Pitch Per­fect and boost the European Bioeconomy 2025

The ​‘Pitch Per­fect and Boost the European Bioeconomy’ event is a two day event of intense cross-bor­der and cross-sec­tor­al pitch­ing, match­mak­ing and net­work­ing, with the aim to link industry to innov­at­ive (biobased) tech­no­lo­gies, innov­at­ors to investors and to cre­ate new part­ner­ships for the future and the fur­ther devel­op­ment of innov­at­ive, cross-bor­der and cross-sec­tor­al indus­tri­al value chains in the biobased economy.

Main driver of the event in Brus­sels on Novem­ber 24^th/​25th: Bring all stake­hold­ers one needs to go from lab to fab togeth­er in one room, for the sole pur­pose of cre­at­ing an impact on the com­mer­cial­iz­a­tion of the bioeconomy. To do so, we aim at match­ing the over­whelm­ing suc­cess of the 2024 edi­tion (465+ par­ti­cipants, 115 top-notch pitches, 180+ start-ups/SMEs, 50+ investors, 50+ cor­por­ates, 25+ pilot facil­it­ies and 160 oth­er bioeconomy stakeholders). 

What’s in it for (to-be-)START-UPS, SCALE-UPS and SMEs?

1. Apply for a pitch slot and show­case your tech­no­logy! We are look­ing for 99 innov­at­ive & inspir­ing tech­no­logy pitches, gran­ted on a FCFS basis, dead­line: Novem­ber 3^rd, 2025.
2. Con­nect with INVESTORS (33 con­firmed so far, we aim at 50+ by Novem­ber; 17 so far will pitch their fund) and CORPORATES.
3. Con­nect with 30+ pilot facil­it­ies from the Pilots4U powered by CoPi­lot net­work and/​or learn all about scale-up dur­ing the Open Day at the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant on Novem­ber 26^th, 2025. 
4. Con­nect with peers, sci­ent­ists, poten­tial (pub­lic pro­ject) part­ners, ser­vice & equip­ment pro­viders, clusters, pub­lic act­ors, policy advisors and oth­er bioeconomy stakeholders. 
5. Sched­ule your B2B meet­ings upfront using our optim­ized online SWAP­CARD tool.

How do we FACIL­IT­ATE par­ti­cip­a­tion of START-UPS, SCALE-UPS and SMEs?

• Low regis­tra­tion fees, book 1 or 2 days.
• Ven­ue loc­ated across the Brus­sels Air­port Ter­min­al to facil­it­ate fly-in-fly-out on Tues­day 25 Novem­ber (Pitch Day).
• Block Book­ings for accom­mod­a­tion at bene­fi­cial rates, see ​“Regis­tra­tion” page.
• 30 travel vouch­ers, worth € 500 each, avail­able through the Pilots4U powered by CoPi­lot pro­ject. More info soon at: https://​copi​lot​-pro​ject​.eu/​o​p​e​n​-​c​alls/.

What’s in it for COR­POR­ATES and INVESTORS?

1. Attend & do some ser­i­ous and effi­cient tal­ent & tech­no­logy scouting.
2. Get an update on the latest devel­op­ments in innov­at­ive tech­no­lo­gies for the bioeconomy. 
3. Pitch your fund or invest­ment proposal.
4. See 3. – 5. above!

What’s in it for oth­er bioeconomy stake­hold­ers? Well, all that is men­tioned above and for:

• Pilot facil­it­ies: Apply for a 3‑minute pitch slot and con­nect with poten­tial customers.
• Ser­vice & equip­ment pro­viders, clusters, con­sult­ants, pub­lic act­ors: Book a booth to enjoy high vis­ib­il­ity in the Atri­um through­out the event, con­nect with poten­tial customers/​members. Send an email to anneleen.​de.​vriendt@​bbeu.​org to book your booth.
• Policy advisors: Join us and exper­i­ence how vibrant and impact­ful the bioeconomy eco­sys­tem is.

What’ s new in 2025?

• Two ​“Reverse-pitch­ing by investors” ses­sions on Day 1, mak­ing investors and the spe­cific­a­tions of the (private) funds they rep­res­ent more vis­ible to both innov­at­ors and poten­tial co-investors.
• A PARTY at the end of Day 1. Our 5^th post-cov­id con­fer­ence, def­in­itely calls for a party. We invite you to pro­pose a cre­at­ive name for this party, if we adopt your sug­ges­tion, you WIN a FREE REGISTRATION! 

Register now to join us for two days of intense cross-bor­der and cross sec­tor­al net­work­ing, innov­a­tion scout­ing and matchmaking.

Click here for more inform­a­tion and registration