SPEAKERS
Adrian Fey
Bio
Adrian is the dedicated conceptual force invested in Impact the Future. Adrian has founded several acclaimed businesses such as a community-driven startup co-working space, the sustainable underwear brand Organic Basics and has been a part of Culture Works for more than a decade. Currently, Adrian is involved in several urban city development projects challenging how the future city space should be designed in order to create resilient change and impact.
26/OCT
welcome speech
Andrew Keen (Virtual)
Bio
Named as one of the hundred most-connected men by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best-known and most controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He has written five books including the best-selling Cult of the Amateur, The Internet Is Not The Answer and How To Fix The Future. He directed and wrote the movie How To Fix Democracy and is the host of the popular podcast Keen On Capitalism. Andrew's interests include the future of work, the future of the earth and the future of humanity.
26/OCT
a new social contract in a digital world
Christian Felber
Bio
Christian Felber is a writer, university lecturer and contemporary dancer based in Vienna. He is the initiator of the Economy for the Common Good, a comprehensive and coherent economic model that provides an alternative to the major historical narratives of capitalism and communism, and the Cooperative for the Common Good. He has written several bestsellers, including Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good and Money: The New Rules of the Game, which was awarded the Best Abstract International Book Award in 2014.
26/OCT
rebooting the capitalist system
Erik Lauritzen
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Erik Laurtizen has been Mayor of Sønderborg since 2014. He was born into a family of farmers, studied farming and was an independent farmer for many years. He later studied agricultural technology and was a financial consultant before becoming an economics teacher at Gråsten Agricultural School. For many years, he has been involved in voluntary work in sports and politics.
26/OCT
WELCOME SPEECH
Helle Søholt
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Helle is Founding Partner and CEO of Gehl. She started the company together with Professor Jan Gehl in 2000. Through her leadership and strategic and organizational talent, the office has developed a knowledge base and experience portfolio that is respected internationally in the field of urban design and urban development. Gehl is a global leader in people-centered urban design. With studios in Copenhagen, New York and San Francisco, it is known for making "cities for people." The company has been awarded multiple prizes and recognitions for its contribution to making cities more liveable and sustainable around the world.
26/OCT
DESIGNING CITIES WITH AND FOR PEOPLE
Indy Johar
Bio
Indy Johar is an architect and co-founder of Project00, a collaborative studio of architects, strategic designers, programmers, social scientists, economists and urban designers practicing design beyond its traditional borders. He is also a co-founder and Executive Director of Dark Matter Laboratories, a field laboratory that aims to radically redesign the institutional infrastructure of our cities, regions and towns and transition society in response to technological revolution and climate breakdown. Indy is an advisor to the Mayor of London on good growth.
26/OCT
DESIGNING CITIES WITH AND FOR PEOPLE
John Elkington (Virtual)
Bio
John Elkington is the founder and Chief Pollinator of Volans, a London-based change agency. He is one of the founders of the global sustainability movement, an experienced advisor to business and a highly regarded keynote speaker and contributor. In 2008, the Evening Standard named John among the thousand most-influential people in London, describing him as “a true green business guru” and “an evangelist for corporate social and environmental responsibility long before it was fashionable.” In 2009, a CSR International survey of the Top 100 CSR leaders placed John fourth. He has addressed over a thousand conferences around the world, and was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002–2008. He has served on over 70 boards and advisory boards, and won numerous awards. John is also the author or co-author of 20 books, including Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism, which was published in April 2020.
26/OCT
REBOOTING THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
Jens Martin Skibsted
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Jens Martin Skibsted founded Biomega, a Danish bicycle company, and helped to found a host of design consultancies including Skibsted Ideation, KiBiSi and Manyone. He is on the board of the Danfoss Foundation, Biomega and Manyone, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Mobility. Jens was previously chairman of the Danish Design Council, co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Entrepreneurship and has served on numerous boards. He is also a published author and has contributed to the Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, Børsen and Fast Company.
26/OCT
Designing cities with and for people
Kjeld Stærk
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Kjeld has worked with Danfoss for more than 36 years in various positions around the World. He currently holds the position as Vice President, Executive Projects based out of the HQ in Denmark. Kjeld came from a position as President, Danfoss China and before that he held a position as President, Danfoss Global Services. Kjeld is a board member of both the ProjectZero Foundation and the board of ProjectZero.
26/OCT
the green business opportunity
Lars Maaløe
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Lars Maaløe is a co-founder and the CTO of Corti, a voice-based digital medical assistant powered by cutting-edge artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in machine learning from the Technical University of Denmark, and his primary research is in understanding highly complex data sources, such as audio and images, using deep neural networks for semi-supervized and unsupervized machine learning. Lars has worked with several tech companies, including Issuu and Apple.
