FIRST DAY: NOVEMBER 04, 2021
SECOND DAY: NOVEMBER 05, 2021
04 NOVEMBER 2021
10:00 - 10:15
Official opening
Olivier Gfeller (Mayor Montreux)
- Benoît Revaz (Director Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE)
10:15 - 11:30
Which political commitments for the climate in Switzerland?
- Jacques Bourgeois (PLR)
- Charles Juillard (Centre)
- Sophie Michaud-Gigon (V)
- Roger Nordmann (PS)
- François Pointet (VL)
- Albert Rösti (UDC)
11:30 - 12:00
Innovation and Climate: what solutions in another country?
- Olga Golodets (Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russian Federation)
12:00 - 12:30
State of applied research in the fight against global warming
- Bertrand Piccard (President de la Fondation Solar Impulse)
- Martin Vetterli (President EPFL)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
For transition, but how? What are the deadlines?
- Martine Rebetez (Climatologist and Prof. University of Neuchâtel)
14:45 - 15:30
What developments for the building industry?
- François Maréchal (Prof. EPFL and Head of the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering Laboratory (IPESE))
15:30 - 16:15
What developments in mobility?
- Vincent Kaufmann (Prof. EPFL and Head of the Urban Sociology Laboratory (LASUR))
16:15 - 16:45
Networking
16:45 - 18:45
What is the role of gas in the energy transition?
- René Bautz (CEO Gaznat)
- Aline Clerc (Department of Energy of the Canton of Vaud)
- Philippe Dubois (Director of Energy and Transition at OIKEN and Vice-President of ASIG)
- Jan van Herle (Prof. EPFL)
- Andreas Guth (Policy Director Eurogas)
18:45 - 19:00
The commitment of a canton: the example of the Canton of Vaud
- Béatrice Métraux (State Councillor and Head of the Department of the Environment and Security (DES) of the Canton of Vaud)
19:00
Gala Dinner
05 NOVEMBER 2021
09:00 - 09:45
Economy and Climate: what prospects? what societal cost?
- Fabio Regazzi (President USAM)
- Philippe Thalmann (Prof. EPFL)
09:45 - 10:15
Networking
10:15 - 11:15
Finance and Climate: which investments? which models for financing the transition?
- Olivier Ferrari (Director CONINCO Explorers in finance SA)
- Vsevolod Gavrilov (Director Business Unit for Project Management in Energy Conservation and Environmental Management of SberBank)
- Teresa Hartmann (Lead, Climate and Nature World Economic Forum)
- Andrei Iatsenia (CEO and Co-founder of the Risk Reduction Foundation based in Geneva)
- Stefan Pomberger (Head Cosmofunding Vontobel Bank)
- Andrey Shipelov (General Director RT-Invest)
11:15 - 11:45
An example of financing: INNERGIA and Rossinière
- Frederic James Gentizon (CEO Innnergia)
11:45 - 12:30
The UN 2030 goals and The challenges of COP 26
- Bruno Pozzi (Director of the Europe Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP))
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 16:00
Presentation of start-ups active in the climate sector
- Bénédicte Deryckere (Consultant in sustainability and circular economy)
- Asclepios Tech (Boxilumix) (Christine Roynette)
- Bloom Biorenewables (Florent Héroguel)
- CompPair (Amaël Cohades)
- EH Group (Scalable Fuel Cells) (Christopher Brandon)
- Enerdrape (Margaux Peltier)
- HD-rain (Camila Auvray)
- Insolight (David Schuppisser)
- Is CLEAN AIR Italia S.r.l. (Chiara Verderese)
- Projet SWARM (Nabil Abdennadher, HES-SO)
16:00
Farwell cockatil