Arnova Nuclear ENERGY Summit 2026
14 September, 2026 09:00 - 17:30
The Dolder Grand, Kurhausstrasse 65, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
A full-day investment conference, the summit is dedicated to exploring the role of nuclear shaping the future of clean and reliable energy. The program will feature presentations from leading international experts covering the most important topics of the field. The conference aims to offer participants a comprehensive understanding of the on-going global nuclear energy renaissance and the investment opportunities it offers.
The event is hosted by Arnova Capital and its co-founders Pendo S. Löfgren and Dr Christian H. Kälin, and moderated by Roger Köppel, Editor-in-Chief of Weltwoche.
Ticket Fee: CHF 238, includes full day conference, coffee breaks and lunch. Please use registration form at bottom of page. In the unlikely event that you should experience technical difficulties with the registration form or payment, you can also use the following page.
Accommodation: Special discounted room rates available at the Dolder Grand for the nights of 13 September and 14 September. Special discount code Arnova. For reservations, please contact Dolder Grand by phone at +41 44 456 60 02 or by e-mail: groupreservations@thedoldergrand.com
Program Highlights
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The Nuclear Renaissance: The year in review and what's next?
Nuclear energy fuel production and refinement
Emerging technologies, SMRs and Fusion
Changing regulatory global landscape
Real and imaginary risks
Which global nuclear energy investments offer the best risk/reward?
Leading investors’ and advisors’ views on not only nuclear energy but investments broadly
Special Guest: Professor Vaclav Smil
Vaclav Smil does interdisciplinary research on energy, environment, population, food and history of technical advances and on such overarching topics as growth, innovation, size, speed and efficiency. He has published 51 books and more than 500 papers on these topics.
Technical advisor to J.P. Morgan’s Annual Energy Paper for over 12 years.
He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy), and a Member of the Order of Canada.
“Vaclav Smil is my favorite author.”
— Bill Gates
Key Speakers
Oklo Inc, represented by CEO and Co-Founder Jake DeWitte, will be lead partner of the event. Other names include Lightbridge, Blykalla, Studsvik, Ocean Wall, Copenhagen Atomics, Armada Investments, Guggenheim Securities as well as national and international expertise such as the Paul Scherrer Institute and Idaho National Laboratory. This space will be continuously updated.
Roger Köppel
Editor-in-Chief, Weltwoche
Jacob DeWitte
CEO and Co-Founder, Oklo, USA
Seth Grae
President & CEO, Lightbridge Corporation
Chairman of the American Nuclear Society’s International Council, USA
Brian M. Smith
CTO, Nuclear Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, USA
Scott Melbye
Executive Vice President, Uranium Energy Corp., USA
CEO, Uranium Royalty Corp., Canada
President, Uranium Producers of America
Jacob Stedman
CEO, Blykalla, Sweden
Thomas Jam Pedersen
CEO, Copenhagen Atomics, Denmark
Ryno Pretorius
CEO, Quantum Leap Energy
André Liebenberg
CEO, Yellow Cake Plc
Felix Zulauf
CEO, Zulauf Asset Management AG
James Schaefer
Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Securities, USA
Lobo Tiggre
IndependentSpeculator.com, USA
Pendo S. Löfgren
Co-founder and CIO, Arnova Capital
Daniel Aegerter
Owner, Armada Investment Group AG, Switzerland
Ben Finegold
Head of Research, Ocean Wall, UK
Per Jander
Director Nuclear Fuel, WMC
Julia Pyke
Executive Chair, Agilia Infrastructure Partners, UK
Clean Power Commissioner for the UK Government
Prof. Thio Francis
Professor, Chief Scientist of Center for Ultimate Energy, ShanghaiTech University
Federico Felici
Co-Founder and CEO, Fusionality
Rafal Kos
Presidential Envoy for International Business Cooperation
John Ahlberg
Chief Marketing Officer, Studsvik
Rear Admiral (ret.) Oded Gour-Lavie
CEO and Co-Founder, nT-Tao
Kalev Kallemets, Ph.D.
CEO, Fermi Energia AS
Phil Larochelle
Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
R. James Breiding
Co-Founder, S8nations
CEO, Naissance Capital AG
Massimo Carpita
Co-founder, Larmor mmWave Systems SA
