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Thank you for attending the 2022 edition of

Cleantech Forum Asia in Singapore on 12-13 October!

We had a great two days of education and business deals. Check back soon for details about the next edition!

Our theme, From commitments to actions: the sprint to net zero is on will inspire a research-led agenda where experts discuss the big ideas with the power to deliver a cleaner, cooler world.

Join us for easy access to start-ups, scale-ups, investors and multinationals from across the region and the world. Not only will you meet the future of Asia’s sustainable innovation ecosystem, but you’ll also discover the global connections that will fuel your next opportunities wherever you live and work. Don’t miss this great opportunity to learn from the future of Asia’s sustainable innovation ecosystem, including companies on the recently released 2022 APAC Cleantech 25 list.

Who Attends

The Cleantech Forum Asia connects the latest generation of start-ups with investors and corporates looking for new partners. From co-investors to general partners (GPs) and limited partners (LPs), you’ll meet 150+ forward-thinking colleagues who can take you in new and exciting directions. 

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APAC Cleantech 25

Every year, we unveil a new edition of the APAC Cleantech 25, a list of leading private cleantech innovation companies from across the region. The winners are selected by combining an assessment from the APAC Cleantech 25 expert panel, people connecting regularly with innovators in the region, along with APAC inputs from the Global Cleantech 100. This highly anticipated annual report brings you the complete list of leading companies combined with analysis of the innovation and investment trends in the region. 

The 2022 APAC Cleantech 25 report has been published! Attendees of the Cleantech Forum Asia will have the opportunity to connect with many of the companies on the list at the event.  

Contact

If you have any questions about Cleantech Forum Asia or are interested in sponsoring the event, please feel free to contact us at forums@cleantech.com.

Entrepreneurs

What Do Entrepreneurs Get at a Forum?

Join us in Singapore on 12-13 October 2022 and get your start-up or scale-up in front of investors, corporates and other entrepreneurs who can help you take the next step. Whether you want investment, advice or there’s a technology gap you need to fill, you’ll meet the right people.

The official deadline for companies to present at Cleantech Forum Asia to investors and corporates looking for successful start-ups and scale-ups, passed on September 2. There were still 1-2 places still available after the deadline. If interested, please take the two minutes to apply to join an Innovation Showcase.

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Participating Innovators

The schedule for the Innovation Showcases is coming together now, but below is a glimpse into some of the different innovators who will be participating. Check the agenda soon for exact times. Innovation Showcases feature innovation companies who present why they think they have a solution of interest to South-East Asia.

View the current list of innovators to see who will be joining us in Singapore.

Benefits of Attending

Register for the Cleantech Forum Asia today and join us to: 

  • Increase your company’s profile by becoming a participant in the Innovation Showcase. 
  • Gain access to leaders in the field and be introduced to relevant investors/corporates. 
  • Expand your reach and highlight what your company can do in the virtual exhibition hall. 
  • Meet like-minded colleagues, including many from the APAC Cleantech 25, a list of leading private cleantech innovation companies from across the region. 
  • Learn from experts, other innovators, as well as investors, over two days as speakers discuss trends shaping the future of sustainable innovation. 

Investors and Corporates

What Do Investors and Corporates Get at a Forum?

Join us in Singapore on 12-13 October to build your network of cleantech leaders and top entrepreneurs. You can take advantage of a research-led agenda that includes presentations from investable companies and experts in the trends shaping the future of sustainable innovation.

Participating Investors & Corporates

Meet with corporates and investors who can take your company to the next level. Here are just a few companies joining us in Singapore:

 

See who else you’ll meet in Singapore

Benefits of Attending

Register for Cleantech Forum Asia today to: 

  • Maximize your opportunities of finding future partnerswe even help you by making introductions.  
  • Hear from top innovators poised to transform the region in the Innovation Showcase and attend the general sessions to learn from sustainable innovation leaders. 
  • Meet many of the companies on the APAC Cleantech 25, a list of leading private cleantech innovation companies from across the region. 
  • Build your network, create moments that matter, and connect with colleagues in-person and on the mobile app.  

