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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
9:00Welcome coffee
9:25Opening remarks – CEO of InnoEnergy
9:30 Keynote address – representative from the European Parliament
9:45Keynote address – representative from the European Investment Bank (EIB)
10:00  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.
10:45Coffee break
11:05Presentation – Sunwafe, new industrial solar manufacturing project based in Spain
11:20Presentation – Rio Tinto on collaborating with new industrial frontrunners for steel decarbonisation
11:35Panel: 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.
12:20Closing remarks – CEO of InnoEnergy
12:30Networking lunch
13:30Event ends

Diego Pavia

CEO at InnoEnergy

Jean-Christophe Laloux

Director General at the EIB

Marie-Cécile Tardieu

Chief Operating Officer, Investment at Business France

Jacek Truszczynski

Deputy Head of Unit Net Zero Industry at European Commission

Anne Mieke van der Werf

Business Development Director at InvestNL

Erwin Nederkoorn

Managing Director, Energy at ING Bank

Heddy Ait-Idir

Principal Advisor Steel Decarbonisation at Rio Tinto

Laure Blanchard-Brunac

InvestEU Investment Committee member & RPPA Senior Advisor

Ola Hansén

Director at Stegra

Antonio Bandres

Head of Corporate Finance, Instituto de Credito Oficial

Antoine Troesch

Managing Partner at Demeter

Mikel Lasa

Representing Sunwafe

Jacob Ruiter

Head of Company Building & CEO Benelux at InnoEnergy

Ernst-Jan van Manen

Project Development Head of Department at Maire

Location

ACE Events
Av. d’Auderghem 22
1040 Brussels

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