CEE Sustainable Finance Summit

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

Agenda

19 MAY

20 MAY

Sustainability
in
Finance

21 MAY

Sustainability
in
Business

Sustainability
in
Banking

19 MAY
Monday

SUSTAINABILITY IN FINANCE

  • 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? 

    10:20 – 11:00 | Networking break

    11:00 – 11:30 | Conversation with the audience : The S or social dimension of sustainability: the neglected part of the equation, or a must have?  

    11:30 – 11:55 | TED-style talk

    11:55 – 12:30 | 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 – 14:10 | TED style presentation & conversation with the audience: Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world

    14:10 – 15:00 | Discussion with the audience: Sustainable investing vs European security and defence needs. 

    15:00 – 15:40 | Discussion with the audience:

  • 13:50– 14:10 | TED-Style presentation: & conversation with the audience 

    14:10 – 15:00 | Discussion with the audience: Sustainable investing vs European security and defence needs.

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

    15:40 – 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?

  • 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 

  • 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

  • 11:00 – 11:20 | Presentation / TED style talk: Transition planning

    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? 

  • Item description

  • 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 

    15:00 – 15:40 | Coffee Break

  • 15:40 – 15:50 | Inspirational keynote speech

    15:50 – 16:10 | Short interview-style discussion: Trade in a turbulent word: what to expect from export markets.

    16:10 – 17:00 | Conversation with the audience

  • The evening event is the CEE Leadership Award Ceremony and networking dinner

21 MAY
Wednesday

  • 09:40 – 10:20 | Conversation with the audience
    The key insights from the first years of sustainability disclosures and work on climate risk management in banking: focus on real estate and construction – financing decarbonisation in real estate  

    10:20 – 11:00 | Coffee Break

  • 11:00– 11:20 | TED-style talk

    11:20 - 11:40 | On-stage live interview 

    11:40 – 12:30 | Conversation with the audience : Supervision of sustainability reporting for the banking sector: the role of different tools

  • 13:30 – 13:45 | Keynote speech

    13:45 – 14:05 | TED-style presentation: Real Estate

    14:05 – 15:00 | Conversation with the audience: Insurance – managing new types of risk & protecting value

    15:00 – 15:40 | Coffee Break

  • 15:40 – 15:55 | Keynote speech  

    15:55 – 16:15 | TED-Style presentation  

    16:15 – 17:00 | Conversation with the audience: Interest rates, new products, and competitiveness in the banking sector 

SUSTAINABILITY IN BANKING 

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