

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
18:10 Keynote speeches
- 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 
- Pirmin Aregger, Co-Founder of Recoal 
18:50 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
- To be announced 
20:00 Apéro