The 10th annual Global Corporate Venturing Symposium marked the first return to Europe of the main corporate, university and government venturing units alongside the rest of the venture capital and startup ecosystem. Its mission is: informing, connecting, and transforming the venture ecosystem.

Eco-shaper’s Tracey Carr, Brill Power’s Christoph Birkl and Henkel Tech Ventures’ Paolo Bavaj shared their insights into sustainable investing.

OSI portfolio company First Light Fusion’s co-founder and CEO, Nicholas Hawker, explained how his company’s nuclear fusion technology could contribute to net-zero targets.

GCV’s James Mawson interviewed Energy Transitions Commission chair Lord Adair Turner on the hydrogen space.

Brown Rudick’s Neil Foster moderated a discussion between National Grid Partners’ Ian Cooper, Baker Hughes’ Luca Maria Rossi and ZeroAvia’s Katya Akulinicheva on the fuels of the future.

Lord Gerry Grimstone, UK minister for investment, gave a keynote on the development of a fertile environment for the growth of decarbonisation technologies.

Sir Ronald Cohen, chair of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group, gave a keynote on impact investing and what he described as the impact revolution.

Mach49’s Paul Holland spoke with BlackRock Alternatives Investors’ Jim Barry on the latter’s firm’s climatetech strategy.

Representatives from University of Strathclyde, Conception X, SETsquared and Oxford University Innovation discussed how university ventures can spearhead sustainable innovation and deliver impact.

Henkel Tech Ventures’ Paolo Bavaj moderated a session on how the world’s investors are looking to make climate-conscious deals.