Impact Festival 2024

Impact Festival 2024 is a wrap! With 4.500 people visiting the Impact Festival, safe to say that the move to Messe Frankfurt was a big success!

I again had the big pleasure to moderate the Impact Stage, this time together with Janina Klabes. Two days packed with a lot of good discussions and impulses, and many top speakers.

It was great being on stage with Christiane Vorspel, Chief Operating Offer at Commerzbank, speaking about sustainability in IT and of course also the role of banks in the sustainability transformation; with Carlos Alvarez Pereira, the Secretary General at The Club of Rome, reflecting on 50 years of The Limits to Growth, and with Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, German Institute of Economics on the status quo and outlook of Germany’s energy transition.

One highlight was our panel discussion with Dirk Messner, President of the German Environment Agency, Jeannette Gusko, CEO at correctiv, Dr. Katharina Reuter, CEO at German Sustainable Economy Association (BNW) and Darya Sotoodeh, Spokesperson for Fridays for Future Germany about climate and democracy, diving deeper into the interdependencies of two of the biggest topics of our time.