EUVC Summit & Awards Show 2026
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The EUVC Summit & Awards Show stands as Europe's premier, tightly curated gathering for the venture capital community. It unites a select group of VC partners, LPs, founders, and policymakers for one high-impact day centred on meaningful ideas, genuine connections, and well-deserved recognition across the ecosystem.
In short: a beautiful day with a mix between powerful presentations and intimate firesides with Europe's leading founders and winners of the EUVC Awards.
If you're shaping Europe's VC future - or investing in those who do - this is the room where real progress gets made.
Agenda
09:00 · Breakfast & Facilitated Networking
10:00 · Welcome
10:05 · Making the Unscalable Scalable — Dave Bailey (Delivery Hero / FounderCoach)
10:17 · Building AI Native Leadership Teams — Chris Preston (Zeren) · Andreas Munk Holm (EUVC)
10:29 · 🏆 Hall of Fame sponsored by HSBC Innovation Banking — Chris Wade (Isomer Capital) · Andreas Munk Holm (EUVC)
10:36 · Your best employee is doing your worst work: The future of AI in GTM — Harrison Rose (Goodfit / Paddle)
10:47 · 🏆 Achievement of The Year sponsored by HSBC Innovation Banking — Laura Corrigan (Isomer) · Chris Wade (Isomer Capital)
11:00 · From contrarian view to a consensus bet — James Dacombe (CoMind + Olix) · Krishna (Crane)
11:15 · 🏆 Impact Leader sponsored by Zeren Global — Laura Corrigan (Isomer) · Douglas Sloan (Better Society Capital)
11:30 · Revolutionizing European Manufacturing — Tomaz Stolfa (Sunrise Robotics) · Patrick Murphy (Tapestry)
11:48 · Fixing the $900bn energy problem — Adam Chirkowski (Albion) · Joe McDonald (tem)
12:00 · 🍔 Lunch
13:00 · Building a Quantum Unicorn from Europe — Jan Goetz (IQM)
13:16 · 🏆 Firm >€200M sponsored by Synaptic — Laura Corrigan (Isomer) · Stephanie Kempton (Adam's Street)
13:36 · 1,000x — Basecamp Research rewriting the map of life — Oliver Vince (Basecamp) · Lorenzo Cerchi (Singular)
13:51 · Why "European Resilience" is not a fundraising strategy — Denes Ban
13:59 · Managing Liquidity as a Seed Fund — Romain Lavault (Partech) · Joe Schorge (Isomer)
14:10 · 🏆 Firm <€200M sponsored by Zeren Global — Laura Corrigan (Isomer) · Raphael Gervais (LGT)
14:29 · €750M Says You're Missing Half the Market — Debbie Wosskow
14:39 · Helping fractured companies fundraise — Elliot Cowan (CMS)
14:47 · 🏆 Emerging Manager sponsored by HubSpot — Laura Corrigan (Isomer) · Jonathan Sibilia (Bullhound)
15:07 (30m) · ☕ Coffee
15:38 (11m) · Venture as an active family business — Owen Reynolds (Innotek) · David Cruz e Silva (EUVC)
15:49 · Underwriting Deep Tech as an LP — Benjamin Ratz (Foobar) · Andreas Munk Holm
16:00 · Pioneering the Startup Agenda — Dom Hallas (Startup Coalition)
16:11 · How European Pensions Learn to Back Venture — Dario My (Deeptech Nation NL) · Joe Schorge (Isomer)
16:26 · Why & how a Czech Pension Fund launched a €500M Venture Fund — Pavel Mucha (Aspire11)
16:34 · 🏆 Exit of the Year sponsored by HSBC Innovation Banking — Laura Corrigan (Isomer) · Stephen Lowery (HSBC Innovation Banking)
16:42 · 5 Biggest Learnings from Allocating €2.9B to European Venture — Christian Röhle (KFW) · Andreas Munk Holm (EUVC)
16:55 · ☕ Coffee
17:25 · From My Flat to 6.5M Parcels — Murvah Iqbal (Hived) · Nick De La Forge (Planet A)
17:37 · 🏆 Newcomer of The Year sponsored by Mara Invest — Laura Corrigan (Isomer) · Chloe Dagnell (Isomer)
17:55 · Dementia's Venture Moment — Georgia Frost (SV Health) · Ruth McKernan (SV Health)
18:07 · Capital Efficient, Market Dominant: the Forest Playbook — Agustin Guilisasti (Forest) · Laura (The Venture City)
18:19 · Where longevity science is becoming commercially real — Paolo Pio (Exceptional Ventures) · Avi Roy (BioViva)
18:31 · Entrepreneurship Via Acquisition
18:33 · Search funds and why they're outperforming PE — Will Maunder-Taylor (EUVC & Unsung) · Pascal Wittet (Orca Equity)
18:44 (5m) · 🏆 CVC sponsored by CMS — Laura Corrigan (Isomer) · Jeppe Hoier (EUVC Corporate)
19:00 · 🍾 Canapés and drinks