Inside Edition I.
Two layers, one day.
The Capital Floor
The main engine. Twenty investor booths anchor the floor, each carrying thesis, stage focus and cheque size, visible from the moment you arrive. The rest of the investor room circulates by badge. Founders know who is in the room and what they are looking for before they speak to anyone.
Here the investors are the legible ones. The floor is organised by thematic cluster, so you move through it by relevance rather than by who paid for a 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, and built around the constraints no panel resolves: capital formation, procurement, infrastructure, scale. Nobody pitches in these rooms. Chatham House Rule throughout, with speakers anonymised in the published report, so people can say what they actually think.
It is also where the relationships start that are easiest to pick up afterwards.
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 carries into Edition II. No names. Just the record.
Read Before Capital Flows →for
release
- 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.
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.