ESG Innovation, Investment & Impact
Session Overview
ESG Innovation, Investment & Impact
This session brings together technology leaders, investors, and policymakers examining how innovation can drive the transformation toward a sustainable global economy, how this transformation is financed, and how its real-world impact is measured.
Across three focused panels, the discussion moves from deployable climate technologies, to capital formation and scaling, and finally to impact measurement and ESG reporting—bridging strategy, execution, and accountability.
ESG Technology Solutions
Sustainability, decarbonization, and the energy transition require deploying proven and emerging technologies at unprecedented scale. This panel explores selected innovations across hydrogen, solar, battery storage, synthetic fuels, and more, to examine what it takes to move from technical viability to globally relevant deployment.
Topics include how these solutions work, their contribution to decarbonization and a sustainable economy, key technical and commercial challenges, pathways to overcome them, and associated capital requirements. Infrastructure investors, technology providers, project developers, and corporates discuss pathways from pilot projects to gigawatt-scale impact.
Host / Speakers
Erik Schäfer — Chairman Green Investors AG
Scott Wharton — CEO Tandem PV
Mikkel Sjølin Kiil — CEO Green2x
Kennedy Ricci — Board Member Alder Renewables
Oliver Krause — Founder and Managing Director Advantum Ventures I untitled INC I GR33NBASE
ESG Financing & Scaling
The transformation toward a sustainable economy requires investment on an unprecedented scale, estimated at roughly USD 275 trillion over the coming decades. CleanTech and nature-based solutions face a well-documented capital gap between early-stage venture funding and large-scale deployment. Achieving net-zero targets by 2050 is expected to require approximately USD 6 trillion in additional investment per year .
This panel examines how public and private capital can be unlocked to bridge that gap, how shifting investment narratives, such as AI, defense, and changing global governance priorities, affect capital allocation, what cleantech investors are looking for today, and how nature restoration and conservation can be financed at scale.
Discussion topics include where capital is currently flowing and where it is constrained, who invests and why, which business models are proving bankable, how risks are assessed and mitigated, and how nature-based solutions can become investable. The panel focuses on later-stage venture, growth equity, pre-IPO capital, pathways to public markets, secondary liquidity, and capital-formation mechanisms that can help close the annual funding gap. Investors, capital-formation service providers, and investment bankers discuss the challenges of scaling and strategies to mobilize capital at the required scale.
Host / Speakers
Saskia Bruysten — Partner & Co-founder International Carbon Equity
Siddharth Malik — CEO Green Investors AG
Anja Rundquist — Chief Commercial Officer InvestConservation
Rosemary Sagar — Principal & Chief Investment Officer Sagar Family Office
Oliver Krause — Founder and Managing Director Advantum Ventures I untitled INC I GR33NBASE
ESG Reporting and Institutional Practice
ESG reporting has become standard for institutional investors, but frameworks vary and implementation differs across funds.
This panel examines how ESG reporting actually works—what frameworks dominate (TCFD, SFDR, ISSB), what data gets collected and reported, and how large asset managers integrate ESG into investment decisions. Topics include compliance versus strategic use of ESG data, how pension funds and sovereigns apply ESG mandates, what reporting requirements mean for portfolio companies, and where standardization is heading.
Institutional investors, asset managers, and reporting practitioners discuss operational reality versus aspiration.
Host / Speakers
Advit Nath — Founder & CEO BlueBridge Global | PrismiQ | Board Director TREES | Africa Blockchain | GBBC Amb.
Isabelle Grosmaitre — CEO / Founder Goodness&Co
Rebecca Florsheim, MD, MPH — Research Physician NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Ian SAYERS — Founder & Senior Adviser SME Planet
Oliver Krause — Founder and Managing Director Advantum Ventures I untitled INC I GR33NBASE
ESG & Climate
Where real-world solutions, capital, & impact measurement align to drive the transition
The ESG & Climate program provides an overarching framework within the summit for a series of curated sessions addressing the transformation towards a sustainable global economy.
While the appropriate use of the ESG label itself is controversially debated, the underlying environmental, social, governance, and investment challenges remain structurally and economically highly relevant, particularly in the context of rapid AI adoption, energy-security considerations, and ongoing geopolitical tensions.
The program brings together technology leaders, investors, and policymakers to examine how sustainability-driven innovation is developed, how it is financed and scaled, and how real-world impact is measured and governed.
Within this program, individual sessions focus on specific aspects of this transformation. The current flagship session, ESG Innovation, Investment & Impact, is structured around three panels covering innovation, capital formation and scaling, and impact measurement.