Strategic Conference

The four days that frame the European energy decade

Europe’s energy system is being reshaped by rising demand, electrification, AI, geopolitical uncertainty and the need to remain globally competitive. Meeting these demands requires a connected energy system where supply, infrastructure, grids, markets, capital and technology work together rather than in isolation.

The Strategic Conference is the senior convening built for this moment. Over four days in Hannover, it brings together the CEOs, ministers, capital principals and technology leaders setting the strategic direction of European energy for the decade ahead.

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CONFERENCE TOPICS

Security, Resilience & European Competitiveness

Sets the stakes

Energy security after Russia and Hormuz
Keeping industry in Europe
The new gas and LNG supply map
The defence-energy nexus
Critical minerals and the China dependency
The European Energy Compact

Energy Systems

Tests the build

The 2030 build: on track or not
Offshore wind after the auctions
Negative prices: can the market fund it
Firm capacity: who pays for backup
The supergrid supply chain crunch
New nuclear: built in time, or not

Markets & Capital

Finds the capital

Funding Europe’s €660bn-a-year energy build
Closing the bankability gap with the US
Gulf and global capital moves in
Unlocking pension and sovereign wealth capital
Trading carbon: ETS, ETS2 and CBAM
The cost of European energy capital

AI & the Next Decade

Reveals the future

The AI demand shock
Powering AI: gas, nuclear or renewables
Inside Big Tech’s energy deals
Compute sovereignty: powering Europe’s AI
AI running - and securing - the grid
The frontier: fusion, geothermal, 2035

CONFERENCE THEMES

The four days of the summit form a single connected argument, moving from the security and competitiveness questions defining today, through the systems and capital questions defining the next five years, to the demand-side disruption defining the next ten.

SECURITY, RESILIENCE & COMPETITIVENESS

Three connected questions define the European energy decade. How does Europe maintain energy security in a more contested geopolitical environment. How does it deliver the decarbonisation timetable it has committed to. And how does it keep its industrial base globally competitive while doing both. These are no longer three separate conversations held by three separate audiences. They are one connected strategic question with one shared set of answers.

ENERGY SYSTEMS

Europe is building the energy system the next four decades will run on. The 2030 targets sit at the centre, supported by the largest policy framework, capital deployment, and political mandate the continent has ever assembled around energy. The work now is execution at scale. Permitting reform, connection capacity expansion, supply chain readiness, market design modernisation, the operational machinery delivering the build is being upgraded in parallel with the projects themselves.

MARKETS & CAPITAL

European energy is one of the largest infrastructure opportunities of the decade: €660 billion a year through 2030. Behind it: a maturing transition finance market, €75 billion in EIB investment over three years, Gulf, Nordic and Asian sovereign capital moving into European infrastructure, and institutional investors deepening their energy exposure. The capital is there. The question is how it gets deployed.

AI & THE NEXT DECADE

AI infrastructure is now Europe's largest new source of energy demand in twenty years, and the deal templates being written today will shape corporate procurement, transmission planning, and industrial strategy for the rest of the decade. Hyperscalers are negotiating multi-gigawatt, multi-decade power agreements directly with utilities, developers, and governments. The procurement architecture, siting framework, and policy response are all forming now.

More information around the conferences themes, topics and speakers will be released soon.

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5–8 April 2027

Hannover, Germany

5–8 April 2027 |Hannover, Germany

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