Agenda > Converge Capital Conference
May 19th
Welcome from the Co-organizers, News for the 2026 edition, Agenda of the Day, Objectives of BCIW 2026
Anna Lucia Horta, Executive Director in Brazil, Capital for Climate
Maria Eugenia Buosi, Director, Climate Ventures
Marina Cançado, Founder Converge Capital and Co-founder Transitions
Thaís Ferraz – Program Director at the Climate and Society Institute
Post-COP30: Accelerating the Implementation of Solutions in Brazil
Alessandra Fajardo, Technical Executive Director, CEBDS
Marcelo Furtado, Head of Sustainability at Itaúsa and Executive Director at Itaúsa Institute
Marcelo Furtado – Head of Sustainability at Itaúsa
Renata Piazzon, Executive Director, Instituto Arapyaú
Ricardo Mussa, Chair, SB COP30
Beyond the Noise: The Real Momentum of Global Climate Investing (Session conducted in English)
David Blood, Founding Partner and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management
Raphael Falcioni, Managing Director, Just Climate
Critical Minerals: Between Technology, Geopolitics, and Sustainability – Brazil’s Strategic Window
Marcio Correia, Partner and Chief Investment Office, Régia Capital
From Capital Mobilization to Effective Allocation: The Challenges of Implementation
Luiz Pires, Sustainability and Innovation Manager, ANBIMA
Luciana Antonini Ribeiro, Co-founder, Flying Rivers
Nina Vieira, Head of Department, BNDES
Gustavo Verdelli, Partner, Lightrock
Capital from Entrepreneurial, Investing, and Philanthropic Families: The Strategic Lever for Transitions
Christiano Clemente, Chief Investment Officer, Santander Private Banking
Régine Clément, CEO of CREO, global network of family offices and entrepreneurial and investor families committed to climate investments and solutions
From Strategic Allocation to the Effective Transformation of Value Chains: The Role of Systemic Investments
André Ticolaut, Senior Research & Investment Associate, Transformative Capital Initiative
Daniel Brandão, Partner and Investment Director in Nature-based Solutions at Vox Capital
Launch of the Transitions initiative
Daniela de Rogatis, co-founder Legado and co-founder Transitions
Marina Cançado, founder Converge Capital and co-founder Transitions
June 5th
Led by Converge Capital, founded by Marina Cançado. A full day of strategic content, cases, and dialogue on Brazil’s transition to a low-carbon, nature-positive economy — connecting 400+ investors, family offices, asset managers, executives, founders and government officials.
Registration and Welcome Coffee
Opening Remarks
Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week
Tony Lent – Co-founder of Capital for Climate and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week
State of the climate in 2025
Moderator
Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week
David Fein – Vice Chair of The Earthshot Prize
Natalie Unterstell – President of Talanoa Institute
Is there still an appetite for investments in decarbonization and nature-based solutions amidst economic and geopolitical challenges?
Moderator
Sérgio Gusmão Suchodolski – Special Envoy to the Finance in Common Initiative and Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute
Part 1 – The perspective of international investors organizations (35′)
Jens Nielsen – Founder and CEO of World Climate Foundation
Liliana Manns – Director of Community of The ImPact
Rodrigo Bettini – Managing Director and Head of Latin America at Milken Institute
Tony Lent – Co-founder of Capital for Climate and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week
Xenia zu Hohenlohe – Chief Country Officer of Sustainable Markets Initiative
Part 2 – The perspective of asset managers (35′)
Alexandre Bossi – Partner and Director at Perfin Climate
Aníbal Wadih – Managing Partner GEF Capital
Cristina Penteado – Board Member of ABVCAP and Managing Director and Head of Brazil of Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital
Guilherme Bragança – Partner and Head of IR at JGP and Régia Capital
Pedro Faria – Partner & Co-CEO for High Growth at Patria
Raphael Falcioni – Managing Director at Just Climate
Networking Coffee Break
New structures, instruments and facilities to enable capital flows to climate investments in the Global South
Part 1 – Cases led by the Private Sector (40′)
Danielle Carreira – Climate and Nature Finance Specialist, WEF/IFACC
Leonardo Fleck – Sustainability Managing Director at Santander
Luciana Antonini Ribeiro – CEO at eB Climate and Leader of the Finance Taskforce at SB COP30
