
NAVIGATING THE ROAD
TO EUROPEAN COMPETITIVENESS
2025
The 2025 Summit will bring together some of the individuals drafting EU and national policies, and we will focus on the following themes:
streamlining and simplification of EU regulation,
removing obstacles to business growth and competitiveness and to investment flows,
the EU "omnibus" regulation, its main focus areas and its implications,
EU sustainable finance framework implementation case studies and best practices,
transition planning and transition finance,
financing of projects and investments in boosting competitiveness
Competitiveness, finance &
regulatory simplification
NOMINATIONS OPEN
2025 CEE Sustainability
Leadership Award
CLIMATE WEEK PRAGUE 2025
CEE Sustainable Finance Summit is the flagship event of Climate Week Prague 2025
Agenda
19 MAY
Monday
SUSTAINABILITY IN FINANCE
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09:30 – 10:20 | Conversation with the audience: European Green Deal and competitiveness: will the regulatory rethink and the EU “omnibus” deliver what we need?
This session will dive deeper into the new European Commission strategic priorities and the efforts to simplify and streamline reporting and compliance, and what the competitiveness and simplification agenda means for businesses and finance in the CEE region. We will explore the unique needs of the region when it comes to investment and enabling policies for business growth.
10:20 – 11:00 | Networking break
11:00 – 11:30 | Conversation with the audience: The death of ESG and is “greed still the king?
A session discussing whether the golden age of ESG and impact investing is over, or whether we are witnessing new, unexpected developments in the investment and finance world
11:30 – 11:55 | TED-style talk
11:55 – 12:30 | A special presentation with analysis of the risk management for certain countries (Germany, Czechia, Poland) and sectors (automotive, energy, etc.) to improve and manage competitiveness in regional and global markets. -
13:30 – 13:50 | TED-style talk: ESG and the original sin
13:50 – 14:20 | TED style presentation & conversation with the audience: Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world
14:20 – 15:00 | Discussion with the audience: Sustainable investing vs European security and defence needs.
This session will look closer at whether sustainable or ESG investing is bad for European military industrial complex. What impact will joint efforts to improve Europe’s defence capacities have for business and finance?
15:00 – 15:40 | Coffee Break
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15:40– 16:00 | TED-style talk: Impact, AI, and sustainability
16:00 – 16:40 | Discussion with the audience: Sustainable investing vs European security and defence needs.
15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style talk: Impact, AI, and sustainability
16:00 – 16:40 | Conversation with the audience: Nature positive finance and biodiversity - are we ready for biodiversity disclosures and the measurement of natural capital?
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The evening event will be a three course gala dinner with prominent guests that will also launch the Climate Week Prague.
20 MAY
Tuesday
SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS
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09:40 – 10:20 | Conversation with the audience: Is and will CSRD reporting bring changes to financing for business?
The session will look at what changes are underway or are already being implemented that are affecting the financing of businesses.
10:20 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
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11:00 – 11:20 | On-Stage interview
11:20– 11:40| On-stage live interview: Real estate – competitiveness and transformation
11:40 – 12:30 | Conversation with the audience: The built environment and the financing of real estate development and redevelopment. Business as usual or expect watershed change?
How to navigate banking KPIs and how to finance sustainable projects that incorporate E and S .
12:30– 13:30 | Lunch break
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13:30 – 13:40 | Inspirational keynote speech
13:40 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: case study focused on business transformation
14:00 – 14:15 | TED-style talk: Supply chain management
14:15 – 15:00 | Conversation with the audience: European Industrial Policy: pathways to increased competitiveness or an inevitable decline?
A spotlight on heavy industry and the automotive sector in Europe. The discussion will focus on CEE business and its potential for competitive advantages, including improved innovation and digitalisation.
15:00 – 15:40 | Coffee Break
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15:40 – 15:50 | Inspirational keynote speech
15:50 – 16:10 | Short interview-style discussion: Infrastructure & investment
16:10 – 16:50 | Conversation with the audience
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The evening event is the CEE Leadership Award Ceremony and networking dinner
21 MAY
Wednesday
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09:40 – 10:20 | Conversation with the audience: The key insights from the first years of work on climate risk management and sustainability lens integration in banking
10:20 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
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11:00– 11:20 | TED-style talk: Quantification of Climate Impacts on a Bank
11:20 - 11:40 | On-stage live interview
11:40 – 12:30 | Conversation with the audience: Financing real estate decarbonisation
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break
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13:30 – 13:45 | Keynote speech
13:45 – 14:05 | TED-style presentation: Real Estate
14:05 – 14:15 | Presentation: Managing decarbonisation and greening in lending, fixed income, and mortgages. Interest rates, new products, and competitiveness in the banking sector
14:15 – 15:00 | Conversation with the audience
15:00 – 15:40 | Coffee Break
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15:40 – 15:55 | Keynote speech
15:55 – 16:15 | TED-Style presentation
16:15 – 17:00 | Conversation with the audience: The future of banking: new models for financing our future
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SUSTAINABILITY IN BANKING
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Previous editions & resources
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