Where Business, Nature, & Innovation Converge

Panel 1

Small But Mighty: SMEs Driving Global Impact

SMEs —90% of businesses and over half of global GDP— are key sustainability drivers: their creativity, local ties and affordable tech (AI, 3D-printed ocean sensors) spark innovation. To scale impact they need reliable data, tailored finance, and supportive networks.

Key Insights

SMEs transform creativity, local connections, and resourcefulness into scalable sustainable impact—proving that embedding sustainability from the start drives both innovation and global change.

Panel 2

The Multiplier Effect: Women, Capital & Global Impact

Women are both moving money and building companies — reshaping the investment landscape. This panel brings funders and founders who show that investing in women is not only equity but a powerful driver of innovation, growth, and measurable impact.

Key Insights

Women and diverse founders represent a high-potential but undercapitalized force for systemic change. When backed by purposeful capital, inclusive programs, and strong ecosystems, they scale sustainable solutions, create jobs, and deliver outsized global impact.

Panel 3

Next Gen in Action: Young Entrepreneurs Shaping Impact Now

Featuring the innovators of the Re-Gen program of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, this panel showcases young entrepreneurs already turning bold ideas into real solutions. The next generation is not waiting — they are shaping impact today.

Key Insights

The next generation sees waste as opportunity, design as empowerment, and production as the root of sustainable change.

Panel 4

Culture as Catalyst: Travel, Sports & Music Driving Change

Culture moves faster than policy. This session shows how travel, sports, and music can shift behaviors, inspire awareness, and mobilize collective action at scale.

Key Insights

Culture—expressed through travel, sports, and music—can accelerate sustainable change by rooting action in empathy, love, and community, turning everyday choices into lasting social, environmental, and economic impact.

Panel 5

The Great Energy Flip: Innovating through Contradictions

Energy demand is soaring with AI, infrastructure, and electrification. This panel explores how to reconcile the contradictions of today’s energy transition: optimizing existing systems while accelerating new solutions — innovating responsibly in a world that needs it all.

Key Insights

The energy transition’s greatest barrier isn’t technology or finance—it’s communication. The future depends on telling a story where sustainability is opportunity, innovation, and measurable impact.

Fireside Chat

Power in Action

The fireside chat called for long-term thinking and shared humanity: Phoebe Tickell urged a 200-year perspective to judge decisions by their impact on future generations, and Cristina Calvo stressed finding common ground to unite people for collective change.

Key Insights

Sustainable and impactful business requires both multi-generational thinking and a focus on shared humanity to guide decisions and unite stakeholders toward a common purpose.