FLAGSHIP EVENTS

Adressing Global Challenges

The BMW Foundation's flagship events create trusted spaces for leaders and decision-makers to address the defining challenges of our time. Bringing together diverse expertise and perspectives, they foster strategic dialogue, strengthen relationships, and encourage the collaboration needed to turn ideas into action. Held at pivotal moments in the global calendar, these convenings connect those shaping business, policy, science, and society to develop practical responses to complex global challenges.

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Energy Security Hub @MSC

Energy Security Hub @MSC

Energy has become one of the defining questions of Europe's security, competitiveness, and resilience. As an official partner of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), the BMW Foundation convenes senior leaders to examine how the energy transition intersects with geopolitics, industrial competitiveness, technological innovation, and economic prosperity.Held alongside one of the world's leading forums on international security, the Energy Security Hub creates a trusted setting for strategic dialogue on Europe's evolving energy landscape. Through keynote conversations, interactive discussions, and curated exchanges, participants explore emerging developments, challenge assumptions, and identify opportunities for collaboration across sectors and borders.
Recent editions have addressed topics including Europe's energy independence, industrial decarbonization, critical infrastructure, clean energy technologies, financing the energy transition, and the role of innovation in strengthening Europe's long-term competitiveness. Bringing together policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, investors, and innovators, the Hub has become a platform for connecting strategic thinking with practical action.Explore highlights from previous editions on our YouTube channel.Featured speakers include:
  • Christian Bruch, President and CEO, Siemens Energy
  • Katharina Reiche, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany
  • Dan Jørgensen, European Commissioner for Energy and Housing
  • Jessika Roswall, European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy
  • Christian Bruch, President and CEO, Siemens Energy
  • Katherina Reiche, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany
  • Dan Jørgensen, European Commissioner for Energy and Housing
  • Jessika Roswall, European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy
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Katherina Reiche, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany
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Dan Jørgensen, European Commissioner for Energy and Housing
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The Leaders Collaboration Forum

The Leaders Collaboration Forum

How do we make innovative solutions work for society? This question is at the heart of the Leaders Collaboration Forum, our annual flagship gathering in Berlin. Bringing together international leaders from business, policy, science, philanthropy, and civil society, the Forum explores what it takes to move promising ideas beyond the pilot stage and create lasting impact. From climate technologies and industrial transformation to democratic resilience and digital innovation, many solutions already exist. The greater challenge lies in implementation. Through strategic dialogue, peer exchange, and collaborative workshops, participants examine how financing, regulation, leadership, and cross-sector collaboration can help turn innovation into real-world progress.Designed as an interactive and highly collaborative experience, the Forum creates opportunities to build trusted relationships, develop new partnerships, and identify practical pathways for scaling solutions that address today's most pressing challenges.
Each edition of the Forum explores a different dimension of implementation and systems change. Recent discussions have examined Europe's industrial competitiveness, the future of clean energy and advanced technologies, sustainable finance, resilient supply chains, and the societal conditions needed for innovation to succeed. While the topics evolve, the central question remains the same: How can promising solutions create meaningful impact at scale?Explore highlights from previous editions on our YouTube channel.
Featured speakers include:
  • Anne-Laure de Chammard, Group Executive Vice President and Executive Board Member, Siemens Energy
  • Bruno Le Maire, former Minister of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, France
  • Eckart von Hirschhausen, physician, TV host, and founder of the Healthy Planet – Healthy People Foundation
  • Maria Leptin, President, European Research Council (ERC)
Bruno Le Maire, Writer and former Minister of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial, Energy, and Digital Sovereignty of France
Dan Jørgensen, European Commissioner for Energy and Housing
Marc Beckmann
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Four Key Takeaways from the Leaders Collaboration Forum 2026

How can Europe turn its technological and economic strengths into solutions that benefit society? At the BMW Foundation's Leaders Collaboration Forum 2026 in Berlin, more than 300 leaders discussed how to strengthen Europe's competitiveness, accelerate innovation, and build public trust in times of change.

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