6.1 The Business Booster 2022: The race to net-zero – balancing exploitation and exploration

In September 2022, EIT InnoEnergy’s trusted sustainable energy innovation ecosystem met in Lisbon for two days of innovations, pitching, insightful sessions, networking, major announcements and more at The Business Booster (TBB). The 10th TBB saw 150 sustainable energy innovations under one roof meet with industry, investors, and policymakers. Over 1,200 attendees and 3,000 B2B meetings are testament to its success and why it has become the largest innovation event in sustainable energy. tbb.innoenergy.com

Over two days, more than 40 inspiring speakers presented and we were also honoured to welcome two European Commission keynote addresses: Vice President Maroš Šefčovič via a video welcome address and Director General of Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Kerstin Jorna, on stage. Our keynote speaker, former NASA astronaut Ron Garan, presented his inspiring views from space and reminded us that climate change has no boundaries.

The event looked at how we can win the race to net-zero through balancing the exploitation of existing technologies and exploration of new ones. During two roundtable discussions, participants heard from the innovators, entrepreneurs and researchers working on existing and future technologies.

Finally, the 150 EIT InnoEnergy portfolio start-ups in attendance pitched their solutions to investors, industry and policymakers and those voted best by the audience moved onto the pitching finals which closed out the event.

I encounter some of the most interesting tech companies in Europe and they are chosen by EIT InnoEnergy which is a very important quality stamp.

1,000+ attendees

150 start-ups 2,500+ B2B meetings

150 start-ups

600 minutes of pitching 3,100+ B2B meetings

98% recommendation rate

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