26/OCT
a new social contract in a digital world
Lars Pehrson
Bio
Lars Pehrson is the founder, former CEO and advisor to the executive board of Merkur Cooperative Bank. He is also the co-founder of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values. Merkur Cooperative Bank is a Danish values-based bank that combines classical banking with a vision of a sustainable society. It has been a forerunner in sustainable development and social responsibility in the Danish banking sector since 1982.
26/OCT
the green business opportunity
Majbritt Skov
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Majbritt Skov is a Partner in Deloitte, working as Chief Economist and Head of Deloitte Economics. She specializes in impact measurement, and for more than a decade she has worked as an advisor for public and private decision-makers, who want to optimize their return on investment from a societal perspective, taking the economic value of environmental and social consequences into account. Recently, she led the ground-breaking work developing supplementary Danish indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals in the project Our Goals for Statistics Denmark.
26/OCT
the green business opportunity
Michael Møller
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Michael Møller has over 40 years of experience as an international civil servant in the United Nations. He began his career in 1979 with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and worked for the United Nations in different capacities in New York, Mexico, Iran, Haiti, Cyprus and Geneva. He served as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva as well as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament and Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Conference of Disarmament from September 2013 to July 2019. Prior to that, Mr Møller served as Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation from 2008 to 2011.
26/OCT
a new social contract in a digital world
natasha friis saxberg
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Natasha Friis Saxberg is a digital strategist, entrepreneur and author. She has worked with technology, innovation and entrepreneurship for more than two decades and holds several nominations as one of the most influential women in tech in Europe. She has also been recognised as one of the 100 most influential women in Denmark. Natasha has worked with corporate venture since 2015, developing new digital growth opportunities and discovered future profit pools, most recently as Head of Technology and Venture Development at Maersk Growth. Today Natasha works with venture, innovation and digital transformation through impact and growth at The Danish ICT Industry Association.
26/OCT
a new social contract in a digital world
pardis shafafi
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Dr Pardis Shafafi is a British Iranian anthropologist, a former nursing student and conflict zone advisor based in Oslo, Norway. These days you will find her writing and publishing with think tanks and journals, advising on the European Union Off-Site project, stress-baking, or at the Designit studio where she is a resident design researcher.
26/OCT
REBOOTING THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
Rasmus Nørgaard
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Rasmus Nørgaard is an urban entrepreneur that has worked in real estate for the past 20 years. Previous background from finance and management consulting.
He has founded multiple successful real estate platforms with customer centricity and sustainability at their center.
Served as CIO of NREP for more than a decade with responsibility for investment, asset management and business development.
Believes that we need diverse, healthy and inclusive neighborhoods for everyone to thrive in the urban landscape.
26/OCT
DESIGNING CITIES WITH AND FOR PEOPLE
SISSEL HANSEN
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Sissel has spent the last ten years of her life starting and building companies. Since 2012 she has worked closely with entrepreneurs and started her first company in Berlin at the age of 20, with a vision to help young entrepreneurs. Since then she has spent her time democratizing entrepreneurship and founded Startup Guide for exactly that reason – to empower and inspire a new generation of innovators in startup ecosystems across the globe.With Startup Guide, she has traveled around the world to work closely with entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders, and had the opportunity to look into thousands of business cases, innovations and new technologies.
26/OCT
Welcome SPEECH
Stephanie Lose
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Since 2015, Stephanie Lose has been Chairman of the Regional Council in the region of Southern Denmark, and since 2018 has served as Chairman of the Danish Region. She holds an MSc in economics from University of Southern Denmark.
26/OCT
Welcome SPEECH
Allan Pilgaard-Jensen
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Allan Pilgaard-Jensen is a business developer focusing on creating growth and jobs in Sonderborg based on the sustainable transition. He has a marketing and business development background from enterprises with such a business potential.
26/OCT
How to transform the city of Sønderborg towards a sustainable future
Alison fort
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Alison is currently the CEO of the Katapult Foundation; a Norwegian Foundation founded to catalyze people, capital and technology for good. She is also a member of the senior leadership at Katapult Group where she supports impact tech companies with their impact strategies and sits on the Investment Committee. Alison has spent the past 10 years supporting and educating wealth holders on impact investing and sits on the Board of Toniic, the global network of impact investors and is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader.
26/OCT
How to maximise your impact as investor or startup by using Theory of Change
Anders lykke
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Anders Lykke is COO of Precis, a digital markerting agency. He met the founder, Christopher Brixen at Google's EMEA headquarters in Dublin, and quickly joined Precis. Precis' vision is to be a world-class marketing agency and an active force for good. Anders Lykke use to be an opera singer and a comedian, but is now the Communications and B2B specialist at Precis.
