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  1. +
    Fixathon at Impact/Week
    Judith Wolst, Prompt What Matters, Norrsken
    Prompt What Matters
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    Impact/Return Breakfast and Ask-Me-Anything with John Kerry
    John Kerry, Former Secretary of State
    Jennifer Hood, Head of EMEA, Investor Partnerships, Galvanize
    Impact/Return
  3. Impact/Return Official Opening
    Agate Freimane, General Partner, Norrsken VC
    Lila Preston, Partner & Co-Head of Growth Equity, Generation Investment Management
    Andrew Beebe, Managing Director and Global Head of Climate, Impact & Real Assets, Obvious Ventures
    Impact/Return
  4. Cambridge Associates: The State of Impact Investing
    Liqian Ma, Head of Sustainable & Impact Investing Research, Cambridge Associates
    Impact/Return
  5. Impact/Week 2026 opening remarks
    Sara Kappelmark, co-CEO, Norrsken Foundation
    Funda Sezgi, co-CEO, Norrsken Foundation
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    John Kerry: What lasts?
    John Kerry, Former Secretary of State
    Jennifer Hood, Head of EMEA, Investor Partnerships, Galvanize
  7. +
    What It Actually Takes: A Gamechangers Conversation
    Elena Doms, Director, Oxygen Conservation
    Rich Stockdale, CEO, Oxygen Conversation
    Sara Kappelmark, co-CEO, Norrsken Foundation
  8. +
    Magical Thinking Won't Make Europe an AI Power
    Cristina Caffarra, Chair, Eurostack Industry Foundation
    Sophie Dembinski, Managing Director, Norrsken Brussels
    Prompt What Matters
  9. +
    How AI could leave civil society behind, and what's being built to stop it
    Jan-Willem Van Putten, co-founder, The School For Moral Ambition
    Peter Halliwell, Co-founder, Upside
    Prompt What Matters
  10. +
    Andri Snaer Magnasson: On Time and Water
    Andri Snær Magnason, Poet and writer
  11. +
    The Fixathon Expert Feedback Session
    Amalia Berglöf
    Prompt What Matters
  12. +
    What emerging markets teach us about building from uncertainty
    Abraham Augustine, Ecosystem & marketing manager, Norrsken
    Nick Hu, Co-founder & CEO, Kabisa
    Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Executive-in-residence, Georgetown University
    Ruchita Agrawal, Head of Global Strategy & Insights, Google for Startups Accelerator
    Duncan McNicholl, Co-founder & CEO, Uptime
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    Lessons from Volue: Building a European Energy Tech Unicorn
    Stephan Sieber, CEO, Volue
  14. +
    Moral Ambition: The Most Underpriced Asset of Our Time
    Rutger Bregman, Founder, School for Moral Ambition
    Niklas Adalberth, Founder, Norrsken Foundation
    Prompt What Matters
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    AI and Africa’s Next Industrial Leap
    Adrienne Henderson, Investor, Quona Capital
    Lexi Novitske, General Partner, Norrsken22
    Medea Nocentini, Senior Partner, Global Ventures
    Chema Triki, Co-founder, Growth Teams
    Prompt What Matters
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    Betting on European AI: A View from NEA & Norrsken VC
    Tove Larsson, General Partner, Norrsken VC
    Philip Chopin, Managing Director, Head of Europe, NEA
    Impact/Return
  17. The European Opportunity from the American Perspective
    Angelica Nikolausson, Managing Director, Hamilton Lane
    Clare Murray, Co-founding Partner, Blume Equity
