EVENTS
Discover impactful opportunities to network and get inspired. The events below are organised by Ideas From Europe or they align with our mission of supporting impactful innovation and fostering connections among entrepreneurs and relevant stakeholders. By participating in these events, attendees can glean valuable insights, forge partnerships, and contribute to driving positive change on a global scale. Join us in engaging with these events to amplify the collective impact of our entrepreneurial community.
Impact Week 2024
An annual conference hosted by Impact Europe that aims to bring together a global community of impact investors and changemakers to explore ideas, foster partnerships with one another, discover new trends, and launch transformative initiatives.
GIIN Impact Forum
A global impact investing event that aims to provide a space for attendees to collaborate and discover innovative, sustainable solutions to worldly issues. Through networking, talks from impact leaders and interactive sessions, attendees can gain insights into the latest trends and strategies that are effective in driving impact around the world.
Action Planning for Deep Tech and Digital Innovations in the Energy Transition #3
Join the WEnnovate Stakeholder Meeting on October 21st in Utrecht. This interactive workshop focuses on accelerating digitalisation in the energy transition across Europe, addressing regulatory challenges, and fostering collaboration. Contribute to actionable strategies for the Innovation Plan and ensure your organisation’s role in shaping the future of energy systems. Limited spots—sign up today!
Action Planning for Deep Tech and Digital Innovations in the Energy Transition #2
We invite energy professionals and relevant stakeholders from the energy industry, academia, government and civil society to join us for a strategic session to improve the integration of deep tech and digital innovations in the energy transition across the EU through our action plans.
Join our session on June 26th, from 10:00 to 12:00. Together, we will take the next steps toward a more interconnected, efficient and inclusive innovation ecosystem.
Uitnodiging 19 juni Rotterdam: Klimaatimpact van Waterstof, Wetenschap en Handelingsperspectief
What is the climate impact of hydrogen? What does the science say about hydrogen emissions? And how do you use that knowledge to do hydrogen applications right from the start?
To explore all of these questions and more, join us on June 19th in Rotterdam at Platform Zero!
Do you work at an innovative company that wants to lead the way with hydrogen or has solutions to measure emissions? Do you work at a county, regulator, municipality or consulting firm? Then this is an event that you don't want to miss.
Business of Impact
A summit hosted by Impact Europe that aims to bring together corporate leaders and corporate social investors to share perspectives on how to transform business models and further empower investors to create more purpose-driven organisations.
B For Good Leaders Summit
The 3rd B for Good Leaders Summit is a gathering of 1,500 individually selected Business Leaders from 50+ countries at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam.
Topics covered will include sustainable finance, regenerative economy and corporate activism. The event aims to enable attendees to find pathways, ventures and partnerships to create a regenerative economic future.
Catalysing Change Week 2024
Catalysing Change Week (CCW) is the world’s largest event led by social innovators and entrepreneurs to share knowledge, exchange ideas and accelerate collaborative systems change.
Action Planning for Deep Tech and Digital Innovations in the Energy Transition #1
Are you involved in the energy transition or have you witnessed the challenges faced by new concepts in the energy sector, socially and digitally?
Join us on April 16th from 10:00 to 13:00 at the Provincie Huis Utrecht (in DUTCH), for an opportunity to influence decision-makers and contribute to improving the energy innovation landscape.
World Circular Economy Forum 2024
The world’s leading event for circular economy thinkers, doers and leaders hits Brussels in April 2024, showcasing the most impactful circular solutions from around the world
Impact Summit Europe
The 10th anniversary of Impact Summit Europe will bring the global impact investing community together to pose, reflect and address the current and forthcoming challenges and opportunities in the impact investing space.
ChangeNOW
During 3 days, ChangeNOW brings together the most innovative solutions and impactful changemakers tackling our planet’s biggest challenges, to take action, together.
Euclid Network Impact Summit
Built around the theme “Building Bridges – From Intention to Action” , the Euclid Network Impact Summit 2024, hosted on 20-21 March 2024, will bring together a diverse community of leaders. These include representatives from non-profit and social enterprise alliances, networks, support organisations, foundations, impact investors, corporate innovators, academics, researchers, and policymakers.
Connecting Knowledge and Energy Hubs (dutch only)
Are you curious about the impact of congestion on your business? Interested in potential collaborations? Wondering about existing smart solutions and their implementation timelines? If so, this is a meeting you don’t want to miss.
Innovation for Good: Path to Success
On February 8th, 2024, Ideas from Europe organises an online matchmaking session “Innovation for Good: Path to Success”. The number of available slots is limited, secure your spot by registering today!
SYNERGY Hackaton
From February 1st to February 3rd, experience 48 hours of intense creativity and problem-solving as you tackle 4+ challenges alongside 20+ teams. With 5-8 participants per team, this hackathon promises to be a dynamic collaboration of minds.
sTARTUp Day 2024
sTARTUp Day is a three-day business festival with a marvelous stage program, effective matchmaking, hands-on seminars, a demo area full of innovation, and vibrant side events in Tartu, Estonia.
Big Improvement Day 2024
Big Improvement Day is an event held in the Netherlands since 2008. It brings together Dutch stakeholders from various sectors to connect, share knowledge and start collaborations. The 2024 edition focused on Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Education and Leadership.
CES 2024
CES is a world-leading event for consumer technology industry held annually in Las Vegas, United States.
COP28
COP 28 will take place from 30 November until 12 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The conference has been held annually since the first UN climate agreement in 1992.
SME Assembly
The 2023 SME Assembly will take place from 13 to 15 November 2023, hosted in conjunction with the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The event will take place in Bilbao, with the option for additional delegates to attend online.
European Forum for New Ideas 2023
The European Forum for New Ideas (EFNI) stands as one of the largest conferences in Europe, focusing on global trends, innovative ideas, and the future of the continent.
EU Industry Days 2023
The EU Industry Days stand as Europe's premier annual event dedicated to vital discussions on industrial policy. It serves as a hub for connecting leaders in the industrial sector while bolstering the knowledge base of European industry.
Sustainable Value Creation Summit
The Sustainable Value Creation Summit is the clash of Academia and Industry, where Innovation, Leaders, and Society meet to Create Value and Solve Problems.
Workshop EuropaBON: Essential Biodiversity Variable Workflows
This workshop aims to bring together experts in the field of biodiversity monitoring, data collection, data integration and modeling to discuss and explore the existing, emerging, and potential future workflows for generating Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and how they can be implemented at the European scale.
European Round Tables 2021
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and Ideas from Europe host European Round Tables on Impact in order to investigate what is needed to enable future-fit economies. Topics raised are: how do we leverage the digital transition? How can we balance ESG and ROI? And many more. Also, there will be deep dives into concrete calls-to-action for energy storage, personalised medicine, people flows and space wisdom for smart cities.
European Entrepreneurship Summit 2020
On 15-16 October 2020, Ideas from Europe supports the European Entrepreneurship Summit with 5 sessions on how to bring High Tech Solutions for Global Challenges to market. The sessions on 16 October can be watched via a Vimeo livestream.
India - Netherlands Technology Summit 2019
Ideas from Europe hosts a session on Affordable Healthcare on October 15, 15:00-16:15 CET
GES 2019 - Solution Stage by Ideas From Europe
Stakeholders present a 360 view on purpose and profit-driven innovations, move from constraints to opportunities and build an exchange of resources for better and faster development. Highlights will be presented live and everyone in the room will be challenged to contribute.
Academic Startup Competition 2019
Science and entrepreneurship are brought together, of which these academic startups are setting the example.