CleanTech for Resilience, March 2026 | Event

Cleantech for Resilience

SouthEast Europe unlocking competitiveness
& resilience for the whole of Europe

About the event

Our upcoming Cleantech for Resilience Day will focus on innovation in the grids and energy space, in the water technologies domain and in enabling AI (through grids, water, heating/cooling solutions).

The event will take place on March 30th, on the eve of the informal European Competitiveness Council.

This is an invitation only event and we are now at full capacity but let us know if you are interested in joining and we will get in touch if a place becomes available.

Event Agenda

30 March 2026

12:00 - 13:20 | Registration & Light Lunch

Welcome desk opens for participant registration and check-in.

13:20 - 14:00 | Opening Session: Cleantech for Resilience in SE Europe

13:20 - 14:00 | Opening Panel: Next EU Budget opportunities for SEE

Host: Suzana Carp, Founder, Cleantech SouthEast Europe; Co-Founder, Cleantech for CEE

Reinier van Lanschot, MEP
Alexandra Attalides, Member of Parliament for Nicosia
Dr. Alexandros Charalambides, Founder, Chrysalis Leap
Areti Roditi, Regional Mandate Manager, EIF
EIB (TBC)

14:00 - 14:15 | Keynote Speech: Ministerial level on Cypriot Presidency Priorities for Competitiveness, Energy, Resilience from SEE Europe

14:15 - 15:00 | Topical Roundtable I: Innovation in grids ushers in resilience era

Host: Claudia Patricolo, Ecosystem Development Director, Clean European Futures

Andreas Ioannides, President, Cyprus Union Of Solar Thermal
Alexandros Charalambides, PV-Dust Program
Krassen Dimitrov, President, Voltera
Menelaos Kamriyiannis, Electryone
Alexandros Manolis, RedoxOne

15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee Break

Host: Andreea Constantinescu, Lightrock

Konstantinos Lafkas, Uni.Fund (Greece)
Agnieszka Olsen, Polish-Romanian Investment Fund (Poland)
Natalia Donde, International Finance CorporationCorporation, World Bank
Mihnea Craciun, Endeavor (Romania)
Cristian Munteanu, Early-Game Ventures (Romania)
Alina Georgescu, Catalyst VC (Romania)

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16:00 - 16:30 | Topical Roundtable II: Rethinking Water Resilience

Host: Claudia Patricolo, Ecosystem Development Director, Clean European Futures

George Milis, Founder & CIO, PHOEBE Research and Innovation
Stefanos Vrochidis, Co-founder & CEO, CDXi
Demetrios Eliades, Assistant Research Professor, KIOS Center of Excellence

16:30 - 17:15 | Topical Roundtable III: The New Frontier: Cleantech for the age of AI

Hosted by Deloitte (TBC)

Kyriacos Charalambides, Deloitte
Monica Ioannidou Polemitis, Deloitte

17:15 - 17:45 | Investors session

Yiannis Eftychiou, Co-founder, 33east VC
Konstantinos Lafkas, Co-founder, Uni.fund
Marius Ghenea, Managing Partner, Catalyst VC

19:00 - 20:30 | Networking dinner