    Etiene Ekpo-Utip, Managing Director and Global Head of Climate, Impact & Real Assets, Rede Partners
    Impact/Return
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    Investing Through the AI Climate Paradox
    Wiebe Visser, CIO, Carbon Equity
    Jason Scott, Partner, Spring Lane Capital
    Floris Lyppens, Managing Director, ABN AMRO
    Andrew Beebe, Managing Director and Global Head of Climate, Impact & Real Assets, Obvious Ventures
    Impact/Return
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    Dirt Money: Soil's Next Chapter Is Bigger Than Carbon
    Bruno Steinkraus, Founder & CEO, Soilytix
    Robert Gerlach, CEO & Co-founder, Klim
    Zoe Peden, Partner, Ananda Impact Ventures
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    Myth-Busting and Opportunity in the Global South
    Lexi Novitske, General Partner, Norrsken22
    Flavio Deluiggi, Managing Director, Just Climate
    Adrienne Henderson, Investment Officer, Quona Capital
    Impact/Return
  21. +
    Climate Tech Goes Public: The IPO Moment
    Philipp Schröder, Co-founder & CEO, 1KOMMA5°
    Agate Freimane, General Partner, Norrsken VC
    Anup Jacob, Managing Partner, Activate Capital
    Impact/Return
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    Conviction Capital: The Family Office Edge in Impact Investing
    Kristina Siimar, CEO, Skaala Investments
    Xiaofei Guo, Head of Sustainable Investment, Single Family Office
    Maddalena Orlandini, Director, Montana Capital Partners
    Christina-Anne Kyosti, Family Principal and Chairwoman, G&G Group Holdings
    Impact/Return
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    Growing ourselves out of trouble
    Tom Clement, CEO, New Dawn Bio
    Daan Luining, Founder & CIO, Meatable
    Rebecka Löthman Rydå, General partner, Norrsken Evolve
    Electro Union
  24. +
    What you're missing - the real return math of African venture
    Nivesh Pather, Principal, Norrsken22
    Sebastian Waldburg, Co-founding Partner, Oryx Impact
  25. +
    Space Is the New Lab: Biotech's Off-Planet Acceleration
    Allison Bajet, Co-founder & CEO, SPARK Microgravity
    Christopher Law, Founder & CEO, Lumai
    Zoe Peden, Partner, Ananda Impact Ventures
    Victor Luo, Director, Space Technology & Partnerships, ETH Zurich
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    The Growth Opportunity in Climate and AI
    Lila Preston, Partner & Co-Head of Growth Equity, Generation Investment Management
    Jerome Kamm, Principal, Direct Equity Investments, Hamilton Lane
    David Gowenlock, Senior Director, Sustainable and Impact Investing, Cambridge Associates
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    World Positive Capital: The Future of Impact Investing
    Vishal Vasishth, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Obvious Ventures
    Liqian Ma, Head of Sustainable & Impact Investing Research, Cambridge Associates
    David Helgerson, Managing Director, Head of Impact Investments, Hamilton Lane
    Cecilia Gross Friberger, Portfolio Manager Private Equity, AP2
    Impact/Return
  28. +
    Beyond the Check: How Corporate Partnerships Unlock Deep Tech
    Christina Brinck, President, Volvo Group Venture Capital
    Mackenzie Cool, Industrial Innovation Cohorts Lead, Third Derivative (D3)
    Annemari Kirppu, Director External Venturing, Fortum
    Johan Attby, General Partner, Norrsken Evolve
    Impact/Return
  29. +
    Are we in an AI trust race?
