Katapult 2026

In May 2026, Katapult Future Fest arrived in Amsterdam for the first time — Investor Day at Tolhuistuin, festival days in Ruigoord, the free-spirited artists' village at the city's edge. Since 2017, KFF has convened impact investors, founders, changemakers, artists and technologists working toward a regenerative society. This year's theme was metamorphosis, an invitation to spend three days in a collective chrysalis.

Festivals work a particular kind of magic: gathering people around a theme, an idea, an intention, a dream. Energy rises, connections spark, hope swells — and then... everyone goes home. As participants and co-creators land back in their daily lives, one question follows them home: now what?

This page is about the part that usually never happens: what comes after the chrysalis phase. Because "now what?" is, at its core, a coordination question — one that has outlived every attempt to answer it. Until now.

The promise is simple. We map what exists. We make sense of it. We connect the people who should be talking — and we do it impartially, on behalf of the whole field, not any one actor.

We support the convergence with three systems and a series of open protocols: algorithms that map and make sense of the field; liaisons — real people, financially covered — who connect and matchmake across it; and a pilot data layer whose protocols let the field become visible to itself.