Brussels, Belgium, January 21, 2026 – Stjepan Orešković, Founder of BOSQAR d.d., the holding company of the BOSQAR INVEST group (ZSE: BSQR), participated in Conclave 2026, a high-level European strategic forum held from January 15 to 17 in Brussels. The forum focused on translating Europe’s structural strengths into power through concrete capacity for action.
Now in its third edition, Conclave 2026 was organised by EuropaNova, prepared in close collaboration with the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, and hosted at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and Bruegel’s headquarters. Positioned ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Conclave convened a select group of senior leaders from finance, industry, technology, and European institutions in a closed-door format designed to prioritise execution over diagnosis.
Held under the theme “From European Strengths to EU Power”, the forum addressed Europe’s ability to sustain growth, competitiveness, and resilience in an environment increasingly shaped by economic scale, technological capability, and capital intensity.
The Conclave opened on January 15 with a preparatory workshop, “How Can Europe Shape Its Technological Resilience?”, organised in partnership with ASML, followed by a public conference in Brussels. Discussions continued on January 16 and 17 behind closed doors at Bruegel through plenary sessions and thematic working groups.
ASML, represented by Frank Heemskerk, Executive Vice President, and Europe’s global technology champion, recently surpassed a USD 500 billion valuation, with Morgan Stanley forecasting a further 70% upside—clear evidence that European companies can compete and lead at the highest global level. ASML anchored the technology pillar of the Conclave, shaping discussions alongside Ericsson’s vice president, Andrew Loyd, on Europe’s technological resilience, industrial depth, and long-term innovation leadership.
On January 16 at Bruegel, Stjepan Orešković—also a Supervisory Board Member of the Conclave—moderated the high-level investment roundtable entitled “How can public and private investments contribute to building EU power?” The discussion focused on long-term capital mobilisation, investment discipline, and effective public–private cooperation as critical enablers of Europe’s strategic and industrial objectives, all aligned with the Future 500 initiative managed by IEDC Bled School of Management in partnership with the Atlantic Council.
BOSQAR INVEST, represented by its Founder Stjepan Orešković, boasts a 62% compound annual growth rate over the past five years. Its growth and track record exemplify Europe’s capacity to scale rapidly with discipline and execution strength.
“Europe already possesses the core ingredients of global economic power: a potential of the Single Market, world-class industrial champions like ASML, advanced scientific and engineering talent, and the largest pool of long-term savings in the world. The strategic challenge is no longer diagnosis but translation—we might even borrow that concept from medicine. Turning these structural strengths into scale, speed, and execution requires alignment across EU capital markets, industrial strategy, and public–private investment, so that European companies can grow large, remain European, and compete decisively in capital-intensive, technology-driven sectors,” said Orešković in a statement after the event.
At the conference, Orešković also announced an important update related to the Future 500 initiative, a long-term European platform designed to identify and support 500 of the most promising European scale-ups with the potential to become global champions. As part of this effort, the initiative will host a conference named “Champions of Growth” in March in Brussels, bringing together founders, investors, policymakers, and institutional partners to accelerate scale, capital access, and cross-border growth for Europe’s next generation of leading companies.
Participants included leaders from European financial institutions, industry, technology, and policy organisations, as well as senior executives from major European companies and investment platforms. Among them were Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank; Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space; Kerstin Jorna, Director General for Industry, Internal Market, Entrepreneurship at European Commission, Guillaume Klosa, President of the Conclave; Aart Jan de Geus, President of the ABP General Board; Jean-Francois de Boxmeer, Chairman of Vodafone and European Roundtable for Industry, Mariya Gabriel, President of the Robert Schuman Institute and former EU Commissioner; Nicolas Schmit, President of FEPS and former EU Commissioner; Robbert Dijkgraaf, President of the International Science Council; and Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Director of Bruegel, Jean Marie Solvay, Chairman of the Board, Solvac, Peter Grk, Director, Bled Strategic Forum, Malte Zabel, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Senior executives from ASML, Ericsson, the European Commission, Syensqo, BertelFEPS, the European Trade Union Confederation, MADA Venture Capital, and leading European policy institutions were also present.
Discussions spanned growth, industrial capacity, technology, defence, and competitiveness, with artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure addressed as cross-cutting priorities that are creating champions of growth.