    Agnes Bredinger, Chief Impact Officer, Norrsken VC
    David Pitman, Venture Partner, Norrsken VC
    Niklas Lindgren, Co-founder & CEO, Endra
    Prompt What Matters
  30. +
    Beyond Resilience: Investing in a Climate-Adapted Future
    Michelle Capiod, Co-Founding Partner, Blume Equity
    Michael Baldinger, Former Chief Sustainability Officer, UBS, former CEO, RobecoSAM
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    Scaling European electrification
    Shawn Xu, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
    Jodok Betschart, Founder, Cloover
    Electro Union
  32. +
    Who Will Farm Europe in 2040 — How Robotics, Gene Modification, and Capital Are Transforming Agriculture
    Dominic Roth, CEO | Co-founder, DAF
    Tom Hubregtsen, Founder, Voltrac
    Padraic Flood, Founder, Aardaia
    Julius Strauss, Principal, Foodlabs
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    How to get hard tech out of the lab
    Cyrus Wadia, CEO, Activate
    Erik Engellau-Nilsson, Managing Partner, Norrsken Launcher
    Electro Union
  34. +
    Tobias Rees: What AI asks us to become
    Tobias Rees, Founder, Limn.ai
    Prompt What Matters
  35. +
    Christer Fuglesang: Why Space Matters
    Christer Fuglesang, Director, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Sara Kappelmark, co-CEO, Norrsken Foundation
  36. +
    From Clinics to Consumers
    Mats Holmström, CEO, Eyedentity
    Anna Fredrixon, General Partner, Norrsken Launcher
  37. +
    The Story Economy: A New Asset Class for Impact
    Danielle Turkov Wilson, Founder, Think-Film Impact Production
  38. +
    The European Advantage: Redefining What VC Success Looks Like
    Siobhan Brewster, GP, AENU
    Sebastian Peck, Partner, Kompas VC
    Heidi Lindvall, General Partner, Pale blue dot
    Electro Union
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    Founder-Investor Networking
  40. +
    After Work Drinks
  41. +
    Founders & Investors Breakfast · Spain's Top Startups
  42. +
    Rooftop breakfast
  43. +
    Beyond the Build: How Founders Turn Success into Impact
    Ben Trombley, Founder, DataFox
    Lara Raven, Founder Relations, Founders Pledge
    Barbara Calixto, Interim CEO, The Life You Can Save
    Prompt What Matters
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    Critical metals and where to actually find them
    Alex Bakir, General Partner, Norrsken Evolve
    Hugo Leandri, CEO, The Red Metal Company
    Katie Marsh, Co-founder & CEO, Recupere Metals
    Electro Union
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    From pilot to power plant: the corporate deal and the capital stack behind first-of-a-kind energy infrastructure
    Gediminas Uloza, CEO, Strioga Family Foundation
    Siobhan Brewster, GP, AENU
    Dr. Martin Schmickler, Co-founder & COO, Greenlyte Carbon Technologies
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    How to Talk to Journalists as an Early-Stage Founder
    Anna Heim, Reporter, TechCrunch
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    Lessons from Liverpool: Coupling human expertise with AI to accelerate materials discovery
    Matthew Rosseinsky, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Liverpool
    Rebecka Löthman Rydå, General partner, Norrsken Evolve
    Prompt What Matters
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    No Room for Error: AI in Humanitarian Crises
    Dorothy Chou, Strategic Advisor, DeepMind
    Robin Gonterman, CMO of World Central Kitchen
    Megan Price, Executive Director, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
    Prompt What Matters
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    Has impact investing lost it's intentionality?
    Siôn Lawrence-Geschwindt, Managing Editor, Impact Loop
    Rokas Pecuilaitis, Managing Partner, Contrarian Ventures
    Daria Saharova, Managing Partner, World Fund
    Daria Stepanova, Co-founder & CEO, AIRMO
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    Human Flourishing in the Age of AI
    Sabine Flechet, Co-founding Partner, Masawa
    Paul Fehlinger, Senior Director of Policy, Investment & Innovation, Project Liberty
    Chris Seybold, Co-founder, CFO & COO, Lucie
    Juan Pablo Villani, Co-founder & Board Member, Aquí Estoy
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    Leadership with purpose: when is the right time for a founder to step aside?
    Anna Fredrixon, General Partner, Norrsken Launcher
    Tommy Myrvang, CTO, Cler AB
    Mikael Sundström, CEO, Cler
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    Systemic Investing in Regeneration
    Alessa Berg, CEO, Top Tier Impact
    Laura Formosa, Investment Principal, Paraíso Natural Ventures
    Rebecca Lane, Portfolio Execution Advisor, Natural Systems Capital, Inc.
