Resilience Expo – The world’s first specialist exhibition dedicated to climate adaptation
The Resilience Expo is an annual specialist exhibition focused on climate adaptation, bringing together stakeholders from business, science, civil society, and politics. At its core, the Expo promotes knowledge exchange, showcases innovative solutions, and strengthens the climate adaptation economy, with the goal of positioning the Rhenish Mining District (Rheinisches Revier) as a future-oriented region for climate resilience, both nationally and internationally.
The challenge
The growing impacts of climate change demand new solutions and close collaboration across borders. Against this backdrop, there is a need for an event format that connects international actors in climate adaptation, strengthens markets, and showcases regional innovation capacity on a global scale. This is precisely what the Resilience Expo achieves.
The approach
Rebel is part of a consortium (together with Prognos AG, VDI Technologiezentrum, and CLIMATICON GmbH) commissioned by the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) to conceptualize, organize, and implement the Resilience Expo. Within the consortium, Rebel is particularly responsible for strategic and content-related concept development, as well as the Expo’s international orientation.
The first Resilience Expo took place in June 2025 as an in-person event in the Rhenish Mining District. In the coming years—2026 and 2027—the Expo will continue to grow, expanding in both reach and scope.
Impact
Helping to position the Resilience Expo as an internationally significant platform for climate adaptation.
The experience of a Rebel
