Synergy 2025 @ Upstream

Synergy Ecosystem

For the investors, changemakers, and artists that shape our Energy Future

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No buzzwords — real breakthroughs. Join Synergy @ Upstream and meet innovators, investors, artists, and system thinkers who are reshaping the energy economy. Discover how art, tech, and bright minds collide to break old systems—and spark a future where clean energy is shared, owned, and open to everyone.

Agenda

Wake up with barista coffee

Welcome by Arthur, bring the community together, and learn about Synergy's plans for 2025-2026!

Opening & presentation Synergy 2025

What is the benefit of an integrated energy system? How do we make local energy systems scalable, investable, and reliable? 


Panel 1: Local Integrated Energy Economies - Making Local Energy Bankable

Pitch time! 4 founders/innovators present their solutions.

 Innovator Pitches (round 1)

Lunch meets matchmaking. You meet the relevant ones. Speed date your way through a savory meal. 

Networking lunch – “Collect the Handshakes”

After lunch we will ask you what meaningful connections you have made. Be prepared for pop up mic time! 

Count the handshakes

How can we achieve conflict-free energy? What about materials, rare earth metals, can we achieve regenerative energy systems without them? About the speaker: Cécile is an idealist at heart. As one of the co-founders of the niche (anti-)consultancy Copper8 she is an unconventional thinker and -entrepreneur. With her colleagues she likes to ignite change in sectors by revealing ‘inconvenient truths about the material-side of impact; setting up new collaborative models and asking daring procurement questions to create market demand.

Keynote: Energy Circularity for Peace

In this fireside chat Bart Lacroix, crowdfunding and impact entrepreneurship virtuoso, shares the vision of a crowd platform for multiplying the good that we do together. Don't miss it!  

GoodUp * Synergy - to make our impact fly, we multiply

Three innovators join the stage & present potential breakthroughs.

Innovator Pitches (ronde 2)

How do festivals provide the perfect soil for breakthrough innovations? Learn about how Synergy chooses festivals as the perfect living lab for deep innovation, and how you can be part of it. Join Tijl Couzij (Into the Great Wide Open), Esmee Bouwmeister (DGTL) and more during this panel

Panel 3: Festivals as Pop-up Societies

Break - meet - connect

3 innovators pitch and engage with the Synergy community! 

Pitch round 3

Panel 4 - tech for breakthrough

Closing words for the day, opening words for the rest of an innovation-laden year! 

Closing remarks

Drinks (with all Upstream participants)

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