26/OCT
How to create radical change by setting the new standard for who we do business with
Benjamin de la Peña (virtual)
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Benjamin de la Peña is the CEO of the Shared-Use Mobility Center, a public-interest organization dedicated to achieving equitable, affordable, and environmentally sound mobility across the US. He also chairs the Global Partnership for Informal Transportation and serves on the US Advisory Group of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. He is a senior fellow for the Canadian Urban Institute and he also founded the boutique consulting firm Agile City Partners.Benjie writes and curates Makeshift Mobility, a fortnightly newsletter on innovations in informal transportation. He wrote Catalyzing the New Mobility in Cities: A Primer on Innovative Business and Service Models (in informal transportation).Benjie served as Chief of Strategy and Innovation for the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) where he led the development of ground-breaking and nationally recognized technology and mobility strategies such as Seattle’s New Mobility Playbook and the draft Transportation Information Infrastructure Plan. He initiated lean transformation and also introduced agile methodologies at SDOT. He spent nearly a decade in philanthropy working on urban and transportation issues in the US and across the Global South.
26/OCT
HOW TO REDEFINE MOBILITY – A DRIVER FOR THE SDGS
Carl Kronika
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Carl Kronika is a 22 y/o entrepreneur and communications consultant. He is the co-founder of COPUS, a Copenhagen-based communications agency and SAGA, a new societal movement for the youth.
26/OCT
HOW TO CREATE A NEW DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT THAT WILL BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN GENERATIONS AND ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES ARE HEARD
Charles Landry (virtual)
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Charles Landy is an urban sociologist and an international authority on the role of creativity in urban and institutional change. He is the author of several books, among them “The Creative City” (2000) and “The Creative Bureaucracy” (2017, co-authored with Margie Caust).
26/OCT
How to redefine mobility - a driver for the SDGs
Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius
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Experienced Principal and Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of business success. Skilled in management, leadership, strategy, and innovation. Strong entrepreneurial and international profile. Kaospilot, MBA from Heriot-Watt and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Tilburg University focused on Innovation and complexity.
26/OCT
HOW TO CREATE EDUCATION FORMATS & SYSTEMS WHERE TALENTS LEARN TO CREATE THE GREEN TRANSFORMATION
Christopher brixen
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Christopher Brixen (CEO) Christopher Brixen is the CEO of Precis. He left his job at Google to start Precis Copenhagen. Precis is a digital marketing agency, who's vision is to be a world-class marketing agency and an active force for good. Christopher Brixen has previously founded a Sword eCommerce-shop and used to be a gaming journalist.
26/OCT
How to create radical change by setting the new standard for who we do business with
Djouhara Westberg
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As Engagement Manager at Global Compact Network Denmark - the largest Danish corporate sustainability initiative - Djouhara's role is to assist members in delivering value from their engagement in the sustainable development agenda by creating local business opportunities and strategic partnerships.
26/OCT
How to integrate the SDGs into your core business
Edda Kruse Rosset (virtual)
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Edda is one of the Co-Founders of Kaospilot+ Berlin, which is the Berlin-based home of the Kaospilots and offers a learning platform for design, sustainable entrepreneurship, and positive change to the German capital and beyond.
As we seek to educate the coming generation of leaders, we are eager to explore with our panelists the role progressive education plays in bringing to life the green and regenerative business opportunities that are so strongly needed to make the Impact for the Future we desire to see!
26/OCT
How to create education formats & systems where talents learn to create the green transformation
Emil bender lassen
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Emil Bender Lassen is a co-founder of Home.Earth, a new European real estate company setting out to develop cities in a more sustainable, affordable and inclusive way. By doing this, they aim to be a pathfinder towards a more equitable real estate paradigm. Before joining Home.Earth, Emil co-founded and led Project Access International, a London-based social mobility charity, and had brief stints at Aula Education and McKinsey & Company. He is recognised as a WEF Global Shaper and one of the Gates Foundation's Goalkeepers for the Global Goals.
26/OCT
How to scale socially, environmentally and financially sustainable housing that fosters inclusive and resilient communities
Florian Hoffman (virtual)
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Florian Hoffmann is a globally recognized social innovator, serial entrepreneur and founder of The DO School.Florian has been recognized with numerous awards for his work championing a vision of a global economy that is sustainable and innovative. In 2017, he was named one of the World Economic Forum’s 100 Young Global Leaders. He works closely with Fortune 500 companies, governments and foundations to solve some of today’s biggest challenges, partnering with the likes of H&M or the United Nations.
