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👀 Here’s a glimpse into the panels happening at this year’s Hello Tomorrow Summit! Each year, we handpick the debates the deep tech industry most needs to have, with the scientists, founders, and investors driving these fields forward. Check out a few examples of our industry-focused panels, covering topics from solar geoengineering to biomining. ☀️ Is Solar Geoengineering Becoming a Necessity? With: Aarti Gupta (Wageningen University & Research), Andy Parker (The Degrees Initiative), James Temple (MIT Technology Review) This panel explores whether geoengineering is inevitable, how unilateral action could be contained, and asks whether humanity is ready to handle the tools it's beginning to build. 🧪 From Lab to Life: How AI x Biology Is Redefining Food and Health With: Dr. Nora K. (Nuritas), Annick Verween (biotope by VIB), Pae W (SOSV) Moderated by: Alizée Blanchin Investors and founders share how today's breakthroughs in AI-driven compound discovery could spark the next wave of game-changing biotech and food companies. ⛏️ Beyond The Drill: How Biology Is Reshaping the Mining Industry With: Izabela Fandrych (Nucleus Capital), Alexander Hoffmann (Forbion), Bruno Meireles de Sousa (Bidra Innovation Ventures), Fabien Koutchekian (Genomines) Moderated by: Dr. Nadine Geiser (World Fund) This panel explores how biomining can unlock new resource pathways, and what it will take to scale these technologies in a conservative, capital-intensive industry. 🏭 From 1st-of-a-Kind to Nth-of-a-Kind: Scaling Deep Tech Manufacturing, Capital and Teams With: Frederic Vacher (Dassault Systèmes), Caroline Hargrove (Ceres Power), Chris Reichhelm (Deep Tech Leaders)  Moderated by: Ana Avaliani (Royal Academy of Engineering) A discussion around how scaleups can win early customers, navigate supply chains, and partner with corporates to turn ambitious industrial visions into reality. Want to see more? 👉 Check out the full programme on our website (link in comments)

Honda has been pioneering mobility for decades, from motorcycles to jets to space robotics. Now, through Honda Xcelerator Ventures, they're accelerating the next generation of innovators building tomorrow's sustainable mobility ecosystem. 🎉 We're thrilled to welcome Honda Innovations (Honda Xcelerator Ventures) as a 2026 Hello Tomorrow Challenge partner, supporting two tracks: → Energy → Automotive, Maritime, Rail Transportation & Operations Honda Xcelerator Ventures is Honda's global program for open innovation and corporate venturing, engaging innovators across all stages to build the carbon-neutral future of mobility through strategic partnership, co-development and direct investment. They're actively seeking breakthrough technologies across: 🔋 Sustainability solutions that drive decarbonisation ⚙️ Advanced manufacturing innovations 🤖 Computing & robotics pushing the boundaries of automation 🛣️ Next-generation mobility platforms What sets Honda Xcelerator Ventures apart? They bring Honda's 75+ years of engineering expertise, global manufacturing scale, and deep industry partnerships to help startups navigate the complex journey from prototype to production. This is corporate venturing that truly gets deep tech and hardware. Building the future of how we move? Honda Xcelerator Ventures wants to meet you at the Summit. 🎟️ Get your pass now: https://lnkd.in/ewPiu3N9 #HelloTomorrow2026 #DeepTech #DeepTechChallenge

🇯🇵 Japan isn't just a tech powerhouse. It's becoming a global gateway for deep tech innovation. With Japanese corporates increasingly embracing open innovation and cross-border collaboration, the opportunities for European startups to scale in Asia have never been stronger. That's why we're thrilled to welcome JETRO London as our 2026 Hello Tomorrow Summit partner! 🎉 JETRO - Japan External Trade Organization – is the Japanese government agency promoting trade, investment and innovation between Japan and the world. Through their London office, they're actively connecting European deep tech startups with Japanese corporates hungry for breakthrough technologies across: 🤖 AI and robotics 🔋 Clean energy solutions 🏭 Advanced manufacturing 🩺 Healthcare innovation By promoting Japanese corporates' open innovation activities, JETRO is opening doors for European founders to access one of the world's most sophisticated markets and some of its most forward-thinking companies. For deep tech startups looking to scale globally, Japan represents massive opportunity. JETRO London is your bridge to get there. Are you ready to explore the Japanese market? Meet them at the Hello Tomorrow Summit. 🔗 Get your pass now (link in the comments)

