綠色科技論壇

The biggest bottleneck for the AI boom isn't silicon anymore, it's reliable, 24/7 electricity. This session breaks down how private capital is stepping in to power massive data centers, exploring why the smartest money is backing Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and next-gen energy storage as commercial necessities for the AI age.

GreenTech now works both ends of the emissions problem: tools that price climate risk and verify green bonds, and infrastructure that cuts emissions in how capital moves, tokenised settlement replacing multi-day clearing. Financial institutions are building and buying into both, and the harder question is: what still doesn't work?

The era of fragmented, unprofitable "smart city" pilots has given way to a high-stakes race to build an AI-powered central nervous system of the municipal infrastructure. As megacities mandate real-time algorithmic integration to survive climate shocks and grid constraints, this session explores the highly lucrative tech stack that actively optimises urban energy, mobility, and physical assets to run the concrete jungles of the future.

As the aviation sector works towards its net-zero goals, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is maturing from a laboratory innovation into a global export commodity. This session explores the commercial roadmaps and economic frameworks required to scale production effectively. Industry experts will discuss pathways to optimising supply chains, managing production costs, and unlocking the capital needed to build robust, high-volume infrastructure worldwide.

The era of vague sustainability pledges has been crushed by a ruthless global consolidation, driven by 2026 environmental tariffs and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) mandates. This session reveals how the sharpest institutional funds are using digital carbon passports and emerging traceability software to spot supply chain resilience, and decode how to turn this hard transparency data into defensible portfolio alpha.

Building next-generation green infrastructure is often too expensive and risky for private venture capital to tackle alone. This session brings together project developers, financial institutions and impact investors to look at what it takes to structure and fund a green infrastructure project across Asia, using new financing tools and technology to prove a project's impact, not just price its risk. It examines the partnerships that make a project bankable in the first place and keep it that way long after it's built.

Every impact investor says they want to fund high-impact ventures at scale, but what actually earns a deal a green light, and what quietly kills it, rarely gets said out loud. This session talks through the real decision-making behind impact capital: what moves investors, including family offices, from ESG interest to actual deployment, how to tell genuine impact from impact-washing, and what it takes to mobilise more capital, faster, across sectors.

Accelerating the green transition requires aligning capital, technology, and implementation across the real economy. This session explores emerging trends across sustainable investing, supply chain ESG compliance, and inclusive finance. Industry leaders will discuss how innovative platforms and financing strategies are driving measurable sustainability and long-term impact across global markets.

Cleantech has never had more capital chasing it, but pilots don't scale themselves. Between a lab breakthrough and a commercial deployment sits a graveyard of promising technology that couldn't handle real-world costs, permitting or engineering constraints. This session gets specific about what actually closes that gap: the operational discipline, project financing structures and industrial partnerships that turn a working prototype into infrastructure someone will actually build and run at scale.