• Which assumptions about delivery, financing, procurement, and scale have proven wrong as the market has matured?
• What failures, delays, and unexpected challenges have taught the industry its most valuable lessons?
• How are developers, buyers, investors, and insurers adapting to a market where execution matters more than ambition?
• What must change now to avoid repeating the mistakes of carbon removal's first generation?

• As frameworks such as the CRCF, SBTi Net-Zero Standard 2.0, and emerging compliance markets continue to evolve, what evidence will buyers, regulators, and investors expect before they commit to carbon removal?
• Who should bear the cost of monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV): project developers, buyers, governments, or independent third parties?
• Can today's MRV systems, registries, and verification processes support a carbon removal market at gigatonne scale, or do they need to evolve?
• Will the market align around trusted MRV standards, or will competing frameworks create new barriers to investment, procurement, and compliance demand?

Enjoy a refreshment break while continuing discussions and making new connections.

• Beyond corporate buyers, what roles should governments, foundations, family offices, and public institutions play in creating durable demand for carbon removal?
• Which market mechanisms, from advance market commitments and public procurement to compliance markets and carbon pricing have the greatest potential to accelerate deployment?
• What gives investors the confidence to deploy capital at scale: policy certainty, long-term demand, stronger offtake markets, or something else?
• As the carbon removal market matures, how should public, philanthropic, and private capital work together to build a self-sustaining industry?

Three startups from the remove program share lessons learned and insights about what it takes to build a CDR company in the current environment. A look behind the scenes, beyond the polished presentations into the reality of day-to-day operations and challenges. Founders share their insights and views on what they have learned the hard way and what CDR needs more of, from their perspective.

Attendees are invited to engage in focused, in-depth discussions on the pressing challenges facing carbon dioxide removal development and the rising demand for solutions. The session concludes with participants collaboratively sharing insights and innovative ideas, fostering actionable dialogue that can shape the future of the CDR ecosystem.