Climate Café: Sustainability in Events

Climate Café: Sustainability x Events

How can events, from festivals and sports to conferences and trade fairs, cut their footprint without losing their spark?

Join us for an evening on how sustainability is changing the events industry. From venue choice and supplier management to circular design and audience travel, we'll look at what it actually takes to lower environmental impact while keeping events worth showing up for.

In person & online.

Welcome to our Climate Café on Sustainability x Events!

Events move people, money, and culture. They also carry real environmental costs: travel emissions, temporary builds, waste, and resource use that add up fast.

As audiences, sponsors, regulators, and partners raise their expectations, organizers face a concrete question: how do you design an event that's both ambitious and responsible?

This Climate Café looks at sustainability across the whole event lifecycle: practical approaches, emerging best practices, and the real trade-offs between experience, budget, and environmental impact.

Whether you work on conferences, festivals, sports, trade fairs, or corporate gatherings, you'll leave with a clearer picture of where the biggest gains actually are.

Why attend?
✅ Understand the biggest sustainability challenges in the events industry
✅ Learn practical ways to cut impact across the event lifecycle
✅ See how organizers, suppliers, venues, and sponsors can move together
✅ Join an open discussion on what a genuinely sustainable event looks like

What you'll learn
✨ How to build sustainability into event planning from the start
✨ Practical approaches to waste reduction, circular design, and sustainable procurement
✨ The role of mobility, catering, infrastructure, and suppliers in cutting emissions
✨ What sports events, festivals, conferences, and trade fairs have already learned
✨ How sustainability can sharpen, not water down, the attendee experience

Our Speakers
🎤 Denise Heinemann, Team Lead Sustainability, FC Bayern
🎤 Enna Nething, Sustainability Manager, Olympiapark München
🎤 Kilian Osberghaus, CEO & Co-founder, ECENT

Save the Date
📅 July 16th, 2026, 7:30 PM
📍 TUM Think Tank, Richard-Wagner-Straße 1, 80333 München
🌐 Hybrid format. Join us in person or online. The online stream covers the first part of the evening, while the closing talk and on-site networking are reserved for guests in the room.
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