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The GREENTECH FESTIVAL CONFERENCE with its keynotes, panel discussions, bootcamps and deepdives, is there for those who want to enact lasting change. Together with bold pioneers and outstanding global leaders, we have created a stage for inspiring idea exchange, driven by the need for sustainable business solutions.

    

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Opening Ceremony

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

10:00-10:30

In the grand opening ceremony of the Greentech Festival 2023, we will launch discussions off with positivity, a few celebrity surprises and deep insights into the future of sustainable business. To build a better world we need brave voices calling for change and leaders willing to take risks in order to build incredible visions. ‘Business as usual’ is dead and in our new world, sustainability has become synonymous with success and the market, customers and investors will reward those who stand behind inclusive, sustainable and ethical values. How do we start this journey today, how to we measure success and how do we communicate the small and big wins along the way. Let’s start the conversation, unafraid and open to great possibilities.

SPEAKERS


Gillord Pisas (HOST) MC/Host

Host : Opening Ceremony
10 minutes

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Panel – Mission Net Zero: 1.5° – Counting the true costs of action and inaction

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

10:30-11:00

Despite goodwill and big promises, we are continuing to march towards a climate catastrophe and the window for staying below 1.5° temperature rise is closing fast. But what does this actually mean? What kinds of sacrifices/investments would be required from individuals, from businesses, and from government in order to stay within this limit? More importantly, what kinds of costs and uncertainties can we expect if we treat 1.5° as a soft target and slide into uncontrolled climate chaos? Come and join leaders from science, politics and business as they discuss where we should focus our attention in a time where hard decisions will be the norm.

SPEAKERS


Johan Rockström Professor Dr
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Speaker : 5 - Minute Opening
5 min

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Does sustainability mean sacrifice: Green transformation in war and peace

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

11:10-11:40

A year out from the beginning of gruesome war in Ukraine, and the industry landscape in Europe has changed dramatically. Decarbonisation, sustainability, energy efficiency: words that for too long lay dormant in corporate vision statements have quickly become core business and for many companies, a matter of life and death. That Europe must transform to net-zero economies is unquestionable, but does this transformation need to mean financial suffering and sacrifice? Whether you’re part of a startup or a global corporate or everything in between, come and join the debate as we discuss transformation at scale.

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Out of the Box Keynote: Future Technologies that will decarbonise the planet

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

11:40-11:50

SPEAKERS


Bettina Stark-Watzinger Federal Minister for Education and Research
Federal Republic of Germany

Speaker : Keynote Speech
10 minutes

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Debate: Will new tech and AI save us before it’s too late?

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

11:50-12:20

New Tech and AI offer incredible promise in making our lives easier, but what about their application to solve humanity’s biggest challenges like climate change? Could new AI, sensor systems or new hardware offer breakthrough approaches and insights that were previously not possible? Perhaps more important than the technologies we create and choose is their sensible application: applying the right tools to the right problems. Answer these questions and more, when we debate the role of technology in turning back the clock on climate change.

SPEAKERS


Donya-Florence Amer CIO I CHRO
Hapag-Lloyd AG

Panelist : Panel Discussion
30 minutes

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Out of the Box Keynote: Defeating climate change despair: Is positivity really enough?

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

12:20-12:30

SPEAKERS


Gail Whiteman

Gail Whiteman Professor of Sustainability & Executive Director
Arctic Basecamp

Speaker : keynote Speech
10 minutes

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Sustainability and sport: change the game, change the world

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

12:30-13:00

Sport has the power to galvanise and inspire people to push their limits in every aspects of life. It is now time to use this lever to save our planet. From Jesse Owens to Muhammad Ali, great athletes have always been able to carry strong messages and become bigger than sport. So, will sustainability become the next great fight championed by athletes and sporting teams alike?

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Networking Lunch Break

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

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Sustainable Marketing: Time to talk about the real costs of advertising

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

14:00-14:30

Has marketing become too easy? Online, it takes 20 minutes to set up a massive global campaign targeting your audience down to the finest detail. Yet once those algorithms start to work, an often uncounted toll is exacted on our climate. In all our talk of KPIs, ROIs and impact, is it time we start addressing the climate costs of our advertising choices? So, what holistic metrics should we be using to define sustainable marketing, and what should be done to maximise our reach but minimise our environmental impacts?

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Out of the Box Keynote: Is the cost of living crisis a sign we’re reaching out planetary limits?

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

14:40-14:50

SPEAKERS


Constantin Schwaab CEO
Wirelane

Speaker : Keynote Speech
10 Minutes

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Thriving in a sustainability revolution: Trust, brand and the new social contract

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

14:50-15:20

Intention drives result. Nowhere is that more obvious than in efforts to build a brand, employee image and company culture around sustainable business. Done well and the market, customers and the best impact-driven employees will open up to you. But culture change can be painful, requires careful management and alignment, and it has its risks. Where do we start, how do we measure progress and what does success feel and look like?

