and Outro

​​20:10 Apéro