Everything You Need to Know About the WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit 2024

Returning for its second version this October in Berlin, the WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit is bringing collectively Europe’s main consultants and visionaries within the inexperienced vitality sector to discover how you can speed up the creation of a totally carbon-free vitality system.

Last year’s summit targeted on the pressing want for inexperienced expertise within the wake of the vitality disaster. Audiences heard from enterprise leaders, startup founders, politicians, inventors, and even an astronaut.

Watch highlights of the 2023 summit.

This yr, vitality leaders from throughout the EU will meet to carve the trail to a fast world vitality transition. Be a part of us on October tenth to witness vitality innovation in motion and collaborate with over 500 consultants and thinkers on making the inexperienced transition a actuality.

Right here’s every little thing you’ll want to know.

When and The place Is the Occasion Taking Place?

The summit is on Thursday, October 10 at Kraftwerk Berlin—the previous energy station of Berlin’s Mitte district and a bit of town’s industrial historical past. Constructed across the similar time because the Berlin wall, the constructing has since been renovated into an iconic occasion area within the middle of the capital.

We encourage everybody to reach both on foot, by bike, or by way of public transport—there are good public transport hyperlinks close by, together with Heinrich-Heine-Str. station on the U-Bahn and the Heinrich-Heine-Str. and Michaelkirchstr. bus stops. You’ll be able to see the placement of Kraftwerk here.

Doorways will open for registration and breakfast at 8am, with the day’s programming starting at 9am.

Kraftwerk is a placing instance of how fossil gasoline infrastructure might be repurposed.

{Photograph}: Leon Strachewski for Kraftwerk Berlin

Who’s Talking?

On stage there might be a rare mixture of change-makers, enterprise leaders, and futurists drawn from the worlds of politics, sport, vitality, structure, movie, and transport.

Hear from Bertrand Piccard, who made historical past when he achieved the primary continuous round-the-world solar-powered balloon flight; Jeff Dodds, who’s taking System E to the following stage; Fredrika Klarén from Polestar, who goals to construct a totally climate-neutral automotive by 2030; and internationally acclaimed architect Francis Kéré, who’s pushing the boundaries of design with community-focused and sustainable approaches. Watch this space for extra large names as they’re introduced within the coming weeks.

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