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Enter the Metamorphosis · Amsterdam · 27–29 May 2026
Thank you
Co-designing and delivering KFF2026 in Amsterdam was a joy and a privilege. To everyone who stepped into the metamorphosis with us at Tolhuistuin and Ruigoord – sponsors, funders, speakers, volunteers, community dinner hosts and everyone who came to experience Katapult Future Fest in a new city – thank you.
Moving the festival was a risk and an undertaking. You met it with more kindness, generosity and radical collaboration than we could have hoped for. You didn't just attend an event; you co-created it.
— The KFF team of teams
What is Katapult Future Fest?
KFF is a global movement for bold ideas, deep connection and collective action. Since 2017 it has grown from an annual event in Oslo into a community of impact investors, systems thinkers, wealth holders, entrepreneurs, artists and changemakers.
After seven editions in Oslo, we paused to redesign what the gathering could be. In 2026 we relaunched in Amsterdam, with Investor Day at Tolhuistuin and the festival days at Ruigoord, our creative partner. It was our first edition in a new city, and our biggest and most joyful yet.
27–29 May 2026 · Amsterdam
Watch the recap film
Three days in Amsterdam, in a few minutes.
A bigger, newer crowd
Who was in the room
Ticket mix: investors were the largest single group
Where attendees came from
The Netherlands share partly reflects our own design: community dinner hosts and volunteer crew were recruited locally on complimentary badges. Among paying delegates only, 36.6% came from the Netherlands.
Built by the people who came
Much of the programme was designed and hosted by attendees themselves.
Community Dinners
Hosted in homes across Amsterdam, bringing global visitors and local changemakers around the same table.
Meetups
Sessions on the official programme, designed and hosted by attendees around a shared question or field.
Side events
Proposed and run by the community in the days before and after the festival.
Film screenings
Shown outside the Cloud Bus at Ruigoord; ten were followed by a live conversation with the filmmaker.
Participants in the Village of Conversations
A self-organised unconference where attendees set the agenda themselves.
Systems Change Book Clubs
Half-hour readings around the Fire Circle at Ruigoord, three given by the book’s own author.
One festival, drawn as a living web
Every voice, organisation, theme and session of KFF2026, drawn as one knowledge graph. This is who connected to whom across the three days.
Two moments people kept coming back to
Kirsten Dunlop's opening frame
Her opening speech and In Conversation with KFF’s founder, Tharald Nustad, set the tone for Investor Day and was repeatedly named as a standout. Attendees described the framing of the metamorphosis, infused with poetry, as what made the morning.
Kate Raworth's Economic Circus
The Doughnut Economics author led a high-energy, circus-style performance on wealth at Investor Day, and a second Economic Circus on the first festival day, reframing what a healthy economy could look like. It was the most-mentioned highlight in the survey, with attendees calling it interactive, playful and thought-provoking.
What people told us
of participants already have a new project or collaboration underway
said one was possible
Based on 81 survey responses.
“Katapult Future Fest has emerged, for me, as one of the most important convenings of kindred spirits, dreamers, and doers working to shape a future worth living.”
“The magic of KFF is not just at the event itself. It’s the relational work done in the months before and after that breeds greater coherence… A common theme this year was the need for infrastructure for systems change. KFF2.0 is the embodiment of that.”
In the press
A sample of press coverage and write-ups from people who came.
Opposites attract at Katapult Future Fest 2026
Field notes from Katapult Future Fest
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Inside the chrysalis: Katapult Future Fest arrives in Amsterdam
Katapult Future Fest 2026: an invitation to Enter the Metamorphosis
Run to break even, not to profit
An improvement of €268K in two editions.
Mission-aligned funding only
We took sponsorship and grants solely from funders whose mission aligns with ours.
Investors cross-subsidise
Higher-priced investor badges deliberately subsidised lower-priced startup, NGO and student access.
Staff costs shared
A share of the human resources behind KFF is funded by Katapult Foundation.
Sustainability, not profit
Break-even is an explicit aim. As a non-profit, any surplus is reinvested back into KFF community building.
