As we look towards 2050, a staggering projection looms: more than 70% of the global population will be urban dwellers. The way we develop and manage our cities and their infrastructures in the next few decades will be critical. Governments globally are called to transform cities into inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable habitats by 2030. The clock is ticking, and the role of cities as primary energy consumers and greenhouse gas emitters only amplifies the need for rapid, transformative action. We recognize the power of cities to shape the future, and that's why we have dedicated ourselves to the cause. By building bridges between business, public sectors, academia, and citizens, Impact The Future catalyse the implementation of sustainable solutions, vital for our urban futures.

Lasner Digital is a leading digital growth & marketing agency helping E-commerce and Info-product sustainably scale their business with paid advertising. Our commitment to maximizing ROI has helped our clients profitably generate a combined +$80,000,000 in the last three years alone. Lasner Digital specializes in strategic planning, paid advertising (Meta, TikTok, and also Google), customer acquisition, lead generation, copywriting.

In the European Union alone, more than 1.5 million paint buckets are discarded daily, constituting a disposal of 340 tons of single-use plastic that is incinerated each day. Starting from early 2023 (2025 in Denmark and Slovenia), manufacturers are obligated to cover the disposal costs of their packaging based on sustainability criteria. In Denmark, this translates to an estimated 15% fee on paint buckets. Furthermore, the conventional round shape of packaging has proven suboptimal for logistics and transportation. Beyond its environmental impact, the traditional paint bucket poses challenges for professional painters. These challenges encompass ergonomic issues during handling, such as the strain of lifting two buckets simultaneously, which exceeds recommended weight limits according to the Working Environment Authority. Painters also find themselves in awkward positions when pouring paint into a roller bucket for wall application. The demanding physical nature of the painting profession in Denmark results in accelerated fatigue and early retirement for painters. Additionally, issues like lid leakage due to dried paint and the use of fragile, porous plastic contribute to unexpected spills, particularly during abrupt vehicle stops. Our innovative solution involves a cardboard box housing two patent-pending plastic bags, each containing 5 liters of paint. This packaging not only enhances the workflow for professional painters but also reduces costs and lowers carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions by approximately 65% per unit. The box's design facilitates easy and ergonomic transportation, allowing for a 45% increase in units per pallet. The box is opened, and one of the bags is inserted into a standard roller bucket used by painters. The bag effortlessly opens and seamlessly fits into the roller bucket, wrapping around the edges, and enabling the painter to begin work promptly. This functionality is made possible through an innovative patented design and specific plastic welding techniques.

At Crateit, we take pride in creating Danish quality wooden toys designed to ignite a child's imaginative soul and curiosity. Imagine a unicorn with wings soaring through the clouds, landing on a volcano in Dinosaur Land that's about to erupt! Each piece of wooden toy from Crateit is designed to open up a world of imaginative play for your child. When designing our wooden toys, we always think about how they will spark the child's creative spirit of adventure. Crateit's wooden toys encourage play with friends, independent immersion, and family closeness. Our products are unique because they challenge the way children play. At Crateit, there are no rules. Is the grass blue and the cow red? It's all up to the child's imagination. The wooden toys are made for children to color and build as they wish. It's here that the most imaginative adventures and stories come to life. At Crateit, we proudly say that our products create joy, usefulness, and benefit, as all our products are produced and assembled by adults with various challenges, in workshops in Funen. We have respect for the individual and therefore focus on creating meaningful and responsible work for the affected citizens.

Kanna is a research and development company that applies technology to sustainability problems. At Kanna, we go beyond highlighting environmental challenges — we craft tangible solutions, empowering and educating individuals to make a direct impact on the environment that is directly impacting them. Our proprietary application harnesses machine learning and advanced mathematical modeling to empower users to upcycle their garments, fostering a sustainable future for fashion.

At SkinChange.AI we have a mission to make a difference for patients and medical practitioners within skin diseases. We work with both web and smartphone technology, incorporating AR and AI technology. We focus on creating an environment with an informal culture and focus on independent execution, thus we offer possibility for remote work and our office is located at AI-Innovation House, Vejle, Denmark.

We are on a mission to make work more joyful - We believe everyone should look equally forward to Fridays and Mondays ❤ Workjoy is the all-in-one solution for a better workplace WorkJoy is the modern, flexible People Success solution. We provide ambitious leaders what they need most — a powerful platform all-in-one platform for collaboration, knowledge sharing, personal growth, talent attraction and HR to efficiently manage their businesses and people. We believe that happy people and great business performance goes hand in hand. Great results can't be achieved without happy people but ambitious people can't be happy if they are not creating great results. We have built a platform that makes it easier for you to achieve both happy people and great results at the same time.