🔥 Coming in hot: the latest additions to the Hello Tomorrow Summit lineup 👇 SUMMIT SPEAKERS: 🚀 Tom Vanhoutte is Founder and Managing Partner of imec.xpand, an independently managed early-stage and growth fund. The fund invests in startups where the knowledge, expertise, network, and infrastructure of imec, the world-renowned semiconductor R&D center, play a differentiating role in the company’s success. 🧬 Karina Vazirova is Co-founder & CEO of FemTech Lab, Europe's first accelerator for women's health, with 72 startups graduated since 2020. She is also a Venture Partner at Borski Fund, where she supports the Women's Health vertical. 🔋 Jon Fold von Bülow is Co‑Founder and Interim CEO of what is formerly known as Morrow Batteries, trying to build Europe’s battery value chain. As CEO, he focuses on partnerships, industrialisation, and scaling sustainable LFP and LNMO technologies for energy transition impact. ✍️ James Temple is the senior editor for climate and energy at MIT Technology Review, where he covers the transition to clean energy and the use of technology to combat climate change. His focus areas include solar geoengineering and carbon removal. FINANCING THE FUTURE SPEAKERS: 📈 Dominique Dijkhuis is CIO of Investments at SBZ Pensioen. Previously at ABP, she helped shape the fund’s investment strategy with a stronger focus on infrastructure, impact investing, and private assets, while introducing a Total Portfolio Approach. 📊 Jan Hendrik Heihoff is an Investment Manager at Aurum Impact, investing in startups and funds. He previously gained investment experience at Extantia, UVC Partners, and Pelion Green Future. Jan holds a Master's degree in Climate Finance from EDHEC Business School and Mines Paris. 🤝 Tereza Reindl is Senior Investment Manager at Schaeffler Invest, focused on corporate venture capital, strategic minority investments, due diligence, and portfolio management. She helps build partnerships and drive innovation in AI, robotics and industrial tech. The deals that shape tomorrow start with the right introductions – and the right conversations. Get your Hello Tomorrow Summit pass and be part of it. 🔗 Link in comments

Meet the Advanced Computing & Cybersecurity finalists of the Hello Tomorrow Challenge! 🌐 Supported by NXP Semiconductors, these startups are shaping the next era of intelligent, sovereign, and quantum-powered infrastructure. 🇨🇾 Automaton Technologies Ltd unify fragmented security tools, data, and AI into a single platform that closes the full detect-to-respond loop for SOCs, cutting response times while meeting NIS2, CRA, and DORA compliance requirements. 🇬🇧 Blueshift Memory eliminate the memory wall holding back AI and big data with an intelligent memory controller that delivers data direct to the processor, removing unnecessary data movement and the energy waste that comes with it. 🇮🇳 Cosmic Soul Pvt Ltd run sovereign AI entirely offline using a neurosymbolic architecture that reduces model size by 95% and eliminates hallucinations, giving governments and regulated enterprises full data sovereignty without the cloud. 🇳🇱 Delft Circuits design and manufacture flexible cryogenic wiring used by quantum computing teams worldwide, providing the scalable cryogenic I/O that next-generation quantum computers depend on to grow. 🇩🇪 Peak Quantum build superconducting quantum processors with a novel qubit architecture featuring built-in error protection, spun out of the Walther-Meißner-Institute to accelerate fault-tolerant quantum computing. 🇫🇷 Rhizome Labs develop lightweight neural networks that run on under 8MB of RAM, adapt continuously from real production data, and eliminate the cloud dependency holding back AI deployment at the edge. 🇨🇱 Sequre Quantum protect critical data in real time with SeQRNG, Latin America's first self-certifiable Quantum Random Number Generator, certified by Gaming Labs International. Don’t just read about the future – watch it unfold live at the Hello Tomorrow Challenge finals. 🎟️ Get your pass now, and join us at the Hello Tomorrow Summit (link in comments). #HelloTomorrow2026 #DeepTechChallenge #NXPSemiconductors Konstantinos Fysarakis Vasileios Mavroeidis Helen Duncan Peter Marosan Paulina Assmann Marcin Pawłowski ABHISHEK DIXIT Calvin Companjen Sal Jua Bosman Daan Kuitenbrouwer Thomas Luschmann Alexander Schult Lancelot Convert Clement Poiret, PhD

