Industrial Renaissance
Europe is at Risk of Irrelevance
The result: Europe is losing the ability to build, scale, and defend the systems it depends on. Re-industrialisation is now discussed everywhere, but delivery remains slow, fragmented, and undercapitalised.
Day 1 of HackSummit exists for those confronting this gap head on : founders, operators, and capital partners trying to rebuild manufacturing capability inside Europe, under tighter margins, higher energy costs, and heavier regulation.
These companies:
- operate where physics, regulation, and capex dominate
- depend on long supply chains, fixed assets, and skilled labour
- pay for mistakes through downtime, cost overruns, and failed deployments
Our Topics
Energy
sovereignty
Nations and industries are confronting energy dependence, grid fragility, and exposure to volatile inputs, forcing a rethink of how and where energy is produced.
Manufacturing reality
The return of manufacturing is now limited by labour shortages, capex constraints, and long lead times, exposing the gap between ambition and execution.
Resource constraints
Access to critical materials, fuels, and inputs is becoming a strategic bottleneck, shaping industrial competitiveness and geopolitical leverage.
Supply-chain fragility
Global supply chains optimised for efficiency are breaking under shocks, forcing industries to prioritise localisation, and physical robustness.
New frontiers exploration
Ocean, space, and extreme environments are becoming viable domains, bounded by physics, regulation, and capital requirements.
Who is this for?
This day is for people who believe building hard tech matters.
Founders and operators
- building energy, materials, manufacturing, mobility, and frontier infrastructure
- working in regulated and capital-intensive environments
Investors and capital partners
- underwriting long build cycles and first-of-kind risk
- comfortable with technical, regulatory, and geopolitical exposure
Corporate and industrial leaders
- looking for deployable technology
- accountable for research & development and system resilience
Policy and Ecosystem builders
- writing rules that must work in practice
- allocating capital into assets that need to hold over time
Who This Is Not For
This day is not for people looking for quick wins, founders avoiding regulation, capex, or geopolitical exposure or capital allocators uncomfortable with first-of-a-kind systems
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