Our footprint and where we can do better
We're still learning, and much of our environmental and social footprint depends on our venue partners. We want to do better, particularly on making sure our supply chain is sustainable and ethical.
Ruigoord
Ruigoord strives to work with suppliers who prioritise sustainability. They focus on locally sourced, seasonal, and mostly plant-based or vegetarian food and drinks to reduce their environmental impact. The meals served at KFF2026 were all vegetarian, a change we made in response to feedback from previous editions, with sustainability in mind.
Tolhuistuin
Tolhuistuin runs entirely on LED lighting, with motion sensors in shared spaces, sustainably sourced power and solar panels on the Pavilion roof. Catering for KFF Investor Day 2026 at Tolhuistuin was vegetarian and its restaurant THT works with local, seasonal produce.
Room to do better
Avoidable single-use plastic found its way into KFF2026 and one attendee challenged us on it directly. For KFF2027, we’ll work with suppliers and venue partners to cut single-use plastic, and give clear guidance on materials to those hosting or helping with sessions. We always value being challenged because that’s how we learn and improve.
Volunteers
Around 60 volunteers helped make KFF2026 happen. About eleven of them came through two social partners that DOEN introduced us to: De Nieuwe Schaduw, which works with status holders (refugees with a residence permit), and Stichting Festival Academy, whose participants and trainer ran the Krater stage on two festival days. For us, social sustainability means opening the festival to people who would not usually be in the room, and giving them real roles and experience. We want to grow these partnerships for KFF2027.
What we learned
The Amsterdam move resonated
Ruigoord as our creative partner drew consistent praise, and the space in nature was the most-cited favourite thing about KFF2026, although accessibility was a voiced concern.
NPS of 32
Session and venue ratings were positive, so we read the score as a reflection of execution at scale in a new city, rather than a drop in content quality.
Investor Day capacity
Investor Day sold out, and Tolhuistuin could not comfortably hold everyone who wanted to be there.
Food and drink can improve
Our most consistent operational feedback, including telling a better story about where the food comes from.
Diversity is an action point
The Global North was over-represented. Despite setting aside budget to allow for low-price tickets, we need to do more to bring in Global South voices.
Healthy sponsor relationships
Responding sponsors rated partnership value 7.3 out of 10 on average, and each gave specific, actionable feedback for how we can improve 2027.
What we're taking into KFF2027
Keep what you love
Ruigoord, the community dinners, the serendipitous space between sessions, and a programme people help shape and co-create, in both the meetup sessions and open unconference space.
Make room for everyone
A venue that fits the demand for Investor Day, and ticket pricing based on need.
Bring more of the world into the room
Extend the cross-subsidy model and actively seek out more diverse participation.
Go deeper, not just wider
Fewer, longer, more honest conversations that end in action, rather than more panel discussions.
Two streams for Investor Day
An Exploring stream, for those early in their impact investing journey, and a Practitioners stream, for experienced systems investors.
Keeping the conversations going
What KFF2026 set in motion, and who is carrying it forward.
TWIST
TWIST ran an Action Lab at KFF2026, which seeded two workstreams that TWIST is now taking forward:
- Investing for Systems Change in Times of Volatility
- Legal Infrastructure for Investing in Systems Change
Katapult Foundation
The not-for-profit behind KFF gives ideas from the festival a place to grow, as it did with TWIST and C4i in previous years. Three new projects from KFF2026 are now in its care:
- AI for Society Alliance
- Systemic Philanthropy
- EPIC Narratives
Local Community Suppers
The Community Dinners are one of the most loved parts of KFF, so they don’t stop when the festival does. Katapulters can now host Local Community Suppers in their own homes around the world, all year round.
Co-organisers and partners
A collective of investors, facilitators and practitioners actively deploying capital for positive systems change.
The world's most active ocean impact venture fund. Based in Oslo, it has backed 90 companies in 25+ countries since 2018.
Home of the festival days: a cultural free haven on the edge of Amsterdam.
With thanks & gratitude to our 2026 funders and partners
Media partners: ImpactAlpha · Commonland
Community builders: BNP Paribas · Small Giants Academy · Ananda Impact Ventures