Ideated in Sweden and engineered for all, kuiperbelt curates an e-bike lifestyle, by re-imagining and re-defining how riders interact with e-bikes and accessories. With a mission-driven design approach, we make functional, practical utility e-bikes and e-scooters with a full-range of accessories and gear, so that riders can get more done and make the most out of life.

SMRT Systems is a cloud-based business management platform designed by dry cleaners for dry cleaners. Originally founded in San Francisco, we have our main engineering hub in Malmö Sweden and our HQ in the Raleigh NC. We are a passionate team of builders on a mission to help digitalize the dry cleaning and laundry across the globe. Our tech stack includes Typescript / React / Tanstack / GraphQL / AWS ECS / CouchDB Python / PHP / NodeJS.

FÓLK is an emerging Icelandic interior and lifestyle brand founded in 2017. At FÓLK our mission is to accelerate the green transition through design and our vision is to enable and inspire people to live a more sustainable lifestyle.” We work with progressive designers and manufacturers on homeware, furniture and lifestyle products focused on sustainability, responsibility, circularity, and transparency around the production process.

We're an innovative biotech startup specialising in alternative protein on a mission to tackle food scarcity caused by overpopulation and climate change. We're redefining the way we feed the world with the help of mushrooms. We're addressing global food scarcity - a critical issue impacting billions. As traditional agriculture struggles to meet the growing demand for protein, strains resources, leading to deforestation, excessive water use, and increasing emissions. Our solution provides sustainable and nutritious alternative protein which plays a role in mitigating food scarcity challenges. The founders, driven by a shared passion for both scientific innovation and ecological preservation, came together to address this urgent issue. We believe that our actions today can create a lasting positive impact on the world, ensuring that future generations have access to nutritious food without compromising the health of our planet.

Fact helps E-commerce businesses getting the customer Journey right, by collecting & analyzing data, optimizing organic traffic & improving customer behaviour & sales. We primarily service fashion and lifestyle brands, and is partnered with Shopfiy, Centra, WakeupData, Elevar, Omniconvert, Meta, Google, Klaviyo and know most platforms out there. We're e-commerce based agency started by specialist with more than 15 years experience, and is located in Kødbyen in the central Copenhagen.

Rentspace is a Danish online platform that helps event organizers to find the perfect event space for their needs. We connect hosts – private and corporate - with event spaces across Denmark and make it easy to book the right space in just a few clicks. The platform offers a wide selection of venues to choose from, including party venues, conference rooms, conference centers and other event spaces. Rentspace is perfect for all kinds of events, from small gatherings to large-scale business events. Our mission is to make renting an event space easier than ever before. We strive to provide a secure and intuitive platform where customers can browse our extensive selection of spaces and find the one that suits their needs perfectly. Rentspace is a convenient and user-friendly platform for anyone looking to book an event space. Our team of experienced eventplaners are always on hand to provide advice and assistance, ensuring that every booking going as planned.

We are on a mission of becoming the first match-point for support in order to prevent an emotional breakdown. We are building HU-MAIN, a platform for people to be able to ask for help when suffering with a specific life challenge. We connect users with mentors who have been through the most difficult and stigmatised struggles such as burnout, substance abuse, bullying, coping with panic attacks, loss, coming out, depression, amongst others.

1: Short description (the pitch) Yuta AI is developing a platform to help DevOps teams to solve toolchain complexity, remove mundane tasks, work efficiently with the conversational and generative power of AI. 2: The What: What are you solving + more in depth details Several studies show that an average DevOps team spends 20% of the time in unproductive tasks (searching for information, mundane or repetitive tasks, troubleshooting human errors etc). The plethora of automation tools used to solve some of these problems, has introduced a side effect of toolchain complexity. A typical DevOps engineers works with 5 to 6 tools, languages & frameworks. This increases the barrier to entry, creates silos and a steep learning curve. 3. The How: Describe how your startup is solving this DevOps engineers can work productively and efficiently using Yuta's AI enabled DevOps platform. Using Yuta AI, engineers can easily retrieve information from knowledge systems within the company. Using conversational AI, several typical DevOps workflows can be triggered, removing the need to manually perform operational tasks. 4: The Why: What motivated you to get started As a DevOps professional over the last 8 years, I have toiled hard with many DevOps tools. While the tools have improved the productivity of DevOps engineers, the complexity keeps increasing with the addition of every new tool, workflows spanning across multiple process & tools & methods decrease the stability, and make DevOps a silo function in the organisation. With the power of conversation & generative AI, DevOps workflows can be simplified, lowering the barrier to entry, and empowering the engineers to focus on high value tasks.