Impact Trade Fair 2026

The Future-Proof Convention has two components. The Leaders Summit covers strategy and policy, with a plenary programme, a masterclass room and six interactive session spaces where entrepreneurs, experts and policymakers work through the major transition questions. The Impact Trade Fair is the exhibition floor: over 150 exhibitors across pavilions dedicated to the circular economy, emerging IT, the new economy and social innovation. Together they answer a single question: how do you make an organisation genuinely future-proof? Huddles was there with its own stand and gave talks in the break-out sessions. Our ventures showed up as companies rather than concepts. Founders told their own story and spoke to their own market. What makes the event valuable to us is who fills the room. Founders with an idea, looking for structure, capital and people. Investors who want returns tied to demonstrable social value. Corporates and public bodies looking for concrete solutions, which makes them the market for our ventures. A significant share of the conversations that later became new ventures and new participants started here. For founders, this is where you see how a venture studio actually operates. For investors, it is where impact stops being a promise and starts being a business.