This is a Slush Community Side Event
Please note that a ticket to the main Slush event is not required for participation!
Critical raw materials (CRMs) are necessary to modern technology, the clean energy transition, and industrial resilience. As global urgency builds around securing resilient supply chains, there is a need to bring together innovation, capital, and industry to collaborate. Capital is set to fl ow into this industry in the coming years, funding solutions that strengthen the value chain — from more eff icient extraction and supply chain management to recycling and material recovery from waste streams.
The day is structured around this same logic: Collaboration — bringing the ecosystem together, opening with proof from the Nordics, a region already demonstrating what cross-border collaboration and industrial expertise can achieve; Capital — proving the investment case with real cases from around the world; and Circularity — Circular models represent a new industrial logic. Applied to critical raw materials, the mechanism is consistent: materials become assets, waste becomes input, recovery becomes margin, and capital follows measurable loops
09:40 – 10:20: The Nordics - an Emerging CRM Hub
How cross-border collaboration is turning the Nordics into a single, unified market for critical raw materials with global impact— pooling expertise, industry, and infrastructure across borders.
Moderator:
Benedicte Sognefest, Senior Innovation Advisor at Nordic Innovation
Speakers:
Lennart Richardsen, Senior director, Origination and Corporate at Nordic Investment Bank, James Amphlett, CTO & Co-founder at Nordic Salt Cycle, Aleksi Salo, CEO of Mining Finland.
10:25 – 10:45: Keynote
Liz Dennett, CEO and Founder of Endolith
10:50 – 11:30 Circular Solutions for Securing CRMs.
Why investing in CRM-related solutions is relevant now more than ever? Led by ECBF and Fundforward
Speakers:
Guillaume Gras, Investment Director at ECBF
Fredrik Blomquist Lundli, Co-Founder and Partner at Fundforward
Xandra Weinbeck, Impact investor at Invest-NL
11:30 – 11:40: Closing remarks
Networking lunch & networking
12:30 – 13:30: Parallel sessions - limited spots
- The Regenerative Capital Dialogue - Investor-Only Session led by Spin.
Speaker: Nic Gorini, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Spin Capital
Invitation-only. Please indicate your interest in participating when registering for the event. - Building an Execution System led by Atlan — for founders, researchers & corporate innovation leads.
Speaker: Enrique Montaño Carranza, Founding Partner & COO at Atlan
Invitation-only. Please indicate your interest in participating when registering for the event.
Note registration is by approval. Please register your interest and you will be notified if a ticket is assigned to you. Participation in the parallel sessions are invitation-only. Please indicate your interest in participating when registering for the event.
Startups and scale-ups: please make sure to include a one-pager or deck with your registration to be considered for participation.
