>>22. February 2023
Day 1 Live Kick-off Day in Düsseldorf
7:30 Check-in | Registration
8:00 Start Onsite Partnering (online partnering 24/7 parallel)
10:30 Dr. Holger Bengs, Initiator of ECP, Opening Welcome and official Opening with welcome note from Friedrich Barth, Founder & CEO, Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
10:40-12:00 Setting the course: What is our compass for sustainable mobility?
Panel hosted by Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
Moderated by
Susanne Weiß, German Federal Association eMobility e.V. (BEM), State Representation Hesse, Germany
Impulse speech by
Dr. Stefan Carsten, Futurologist and Urban Geographer, Germany
Our panelists
- Dr.-Ing. Arwed Schmidt, Director Strategic Initiatives - Passenger Transportation at Easymile, France
- Dr. Stefan Carsten, Futurologist and Urban Geographer, Germany
- Marcus Arens, Director Sales & Business Development at Ayming Deutschland GmbH, Germany
- Nadia Soultanova, Head of Urban Network & LP Support at Urban Impact Ventures, Netherlands
Two top-class panels with experts from science, industry and politics, as well as investors, innovators, utopians and entrepreneurs who will examine these topics from different angles.
Both panels will be moderated by people with experience and insight into their respective fields.
Keywords in the topic of mobility are therefore autonomous driving technology, material sciences, hydrogene-fuel stations, storage, zero-emission vehicles.
The panel will address the future challenges of mobility in relation to people and goods. The significance of the requirements of mobility in these two crucial fields for sustainability and the circular economy will be examined from the perspective of industry, institutions, investors as well as actors in municipal and urban structures.
Another facet is current entrepreneurial concepts, that are now developing and offering sustainable solutions. What are the demands of buyers and producers? How do we handle individual needs and common sense? To organize transport and travel in the future, we must keep the sustainability goals in mind regarding materials, waste and the carbon footprint along the value chains.
12:00-14:00 Streaming Live Pitch Session
- 12:00 – 12:15 Blucon Biotech GmbH - Renewable chemicals by fermenting straw
- 12:15 – 12:30 High-Tech Gründerfonds Presentation
- 12:30 – 12:40 intelligent fluids GmbH
- 12:40 – 12:46 NRW.Bank - Beratungscenter Wirtschaftsförderung (BCW)
14:00-15:30 Growth - new technologies or renunciation: What will tomorrow's agriculture look like?
Panel hosted by Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
Welcome Note by
Hans-Jürgen Petrauschke, County Governor of the Rhine County of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Friedrich Barth, Founder & CEO Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC), Germany
Impulse Speech by
Prof. Dr. Iris Lewandowski, Chief Bioeconomy Officer (CBO) of the University of Hohenheim at the Department of Biobased Products and Energy Crops, Germany
Our panelists
- Stéphane Roussel, Partner at European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, Head of Agritech and Blue Economy Investments, France
- Prof. Dr. Iris Lewandowski, Chief Bioeconomy Officer (CBO) of the University of Hohenheim at the Department of Biobased Products and Energy Crops, Germany
- Hendrik Waegeman, Head of Business Operations, Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEU), Belgium
- Christopher Kong, Co-Founder & CEO, Better Nature, United Kingdom
- M. Lee Greene, Board Member, Foodhub NRW e.V., Germany
The panel will address the future challenges of agriculture in relation to natural disaster caused by climate changes, plagues, droughts, or the need of resilience of crop to prevent food shortages. Efficient plant and seed protection, climate adaption as well as resource and soil protecting methods will be in the focus.
How can the nutrition of billions of people be organized and ensured? How can this be done without further destruction of the soil and simultaneously achieving a reduction of our carbon output? What adjustments are necessary in our diet? Can we meet `Carbon Goals´ without changing our way of life?
In agriculture, the topics of the last ECP expand to zero-emission agriculture, new materials, for example in agro-films and fertilizers, vertical farming and biotech-farming, indoor versus outdoor farming, digitalization as well as automation with drones and other automation technologies, optimization of fertilizer use through digitalization and bioreactors for food production.
17:30 End of onsite Partnering
18:00 Get-Together
20:00 End of Event
>>23. February 2023
00:00 – 23:59 Online Partnering
09:00 – 09:30 Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC) Presentation by Sebastian Gronwald, Co-founder and CFO of the Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
09:30 – 10:30 CHEManager Innovation Pitch 2022
11:00 – 12:00 ECP Pitch Session
11:00 - 11:06 B4Plastics
11:06 - 11:12 Enzymaster Deutschland GmbH
11:18 - 11:24 FastCompChem
11:24 - 11:30 b.fab GmbH
13:00 – 14:00 Start-up Pitch Session “Energy” (hosted by Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
Moderated by
Katarzyna Dembska, Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
Pitches of the new GEC Energy Start-Ups:
- Lambda
- AdaptVerticalMills
- Koolboks
- Cumulus Energy Storage
- Bavertis
- Aquabattery
- Naked Energy
- enVerde LLC
15:00 – 16:00 Start-up Pitch Session “Food” (hosted by Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
Moderated by
Katarzyna Dembska, Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
Pitches of the new GEC Food Start-Ups:
16:00 – 17:00 Start-up Pitch Session “Textiles” (hosted by Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
Moderated by
Katarzyna Dembska, Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)
Pitches of the new GEC Textile Start-Ups:
- NEFFA
- Eekual Bionic GmbH
- Resortecs
In short 6 Minute slots the selected start-ups from all over the world present their innovative products that are extraordinary in their sustainability and climate protection focus. The sessions are introduced and hosted by an expert in the field.
