Boris Herrmann is a professional offshore sailor from Hamburg. On 8th November 2020 Boris set off on the Vendee Globe, a solo non-stop race around the globe as the first German to ever attempt this mission. He arrived after 80 days at sea, sailing through the Southern Ocean in the toughest conditions in the world and completed this emission free. The team’s main mission is to create awareness around climate change and solutions. He carries the message A Race We Must Win on his sails and is furthering scientific knowledge on all his sailing missions with an onboard laboratory.

Cees joined OVG Real Estate 10 years ago to be the head of the Sustainability Center. His first project was the first LEED Platinum TNT HQ and the first sustainable lab/office/factory, the Danone Innovation Center, both initiated by his team. The well-known office building The Edge in Amsterdam was the best example of smart and sustainable development and become a blueprint of the future of working and according to BREEAM, the most sustainable office building in the world. Today Cees is one of the initiators of the new company EDGE, a tech scale-up of OVG. With over 15 healthy, sustainable and tech EDGE buildings in Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, London and the US, this seems to be the answer to disruption in the global real estate market.

Melati Wijsen is a 20 year old full-time changemaker. She founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags with her younger sister and has been leading the movement driven by youth since 2013. She also started the people movement One Island One Voice and the social enterprise, Mountain Mamas. Melati has spoken on world stages such as TED and the UN and has also been selected as FORBES top ten most inspiring women in the country. She has been honoured by TIME as part of the annual list of most influential teens in the world along with CNN Heroes Young Wonders and FORBES 30 under 30. Today, Melati is excited about her new youth empowerment project; YOUTHTOPIA, empowering youth through meaningful and short peer to peer programs and providing them the tools they need to be change makers.

Josef Brunner is a successful entrepreneur and active investor in a range of industrial start-ups and deep tech firms across multiple industries including IT, cyber security, and construction, to name a few. He is also a board member for various industrial start-ups in both Europe and the United States, and acts as advisor to large industrial customers and governments.
Josef has successfully founded several companies, most recently JouleX, which was acquired by Cisco for $107 million and relayr – where he still serves as CEO – which was acquired in 2018 by MunichRE for $300 million.
For each company he is invested in, Josef is actively involved to guide the leadership teams and offer his hands-on expertise, business insights and network.
With his in-depth knowledge of the IT, IoT, and technology worlds, Josef is a regular key-note speaker and panelist at high level international conferences and meetings.

Born in 1969, she graduated from Bielefeld University and received a doctorate in Psychology.
She began her career in the management of a medium-sized company in Bielefeld, and joined Deutsche Bahn in 1996. Her work took her to Dresden and Frankfurt, until she settled for freight transport in Duisburg/Cologne and Mainz, initially as the Head of Human Resources.
She was soon appointed Head of Production and became spokeswoman for the management of block train transport in Mainz. Subsequently, she held the position of Board Member for Production at the subsidiary, DB Cargo Polska.
In October 2010, Sigrid Nikutta left DB to become Chairperson and Chief Operating Officer at Germany’s largest public transport company, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). As the first female Chairperson, she made the company operate profitably for the first time.
In late 2019, she was appointed Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bahn. As CEO of the Mainz-based DB Cargo AG she will also be responsible for operational management.

Kate Brandt serves as Google’s Sustainability Officer and leads sustainability across Google’s worldwide operations, products and supply chain. In this role, Kate coordinates with Google’s data centers, real estate, supply chain, and product teams to ensure the company is capitalizing on opportunities to strategically advance sustainability.
Previously Kate served as the Nation’s first Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. In this capacity, she was responsible for promoting sustainability across Federal Government operations.
Prior to the White House, Kate held several senior roles in U.S. Federal Government including Senior Advisor at the Department of Energy, Director for Energy and Environment in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, and Energy Advisor to the Secretary of the Navy.

Benedikt Bösel is founder and CEO of Gut & Bösel near Berlin. Benedikt and his team are implementing different forms of regenerative agriculture like syntropic agroforestry, holistic grazing, market gardening and different composting methodologies on his estate that is characterized by extremely low precipitation and sandy soil. The estate also ties in startups and technology to combine both worlds. Benedikt is engaged and sits in various boards of initiatives around the future of land use and rural development. For instance, he sits on the board of Soil Alliance – an association of Regenerative Agriculture as well as is part of the Advisory Board of Digitalisation of Agriculture for the Ministry of Food & Agriculture in Germany.

Dominik Schiener is an entrepreneur from Italy and the Co-Founder of IOTA and the IOTA Foundation. He has been in the Blockchain ecosystem since 2012 and has founded several startups in Switzerland and Germany. With IOTA he is working to establish trust to the Internet of Things and bring forth the emergencyof a Machine Economy. Through distributed ledgers he hopes to empower peopleall around the world through financial inclusion and new economic opportunities.

Driven by a profound belief in the potential of people, the power of humanity, and the genius of nature, Ole dedicates himself to combating some of the greatest threats to life on earth. With 20 years of experience from leading change and inspiring hope as a problem-solver, his critical takeaway is that global challenges must be recognized and solved from the edges. We must think big, start small, act fast, and design to scale exponentially. In 2019 Ole took the helm of ClimateTech start-up Desert Control, fueled by a passion for creating hope for a better future for “people and planet.” He is a global steward for our planet’s vital soil ecosystem, dedicated to stop and reverse desertification and soil degradation.

