Regenerative Living Zurich 5 - AdvantiKA - Climate Week Zurich 2026

Regenerative Living Zürich 5.o

Regenerative Business Models and Systems

On May 6 at Impact Hub Viadukt, Regenerative Living Zürich 5.0 brings together businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and communities during Climate Week Zürich to explore regenerative food systems, business models, and transformative finance already underway.

A day of stories, dialogue, and co-creation to rethink how we live, work, and regenerate together.

Come exchange ideas, spark collaborations, and help shape what comes next.

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Purpose and Vision

To inspire and connect leaders and organisations committed to regenerating economies, communities, and ecosystems — demonstrating that business and nature can thrive together.

The Vision: In 2050, people live in harmony with nature as one. Society values, conserves, restores, and respects biodiversity, and uses all ecosystem services with knowledge and wisdom, giving back. People sustain life on a healthy planet that delivers essential benefits and prosperity for all.

The Programme

We believe we can only advance and transform by sharing, co-creating, and collaborating. The day is hence much set up as an interactive day in which participants are co-creating the experience together, mixed with impulse inputs, great food and drinks, and of course networking to forge new partnerships and synergies. You can choose to join us for a full day and evening, or come for focused parts. Below is the most updated version of the programme, which, however, continues to evolve.

MORNING: REGENERATIVE BUSINESS MODELS AND FOOD SYSTEMS

08:30–14:00 | Doors open at 8.15 AM for a pre-event coffee and croissant, after which GreenUp and AdvantikA hosts will kick off the day. With lessons and impact stories from Davos, we will set out the goals of the day together.

Session 1:

Regeneration as a Business Model

Impulse Inputs and Interactive Panel

Do we always start regenerating the planet based on philanthropic principles, or can we start from business models? (How) Can we scale?

Moderated by Karime Abib.

Case study impulse input by BlueYou’s Jonas Walker, “from regeneration project to lasting responsive business” on Selva Shrimp.
Participative Panel with:
- René Benguerel - CEO BlueYou
- Vincent Doumeizel - Founder of the Global Seaweed Coalition, Author
- Thomas Høgenhaven - Managing Partner at Planetary Impact Ventures, PhD
- Abigail Frankfort - World Resources Institute
- Alexia Semov - Fair Carbon

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Performance by Soya the Cow - Swiss Performing Arts Awards 2025

Session 2:

Food Systems Co-Creation

2 rounds of Mastermind Circles Insights

1 round for Commitment to Action

Host: Karime Brecailo Abib, AdvantiKA

Session Steward: Giovana Bressan, B Lab Switzerland

How much are we truly saving in our current food systems, and how does it happen? Could a simple story of food savings open the door to thinking about regenerative food systems?

Mastermind Circle 1: Beyond Optimising the Waste Bin - Scaling Regenerative Food in Companies & Communities
Mastermind Circle 2: The Future of Blue Food - From Ocean Challenges to Opportunity
Mastermind Circle 3: Making Good Food the Easy Choice — A Retail Systems Approach
Mastermind Circle 4 : The Missing Link — Enabling Small Farmers in Regenerative Food Systems

Session Visuals Facilitator: Michele Geerlings, Flatland
Mastermind Circle Stewards:
- Philipp Aeschlimann, Danone
- Abigail Frankfort, the World Resources Institute
- Saba Sandahl, Bakery Bakery
- Simeon Max, Solidaridad
Mastermind Moderation: Giovana Bressa, David Perry, Marco Buscemi

After our co-creation, we come back to the central stage and share learnings, just before we jointly move to the Lunch.

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LUNCH: 12.30 - 14.00

A wonderful, sustainable, and local lunch designed to carry the experience of the event within. Something that tastes extraordinary and leaves you thinking: yes, a better world is possible. Lunch awaits inside BOGEN D & E as well as outside, weather permitting. If you join us for only the morning or the afternoon, your lunch is also included.

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AFTERNOON: TRANSFORMING FINANCE

12:30–18:30 | Arrive in time to enjoy the lunch included with your ticket.

After lunch we get together, recap the morning and refocus on finance and how to create return on investment for people and the planet.