🇱🇻 Latvia is emerging as one of Europe’s most ambitious deep tech hubs – and the numbers back it up. Ranked 7th globally for deep tech startups per capita in our 2026 Global Deep Tech Pioneers Radar, Latvia has quietly built one of Europe’s most vibrant innovation ecosystems: world-class research institutions, bold founders, and a fast-growing startup scene. 🎉 We’re excited to welcome the Latvian delegation to the 2026 Hello Tomorrow Summit, led by Invest in Latvia (LIAA), together with BioPhoT and the Riga Investment and Tourism Agency (Business Riga) as Visionary Partners. Together, they’re bringing a delegation that showcases Latvia’s remarkable depth in breakthrough technologies, with a clear mission: turning deep tech excellence into international partnerships, investment, and customers. Here's what they're bringing to Amsterdam: 🚀 11 startups actively seeking clients and corporate co-development partners 💰 10 startups raising capital for their upcoming funding rounds 🔬 25+ research projects looking for corporate venture partners and industry feedback to accelerate their technology readiness levels Whether you're a corporate looking for innovation partnerships, an investor seeking the next breakthrough, or an industry player wanting to co-develop tomorrow's technologies, there's a perfect match waiting at the Latvia stand. 🎟️ Grab your pass to the Summit now - link in the comments

Regional innovation doesn’t scale in isolation. Scale starts when regions connect to partners, capital and markets globally. 🌐 This is why we’re excited to welcome ROM-Nederland, the network of Dutch Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), at the 2026 Hello Tomorrow Summit on 11-12 June 2026. 💡 Across nine economic development regions, Dutch RDAs play a central role in translating research and regional strengths into economic impact: - Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) – Drives entrepreneurial growth in Noord-Brabant from idea to international scale through capital, expert guidance, and an open network. - Horizon Flevoland – Empowers Flevoland SMEs to innovate and grow through a connected network focused on digital, tech, and energy. - Impuls Zeeland – Regional development company committed to helping Zeeland entrepreneurs innovate, invest, and expand internationally toward a sustainable future. - InnovationQuarter – Zuid-Holland's regional development agency, empowering innovative SMEs, startups, and scale-ups through investment, innovation support, and internationalisation. - LIOF – Supports innovative startups and SMEs in Limburg with advice, financing, and a strong focus on cross-border collaboration. - NV NOM – Regional investment and development agency supporting entrepreneurs in Groningen, Friesland, and Drenthe through funding, expertise, and networks. - Oost NL – Partners with innovative entrepreneurs in Gelderland and Overijssel to accelerate sustainable progress in food, health, tech, and energy. - ROM InWest – Helps innovative entrepreneurs in Noord-Holland become fundable and grow sustainably while delivering both financial and social returns. - ROM Utrecht Region – Connects startups and scale-ups in health, sustainability, and digitalization with funding, expertise, and networks across the Utrecht region. Collectively, they have: ✅ backed thousands of startups, scale-ups, and SMEs, ✅ mobilised billions in co-investment alongside private capital, ✅ helped anchor strategic technologies and industrial activities in the Netherlands: from health and agri-food to semiconductors, energy, and advanced manufacturing. Are you a startup, innovation executive, investor, or ecosystem partner coming to the Hello Tomorrow Summit? 👉 Join ROM-Nederland in Amsterdam to spark new opportunities across regions (link in the comments).

🌍 We are excited to announce the first demo day of the Europe-Asia Innovation Bridge community! Launched by Hello Tomorrow, Innovation Bridge is designed to connect high potential deep tech startups with relevant investors, corporates, and ecosystem partners across Europe and Asia. This first demo day (online) will bring together a selected group of startups and investors from Europe and Asia, offering free pitching opportunities and exchanges with experts. It marks the first step in a broader series of community initiatives, including: → thematic demo days, → expert webinars, → masterclasses, → curated 1:1 introductions, → market access opportunities, …and more. 👉 Register your interest here: https://lnkd.in/eUR8qMKH 🗓️ 3 June, 2026 The Innovation Bridge team will review and then follow up with the demo day access link and relevant details. 📩 If you are a startup, investor, corporate, or ecosystem partner interested in future Europe-Asia deep tech opportunities, share your profile to be considered for future Innovation Bridge opportunities: https://lnkd.in/epJxneke

