Other Speakers

  • American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
    1. Cheri Faso Olf, Director, Global Education & Outreach
  • Association of European Science and Tech Transfer Profesionals (ASTP)
    1. Kevin Cullen, ASTP Board Member and Director of Research & Enterprise, University of Glasgow
    2. Jörn Erselius, ASTP Board Member and Director at Max Planck Innovation
    3. Karen Laigaard, ASTP Board Member and Head of Technology Transfer, University of Copenhagen
    4. Laurent Mieville, ASTP President and Founder & Head of the Technology Transfer Office of the University of Geneva and the University Hospitals of Geneva (Unitec)
  • Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
    1. Vicki Loise, CMP, CAE, AUTM Executive Director
    2. Arundeep Pradhan, MS, AUTM President-elect, Technology and Research Collaborations Director at Oregon Health & Science University
    3. Jon Soderstrom, Ph.D., AUTM President, Managing Director of the Office of Cooperative Research at Yale University
  • Cleantech Group – Europe
    1. Richard Youngman, Managing Director
  • Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization (CT-SI)
    1. Patricia Glaza, CEO
  • Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS)
    1. Johan Peter Paludan, Director at CIFS
    2. Jeffrey Saunders, Researcher at CIFS
  • Danish Water Forum/European Water Partnership
    1. Henrik Larsen, DHI Water Policy
    2. Karen Hussey, Australian National University (ANU) (tentative)
    3. John R. Porter, University of Copenhagen.
    4. Christer Södeberg, Vice-President, ESHA (European Small Hydropower Association)
  • Energinet.dk
    1. Kim Behnke, Head of R&D and Environment
  • European Industrial Research Management Association (EIRMA)
    1. Andrew Dearing, Secretary General
    2. John Smith, Deputy Secretary-General, EUA
    3. Chris Hull, Secretary General, EARTO
    4. Gillian McFadzean, Chairman of the Board, ProTon Europe
  • European Patent Office (EPO)
    1. Thomas Maxisch, Examiner to the EPO
    2. Victor Veefkind, Examiner to the EPO
  • Federal Labs Consortium (FLC)
    1. Scott Deiter, Chairman, FLC
    2. Gary Jones, Washington DC Representative, FLC
  • Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy
    1. Henrik Bindslev, Director
  • Roskilde University
    1. Søren Laurentius Nielsen, Associate Professor
    2. Benni Winding Hansen, Associate Professor
    3. Paul Thorn, PhD Fellow
  • Siemens AG
    1. Uwe Hermann, Senior Director of the Siemens Corporate University Liaison
    2. Stephan Denig, Head of Corporate Communications – Issue Management
  • Third Eye Innovation
    1. Paula Rhoades, Partner
  • University of Aarhus
    1. Just Jensen, Dean Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
    2. Jørgen E. Olesen, Research Professor
    3. Uffe Jørgensen, Senior Scientist
    4. Anders Peter Adamsen, Senior Scientist
  • United Nations Environment Programme
    1. Allan Jensen, Technical Director, Force Technology, Denmark
    2. Guido Sonnemann, Programme Officer, UNited Nations Environment Programme
    3. Anders Schmidt, Project Manager, Energy, Force Technology and Metrology

Panel Discussions

The panel discussions are designed to provide broad inspiration and food for thought to participants working within the realm of cleantech, either as developers or users. Each panel discussion will comprise three speakers providing their perspective on the issue followed by a moderated discussion. The following speakers have been confirmed:

Agriculture and Land: Production of biofuels based on food crops – an ethical dilemma?

Moderator: Paula Rhoades, Partner, Third Eye Innovation

Speakers:
1.Poul Ruben Andersen, Global Director, BioFuel & Starch Business Development, Novozymes A/S
2.Bastiaan Reydon, Senior Professor at the Economics Institute of UNICAMP (NEA/UNICAMP) and Sustainable Technology Advisor of INOVA – UNICAMP
3.Andreas von Brandt, Coordinator Bioenergy and Food Security Project at the Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, United nations food and agriculture org (FAO)

Agriculture and Land: What’s the technological future of farming? – Looking beyond organic farming vs. GMO’s

Moderator: Lauren Bigelow, Managing Director, Cleantech Network, LLC

Speakers:
1.Pedro A. Sanchez, Director of tropical Agriculture, Columbia University Earth Institute
2.Jonathan Ramsay, Director of Public and Industry Affairs for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Monsanto
3.Jørgen E. Olesen, Research Professor at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and researcher for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Aarhus University

Water: How can technology address water shortages in the future?

Moderator: Julie Gupta, Partner, Third Eye Innovation

Speakers:
1.Hans Enggrob, Head of Innovation, DHI Group
2.Christopher Gasson, Publisher, Global Water Intelligence
3.Nicola Lamaddalena, Head of Irrigation Engineering Department, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari

Waste and Recycling: How to decouple economic development and waste generation?

Moderator: Stig Hirsbak, Founder, Hirsbak Consult

Speakers:
1.W. Gregory Vogt, Managing Director, International Waste Association
2.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kranert, Chair of Waste Management and Emissions, Universität Stuttgart
3.Guido Sonnemann, Programme Officer for Innovation and Life Cycle Management, Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch, UNEP

Energy: Energy storage – future possibilities

Moderator: Cheri Olf, Director of Education & International Workforce Development, American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE)

Speakers:
1.Mohammed Mehdi Farid, Professor (Personal Chair), Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland
2.Rafael Senga, WWF International, Asia Pacific Energy Policy Coordinator
3.Greg Watson, Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Technology MA Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Vice President for Sustainable Development, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

Energy: Renewable Energy in Developing Countries

Moderator: Cheri Olf, Director of Education & International Workforce Development, American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE)

Speakers:
1.Paul Van Aalst, Director E+Co Europe
2.Hans Schnitzer, Professor for Process Engineering, TU Graz
3.Elisa Tonda, Industrial Development Officer, UNIDO, Cleaner Production Unit, Environmental Management Branch

Change and Air Pollution: Carbon capture and storage – future perspectives and competitiveness?

Moderator: Petter Møller, Chief Consultant, Climate and Energy, Grontmij-Carl Bro

Speakers:
1.Thomas B Johansson, Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at the University of Lund
2.Tom Kerr, Senior Energy Analyst – International Energy Agency
3.To be Confirmed

Climate Change and Air Pollution: Zero carbon technologies – getting there faster

Moderator: Claude Fussler, Director of the Caring for Climate Programme, UN Global Compact

Speakers:
1.Dr. Jan Olaf Willums, Chairman and founder, InSpire Invest
2.Arne Mogren, Vice President of Climate Policy, Vattenfall
3.Arab Hoballah,Chief of the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch, Division of Technology,Industry and Economics, UNEP

Building Tech Partnerships- Contrasting the European and the US approach to partnering

Moderator: Laurent Mieville, Founder and Head of Unitec and Chairmand of the Board, Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP)

Speakers:
1.Bill Aulet, Senior Lecturer, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
2.Luis Mejia, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University
3.László Dvorszki, Director of the Department of Research of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and special adviser to the Hungarian Minister for R&D

Building Tech Partnerships: Entrepreneurship in Cleantech: Cleaning-up through Innovation

Moderator: Christine Gulbranson, Kauffman Foundation

Speakers:
1.Bill Aulet, Senior Lecturer, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
2.Casey Verbeck, Managing Director & Founder, TouchPoint Trust Group, previous CEO, GenGreen
3.Danny Forster, Architect and Host of Discovery Channel’s “Extreme Engineering Series”