Coen van Oostrom is Founder & CEO of EDGE, a global leader in tech-enabled, sustainable & healthy building development. EDGE is an OVG Real Estate company, which Coen founded in 1997. OVG’s portfolio consists of more than a million square meters of development in The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Coen aims to radicalize sustainability through powerful innovations and seeks to effect further change in infrastructure and urban development, while drawing inspiration from global leaders. Galvanized by a meeting with Al Gore and his climate change documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, Coen became convinced of the green promise of untapped technologies, making it the company’s mission to deliver new standards of tech-driven responsible urban office development.

Donya Amer’s career started with an apprenticeship as a bank clerk in Cologne. Her subsequent studies in business administration took her from Cologne University to the University of California at Berkley. After graduating in business administration with a major in finance and human resources, she joined IBM in Frankfurt, where she held customer and consulting-related positions in the field of digital transformation for 17 years. In 2017 she moved to Bosch. For around three years, she was part of the Bosch IT management team, responsible for the business interface of internal IT, before taking over as CEO of the newly founded Bosch Climate Solutions GmbH in 2020. In her free time, she enjoys diving – and often encounters with plastic in the water.

Tim is one of the four co-founders of Hardt Hyperloop. Hardt has realized Europe’s first operational hyperloop and is often seen as the most advanced European hyperloop initiative. Tim has a background in mechanical engineering at the Delft University of Technology, where he built record-breaking electric race cars among others. Prior to Hardt, Tim was the team captain of the Delft Hyperloop team, which won Elon Musk’s hyperloop competition. It is Tim’s passion to work with an amazing team with loads of ambition to do the extraordinary.

Dr. Nicola Kimm is the Global Head of Sustainability, Environment, Health & Safety for Signify. In this role she has led the company to its position as a recognized sustainability leader and its achievement of carbon neutrality. Nicola is also a non-executive board member at EQT AB. She has held international and multi-disciplinary roles in engineering, operations, communications and sustainability in Europe, Asia, and the US in the electronics, chemicals and food industries. She holds a PhD in Economics and Business Engineering, MSc and BSc degrees in Chemical Engineering and a BSc in Ecology.

Dr. Frederik Zohm has been the Executive Board member for Research and Development at MAN Truck & Bus SE since 2017. In 2003 he completed his postgraduate studies at the Technical University of Aachen where he had previously completed his studies in production technology and industrial engineering. He started his career at a university-related consultancy firm in Aachen, before he switched in 2005 to Procurement at the Daimler Trucks subsidiary EvoBus GmbH. From 2009 through to 2012, Dr. Frederik Zohm led Procurement at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Cooperation in Tokyo. Between 2012 and 2016, he was responsible for global sales and Powertrain Product Planning at Daimler Trucks. In 2017, Dr. Frederik Zohm joined Volkswagen Truck & Bus AG and led alliance management for their strategic partnership with U.S. Truck manufacturer Navistar.

Jörg Singer has been Mayor of Helgoland since 2011. He studied business engineering in Germany and the USA. He subsequently worked for various companies in the high-tech industry. E.g. Lufthansa. During his professional career, innovation and change management has become his aptitude. Leading Helgoland into a new life cycle has been his most comprehensive transformation project the past ten years. Now his vision is to harvest 1 Million tons of Green Hydrogen from the Northsea. What has been an utopia for years will become a reality very soon.

Nicole is an experienced attorney and nonprofit executive. She co-founded the Material Innovation Initiative after identifying the rich potential of the next-gen materials market through her work catapulting plant-based foods into the mainstream. In her previous role as director of international engagement at the Good Food Institute, Nicole worked with key audiences around the world including companies, entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, and government officials to promote the development of alternatives to animal products. Her expertise in the field and in bringing together stakeholders made her a sought after speaker at conferences and high profile meetings in locations like Israel, Estonia, Poland, London, Brazil, India, and across the U.S.

Holger is the President of BMW Group Designworks, the design consultancy that globally works for clients in diverse industries spanning Mobility and Digital Life. As president he is leading the global design consulting firm and its three studios with 140 employees from its headquarters in California. Prior to his present role, Holger held the in-house position of Head of Design User Experience for BMW Group. He brings extensive experience in Product Design, Creative Consulting, and Interaction Design and Design Management as well as deep insights into the thinking, processes and design culture of the BMW Group.

After studying Theoretical Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in The Netherlands, Liduine joined Picnic, in the team responsible for the last part of Picnic’s supply chain, in which it delivers groceries from cityhubs to customers’ homes with proprietary electric vehicles.
First Liduine has worked on further improvement of the efficiency of the Picnic Milkman Model. She now focuses on applying insights of last mile driving behaviour to further improve safety. Together with 6 specialists, Liduine developed the Picnic Driving Coach, using real time feedback and gamification to drastically decrease the number of incidents and thus making neighbourhoods safer.