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