Industrial Future Summit 26
VISION
A Europe that shapes the next era of industrial transformation, not just adapts to it. Where established industrial leaders and ambitious startups build the future together.
MISSION
Industrial Future Summit brings together industrial leaders, startups, and investors who are ready to work together, not just talk about it. Once a year, we create the space to build real partnerships around AI, automation, sustainability, and industrial deep tech, and to back the startups solving the hardest problems in these fields.
Our goal is a long-term platform, not a one-off event: one that turns conversations into partnerships, and partnerships into investments that strengthen Europe’s industrial base for the decade ahead.
Behind the Industrial Future Summit
Combient foundry
Industrial Future Summit is powered by Combient Foundry, operator of the world’s largest venture client alliance. Combient Foundry connects industrial companies with startups worldwide and manages the process end to end, from identifying challenges to piloting solutions.
Lauri Lehtovuori
CEO, Combient Foundry
At the Industrial Future Summit, Lauri brings industry leaders together to define what Europe's industrial future demands. Through Combient Foundry's Venture Alliance, those insights get turned into action, shortening the path from new technology to real production.
Aleksandra Hansen
Partnership & Network Lead, Combient Foundry
Aleksandra is a natural networker and community builder. Together with our partners, she creates the platform where that vision comes to life, bringing the right people into the room and making the Summit and the Alliance work in practice.
The Board
Combient Foundry is backed by is backed by Combient Group, a network of 37 leading Nordic enterprises with a combined revenue of over $180B and 800,000+ employees, working together on strategic transformation.
Jukka Ryhänen
Chairman of the Board
Combient Foundry
Mats Agervi
Board Member
Combient Foundry
Salla Franzén
Board Member
Combient Foundry
Fred Wallenberg
Board Member
Combient Foundry
Europe's industrial future will be decided by how fast it turns AI, automation, and circularity into productivity and growth, and by how well it secures the compute, energy, and materials that make all three possible.
Lauri Lehtovuori
CEO, Combient Foundry
BUILDING
the next 100 years of European industry
Join the place where Europe’s next industrial chapter is being written. Limited capacity. Invite-curated. Outcomes-driven.
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