Agenda

October 12, 2022

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  • Ballroom Foyer
    Registration & Welcome Coffee

    Expecting most will take breakfast at home or their hotel, a simple welcome coffee will be served in the general networking area, ahead of the day’s agenda.

  • Ballroom 1 & 2
    Welcome (back) to Singapore, for Cleantech Forum Asia

    The last time we were able to convene this event was three years ago. As part of the welcome back, we will hear what has changed in Singapore’s ambitions and targets, its plans and strategies, the topics of highest focus, as it develops both its innovation economy and its strategies to achieve net zero

  • Ballroom 1 & 2
    From commitments to actions: the sprint to net zero is on (or is it?)

    Cleantech Group will provide its typical tour of our global innovation ecosystem, highlighting the key innovation topics and investment trends, as well as some of the key players, to pay attention to in the year(s) ahead. This will be followed by a panel-style session, to call out the innovation and investment trends some key players in the market are seeing and experiencing across the Asia-Pacific region

  • Ballroom 1 & 2
    The 2022 Cleantech APAC 25: leading sustainable innovation companies in the Asia Pacific region

    Cleantech Group will introduce you to the 2022 edition of the Cleantech APAC 25, the fourth annual edition, and celebrate and give the stage to the companies who are with us. Each year, the list highlights 25 private and independent companies from around the Asia-Pacific region we think you should be paying attention to. As with all our lists, it is based on our read of who, players in the market believe, can have significant market impact in the coming 5-10 years. The 2022 edition is now released! Ahead of the break, we will officially award and celebrate the companies in the room. Tomorrow morning they will take the stage to present their companies.

  • Networking Session
    Ballroom Foyer
    Networking Break
  • Showcase Session
    Ballroom 1 & 2
    Innovation Showcase 1 - solutions to pay attention to, in energy and power, and enablers of decarbonization

    In this first showcase, we will present a group of five companies, looking for capital and partners to help develop and grow the potential of their next generation solutions. The solutions relate to alternative ways to produce ammonia and hydrogen, plus solar and community energy solutions. Three investor reviewers will be on hand to ask some questions and make some comments.

  • Networking Session
    Ballroom Foyer
    Networking Lunch

    After lunch, we will focus on catching up on innovation related to delivering smarter, more sustainable and net zero cities; plus a look at two of the hardest decarbonization and pollution challenges out there. There will be two rooms going.

  • Ballroom 1 & 2
    Decarbonizing the built environment: a lens on what's coming

    Building energy efficiency and renewables integration is moving beyond energy cost savings toward potential for grid participation and revenue generation by commercial & industrial building operators. Early use cases offer a lens on what to expect in the coming decades.

  • Ballroom 3
    Alternative proteins: the new trends in context

    Investment in the alt protein space has continued to boom during the Covid era. Gas-fermentation and cultivated meat innovation are two novel trends that present dramatic decarbonization potential yet face significant scaling challenges.

  • Transition Break
  • Ballroom 1 & 2
    Electrifying mobility in South and Southeast Asia: A scan of the different approaches and solutions

    Rolling out electric mobility will require both vehicles and infrastructure to be tailored to the highly-variable travel needs between South and Southeast Asian countries. Innovators are embracing vertically-integrated models to create highly-customized local solutions. This session will compare and contrast a few regional examples.

    Co-hosted by bp Ventures

  • Networking Session
    Ballroom Foyer
    Networking Break
  • Ballroom 3
    Smart cities and micromobility

    In addition to electrifying cars and buses, new methods of transportation will be needed to reduce congestion and emissions from transport in cities. The session will focus on innovators who are rewriting the urban mobility playbook.

