Are you ready to join 180+ leaders spanning the industrial decarbonisation landscape?
The next wave of industrial advantage in Europe won’t just come from smart technology breakthroughs. It will come from better decisions that balance emissions, energy and innovative business models.
Join 180+ attendees, senior leaders in energy-intensive sectors, at Decarb Connect Europe to meet the people using today’s energy, infrastructure, and market conditions to strengthen competitiveness while lowering their CO₂ exposure.
If you’re responsible for assets, capital, or long-term positioning, this is your opportunity to rub shoulders with people like you, leaders who are seeking to sharpen the next phase of decision-making.
This is a working forum for industrial leaders who see the transition as a source of advantage, not obligation. The focus is on how companies are using today’s conditions to:
- Strengthen energy security while reducing exposure to future cost shocks
- Build flexibility into assets, contracts, and fuel choices
- Approve projects that improve resilience and margins, not just emissions
- Design investments that can scale, replicate, or pause without penalty
- Align innovation with capital discipline and competitive position
The assumption is simple: lower CO₂ only works if it makes the business stronger.
“This is a great event for learning about what hard to abate industries are doing to decarbonize and to meet people offering solutions”
Fiona Woody, Director of ESG, MLC
What you gain from two days out of the office
Most events promise ideas. This one is designed to reduce uncertainty.
You’ll leave with clearer answers to questions like:
- Which energy and fuel decisions are strengthening competitiveness today, not just future compliance
- What investment committees are approving right now, and what they are pushing back on
- How peers are structuring projects to survive weak premiums, volatile power prices, and infrastructure gaps
- Where buyers are genuinely committing volume, and where signals are overstated
- Which projects are moving from pilot to repeatable deployment, and why
For many attendees, the value is not new ideas. It’s confidence to move, pause, or kill a project sooner.
Who attends
This event is built for senior executives across operations, strategy, finance, technology and innovation – those tasked with delivering low-carbon progress and protecting profitability.
In 2025, over 30% of our audience came from hard-to-abate sectors, with leadership from companies like Tata Steel, Holcim, SMA Minerals, ArcelorMittal, BASF, Carmeuse, Clariant and L’Hoist. Expect the same calibre in 2026 along with more buyers of low carbon materials, investors with capital to take pilots to FOAK and tech scale ups with the business models that make sense for industry. Being back in Germany is already proving to be a popular choice as there is considerable momentum in industry thanks to private and public capital driving projects forward.
“It was great pleasure to attend – a very good event with an excellent level of panels, presentations and participation”
Stefanos Mastrogiannis, Carbon Capture Utilization Storage Director, TITAN Cement
New for 2026
Last year focused heavily on technologies, policy frameworks, and system readiness.
In 2026, the agenda shifts decisively toward how industrial organisations actually decide, commit, and move projects forward under pressure.
You’ll see far less time spent on what should happen and far more on:
- What passed investment committee
- What stalled internally and why
- What changed between pilot and repeatable deployment
We’ve designed the agenda with input from industry to help deliver real decisions, not just info.
New this year, you’ll also see:
- Capital allocation and risk moved to the centre of the programme
- Buyers and offtake discussed as commercial realities, not aspirations
- A clear focus on fuel switching and other grounded, short-medium term opportunities
- CCS and infrastructure framed around go / no-go timing and contracts
- FOAK treated as an organisational challenge, not a technology one
Don’t miss out! Register early and save up to €1,100 with super early bird rates!
What Attendees Say...
“The Decarb Connect Europe experience was informative at the strategic and future policy direction level across a range of relevant industries and provided a real opportunity to meet relevant people from other organisations and exchange views and experience as to how the future looks and what might be achievable.”
Chris Every, Director and Co-Founder, Coomtech
“Experienced the Decarb Connect Europe for the first time and was pleasantly surprised at the openess of participants and possibility to pitch as a scale-up company. The future will tell if it will bring the desired outcome for our presented technology.”
Michael van Oostrom, Business Development RED, Redstack
“A very well-organized event, with attention to all details that make the difference. Excellent level of speakers, both in terms of seniority and expertise from a broad range of industries, NGO’s, funds and policy makers. Well-designed networking connections provided by the organizer. Very practical conference app.”
Faidon Prokopios, Manufacturing Decarbonization Director, Titan Cement
“This was a great, well prepared and executed event. Many C-level and decision makers in a room at a critical juncture in the energy transition.”
Jillian Toussajt, Lead Technical Engineer, Air Products
This Years Speakers Include:
Martin Kampffmeyer
Senior Decarbonization Manager Aurubis
Tom Asselman
Chief Strategy Officer OMV
Gianfranco Monzini
VP Global Process Electrification Practice Schneider Electric
Wim Van Der Stricht
Group CTO Team - Technology Strategy, CO2 and Circular Economy ArcelorMittal
Natalia Ruiz Saez
Partner Suma Capital
Henrik Brodin
Head of Energy Transition Sodra
Nicolas Andrieu
Carbon Capture Project Site Manager Aluminium Dunkerque
Tobias Dickmann
Product Manager - Green Portfolio, L’Hoist
Julien Burdeau
Group Decarbonisation Director Eramet
Rolf Kuby
Director General Euromines“I wasn’t sure what to expect at Decarb Connect. What I found was a collection of forward thinking and determined businesses taking an honest and pragmatic approach to appraise the best options available in decarbonisation... I’ll be back”
David Pearson, Group Sustainable Development Director, Star Refrigeration
Past Attendees of Decarb Connect Europe
Partnership Opportunities
At Decarb Connect, we offer a plethora of opportunities across our global platform to meet your objectives, whether you want to find new leads, evaluate new partnership opportunities, amplify your leadership position or enhance your brand positioning, our packages are completely bespoke to meet your objectives. We combine our events, reports, webinars, podcast and leadership network opportunities to create a package that compliments your wider marketing strategy and surpasses your expectations.
Take a look at our partnership prospectus to see how you could get involved.
About the Organiser
Driving Industrial Resilience Through Energy & Emissions Innovation
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Industrial energy & innovation decisions are rooted in cost, competitiveness, and resilience. Through our international membership, events and insights platform we support industrial leaders facing shifting policy landscapes and volatile markets by sourcing valuable insights, tech and partnerships: Our industrial and energy innovation platform ensures companies balance resilience, growth & low-carbon opportunities.