You don’t have to be a kid to love Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, Matchbox, Thomas & Friends, UNO, and MEGA. All these iconic toy brands are part of Mattel, which is joining the GREENTECH FESTIVAL for the first time. There are many interesting things to look forward to. Learn about Mattel’s plans on how to change the whole toy game with new sustainable materials and mindful packaging. And be prepared to see a truly amazing exhibition stand.

BMW Group has been pioneering electric mobility with the first mass-manufactured German EV, the i3.

Now BMW Group is putting EV production in high-gear, introducing more and more fascinating electrified models. Moreover, not only are the cars on a straightforward path to sustainability, the whole company is: All factories run on green energy already, emissions per vehicle produced went down 70% since 2006, and recycling and circular economic thinking are embedded in sourcing and production.

Be sure to learn more about cutting-edge and future-forward technology when you meet BMW at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL.

Communication is essential to get green messages across. We are proud to have a truly dedicated communicator, STRÖER, as a partner and exhibitor. STRÖER gives us the thousands of billboards and other media we need to roll the drum for the GREENTECH FESTIVAL. A big thank you for that. And STRÖER shows how to make out-of-home advertising greener all over our cities. For example, with “city furniture” – like bus stations with plants on their roofs. Or by drastically reducing waste with digital screens that replace paper billboards. Or by energizing more and more venues with solar energy. Expect more great innovations from STRÖER and their partners.

Deutsche Bahn is a passionate supporter of the GREENTECH FESTIVAL and represents the strong motivation to consistently continue on the path of environmental responsibility.

Achieving climate neutrality by 2040 describes one of the primary goals, making every single project exciting for the GTF. This year there will also be some unique opportunities to use the great exhibits of Deutsche Bahn to fascinate the audience as in previous years.

Green transformation at DB is not limited to making its entire product and service offering more environmentally friendly.

The root of our founding partnership with Audi is a shared philosophy. We both believe technological progress is essential for a sustainable future.

Audi shows impressively how “Vorsprung durch Technik” works for a green cause: Not only by changing to state-of-the-art premium EVs. But also by transforming the whole production process to circular and renewable.

Creating mobility that is manufactured sustainably, runs CO2 neutral, and will one day give back all materials for new uses. Besides, it’s cool and jaw-dropping. Look forward to stunning designs, amazing connectivity solutions, and fascinating features. We are proud to have Audi on our side.

Together with partners, ArianeGroup creates indispensable tools to understand our world and how we can protect it. Launching satellites, for example, is an important contribution to observe climate change, measure sea levels, or instantly detect pollution. But there is more ArianeGroup does for green progress. Take hydrogen for example. Over forty years of experience with hydrogen as rocket fuel makes ArianeGroup an expert on this carbon-free propellant. Experience that helps to develop hydrogen-powered airplanes and other future-forward technologies. There is so much more you can learn when you visit ArianeGroup at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL.

L’Oréal is a beauty company that truly walks the talk in green progress. Here are some examples: 78% less CO2 emissions overall since 2005. 14 factories that are completely climate neutral. Creating over 90.000 jobs for disadvantaged communities. And being the only company in the world that reaches CDP A-levels in climate, water, and forestry for four years in a row. These are just the achievements of L’Oréal until now. Expect more future-forward solutions at our exhibition. For example, a stunning innovation that helps to save water. See for yourself how L’Oréal is shaping the beauty of the future – first-hand at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL.

Less than two seconds to 100 km/h, 1.914 hp, a top speed of 412 km/h, and torque of 2.300 Nm. The sheer facts about the fully electric Rimac C_Two are awe-inspiring.
And so is the story of the Rimac. With just 19 years, Mate Rimac converted a BMW 323i into an electric sports car that broke several world records. Only a couple of years later, his company Rimac Automobili sets the benchmarks for the exclusive club of electric hypercar manufacturers.
We are proud to have Rimac at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL. And we can’t wait to see this legend in real life.

Over forty years ago, coffee-making met its iPhone moment when Nespresso invented capsules. Suddenly, it was easy to make first-class espresso (and all its varieties) at home. Today, millions of coffee-lovers use Nespresso-capsules. They care about sustainability and so does Nespresso – for more than 30 years. The company puts great focus on care in every step of the supply chain, from coffee cultivation to recycling. This includes working directly with 120,000 farmers in 15 countries, fair payment and technical support for sustainable coffee cultivation. Nespresso is open to all questions while serving great coffee to everyone, which is an excellent approach.

The idea is as smart as it is revolutionary: Keep food production in one hand from farm to table and you can be fully sustainable without any compromises. That is exactly what Organic Garden is starting to do. They cultivate all the ingredients for their products at their Organic Garden farms and sell them just around the corner. There is no need for long transport. The makers have complete control that everything is produced organically and in an environmentally friendly circular economy. And it’s delicious, too. We hope that Organic Garden star chef Holger Stromberg will bring some of his vegan hotdogs to the GREENTECH FESTIVAL.