Inside Edition I.
Two layers. One day. A capital floor where intent is visible. Closed rooms where the constraints behind scale get worked. Together, we replaced the stage with something useful.
Two layers, one day.
The Capital Floor
The main engine. Twenty investor booths anchor the floor each carries thesis, stage focus, and cheque size, visible from the moment you arrive. The rest of the investor room circulates, identified by their badge. Founders know exactly who is in the room and what they are looking for before they speak to anyone.
Most events make founders perform into the unknown. Here the investors are the ones who are legible. The room is organised by thematic cluster. You move through by relevance, not by who paid for a sponsor slot.
The Backroom
A parallel layer of small, closed conversations. Sessions pull specific clusters off the floor for sixty minutes at a time. They return in waves. The room stays dense, the conversations keep moving.
Capped at twenty. Multi-stakeholder. Built around the system-level constraints that no panel resolves. Capital formation. Procurement. Infrastructure. Scaling. Outcomes stay practical.
Discussions run under Chatham House rules. Speakers anonymised in the reports we publish afterwards. No audience, no positioning, no one performing for the room. People can be direct in a way that a panel never allows.
This is also where relationships start. The ones that are easiest to pick up afterwards.
A short list of what Edition I wasn't.
Closed-door rooms surfaced what panels cannot. 300% oversubscribed.
Investors and founders met by mutual fit. Samudra × Ikigai closed in 30 minutes.
Approval-based, curated cluster by cluster. 1 in 2 founder applications declined.
9.3/10 NPS. Real next steps.
Five clusters. One room.
Themes for each cluster confirmed once a year. Early partners who join before launch can help shape them.
Energy Transition & Decarbonisation
Grid, infrastructure, and industrial decisions. Capital moving into the systems that determine whether the transition happens at speed.
Nature & Biodiversity
Nature markets need structure before they absorb capital at scale. Credibility, legibility, and investability are the bottlenecks.
Alternative Food Systems
Ingredient platforms and novel supply chains ready to move beyond pilot and integrate into industrial food systems.
Deep Tech, AI & Built Environment
Frontier technologies and low-carbon infrastructure meeting real industrial systems. From experiment to deployment.
Circular Economy & Biotech
Circular pathways across plastics, textiles, and industrial materials with a realistic path to scale by 2030.
What Edition I actually included.
On 8 May 2026 during Climate Week Zürich. Doors at 11:00. Four rounds of three parallel sessions across Signal, Deep, and Living rooms.
Systemic Capital: Unlocking Investment for Nature and Climate
The Next Food System: Ingredients, Fermentation and Industrial Scale
An Intimate Conversation: Solving Climate Paradoxes & Reigniting Momentum
The Energy System Decisions Europe Cannot Delay
The Circular Transition: What Must Scale by 2030
Inner Alignment & Deep Listening for Collective Value Creation
AI as Industrial Infrastructure: Closing the Deployment Gap
Nature Markets: What Must Be Fixed Before Capital Flows
The Valuation Conversation: How to Build Trust, Move Fast and Get It Right
Food Supply Chains Are Breaking. What Secures Them Now
Carbon Removal in Europe: What Actually Scales?
Z'vieri Tasting: KOA & Yeastup
Before Capital Flows. The conclusions.
Eight closed-door roundtables. The conclusions, anonymised and shareable. Where the room landed on 8 May 2026, the commitments made, and what we are tracking until Edition II. No names. No theatre. Just the record.
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- 01 Systemic Capital
- 02 The Next Food System
- 03 Circular Materials
- 04 Energy Transition
- 05 AI as Industrial Infrastructure
- 06 Nature Markets
- 07 Carbon Removal
- 08 Food Supply Chains
Who was in the room. Edition I.
Edition I attendees. A selection across all roles.
The room, seen from inside.
Edition I · As it happened.
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Apply to be considered for The Decision Room.
Edition II runs in Zürich on 11 May 2027. We review in waves as the edition takes shape. Investors confirmed first by cluster. Founders and operators curated around active theses. The earlier you are in, the more of the room you help shape, and the more of it shapes around you.