Information & Registration
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January 25th:
Travel and site visit
Local train RE6 (direct connection from Berlin) stops close to Swisskrono’s site and conference location in Wittstock (details travel instructions will follow)
Site visit at 2:00 p.m. CET
Gettogether at „Forsthof Alt Daber“ (forest hut of Town Forest of the city of Wittstock), 5.00 till 9.00 p.m. with local beer and barbecue (open fire place)
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January 26th (main event):
Main Event
Kickingoff 09:30 a.m. CET in Designstation Wittstock
Get-together with game dinner at 7:00 p.m. CET
January 27th (option):
Field trip to forest of the City of Wittstock
09:00 - 11:00
Program
6th forest & wood innovation forum, january 26th, 2023
as per january 20th 2023 | all time p.m. CET
09:30 | welcome | |
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Leonhard Ventures | Ulf Leonhard |
09:40 | Introduction | |
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Swiss Krono Tex GmbH & Co. KG | Max von Tippelskirch, Head of Strategy, SwissKrono AG, Lucerne/CH, Hendrik Hecht, CEO: who are we - what we are looking for |
09:50 | welcome | |
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City of Wittstock | G. Bischoff, M. Bünning |
09:50 | Inspirations I | |
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Intro | Metsa Group | Erik Kolehmainen "What do investors look for when investing in the forest/wood based bioeconomy" |
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) e. V. | Gitta Köllner | |
Cambridge Cleantech (zoom) | Sam Goodall | |
World Agroforestry | Patrick Worms | |
1t.org / UpLink, World Economic Forum (zoom) | Gianluca Gyga | |
eco2050 Institut für Nachhaltigkeit | Dr. Dina Barbian "Sustainable and digital solutions for forest & wood industries" |
10:20 | Success Stories | |
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Dryad Networks GmbH | Carsten Brinkschulte | |
Tecnaro GmbH | Jürgen Pfitzer |
10:40 | Startups & Innovator I | |
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Foliamaterials (USA) | Jonathan Levine | |
Polyter (Austria) (zoom) | Enrique Nacif | |
The Generation Forest eG (D) | Boris Hesse, Ferdinand Mairose | |
Roof ZU (D) | Kilian Eckle | |
FibriTech (PL) | Tomasz Ciamulski | |
Bosques Monterreal Costa Rica (zoom) | Guillermo NAVARRO MONGE | |
Woodio Oy (FIN) | Petro Lahtinen | |
HEXAGON MASSIV HOLZ | Werner Grosse | |
EcoTree | Christian Bergius | |
Le Bon Planteur (Togo) (zoom) | DJAGBA-BAMBO Damtoti | |
Green BIM (zoom) | Hansueli Schmid, Anita Naneva |
11:45 | Coffee Break |
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12:15 | Inspirations II | |
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FUTURE FOREST GMBH & CO.KG (zoom) | Wolf Görtz, Björn Kaminski | |
Fachhochschule Erfurt Landschaftsarchitektur, Gartenbau und Forstwirtschaft Professur für Waldarbeit, Forsttechnik und Forstnutzung |
Erik Findeisen | |
Lignum Holzwirtschaft Schweiz | Hansueli Schmid | |
TU Berlin, C H O R A conscious city lab, Bauhütte 4.0 lab in partnership with Fraunhofer IPK | Prof. Raoul Bunschoten a.D. | |
Eco-Environment Innovation GmbH | Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hüttl | |
World for Climate GmbH | Isabel Arens | |
FSC® Germany | Djuran Koopmans |
12:45 | Lunch |
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02:00 p.m. | Funding Opportunities in Circular Economy | |
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European Circular Bioeconomy Fund ECBF | Michael Brandkamp, Mridul Pareek |
02:15 p.m. | Startups II | |
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Introduction | Magnumboard by SwissKrono | Henrik Hecht |
fightingtreetopfire.com (via Zoom) | Daniel Leigh | |
Openforest Protocol (via Zoom) | Radoslav Dragov, Luke Schubert | |
Nadar, D | Caroline Busse | |
Grown Forward Conservation Project (via Zoom) | Marv Vandermeer | |
Planterial GmbH, D | Mika Siponen, Hannes Stuhr | |
Baltic Satellite Service (Latvia) (zoom) | Ilze Bargā | |
Magic Forest ltd (SK) (zoom) | Dušan Jelić | |
Naturheld, D | Daniel Lang |
03:15 p.m. | Inspirations III | |
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World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO Green | Anja von der Ropp, Senior Program Coordinator | Climate Change and Food Security | |
studioBLOME Architects | Dieter Blome | |
Forestry Investment Advisor | Peter Chapell | |
World BioEconomy Forum (zoom) | Jukka Kantola | |
Arboretum Solutions, Schrader Tree Nursery Group | Stephanie Lahnstein | |
Plant-for-the-Planet (zoom) | Freya Anton |
04:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
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04:30 p.m. | Startups III | |
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carbonauten GmbH, D (zoom) | Michael Sernatinger | |
Xilva AG (CH) | Tim Duehrkoop | |
Aisti (FI) | Mikko Paananen | |
Timber Exchange (S) (zoom) | amir rashad | |
Neo Soul Lumbers (RSA) (zoom) | Sathuma Ronewa | |
NatureRe Capital AG (CH) | Stefanie Hauer | |
Complex Earth Ltd (CZ) | Paul Chaney | |
Morfo (F) (zoom) | Adrien Pages | |
Instant Seed GmbH, D | Volker Weiss | |
ECOR Global (USA)( zoom) | Jay S. Potter |
05:30 | Resumee Speakers & Keynotes (tba) | |
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Hendrik Hecht, CEO Swiss Krono Tex GmbH & Co. KG | ||
Ulf Leonhard |
06:30 p.m. | Recpetion & game barbecue |
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