    Stef Van Dongen, Founder, Pioneers of Our Time
  53. +
    Norrsken Evolve Founder Showcase
    Inez Atmer, VP, Norrsken Evolve
  54. +
    Apocaloptimist — telling the truth about AI
    Danielle Turkov Wilson, Founder, Think-Film Impact Production
    Diane Becker, Producer, Fishbowl Films
    Prompt What Matters
  55. +
    Imperfect Rebels: How Patagonia, Oatly, Tony's Chocolonely & Natura scaled while staying true to their mission
    Sophie Dembinski, Managing Director, Norrsken Brussels
    Charmian Love, Global Ambassador, Natura, Co-Founder of B Lab UK, Heliotropy and Volans
    Cecilia McAleavey, VP Global Public Affairs, Oatly
    Belinda Borck, Global External Affairs and Reporting Lead, Tony’s Chocolonely
    Louise Brierley-Ingham, Communications & Public Affairs Manager, Europe, Patagonia
  56. +
    How to pick your next decade? A founder's search, live and unresolved
    Sorosh Tavakoli, 2x Founder
    Sara Kappelmark, co-CEO, Norrsken Foundation
  57. +
    The food system won't fix itself: closing the policy gap in the protein transition
    Marin Vandamme, Co-founder, The Protein Project
    Jan-Willem Van Putten, co-founder, The School For Moral Ambition
  58. +
    Lowan Stewart: A psychedelic paradigm shift
    Lowan Stewart, ketamine therapy pioneer
    Adam Ryde, Chief Operating Officer, Norrsken Mind
  59. +
    The Blueprint for Nuclear in Europe
    Johanna Fabrin, Managing Director & Partner, 21st Europe
    Luke Kincaid, Partner, Bcause
  60. +
    Bridges That Help Good Companies Cross Markets
    Abraham Augustine, Ecosystem & marketing manager, Norrsken
    Medea Nocentini, Senior Partner, Global Ventures
    Nivesh Pather, Principal, Norrsken22
    Hiba Larsson, Investment Partner, Naia Trust
    Ruchita Agrawal, Head of Global Strategy & Insights, Google for Startups Accelerator
  61. +
    Good AI Starts With Good People
    Eric Braverman, Chair, Telescope Foundation
    Sara Kappelmark, co-CEO, Norrsken Foundation
    Prompt What Matters
  62. +
    You are Afraid of the Wrong AI
    Anandi Hattiangadi, Professor, Institute For Future Studies
    Laura Sprechmann, Head of External Relations, Institute for Futures Studies
    Prompt What Matters
  63. +
    Scaling the Bioeconomy: The Frame, the Engine, and the Rules
    Dr Christian Gonzalez, Investor, Planet A Ventures
    Massimo Portincaso, CEO & Co-FOunder, Arsenale Bioyards Srl
    Maria Fátima Lucas, Co-founder & CEO, Zymvol
    Charlotte Bernts, Climate and Energy Policy Advisor, DWR Eco
  64. +
    Conviction over Convention: A Founder's Path to Treating OCD
    Nick Sireau, Co-founder, Serenatis Bio
    Natalie Pankova, Partner, Health & Life Sciences, Zinc VC
  65. +
    From Green Deal to Electro Union: What Europe must do next
    Diederik Samsom, Sustainability advocate, Sustainablepublicaffairs
    Willem Vriesendorp, Founder, Sustainablepublicaffairs
    Electro Union
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    From Pilot to Commercial Production: What It Takes to Scale Hardware and Fleets in Europe
    Robert Trezona, General Partner, Climate, Kembara VC
    Franck Pascault, CFO, NexDash
    Caroline Walerud, CEO & Founder, AirForestry
    Ksenija Neumann, Managing Director, tozero
  67. +
    The CEO Crucible: An Immersive Ethical Simulation
