FyrstGen took part in a high-level industry panel at the 30th CII Partnership Summit 2025, held in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, contributing to one of the summit's most consequential discussions: "Climate Risks for Indian Businesses." The session, held on 15 November 2025, brought together senior leaders from government, industry, and international organisations to examine how India's economy can safeguard continuity, drive innovation, and achieve long-term value creation in the face of accelerating climate disruption.

Climate change is not a distant risk for Indian industry. Extreme weather events — including floods, heatwaves, droughts, and cyclones — have been and continue to disrupt production, damaging infrastructure, and affecting workforce health across the country. Against this backdrop, the CII session focused on how Indian businesses can proactively manage climate risks rather than simply react to them, and how structured frameworks, technology, and cross-sector collaboration can transform climate resilience into a genuine source of competitive and economic advantage.

The session was chaired by Dr. Venkata Ramana, Founder & CEO of Avera, and brought together a distinguished panel of voices: Dr. Julie Reviere (Country Director, GIZ India and Bhutan), Philipp Assmus (CEO & Founder, FyrstGen), Sunil Nambiar (Head of Operations for Strategy, Sustainability and Communications, YCH Group, Singapore), and Sachin Gupta (Managing Partner, UV Capital Pvt Ltd). The discussion coincided with the launch of two major CII reports: "Building Climate Resilience for Indian Industry" — which introduces the CII Physical Climate Risk Assessment Framework (PCRAF) for site-level climate risk scoring and sectoral adaptation — and the "Resilience Framework of Eluru and West Godavari District", offering region-specific adaptation guidance.

Philipp Assmus's contribution focused on how FyrstGen's Company Building as a Service (CBaaS®) model directly addresses one of the most overlooked dimensions of climate resilience: the speed at which climate-relevant innovations reach the market. Today, an enormous volume of climate-relevant intellectual property — from resilient agricultural technologies to sustainable manufacturing, water management, and clean energy solutions — remains shelved inside universities and research institutions, unable to reach the communities that need it most. By industrialising the commercialisation of this IP, FyrstGen offers a structural answer to a structural problem: deploying climate solutions faster than the traditional venture capital and entrepreneurship pathways have ever managed.

As FyrstGen continues to engage with India's most ambitious industrial and policy agendas, its participation on the CII climate resilience panel reinforced a broader message: that inclusive, innovation-led growth and climate resilience are not separate goals — they are the same goal. With climate risks reshaping the trajectory of Indian industry, FyrstGen remains committed to working alongside governments, research institutions, and industry leaders to ensure that the next generation of climate solutions is not only invented, but actually reaches scale — for the benefit of businesses, workers, and communities across India and beyond.