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Feeding the World // Will Foodtech save us?

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

15:30-16:00

It’s the perfect storm: growing populations, accelerating meat consumption, over-farming and land degradation and all this in a world where food production already represents 20% of the global GHG emission. Is Foodtech the answer? Its has certainly captured the attention of the media and investors, but can it really deliver the complex dietary needs of our global community. In this panel, leading experts will discuss what Food Tech can and can’t do in reshaping the way we eat, grow and produce food on a climate affected planet.

SPEAKERS


Bernhard Kowatsch Head of WFP Innovation Accelerator
UN World Food Programme

Panelist : Panel Discussion
30 - minutes

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What actually matters for my personal CO2 footprint?

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

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Adopting the SDGs: What’s in it for your business?

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

16:10-16:40

The SDGs were put together in an attempt create a global framework for the fight to create equitable and sustainable communities. Understanding their how they work and how to apply them to business situations hasn’t always been easy, and many apply to global problems that are often hard to grasp in your daily business operations. To help make sense of all of this, we have brought together leaders from business as well as experts from the UN to talk about their journey and why they’ve decided to align their businesses with the SDGs.

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Beyond GreenTech: Let’s talk about humans, health and sustainability

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

16:40-17:10

Good health forms the foundation of vibrant communities and productive economies. It may not surprise you that pollution in our air, water, and soil is having a dramatic influence on our health. Moreover, the effects of global warming are multiple: higher temperatures increase the risk of transmittable and mosquito-born diseases, drought fuels hunger and malnutrition while heat itself is becoming a major killer in an aging population. Join this session and let’s speak up for our health: only with healthy minds, healthy bodies, and healthy societies can we stand together in the fight for our environment.

SPEAKERS


Eckart von Hirschhausen Physician, science journalist and founder
Healthy People Foundation

Moderator : Panel Discussion
40 minutes

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Plug in, charge up and let’s talk electromobility

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

17:20-17:55

We are in the midst of a revolution in transport and energy that has the profound implications for everything from our economies to the ways we live and move. Electric vehicle uptake is accelerating and with bidirectional charging we could soon see fleets and even whole cities acting as living batteries, responding real time to the energy needs of the population. Yet to reach this point, there are some fundamental challenges to be overcome. The leaders of change are in town so come and join in as we supercharge our vision of an electrified future.

SPEAKERS


Mate Rimac Founder and CEO
Rimac Group

Panelist : Panel Discussion
25 minutes

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Conference Wrap-up

Thursday 15.06

Main Stage

17:55-18:00

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For Meta or worse: Sustainability in the VR economy

Thursday 15.06

Deepdive Stage

10:30-11:15

Zuckerburg sees the metaverse to be as big as the internet, while companies as diverse as IBM and Macdonalds are investing heavily in the opportunity to engage, advertise and sell to an immersed online audience. Currently, this opportunity comes at a huge cost to our climate as the computing power to run these complex, real-time environments is huge. On the other side, the metaverse may make meetings that previously required air travel, possible from our own living rooms. Join us as we discuss the costs and benefits of a new virtual universe and discuss what can be done to minimise it’s carbon cost.

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Supply-chain, circularity, and ethical sourcing

Thursday 15.06

Deepdive Stage

11:15-12:00

Systems and cycles in nature offer a perfect example for better practices and processes for humans: Natural balance of the intake and outtake of energy in a system, the replacement or regeneration of resources, positive feedback loops that support integrity and stability. How can we produce such systems in our transport, freight and production networks? What benefits come from responsible and regenerative sourcing? And, how can we re-engineer our and earth’s systems to repair the damage we’ve done.

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Mobility, energy and green urban living

Thursday 15.06

Deepdive Stage

12:00-12:45

While in modern cities, elevators whisk you down at 10 levels per second, the solid lines of cars at the exit pass you by at a crawl. Collaborative sharing networks, crowd-sourced planning, and electromobility seem to hold the answer to many of the challenges of modern congested living. However, how much of this is a new wave of hype, and are we investing time and efforts where it will deliver the greatest returns?

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Networking Lunch Break

Thursday 15.06

Deepdive Stage

12:45-13:45

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Sustainable foods, farm-to-plate and agrotech

Thursday 15.06

Deepdive Stage

13:45-14:30

We are literally eating our planet, and as our population approaches 10 billion by 2050, a complete rethink is needed about what it means to eat, live and grow sustainably. Technology holds incredible promise and whether it’s lab grown, stackable farms or plant-based protein, new approaches are changing consumer behaviour, supply-chains and entire markets. Get involved, get informed and see the change that is gripping the food-industry.