Special guest and moderator of this afternoon is entrepreneur and impact investor Renat Heuberger.

Sparks

Three speakers. Three sparks. Three perspectives on how we can transform the financial system to foster true regeneration—so humanity can thrive and live increasingly in harmony with nature.

Sasha Cisar from NEST Sammelstiftung on "Investing for Retirement Means Investing in the Future Itself " - because one can’t retire into a world that no longer works
Rosa Sangiorgio from Swiss Platform for Impact Investing (SPII), who, as an advisor to family offices, foundations, and impact-driven founders, helps them deploy capital with precision: strong returns with real-world outcomes.
Niall Murphy from Morphosis on "How the Adaptation Economy might unfold".

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Session 3:

The Return on Investment on Carbon and Nature-Based Solutions

Case impulse, followed by fishbowl challenge discussion with panel

Host: Nicole Keller, GreenUp

Session Steward: Renat Heuberger, The Carbon Paradox

Are Carbon Credits a way to keep things as they are, or a viable tool for a world in transformation that needs to be financed? What are the most promising Nature-Based Solutions out there, and how can they be a base for (re)insurance? Also, can aviation and software be really green?

Join us in a constructive fishbowl discussion in which we actively ask you to participate on the Empty Chair and share your thoughts and experiences.

Introduction by Adrianus Hulsbos from Dimarjan, together with clients Michael Franco, Co-Founder and CEO Flygreen2 and Kurt-Jürgen Balanica, Co-Founder and CEO Unimission
Fishbowl Challenge Discussion with:
- Adrianus Hulsbos- Co-Founder Dimarjan LCC
- Stephanie Feeney - Co-founder DNAir
- Barbara Dubach - Founder, Innovate 4 Nature
- Enrique Alvarado Hablützel - Co-Founder Chi Impact Capital and Helvora
- You - on the empty chair

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Break - relax, reflect, re-energize

Special Moment: Book Signing Opportunity

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During Apéro get to know more about THE CARBON PARADOX directly from its author, Renat Heuberger who is our afternoon special moderator.

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Session 4:

Co-Creation Transformative Finance

Unconference followed by thematic breakout groups

Host: Nicole Keller, GreenUp

Session Steward: Renat Heuberger, The Carbon Paradox

What are the challenges that persists and we can overcome in 2026 to start to really transform our financial system? What awaits us in 2027 and beyond in our financial markets and how can we prepare our countries to be resilient?

Nature as Collateral: Bringing in perspectives from reilo. event about nature on the balance sheet on the day before
“First Loss” mechanisms as an underused tool to finance (even) more regeneration.
Constructing the Adaptation Economy - managing our countries for resilience
TBD - See below

Session Visuals Facilitator: Michele Geerlings, Flatland
Breakout Groups Stewards:
1. Patrik Brandenberg, reilo.
2. Leo Caprez, Brainforest
3. Niall Murphy, Morphosis
4. TBD - participant-led: decided at the start of the session. Options:
  - Follow-up from Sparks
  - Follow-up on Session 3,
  - A breakout on next steps for the Swiss “Finanzplatz-Initiatve” or on Shifting Values in Society for Regenerative Finance?
Breakout moderation: Anne-Laure Felix, Martina Bühler and Jasmin Khalifa.

After our co-creation, we come back to the central and share learnings, before we jointly move to the Apéro.

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Apéritivo

17:30–18:30 |

Locally Swiss and sustainable Apéro plus a surprise by one of our partners. And Special Drinks Bar

Try some surprising snacks, wine, and (non-alcoholic) drinks while reflecting on the day.
A relaxed space for cross-sector dialogue and partnership building.

EVENING: MOVIE NIGHT “PURPOSE”

18:00–21:00 | What characterises a responsible business? How can we (re)organise our companies to foster people and planet?

After a short intro by the event hosts, we will watch the documentary movie “Responsible” together. A fun interactive quiz will follow to test our collective knowledge, after which we will award the top 3 with a few “responsible” prizes. We will close this exciting day with a fireside chat with Vanessa Rueber from Patagonia.

DRINKS & NETWORKING: UNTIL 21.00