A three-day impact festival in Amsterdam combining a curated Investor Day for 400+ family offices and foundations with two days of immersive cultural programming, focused on mobilising capital toward regenerative business solutions and systemic change.
Katapult Future Fest is an annual three-day event in Amsterdam organised by Katapult, a Norway-based impact investment organisation. The festival's structure is deliberately divided: Day 1 is a high-signal Investor Day at Tolhuistuin for family offices, foundations and impact-focused financial intermediaries; Days 2 and 3 expand into an immersive cultural programme at the creative village of Ruigoord on the outskirts of Amsterdam. The festival positions itself explicitly around regenerative business solutions and moves away from pure tech conference formats.
The Investor Day (27 May) focuses on how capital can support systemic and regenerative solutions, with discussions among 400+ family offices, philanthropic foundations and impact financial intermediaries. The immersive festival days (28–29 May) use storytelling, participatory workshops, unconference-style sessions (where participants set the agenda), collective conversations and community dinners hosted in Amsterdam homes. The programme covers impact investing, climate solutions, circular economy, biodiversity and social innovation.
Tolhuistuin is a cultural venue and garden space in Amsterdam Noord, across the IJ waterway from the historic centre. Ruigoord is a semi-autonomous creative community and cultural village on an island west of Amsterdam, known for its arts and counter-cultural events. The venue combination reflects the festival's hybrid investment-culture identity.
Katapult is a Norwegian organisation operating an impact accelerator, an impact investment fund and the Katapult Future Fest annual festival. It is based in Oslo and was founded with a mission of accelerating solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The festival deliberately integrates cultural programming alongside investor dialogue. The festival format includes art installations, live performances, unconference sessions and community dinners, which are not features of conventional impact investment conferences. The premise is that systemic change requires cultural narrative shifts alongside capital allocation decisions.
The Investor Day on 27 May at Tolhuistuin is structured as a curated discussion programme for family offices and foundations. Presentations and panels focus on specific investment theses, portfolio strategies and capital deployment toward regenerative solutions. Access to the Investor Day may require a prior relationship with the Katapult network.
The Investor Day includes opportunities for founders and investors to connect, but the festival does not operate a formal structured matchmaking platform. The intimate community dinner format is positioned as the high-quality alternative to formal pitch-and-match mechanics.
Not suitable for: (1) investors without impact mandates or ESG integration in their strategy; (2) startup founders in sectors unrelated to sustainability, climate, health or social impact; (3) attendees expecting a standard tech conference format with panels and networking breaks; (4) companies whose primary goal is mainstream commercial deal-making rather than systemic change; (5) professionals who are not receptive to cultural and artistic elements as part of a business programme.
Katapult Future Fest's Ruigoord setting is a calculated statement: by moving from a convention centre to a creative village, it signals that the investors and founders it wants to attract are self-selecting out of the mainstream impact investment circuit, which is precisely its value.
Paid tickets for both the Investor Day and the festival are available separately at katapultfuturefest.com. Investor Day access may require prior network connection.
Community dinners hosted in Amsterdam homes are the signature informal networking format. Unconference sessions on Days 2 and 3 allow participants to propose and lead their own conversations.
27–29 May 2026. Investor Day: Tolhuistuin, Buiksloterweg 5B, 1031 CC Amsterdam. Festival Days: Ruigoord, Amsterdam.
The Amsterdam location provides geographic centrality for European family offices and foundations, and Ruigoord's specific identity is inseparable from the festival's cultural premise. The event has been consistently held in Amsterdam.
English is the primary language.
| Official website | https://katapultfuturefest.com/ |
| Programme | https://katapultfuturefest.com/programme |
| Katapult | https://katapult.vc/ |