  • Ballroom 1 & 2
    Circularity & Packaging: a key battleground for brands of a sustainable future

    Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations are cropping up across Asia, with Hong Kong tabling action on plastic beverage bottles and Singapore introducing laws for both packaging and e-waste by 2025. Corporations have begun to make pledges and pilot reuse, return or reduction schemes. This session will assess the impact of EPR regulations for corporates in Asia and the state of innovation solutions designed to enable and smooth their transition.

  • Transition Break
  • Showcase Session
    Ballroom 1 & 2
    Innovation Showcase 2 - meet UK innovators looking for capital and partners

    A delegation of UK ventures will present their innovations and why their solutions are of interest to south-east Asia, the Asia-Pacific and beyond.

    Co-hosted by Energy Catalyst

  • Networking Session
    Ballroom Foyer
    Networking Reception

    Wind down with us at the end of the day to continue the networking.

October 13, 2022

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  • Ballroom Foyer
    Registration & Welcome Coffee

    Expecting most will take breakfast at home or their hotel, a simple welcome coffee will be served in the general networking area, ahead of the day’s agenda.

  • Showcase Session
    Ballroom 1 & 2
    Innovation Showcase 3 - meet some of the 2022 Cleantech APAC 25, leading sustainable innovation companies in the Asia Pacific region

    The opening session of our second day will present to you six of the 2022 Cleantech APAC 25 companies. The fourth annual edition was released in September. See it here.

  • Transition Break
  • Showcase Session
    Ballroom 1 & 2
    Innovation Showcase 4 - valuing our waste streams, valuing our natural resources

    In this showcase, we will present a group of companies, looking for capital and partners to help develop and grow the potential of their next generation solutions. The solutions relate to chemical separation, water or to converting waste streams into something valuable. Two investor reviewers will be on hand to ask some questions and make some comments.

  • Networking Session
    Ballroom Foyer
    Networking Break

    From this point on, we will have a significant focus on carbon, with sessions exploring CCUS and carbon offsets markets, a showcase of carbon removal and carbon credits related innovators, ending in a case study session, where Cleantech Group will share its learnings in trying to offset this event, by supporting innovation.

  • Ballroom 1 & 2
    Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage: in pursuit of net zero in the Asian Pacific

    The session will seek to discuss the emerging CCUS market – globally, for broad context, but with the main objective to tease out what is happening in the Asia Pacific region, and what opportunities this may bring forward for various forms of innovation and innovators.

    Co-hosted by Roland Berger

  • Networking Session
    Ballroom Foyer
    Networking Lunch
  • Ballroom 3
    Corporate challenges, and the challenges for startups in working with large corporates

    For the second part of the lunch break (please have your lunch first), all, but especially startups, are invited to attend this workshop-style session, in which Cleantech Group will offer its perspectives and viewpoints on our experiences with corporate challenges and programs where corporates seek out innovators to work with. What are the issues we see that arise? What advice for startups do we have in terms of positioning and preparing themselves? And what live challenges (that we know) are out there today (or will be soon) that might be of interest to people in the room?

  • Ballroom 1 & 2
    Carbon Offset Supply & Demand Dynamic in Asia

    The carbon offset market is rapidly growing, evolving and maturing, subsequently Asia is becoming a hub for offset trading. Asia produces few carbon offset projects compared to Europe and the Americas, while demand in the region continues to grow. In 2021, increased demand and low supply raised prices in the Voluntary Markets but also incentivized investors and regulators to support new and innovative project types. This session will discuss these supply and demand dynamics, and the commoditization of carbon for better or worse.

  • Transition Break
  • Showcase Session
    Ballroom 1 & 2
    Innovation Showcase 5 - enabling carbon removal, enabling carbon credits

    This showcase presents companies with solutions which seek to either enable carbon removal or enable carbon credits.

  • Networking Session
    Ballroom Foyer
    Networking Break
  • Ballrooms 1 & 2
    A Practical Case Study: Offsetting Cleantech Forums, Funding Innovation

    Cleantech Group pioneered the idea of cleantech innovation in the 2000s. Now we wish to pioneer not only offsetting events, but doing so by supporting relevant innovations.