SPEAKERS


Judith Wemmer Executive Board Member; Head of Product Development
Planted

Panelist : Panel Discussion
45 minutes

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Town Hall Debate: Are COPs becoming a waste of time?

Thursday 15.06

Deepdive Stage

14:30-15:15

They seem to come at us thick and fast. As soon as one COP has come to an end, the press releases a swallowed up by the bustling news cycles, and the next COP is at our doorstep. However, despite all the media attention a fanfare, are they actually helping us create an international framework to fight climate change? An upgrade, a new format, new rules? Come, get involved and have your say at the Town Hall Debate as we discuss the future of the COP.

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Net-zero construction: circular construction, urban mining and new materials

Thursday 15.06

Deepdive Stage

15:15-16:00

Few industries are in need of rapid net-zero transformation, as the building and construction sector. Too often, high-value materials are built to be used once, are not optimised for efficient use and are sourced from unethical/non-renewable supply chains. Despite this, many new technologies and innovative processes offer incredible potential to make building a creative, value-generating endeavour. Let’s explore how novelle approaches like urban mining, new materials and the latest technology can combine to build a better tomorrow.

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Town Hall Debate: Is offsetting doing more harm that good?

Thursday 15.06

Deepdive Stage

16:00-16:45

We had a nice run. We all wanted to believe that the offsetting could be trusted, that cheap carbon-neutral flights across the globe could be a real thing. Then the Guardian/Die Zeit came out with their shocking report into Verra, the world’s largest carbon certification program, claiming that 90% of their commonly used rainforest credits were practically useless. Verra was quick to defend itself and other players in the industry distanced themselves and claimed that their credits were different. So, is offsetting a helpful part of the journey to decarbonisation, or are we just making ourselves feel better while distroy the planet.

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Green logistics and sustainable supply

Thursday 15.06

Deepdive Stage

16:45-17:30

The long-distance transport of people and goods accounts for a large proportion of our global C02 footprint. Efforts to decarbonise have shown limited success due to the high energy loads of these industries. Can hydrogen and e-fuels meet their promise as high-yield, energy-dense replacements? How far off is mainstream carbon neutral flight and what can be done by consumers and businesses to speed up the process of transformation?

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Session 1

Thursday 15.06

Solution Stage

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Session 2

Thursday 15.06

Solution Stage

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Session 3

Thursday 15.06

Solution Stage

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Session 4

Thursday 15.06

Solution Stage

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Session 5

Thursday 15.06

Solution Stage

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Session 6

Thursday 15.06

Solution Stage

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Session 7

Thursday 15.06

Solution Stage

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Session 8

Thursday 15.06

Solution Stage

17:00-18:00

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Opening Ceremony

Friday 16.06

Main Stage

10:00-10:20

10:20

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Urban sustainability: Green design, planning and infrastructure

Friday 16.06

Main Stage

10:20-10:50

Our built world and the structures and designs we interact with every day hold the potential to be some of sustainability’s most universal, yet deeply personal touch points. What considerations need to be made when we design, architect and engineer these spaces? How should we be developing transport and mobility networks so that they democratic and accessible to all? Discover a new perspective on our urban world and see how sustainable principles and technology can drive creativity, easy connection, health and prosperity.

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Out of the box Keynote: What personal actions count if I want to reduce emissions?

Friday 16.06

Main Stage

11:00-11:10

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Hydrogen, heavy industry and the new energy economy

Friday 16.06

Main Stage

11:10-11:40

We are sitting on the cusp of a revolution. The technology is ready, policies are falling into place and industry is hungry to move to energy sources that are local, sustainable and clean. Hydrogen and replacement fuels hold great promise, however, what’s going to be needed to drive the energy transition and meet our climate goals? Find out what businesses are leading the race, how consumers can get involved, and which companies are pushing the boundaries in adopting hydrogen in their daily operations?

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Out of the box Keynote: Is it time to take climate adaption seriously?

Friday 16.06

Main Stage

11:50-12:00

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The Circular Economy in Practice

Friday 16.06

Main Stage

12:00-12:30

There’s a lot of talk of moving towards circular business models, yet in terms of true circularity, most of these projects remain purely theoretical. If achieved the benefits are multiple: decreased material and transport costs, lower energy consumption, less emissions and a competitive advantage on the market. What examples exist on the market of companies who have truly ‘gone circular’? What can we learn from them, how should we get started?

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Closing Ceremony: Meet your Protester Sessions

Friday 16.06

Main Stage

12:30-13:00

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1h 00'

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Session 1

Friday 16.06

Solution Stage

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Session 2

Friday 16.06

Solution Stage

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Session 3

Friday 16.06

Solution Stage

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Networking Lunch Break

Friday 16.06

Solution Stage

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Session 4

Friday 16.06

Solution Stage

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Session 5

Friday 16.06

Solution Stage

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Session 6

Friday 16.06

Solution Stage

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