Green Business Building

Green Business Building Summits

McKinsey’s Green Business Building Summits are unique forums focused on building and scaling green business ventures and new technologies through presentations, roundtables and cross-sector networking events with founders, funders and corporate leaders.

McKinsey has committed to being the largest private sector catalyst for decarbonization, and we are excited to support leaders of fast-scaling companies on their journeys. With these summits, we aspire to address key challenges and showcase pivotal successes green business builders face along their paths to scaling up.

Schedule of events

Green Business Building summits and regional forums take place around the world. Our schedule of confirmed events is listed below. Please recheck this page for updates regarding future events.

Upcoming Events

  • May 19, 2026: Green Business Building Global Summit in Stockholm

Past Events

  • Our 2025 events included the GBB Global Summit in Stockholm and Forums in Central Europe and Germany
  • Our 2024 events included the GBB Global Summit in Stockholm, North American Summit in San Francisco, and Forums in Australia. Central Europe, France, Germany, and Kenya.
  • Our 2023 events included the Global Summits in Stockholm, North American Summit in San Francisco, and Forums in Finland and the Baltics, Germany, France, China, Italy, Australia, India, Chile, Brazil, London, and Benelux.

Who attends

The summits bring senior leaders across a number of different organization types and industries together—in person—to address critical challenges and showcase pivotal successes faced by green business builders at various stages of their journey. Examples of past attendees include:

  • leading green tech disruptors and unicorns
  • established companies with ambitious green growth agendas
  • leading sustainability investors
  • leaders of large companies interested in climate solutions and offtake agreements

Highlights from previous summits

This fourth edition of the summit brought together close to 350 participants from across the global green-business-building ecosystem, including senior executives from leading incumbents and start-ups, entrepreneurs, founders, and investors.
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Europe’s green business building opportunity
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McKinsey’s 2025 Win Green & Grow Summit in Berlin highlighted the size of the green-tech opportunity for Europe and some of the key strategies that can help businesses realize that potential.

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