Ok, bye is not your normal startup conference but rather a unique climate performance, where talks and discussions will be intertwined with artistic happenings, music, and visual approaches.

not your normal conference //

OK, BYE! // 🧪🔬💚🧫

not your normal conference // OK, BYE! // 🧪🔬💚🧫

Every year, “Ok, bye” chooses a different theme to inspect under the microscope.

The theme 2025 is:

Science

This year, we step into the laboratory of climate action to investigate the science, technology, and innovations driving solutions to the climate crisis. With a microscope in hand and research goggles firmly in place, we analyze groundbreaking discoveries and data-backed advancements that hold the key to a sustainable future. From carbon sequestration to afforestation, seaweed farming to renewable energy, we experiment with the boldest ideas and test their impact on the global ecosystem. Every participant becomes an inventor in this collaborative experiment. Venture capitalists backing climate startups, corporations making sustainable changes, and entrepreneurs incubating their next great idea all play crucial roles. Together, we embody the hypothesis that research-backed decisions and innovation can turn the tide against climate change.

We invite you to Iceland, where wild ideas and daring hypotheses are incubated in a creative petri dish of collaboration. At this year’s Ok, bye, we will don our lab coats and safety goggles to make bold experiments and groundbreaking discoveries, cultivating new means to solve the climate crisis.

We work closely with our main partners at Climeworks and Transition Labs to collaborate on the highest-impact climate projects from around the globe and to establish Iceland as a hub of climate innovation and knowledge sharing. These partnerships enable us to foster a spirit of teamwork and shared knowledge. Together, we amplify the reach of innovative solutions and strengthen the foundation for a sustainable future.

The name Ok, bye honors Ok-jökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change. Once spanning 16 square kilometers, it has melted into a fraction of its former glory, no longer a glacier but a stark reminder of what’s at stake.

Thanks, global warming.

Speakers TBA.

— Speakers 2024

Bodil Sidén

General Partner at Kost Kapital
Troels Prahl

CEO at Swan Neck Bio
Katrín Jakobsdóttir

Former Prime Minister of Iceland & Presidential Candidate
José Ramos

Corporate Innovation
Berndsen

Icelandic Pop Artist
Kjartan Ólafsson

CEO of Transition Labs
Karen Björk Eyþórsdóttir

Project Lead at Transition Labs
Freyr Eyjólfsson

Circular economy manager at Sorpa
FWD Youth Company

A dance company based in Iceland
Finn Erik Solvang

Founder & CEO at Rockpore
Sara Sande

Partner & Head of Green Transition Team at EIFO
Guðmundur Felixsson

Actor and director
Michael Hendrix

Founder, creative director, professor and author
Peter Godart

Co-founder and CEO of Found Energy
Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas

CEO and Co-Founder of Atacama Biomaterials
Hermigervill

A multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, and DJ
Dr. Michelle Thaller

Science Communicator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Ásta Fjeldsted

CEO at Festi