AIP Forum Copenhagen 2025 Recap: Turning Investment Planning into a Strategic Capability
The Nordic region has long been at the forefront of Asset Investment Planning. That maturity was evident at the 5th AIP Forum in Copenhagen, where asset-intensive organizations from across the region came together to exchange practical experience and challenge how AIP is applied in the real world. What has evolved into a trusted community now reflects a shared ambition: raising the bar for how investment decisions are made, defended, and adapted over time.
This year’s forum brought together leaders from organizations including Cerius-Radius, CPH Airports, Banedanmark, E.ON, Fortum, Gasunie, and others—all navigating a common shift. Asset owners are moving beyond reactive planning toward a more strategic, adaptive approach to Asset Investment Planning.
From reacting to change to planning with intent
For many organizations, investment planning has historically been reactive by necessity, shaped by fixed cycles and assumptions that quickly became outdated. Today, asset owners operate in an environment of constant change—driven by sustainability commitments, regulatory pressure, workforce constraints, and public scrutiny. As discussions at the forum highlighted, reacting faster is no longer enough. Across industries, asset owners are converging on a clear conclusion: Asset Investment Planning must evolve into a strategic capability—one that enables organizations to anticipate change, understand trade-offs, and make decisions that remain credible over time. At the center of this shift is a renewed focus on value: understanding what investment decisions truly deliver for the organization in the long term.
There is pressure coming from every direction—sustainability, affordability, resilience—and all of it has to be balanced in the investment plan.
Saira Alladin
Industry Expert
Learning from practice: insights from Vattenfall Eldistribution and TenneT Germany
This shift from planning to decision leadership was brought to life through customer sessions at the forum. Vattenfall Eldistribution, presented by Alexandra Donners Muhammed, Head of Asset Performance and Klara Eliasson Rabo, Data Analyst, Asset Performance, shared how mature AIP supports long-term system outcomes rather than optimizing individual projects in isolation. Managing large, complex asset portfolios amid growing societal expectations, their focus is on consistency: ensuring everyday investment decisions remain aligned with long-term objectives around resilience, sustainability, and performance. Their experience reinforced a core principle of advanced AIP. Long-term value is not created through one-off optimizations, but through repeatable, transparent decision-making that holds up as assumptions change.
That message was echoed by TenneT Germany. Dr. Florian Heilmeier, Asset Portfolio Manager, highlighted that while data availability is no longer the primary constraint, transforming data into decisions that can be confidently defended remains a central challenge—particularly in a highly interconnected transmission environment. Across sectors, this resonated strongly. The goal is not more analysis, but greater decision confidence—across planning cycles, regulatory reviews, and shifting scenarios.
The challenge is not a lack of data—it’s turning that data into decisions we can stand behind over the long term
Dr. Florian Heilmeier
Asset Portfolio Manager
TenneT Germany
Strategic AIP as a leadership capability
The discussions in Copenhagen pointed to a clear direction. Asset Investment Planning is evolving from a periodic planning exercise into a leadership capability—one that enables organizations to navigate uncertainty with confidence, not just produce a plan. Achieving this requires more than better reporting. It requires a clear line of sight from strategic intent to investment decisions and execution, and the ability to explain, defend, and adapt those decisions over time. This is also where the role of AI in AIP becomes tangible—not as a buzzword, but as a practical enabler of faster scenario analysis, clearer trade-offs, and more adaptive, value-based planning.
The 5th AIP Forum in Copenhagen highlighted both the strength of the Nordic asset management community and a shared commitment to treating Asset Investment Planning as a strategic capability grounded in value and adaptability. Through open exchange and real-world insights, participants reinforced how far the region has come—and the momentum building for what comes next.
We look forward to continuing the conversation and welcoming more asset-intensive organizations to future AIP community events across the region.
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