Green Tech Corner | Sustainability vs Innovation
Energy is neither created nor destroyed: it is chosen!

An event by OGR Torino, in collaboration with Talent Garden, conceived and developed by ETx and promoted by FlexIT

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 | 6.30 PM
OGR Torino | Mezzanino

Free admission
Reservations available

OGR Torino, in collaboration with Talent Garden, presents the first edition of Green Tech Corner, a new series of events dedicated to those building technology with one additional constraint: impact. Three events a year in the OGR Tech Mezzanine exploring the latest frontiers of green and energy tech from a technical community perspective: architectures, data, costs, difficult decisions, policy and scalability, bringing startups, energy corporates, SMEs and applied research together around the same table.

Sustainability vs Innovation
The idea that innovation and sustainability are at odds is a myth that needs debunking. The energy transition is not a constraint holding tech back: it is the next major arena in which tech can prove its maturity. In an increasingly energy-hungry world, the answer is not “less innovation”, but better innovation: more efficient, more distributed, more measurable and more accessible.

This first Green Tech Corner event puts choices centre stage. Energy is neither created nor destroyed, physics has been telling us so for almost two centuries, but it is chosen: from the way it is generated and distributed to the key question: what can those who use it do, and what impact can they create?

Through a case study, a keynote and a multi-stakeholder roundtable, the event explores when, and how, sustainability becomes an engineering problem: impact metrics, markets, the ROI of flexibility, and real-world decisions across the energy supply chain. No greenwashing, no slogans: stacks, infrastructures and ecosystems.

AGENDA
6.30 PM | Doors Open and Welcome
Participant registration and access to the venue
6.35 PM | Opening Remarks by OGR Torino and Talent Garden
Opening of the event and introduction to the Green Tech Corner format
6.40 PM | Keynote
The Choice of Time: The Value of Flexibility | Giulio Troncarelli, CEO of Energy of Things & Board Member at FleXIT.
6.55 PM | Keynote
The Choice of the System: The (Untapped) Potential of Flexibility | Niccolò Fattiroli, COO of Olivo Energy.
7.10 PM | Roundtable
Sustainability vs Innovation: From False Myths to Real Numbers
With Niccolò Fattiroli (Olivo Energy), Alfonso Capozzoli (Politecnico di Torino), Elia Bonacina (Bonacina 1889), Laura Tondi (IKEA). Moderated by Giulio Troncarelli
7.45 PM | Q&A
Audience questions and open discussion with the speakers
8.00 PM | Aperitif & Networking
Informal aperitif at Snodo to foster connections among startups, SMEs, corporates, and the research community

An open forum for founders, entrepreneurs, CTOs, product managers, engineers, researchers, SMEs and corporate innovation professionals working, or looking to work, at the intersection of technology, energy and impact.