05/06/2026
4,000 people.
From every corner of the world.
In Rome.
This wasn’t a conference.
It was an answer.
At a time when everyone is telling us sustainability is losing ground ,4,000 people showed up anyway. Two days at the Acquario Romano. Conversations that don’t stop when the lights go down.
The EIIS Summit 2026 wasn’t about trends.
It was about direction.
And direction doesn’t wait for political permission.
📍 Rome, May 8–9 2026
🌍 120+ countries represented
02/06/2026
For a month, billboards across Rome asked people to write a letter to themselves in 2040.
We expected to read about AI, wars, geopolitics. They wrote about mental health and climate.
Hundreds of letters. Median age: 30. The two concerns that kept surfacing weren't technology, sixth on the list at 7%, and they weren't politics, stuck at 3%. They were mental health and climate. One inner, one outer, both at the top.
The generational map made it sharper. Under 25, climate moves to the very top. Over 35, housing edges in alongside mental health. The same orbit, the same body, but a different gravity depending on where you stand in life.
A small linguistic detail mattered as much as the data. When people sat down to write to their future selves, they didn't pick "I want." They picked "I hope." Four out of ten letters opened that way. Their relationship with their own future, told in the language of hope, not will.
We presented the findings at the EIIS Summit (Rome, Acquario Romano, May 8-9), and then two participants joined us on stage to read their letters out loud, with me and (), our creative partner on the project from day one. The room went quiet in a way data alone can't make a room go quiet.
A month ago this was a campaign. Now it's a small portrait of what people actually carry when they think about tomorrow.
What would you write to yourself in 2040?
EIIS with Roma Capitale in collaboration with and mobility partner .
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The Future is here somewhere
© x European Innovation for Sustainability Summit
29/05/2026
A graduation moment.
But also something more.
A community of people from 123 countries, built around shared questions, different perspectives, and the belief that we learn better when we connect with people who see the world differently.
Connecting sustainable minds.
29/05/2026
A graduation moment.
But also something more.
A community of people from 123 countries, built around shared questions, different perspectives, and the belief that we learn better when we connect with people who see the world differently.
Connecting sustainable minds.
Sustainability
