McKinsey Sustainability is delighted to announce the 5th edition of our flagship Green Business Building Summit which will be held on 19th May 2026 at Artipelag in Stockholm, Sweden.
Why “Better, faster, cheaper”?
The sustainability landscape is changing, and sustainability alone does not constitute a right-to-win anymore. Under the theme “Building competitive green industries: better, faster, cheaper,” this year’s summit is all about what actually works when scaling climate solutions – real decisions, real trade-offs, and the hard-earned lessons behind the headlines. You’ll get first-hand insights from cleantech scale-ups and corporate frontrunners competing on cost, performance, and speed of execution while broadening the definition of sustainability beyond CO2 alone.
The Summit will bring together ~400 senior leaders from the most successful players including established incumbents with green growth agendas, disruptive unicorns and decacorns and leading green investors.
"Now is the opportunity to push economically viable technologies and hyperscale them, learning from the most successful cleantech disruptors and investors"
Stefan Helmcke, Senior Partner
Who will be attending?
The Summit will convene a unique assembly of top-tier profiles across a number of different organization types, including:
- World-leading cleantech founders and CEOs sharing their recipes for successfully founding and scaling
- Global corporate frontrunners inspiring on cost reduction and industrialization
- Private capital leaders and investors discussing what it takes to finance the future
What topics will be covered?
The Summit will address key unlocks and challenges along the journey of building competitive green industries
- Economically viable technology & solutions, and accelerating cost down trajectory
- Resetting the lead times on scaling, harnessing momentum
- Building competitiveness and resilience with climate technologies
Get to know our hosts
Following tradition from previous Summits, we will again convene a line-up of high-profile keynote speakers and panelists
Last year’s speakers