🙌 Congratulations to the Energy track finalists of the Hello Tomorrow Challenge! Supported by Breakthrough Energy Discovery and Honda Xcelerator Ventures, this track showcases the 7 best startups driving the low-carbon energy transition forward. Get to know them: 🇺🇸 Active Surfaces make peel-and-stick perovskite solar modules that install without racking or roof penetrations, unlocking commercial roofs, data centers, and infrastructure that can't support traditional panels. 🇫🇷 Exora | Cooling Technologies store low-grade waste heat for hours or days using advanced porous materials, releasing it as heating or cooling and cutting electricity consumption by up to 90% compared to conventional air-conditioning. 🇫🇷 HyReveal translate the geology of hydrogen generation and migration into actionable insights, helping mining and energy operators identify exploration opportunities and manage gas hazards underground. 🇱🇻 Naco Technologies extend the lifetime of green hydrogen systems by more than 2x while cutting noble material usage by 10x, using future-proof coatings that are robust, reliable, and a fraction of the cost of chemical alternatives. 🇳🇴 nanoCaps deliver supercapacitor electrodes with 3-4x higher energy storage capacity than existing solutions, enabling smaller, faster-charging, and more durable storage across EVs, wearables, and renewable energy systems. 🇫🇷 Shifted - Energy Storage combine pumped hydro and compressed air into a single storage system that is 70% efficient, costs under €150/kWh, requires no critical materials, and can be located anywhere to solve wind and solar intermittency. 🇺🇸 SorbiForce build the world's first non-metal, water-based battery that unifies real-time power-quality control and long-duration storage, stabilising AI data centers and modern grids without fire risk. See them among the 100 startups pitching at the Hello Tomorrow Summit. Who will take home the €100K cash prize? 👀 🔗 Grab your pass to find out live. Link in the comments #HelloTomorrow2026 #DeepTechChallenge #Energy

Europe’s deep tech ecosystem is gathering in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Alongside the Hello Tomorrow Summit, a series of curated gatherings will bring together deep tech leaders, investors, founders, corporates, and policymakers for focused conversations and networking 👇 SIDE EVENTS AT THE SUMMIT: 🔹 Amsterdam Chief Strategy Officer roundtable - Capturing value from Europe’s deep tech wave - organised by McKinsey & Company 11 June 2026 - 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM An intimate session for European Chief Strategy Officers exploring how to capture value from Europe's deep tech wave through venturing, partnerships, and M&A as the ecosystem scales toward $1 trillion in potential. 🔗 https://luma.com/hvnoosz1 🔹 NN Social Innovation Startup Award - organised by Rubio Impact Ventures and NN 11 June 2026 - 3:00 PM - 5:15 PM | NDSM, Amsterdam Watch impact-driven startups pitch for €200K in total grants live at the Hello Tomorrow Summit. The NN Social Innovation Startup Award spotlights tech-enabled ventures improving mental, physical, and financial well-being. Meet the founders and see who takes home the prize. 🔗 https://luma.com/e4gcaup4 🔹 EIC Scaling Club networking with European scaleups – organised by EIC Scaling Club, EIC - European Innovation Council - INVITE ONLY 11 June 2026 - 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | NDSM, Amsterdam Meet with the most promising European scaleups from the EIC Scaling Club in a unique networking opportunity, including scaleup pitches, corporate reverse pitches, and a networking cocktail. Connect with innovators, investors, and corporates to explore partnerships, and discover breakthroughs in deep tech. 🔗 https://luma.com/5pkhk1t8 🔹 Agentic AI behind the pilots - organised by McKinsey & Company 11 June 2026 - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM This roundtable will bring together a select group of leading CIOs and COOs to explore scaling Agentic AI beyond the pilots. We will hear from leaders from companies like KPN and TenneT on how they successfully scaled Agentic AI use cases. 🔗 https://luma.com/m6gvd5q0 🔹 R&D Leaders Roundtable - organised by McKinsey & Company 12 June 2026 - 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM A curated session for CTOs and R&D executives exploring the Future of R&D in deep tech, featuring Joost Smits, leader of Development & Engineering at ASML (with 4+bn EUR R&D spending!) 🔗 https://luma.com/c7hld9fe SIDE EVENTS OUTSIDE THE SUMMIT: 🔹 Australia & European Partners Deep Tech Showcase - organised by Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) - INVITE ONLY 11 June 2026 - 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM | NDSM, Amsterdam You are invited to learn about Australian, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Finnish companies with an ambition to deepen engagement with investors and corporates. This will be achieved through a curated program of sector briefings, spotlight sessions, 1:1 B2B meetings, closing with a networking reception. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eQNHdAai More side events here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ekvpWz6h