The most valuable conversations rarely happen in the rooms designed for them.

Corporate challenges. Startup ambition. Investor conviction. These are not separate needs looking for separate events. They are the same opportunity, structured into one programme.

The Impact Circle is Love Tomorrow's invite-only innovation event, co-presented with the European Innovation Council and Dealflow.eu. 700 selected participants. Three days in Belgium: 22, 23 and 24 July 2026. Love Tomorrow Summit, on 23 July, is day two.

Here is how it works.

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Seven circles. Real challenges.

Each circle brings together one or more corporate partners around a shared innovation challenge in their industry. Startups apply, go through a selection process and are matched to the circle most relevant to their solution.

The 2026 circles and their corporate partners:

Consumer Goods — Procter and Gamble, Evonik, Coca-Cola, AB InBev

Energy — Galp

Japanese Corporates (by JETRO) — JX Advanced Metals, AJ, Daikin

Proptech — European Proptech Association

Food — Cargill

Media and Entertainment — Tomorrowland, IMEC

By the time participants arrive in Belgium, the introductions are already made. What happens on-site are continuations.

Backed by the right partners

The European Innovation Council provides the institutional framework: a €10.1 billion innovation fund and the Corporate Partnership Programme, which brings a pipeline of Europe's most rigorously vetted startups into each circle.

Dealflow.eu runs the matchmaking. Their platform pre-schedules one-to-one meetings between startups and corporate decision-makers before Day 1 begins, so no time on-site is wasted on discovery.

Three days in Belgium

Day 1 — Wednesday 22 July, Dolce La Hulpe, Brussels

Circle sessions, workshops, roundtables and pre-scheduled one-to-ones in a forest setting outside Brussels.

Day 2 — Thursday 23 July, De Schorre, Boom

Love Tomorrow Summit. The Impact Circle Finals on stage. 100+ speakers and artists, keynotes, matchmaking areas and the signature evening show.

Day 3 — Friday 24 July, Dolce La Hulpe and Tomorrowland

Investor sessions, final one-to-ones and, for All-In participants, exclusive Balcony access at Tomorrowland's main stage.

The Love Tomorrow connection

Love Tomorrow was founded on a single belief: that the brightest ideas, the right people and the right setting can help build a more beautiful tomorrow. That belief lives in Love Tomorrow Summit. It lives in the sustainability projects at Tomorrowland. And it is at the heart of The Impact Circle.

Open innovation between corporates and startups is one of the most direct paths to solving the challenges that matter: in energy, food systems, materials, mobility, technology. The Impact Circle is where that work gets done. Not in theory. In rooms, over three days, with the people who can actually move things forward.

In 2025, the event brought together 400 participants from 146 corporate organisations and 73 startups, with a 96% satisfaction rate and ten pilot projects signed following a single multi-corporate day.

The Impact Circle 2026 runs 22–24 July in Belgium. Applications are open now.

Apply at theimpactcircle.eu