Are you ready to join 180+ leaders spanning the industrial decarbonisation landscape?
Are you ready to join 180+ leaders spanning the European industrial 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 cost reduction, emissions, energy, and innovative business models.
Join Industry Connect Europe 2027 in Vienna, Austria, alongside 180+ senior leaders from energy-intensive sectors. This is your opportunity to connect with the peers and partners using today’s energy, infrastructure, and market conditions to strengthen global competitiveness while lowering CO₂ exposure.
If you are responsible for assets, capital allocation, or long-term positioning, this is where you align with leaders 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 competitive advantage, not just a regulatory obligation. Our focus is on how companies are navigating CBAM, the EU ETS, and CSRD to:
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Reduce operational costs and shield against future energy price shocks
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Build flexibility into assets, contracts, and fuel choices
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Approve capital-intensive projects that improve margins and resilience, not just emissions profiles
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Design scalable investments in hydrogen, electrification, carbon capture, and circularity
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Accelerate commercial deals through our curated, pre-matched 1-2-1 Deal Room
The assumption is simple: lower CO₂ only works if it makes the business stronger.
Last Years Speakers Include:
Martin Kampffmeyer
Senior Decarbonization Manager Aurubis
Rafael Cayuela
Corporate Chief Economist, EMEAI Strategy Officer & Chair EU Sustainability Leadership Team Dow Inc
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
Julien Burdeau
Group Decarbonisation Director Eramet
Rolf Kuby
Director General Euromines2026 Sponsors & Exhibitors
“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 is the Focus for 2027?
The landscape for European heavy industry has shifted. While past events focused heavily on pilot technologies and long-term policy frameworks, Industry Connect Europe 2027 is built for the realities of today’s market.
With rising cost pressures and incoming compliance deadlines (CBAM, EU ETS, and CSRD), this year’s forum shifts the conversation from what could happen to how we execute.
Here is what you can expect from the 2027 program:
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A No-Nonsense Focus on Cost & Competitiveness: We are moving past theoretical “green premiums.” The agenda is designed around protecting margins, managing capital-intensive investments, and optimizing operational costs under pressure.
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The Curated 1-2-1 Deal Room: New for this cycle, we are introducing a highly structured, pre-matched matchmaking program. This isn’t just networking—it’s a private, dedicated space for buyers and solution providers to meet based on verified commercial alignment.
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Grounded, Mid-Term Opportunities: Expect deep dives into actionable, short-to-medium-term wins, including fuel switching, energy security, and asset flexibility.
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A Working Forum, Not a Talking Shop: Panels and discussions are being built to address the real organizational and financial bottlenecks of scaling transition technologies (like hydrogen, electrification, and carbon capture) in a tough economic climate.
Don’t miss out! Join the waitlist today to be the first to know when registrations open and secure your early bird discount.”
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
Benefits of Attending
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
The Room Where Decisions Are Made
Industry Connect Europe brings together a highly curated, senior delegation. Our audience is purposely scaled to ensure high-value, peer-to-peer exchange and substantive business conversations.
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56%+ of the Room Hold Senior Leadership Roles: Network directly with a delegation made up of C-Suite executives (14.7%), Vice Presidents (11%), Directors (14.7%), and Heads of Department (10.1%).
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Energy-Intensive Heavy Industry: Connect with buyside leaders from steel, chemicals, cement, glass, paper, and automotive manufacturing.
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Commercial Realities & Mandates: 100% of attendees have direct responsibility for assets, process investment, and emissions compliance under EU ETS, CBAM, and CSRD obligations.
“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
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
Conferences | Peer-to-Peer Insights | Facilitated Introductions
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.
