Regenerative Living Zurich 5 @ Climate Week Zurich 20026

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: FOOD SYSTEMS

Doors open at 8.00 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 - focus Food

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
- Stephanie Feeney - Co-founder DNAir
- Thomas Høgenhaven - Managing Partner at Planetary Impact Ventures, PhD
- Abigail Frankfort - World Resources Institute
- TBC - an innovator

In between sessions 1 and 2, a special performance awaits.

Session 2:

Food Systems Co-Creation

2 rounds of Mastermind Circles

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?

Round 1: Foodsaving, cases, innovations, approaches (several circles). Topics for the circles are pre-set based on input from the leading partners and participants.

In the first 10 minutes, you choose “your circle” and sharpen its focus. Each circle runs for 30 minutes. Afterwards, we have a break and swap for round 2.

Round 2: Future of food systems (several circles)
Leading partners: Philipp Aeschlimann from Danone and Abigail Frankfort from the World Resources Institute.

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

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LUNCH: 12.30 - 14.00

A wonderful, sustainable, and local lunch awaits all-day participants to enjoy 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.

AFTERNOON: TRANSFORMING FINANCE

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.
Speakers to be announced soon.

Session 3:

The Return on Investment on Carbon and Nature-Based Solutions

Case impulse as a panel interview followed by fishbow challenge discussion

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 fish-bowl discussion with, among others, Dimarjan and its clients Flygreen24 and Unimission, in which you can also have your say.

Challenge Discussion with:
- Adrianus Hulsbos- Co-Founder Dimarjan LCC
- Michael Franco - Co-Founder and CEO Flygreen24
- Kurt-Jürgen Balanica - Co-Founder and CEO Unimission
- Barbara Dubach - Founder, Innovate 4 Nature
- TBC - in the financial sector

In between sessions 3 and 4 awaits a special activation.

Session 4:

Co-Creation Transformative Finance

Unconference followed by 2 rounds of breakout groups

What is the challenge 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?

The concrete topics for the breakouts are suggested based on partners' and participants' input, but through unconference post-it notes, adjusted and condensed to the most relevant. Some partners, but also participants, could take the lead in a group to define the desired outcome and see that everyone in the group gets a say and value out of it.

Partners to be announced soon

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 | 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”

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