Evening Talks on Climate Resilience: Adaptation as a Collective Task

This event is hosted by EY as part of Munich Climate Week (MCW) 🌍🌱

What is this event about?

Climate change affects us all, as individuals, organizations, and communities. While the need for action is widely recognized, there is a growing gap between awareness and concrete action: the resilience gap. Knowledge, technologies, and tools are increasingly available, yet their effective application and implementation are not keeping pace with the scale and urgency of the challenge. Closing this resilience gap is becoming essential as a shared responsibility across all societal groups.

This evening session explores the challenges and opportunities associated with closing the resilience gap from various perspectives including business, academia, civil society, communities, and individuals.

Following the discussion, guests are invited to continue the conversation in a relaxed atmosphere over drinks and a flying buffet, providing an opportunity to exchange ideas and connect with fellow participants.

Our program at a glance:

• 18:00  Registration
• 18:30  Welcome by EY Sustainability Leadership
  • Ev Bangemann (EY Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services)
  • Jens Haubensak (EY Partner, Sustainability Consulting)
• 18:45  Keynote “Out of the comfort Zone – Turning Fear into Resilience and competitive advantage” by Deniz Kayadelen (6 x World Ice-Swimming Champion, bestselling Author “Out-of-the Comfort Zone)
• 19:30 Panel discussion “Adaptation as a collective task: Strategies to Close the Resilience Gap”
  • Christof Reinert (Head of Risk Management Partners, MunichRE)
  • Glenn Schmidt (Vice President Global Sustainability, BMW Group)
  • Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ernstberger (Lehrstuhl Financial Accounting, TU München)
  • Moderated by: Chiara Henke, Jens Haubensak (EY)
• 20:30 Get-together with flying buffet and open networking
• 21:30 Closing

Who is this event for?

✅ Policymakers driving climate and sustainability agendas
✅ Start-ups developing innovative solutions
✅ Business executives leading organizational transformation
✅ Investors seeking sustainability-related opportunities
✅ Entrepreneurs looking to create scalable impact

✨ Why stop at one event? Register for more EY sessions on EY · Luma on the same day to make the most out of the MCW.

Please arrive 15 minutes before the event starts to allow sufficient time for check-in at the reception. The event will begin as scheduled, and we kindly ask all participants to be seated before the start time.

Further information regarding the event

🌐 Language: English

♿ Wheel-chair accessible

🎟️ Event free of charge

Please note that photographs and video recordings will be taken during the event for documentation, reporting, and public communication purposes; for online events, this includes recordings of the session and screenshots. If you do not wish to be included in such recordings, please let us know on site or, for online events, at the start of the session (e.g. via chat) – you are also welcome to keep your camera switched off. We will take this into consideration.