    We have just taken our first step in the learning journey of how to do so, with a view to continual improvement over time. In this closing session we will share what we have done and why, to offset Cleantech Forum Asia, and what we learned about the voluntary carbon markets in the process. Attendees will be encouraged to share their experiences of offsets and discuss the challenges, opportunities that exist today, to do it as well and as meaningfully, as we would all like.

  • Networking Session
    Ballroom Foyer
    Closing Reception

Travel/Venue

Here’s our guide for planning your trip to Singapore:

Forum Venue – the Forum will be held at the Sheraton Towers Singapore

Hotel Accommodations – see below guidance on how to book your reservation at our venue hotel

Explore Singapore – enjoy your time exploring the Garden City and take part in additional activities

Singapore Entry Requirements – detailed requirements to know before you travel

Mask Requirements – Please note that masks are no longer needed in indoor public spaces in Singapore, but they are still required on public transportation.

Masks are still encouraged,  so please be sure to have one with you at all times.

Forum Venue & Hotel

Cleantech Forum Asia 2022 will be headquartered at the Sheraton Towers Singapore, 

located in the heart of Singapore next to the Newton station. The 5-star hotel is a mere 10-minute walk from Singapore’s famous shopping belt, Orchard Road. For those wishing to explore the garden city, you can easily get around via the Downtown and North South Lines to the Central Business District and other major places of interests, such as the Singapore Botanic Garden.

Hotel booking is now closed.

Explore Singapore

Arriving early to Cleantech Forum Asia, or extending your trip after the event? Here’s a brief guide to some activities and places to explore in the Lion City.

Outdoor Activities

Gardens by the Bay: Explore these waterfront gardens on reclaimed land, including the ‘Supertrees’ that inspired our event artwork for the Forum! These tree-shaped vertical gardens are between 9-16 storeys tall. Walk on the suspended walkway between two Supertrees, and in the evening, catch the sky show of choreographed lights and sounds at the Garden Rhapsody amidst the Supertrees.

And don’t miss out on the Cloud Forest, which features a 35-meter tall mountain and the world’s tallest indoor waterfall.

Museums & Entertainment

ArtScience Museum: Located within the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort, the lotus-shaped ArtScience Museum is an architectural must-see (along with the Marina Bay Sands Resort itself, of course!). Explore the exhibits on the intersection of art and science

Marina Bay Sands SkyPark: The iconic three-towered building with one of the largest cantilevers on top is impossible to miss across the Singapore skyline. Take a trip up to the SkyPark and enjoy the views from the Observation Deck or even take a swim in the infinity pool, 57 levels up!

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay: Known as the “Durian” because of its shape similar to that of the fruit, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, is host to an incredible range of world-class performances and events, across the genres of music, dance, theatre, visual arts and more. Check out the Esplanade’s website to see what’s on during your time in Singapore.

Dining

Singapore is a foodie’s heaven, with a wide mix of choices and cuisines. Our venue hotel is located next to the Newton Food Centre, one of the most famous hawker centres in Singapore, which was also featured in the movie, Crazy Rich Asians. The late-night market also boasts a couple vendors who have the world’s cheapest Michelin-starred food. Check out a local guide here.

Singapore Entry Requirements

If you are traveling to Singapore for the forum, here are a few things to know before you go:

  • You must be vaccinated for Covid-19 to enter Singapore (there are very few exceptions for non-residents, which can be found here). Please bring proof of vaccination
  • Check to see if you need a Visa to enter Singapore here
  • All travelers must fill in the SG Arrival Card up to 3 days before arrival
  • Mask wearing is required when indoors in Singapore

Speakers

Sponsors

A Platform for Greater Visibility

Sponsors and partners benefit from increased visibility and global networking opportunities. Every package is bespoke to make the most of your organization’s goals.

Interested in sponsoring the 2022 edition? Please contact us at forums@cleantech.com to discuss opportunities.