Marcelo Furtado – Co-founder of the Nature Investment Lab and Head of Sustainability at Itaúsa
Thiago Lang – Head of Industry Verticals, ESG Solutions, M&A and Transaction Solutions at Aon Brazil
Part 2 – Cases led by the Public Sector (25′)
Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen – Director of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
Gustavo Fontenele – General-Coordinator of Decarbonization at the Secretariat of Green Economy at the Ministry of Industry
Filipe Borsato – Investment Manager at BNDES
Responding to polycrisis with polycapital and systemic investing
Moderator
Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week
Ana Sarkovas – Co-founder of Ecoa Capital
André Ticoulat – Research & Investment Associate at TransCap Initiative
Lucas Matarazzo – Co-founder of Mútua
Tania Rodriguez – Co-founder and CEO of Co-Impact
Networking Lunch
Parallel Sessions
Room A: Building capacity for climate finance in Brazil
Cambria Allen-Ratzlaff – Chief RI Ecosystems Officer at PRI
Carlos Takahashi – Chairman at BlackRock Brazil and Vice President at Anbima
Paula Peirão – Coordinator in Brazil and Associate Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNEP FI
Virgínia Gonçalves – Superintendent of Sustainability at B3
Room B: Networking and Bilateral Meetings
Room C: The role of philanthropic capital in the conservation and restoration of Brazilian biomes
Moderator
Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of the Brazil Climate Investment Week
Camilla Seth – Founding Managing Director at Moore Foundation
Márcia Soares – Manager of Amazon and Partnerships at Fundo Vale
Mario Haberfeld – Founder and CEO of Onçafari
Renata Piazzon – General Director at Arapyaú Institute
Parallel Sessions
Room A – Asset Managers Investing in Climate Solutions
Marina Tennenbaum – Partner, Head of Clients & COO for Brazil at Patria
Pedro Vilela – CEO and Co-founder of Rise
Raphael Falcioni – Managing Director at Just Climate
Tatiana Sasson – Head of Impact at Lightrock
Part 2
Alexandre Bossi – Partner and Director at Perfin Climate
Caroline Prolo – Head of Climate Stewardship at fama re.capital
Cláudio dos Anjos – Sustainable Finance Analyst at Régia Capital
Danilo Zelinski – Head of Investment for Nature and Climate Innovation at KPTL
Room B – Sustainable Market Initiative (SMI) Roundtable (Invite Only). Blended Finance: Blueprints for Scale and Inclusion
Room C – Materializing Brazil’s potential to prosper in a low carbon economy: business cases (session held in Portuguese without translation)
Case 1 – Acelen Renewables | Marcelo Nogueira – CFO
Case 2 – Motiva + BCG | Juliana Silva – Director of Sustainability at Motiva and Arthur Ramos – Managing Director and Partner for the Energy practice at Boston Consulting Group in Brazil
Case 3 – Lwart | Carlos Renato Trecenti – Chairman of the Board at Lwart
Case 4 – Vale | Rodrigo Lauria – Director of Climate Change and Carbon
Case 5 – BTG + Eneva | Vitor Santos – Director at BTG Pactual and Flávia Heller – Executive Director of Strategy and Sustainability at Eneva
Case 6 – Heineken | Ligia Camargo – Sustainability Director at Heineken
Pathways to Brazil’s prosperity in the 21st century
Daniela de Rogatis – CEO Legado – The Global Legacy Household
5 months to COP 30: what to expect from the private sector?
Part 1 – Presentation of the study “The Brazil that Brazil wants to be”
Moderator
Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week
Débora Emm – Founder and CEO of Inesplorato
Victor Cremasco – Partner and CEO of Mandalah
Part 2 – Conversation with COP30 CEO and High Level Climate Champion (30′)
Moderator
Marcelo Furtado – Co-founder of the Nature Investment Lab and Head of Sustainability of Itaúsa
Ana Toni – COP30 CEO
Dan Ioschpe – High Level Climate Champion for COP30
Part 3 – Conversation with Private Sector Leaders (30’)
Moderator
Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week
Camilla Lott – Interim Sustainability Vice-President at Vale
Maria Netto – Managing Director at Institute for Climate and Society
Marina Grossi – President of CEBDS and COP30 Special Envoy for the Business Sector
Patricia Ellen – Lead Partner for International Engagement and Positioning SB COP30
COP30 related Announcements and Final Remarks
Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week
Flora Bitancourt – Brazil Lead for World Climate Foundation
Mariana Ribeiro – CEO and Co-founder of CLARICE
Michael Sheldrick – Co-Founder and Chief Policy, Impact and Government Affairs Officer at Global Citizen
Cocktail at the Garden
