Event: Industrialising Clean Tech in Europe

Turning Ambition into Action

3 June 2025, 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM
ACE Events, Brussels Belgium

InnoEnergy invites you to join us in Brussels for a half-day conference.

The Clean Industrial Deal places clean technologies at the heart of Europe’s decarbonisation and economic strategy. With a strong regulatory framework and clear market signals for clean tech now in place, the EU has laid the groundwork for industrial transformation. The focus must now shift to execution.

To deliver maximum impact in Europe – in both job creation and CO₂ emissions reduction – investment needs to flow faster into clean tech value chains. This includes improved access to land, affordable low-carbon energy, and streamlined permitting for new industrial decarbonisation projects.

This event will bring together public and private investors, established industry leaders, and emerging clean tech innovators. Speakers and panellists will explore new financing mechanisms to accelerate project development, best practices for launching greenfield industrial sites across the EU, and insights from frontrunner projects already delivering results.

	AGENDA
9:00	Welcome coffee
9:25	Opening remarks – Diego Pavia, CEO at InnoEnergy
9:30	Keynote address – Aura Salla, MEP at the European Parliament
9:45	Keynote address – Jean-Christophe Laloux at the European Investment Bank (EIB)
9:55	Panel: A European investment plan fit for purpose What are the most effective strategies to de-risk large-scale projects and unlock long-term private investment? As Europe accelerates its push toward industrial decarbonisation, public finance plays a pivotal role in scaling investments and strengthening clean tech value chains. This panel will explore how national public banks are mobilising private capital through instruments such as syndicated loans, equity investments, and Unfunded Risk Participations (URPs), and explore opportunities to further leverage EU budgetary tools. • Anne Mieke van der Werf, Business Development Director, Invest-NL • Antonio Bandres, Head of Corporate Finance, ICO • Erwin Nederkoorn, Managing Director – Energy, Infrastructure, Energy Transition, ING Bank • Antoine Troesch, Managing Partner at Demeter Moderator: Laure Blanchard-Brunac, Investment Committee member of InvestEU and RPPA Senior Advisor
10:45	Coffee break
11:05	Presentation – Sunwafe new industrial solar manufacturing project based in Spain, presented by Mikel Lasa, CEO InnoEnergy Iberia
11:20	Presentation – Heddy Ait-Idir, Principal Advisor at Rio Tinto on collaborating with new industrial frontrunners for steel decarbonisation
11:35	Panel: Building Europe’s clean tech industrial powerhouse As Europe faces a critical moment in implementing its industrial strategy, this panel will bring together policy-makers and industry leaders to discuss what it takes to scale clean tech manufacturing in Europe. It will address critical factors like long-term market visibility, ability to attract strategic investors, access to decarbonised power at competitive prices, offtake, access to industrial expertise and skills. • Jacek Truszczynski, Deputy Head of Unit ‘Net Zero Industries at DG GROW, European Commission • Marie-Cécile Tardieu, Chief Operating Officer, Investment Division at Business France • Ernst Jan Van Manen, Head of Department Project Development at Maire • Ola Hansén, Director at Stegra Moderator: Jacob Ruiter, Head of Company Building & CEO of InnoEnergy Benelux & UK
12:20	Closing remarks – Diego Pavia, CEO at InnoEnergy
12:30	Networking lunch
13:30	Event ends