Showcase 2030 – 5th Edition

Showcase 2030 is E4S’ sustainable innovation summit that gathers the academic community, businesses, start-ups, investors, large organizations, NGOs, policy-makers and civil society, to engage in an action-driven platform and find solutions to our century’s most urgent challenges.

With Showcase 2030, our ambition is to :

• Encourage new cross-sectoral collaborations and build a learning culture that includes all the voices around the table.
• Leverage science, technology, and business as enablers to develop solutions to accelerate the transition
• Showcase the diversity, dynamism, and strength of the sustainable innovation ecosystem in the Lemanic area

THE 2024 EDITION

On October 29, 2024, the 5th edition of Showcase 2030 brought together over 700 participants at the SwissTech Convention Center to explore how innovation and technology can help us live within planetary boundaries.

The plenary session was organized around three main blocks:

Block 1: Defining Sufficiency in Innovation: This block focuses on the concept of sobriety in the context of technology and innovation for different stakeholders.

Block 2: From Concept to Action: Implementing Sufficiency: What are the solutions for putting sufficiency into action? How can we rethink our business models, technologies and lifestyles?

Block 3: Establishing new narratives of well-being and prosperity: This block explores the evolution towards regenerative and circular economic models, emphasizing the need to rethink existing systems.

THE FORMAT

This dynamic event featured:

• Inspiring keynote speeches by leading sustainability experts
• Interactive masterclasses designed to foster actionable insights
• An exhibition of circular economy solutions, showcasing 25 innovative projects from startups, SMEs, and student associations

EVENT’S IMPACT AND REPORT

The 2024 edition had more participants than in 2023. However, we successfully managed to reduce the event’s ecological footprint. As last year, we used the SwissTech Convention Center’s tool powered by MyClimate to measure the event’s carbon emissions and better inform our current and future decisions to reduce our carbon footprint ultimately.

Discover our environmental impact, as well as analytics about our participants and speakers, by reading the report below. If you want further information on the event, or you want to collaborate with us for the next editions, please send an email to vasb@r4f.pragre. 

Read the report

WATCH THE AFTER-EVENT MOVIE OF THE 2024 EDITION