    Eric Braverman, Chair, Telescope Foundation
    Prompt What Matters
  68. +
    Fixathon Demos: Climate Solutions Built in 24 Hours
    Judith Wolst, Prompt What Matters, Norrsken
    Prompt What Matters
  69. +
    Global Call for Startups: 5 startups accelerating the future of sustainable food
    Abiola Jimoh, Co-founder & CEO, XChangeBox
    Alan Perlestein, Founder & CEO, California Cultured
    Eric Smith, Founder & CEO, Edacious
    Gavaskar Jayakanthan, Co-founder & Director, Capsber Agriscience
    Michaela Lindström, Co-founder & CEO, Hailia Nordic
    Marissa Siefkes, COO, Katapult Impact Platform
    Elisabeth Larsson, Nordic Corporate Sustainability Lead, Accenture
  70. +
    Building the backbone of clean energy
    Mikael Fraenkel, CFO, Blykalla
    Erik Engellau-Nilsson, Managing Partner, Norrsken Launcher
    Electro Union
  71. +
    Small Country, Big Stakes: What the Dutch Model Tells Us About Europe's Next Chapter
    Willemijn Verloop, Founding Partner, Rubio Impact Ventures
    Jacqueline van den Ende, CEO, Carbon Equity
    Thijs van der Burgt, Managing Director, Norrsken Amsterdam
  72. +
    The Firm Power Problem
    Summit Rosenberg, Senior Associate, KOMPAS VC
    Shawn Xu, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
  73. +
    Hans Stegeman: Hot Summer Economics
    Hans Stegeman, Chief Economist, Triodos Bank
  74. +
    AI 2.0: Building the Trustworthy AI Economy
    Paul Fehlinger, Senior Director of Policy, Investment & Innovation, Project Liberty
    Agnes Bredinger, Chief Impact Officer, Norrsken VC
    Michael Kubzansky, Founding Partner, Andaris
    Saayeli Mukherji Bruni, Principal, Mozilla VC
  75. +
    Europe 2031: What getting AI wrong looks like
    Alex Petropoulos, Chief of staff, Arq Foundation
    Jan-Willem Van Putten, co-founder, The School For Moral Ambition
    Prompt What Matters
  76. +
    A Decade of Chocolate. Has anything changed?
    Henk Jan Beltman, Founder, Genuine Business
  77. +
    Robots, Resilience, and the European Edge
    Vanessa Loiola, Founder & CEO, Valoy Automation
    Dr. Péter Fankhauser, Co-founder & CEO, ANYbotics
    Dr. Oğuzcan Samsun, Head of Strategy, Business Development, M&A and Innovation, Enerjisa
    Charles Bondu, Research Lead, Currence
  78. +
    Who is building Europe's industrial future?
    Daria Saharova, Managing Partner, World Fund
    Rebecka Löthman Rydå, General partner, Norrsken Evolve
    Electro Union
  79. +
    Trust is what makes AI investable
    Nick Fitz, Founder & Managing Partner, Juniper
    Lila Preston, Co-Head of Growth Equity, Generation IM
    Michael Kubzansky, Founding Partner, Andaris
    Prompt What Matters
  80. +
    Spotlight On: The Fixathon Winning Team
    Judith Wolst, Prompt What Matters, Norrsken
    Prompt What Matters
  81. +
    The Scale-Up Gap: Where Will the Future Be Built?
    Carrie Howe, Managing Director & CEO, What The Future
    Michel Konder, Co-founder & CEO, Autarkize
    Famke Loos, Impact Investor, Fair Capital Impact Fund
  82. +
    The Art Beyond the Data
    Natalia Adler, Chief Solutions Officer, Mitiga Solutions
    Sara Groborz, Sarabiotic
  83. +
    When changing the game is the only way to win
    Erik Fernholm
  84. +
    Founder-Investor Networking
  85. +
    After Work Drinks
  86. +
    Impact/Week Closing Party