Founded in 2013, The DO School enables individuals and organizations to drive a purposeful economy that is sustainable and innovative. The DO School operates globally with offices in Berlin, New York and Hong Kong. The DO Method is amplified by the 50 000 experts and entrepreneurs within TDS’s network. The DO School’s work has positively impacted over 5 million people’s lives.Florian regularly contributes to thought leadership on topics such as social innovation, purposeful economy and the future of work with articles, speeches and publications.
26/OCT
How to create education formats & systems where talents learn to create the green transformation
Geraldine ty lin bagger
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Geraldine is the Chief Sustainability Advisor in Grundfos driving the company's water and climate agenda. Grundfos is a leading pump and water solution provider with headquarter in Denmark. Geraldine has worked in the space of sustainability business engagement over 10 years. Before starting as a sustainability advisor, she was the business owner for the solar water solution in Grundfos where she focused on developing water solutions for markets where end users have limited access to water and electricity.
26/OCT
How to integrate the SDGs into your core business
Ingrid Maurstad
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Ingrid Maurstad is Commercial Manager of Katapult Ocean. She has a MSC in Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics, and entrepreneurship studies from Wits Business School in South Africa. She has experience from Ferd AS, - investing in and working with social entrepreneurs in Norway and the Nordics and from social impact projects in The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. Ingrid is passionate about impact investing, and that startups measure and maximize their impact.
26/OCT
How to maximise your impact as investor or startup by using Theory of Change
jess Fleischer
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According to Jess, he founded Son of a Tailor “not because I was in love with fashion, but because of the vast opportunities to improve fashion for everybody involved: customers, garment workers, and the planet.”Instead of a fashion background, Jess brings 10 years of experience in supply chain and LEAN manufacturing at eBay and consulting firm Booz & Co, which has driven Son of a Tailor’s unique low-waste production model.
26/OCT
How to integrate the SDGs into your core business
John Knudsen
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John Knudsen has many years of experience with Bitten & Mads Clausens Foundation, where he has handled all of the major construction activities at Sønderborg Harbor and is helping to drive the city's green transition.
26/OCT
How to transform the city of Sønderborg towards a sustainable future
Jonas Schorr
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Jonas Schorr is Partner at Berlin-based Urban Impact Agency and Urban Impact Capital with a mission to connect and accelerate Europe’s emerging Urban Tech startup ecosystem.
Jonas believes that truly transformative change to green cities can only happen if fast-scaling innovators and established players (public and private) work together in a spirit of mutual cooperation to enable what he calls “conscious disruption”. In 2020, he was invited to join the BMW Foundation’s “Responsible Leaders Network” to connect with like-minded change makers globally.
Prior to co-founding Urban Impact, Jonas spent ten years working on a variety of international projects in the field of sustainable city-making across Europe and Asia. His clients included city governments, international city networks, think tanks, philanthropies and academic institutions.
26/OCT
How to redefine mobility - a driver for the SDGs
Kerstin von Aretin
Bio
Building and developing organizations and teams and making them work is my strongest passion – surpassed only by my fascination for the magic of human communication and interaction.
In the course of my career, I have been able to bring this passion to various leadership functions in Industry, NGO and Consulting. Due to this cross-sectoral experiences my ability sharpened to identify opportunities 'on the horizon' and to engage with thought leaders and key stakeholders in order to make opportunities real.
In 2015, I decided to contribute to the development of sustainability and the new balance of people-planet-prosperity also in my professional life and joined the BMW Foundation. Key successes at the Foundation include the development of the international RISE Cities program.
Prior to that, relevant milestones include setting up the Stiftung AtemWeg, a foundation dedicated to research into lung disease, and supervising the change process of the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health. I am also influenced by my ten-year management career in corporate communications with Hoechst and Aventis Pharma. The pharmaceutical company I got to know as a senior consultant of a large PR agency in Frankfurt, where I had moved after earning a master’s degree in German, English, and sociology in Hanover and Liverpool.
26/OCT
How to scale socially, environmentally and financially sustainable housing that fosters inclusive and resilient communities
lykke Jeppesen
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Lykke Jeppesen is dedicated to creating inclusive workplaces that foster a diverse workforce fit for the future. As the Diversity & Inclusion Lead at Nuuday (a part of TDC Group), Lykke works to improve gender balance in leadership, make room for minorities, and create a culture where everyone can come to work and be their true selves.
26/OCT
How to create an inclusive innovation culture within your organization
Manuela Mohr (virtual)
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Manuela Mohr is co-founder and co-managing director of the Education Innovation Lab in Berlin. In addition to her media studies, she completed a master’s degree in arts administration and in recent years has contributed her expertise to setting up new educational initiatives. She is a passionate social entrepreneur and is familiar with the design and creation of new products and learning formats for social educational innovation.With the Education Innovation Lab she is committed to a fundamental transformation of our education system. The aim is to enable learners to shape a sustainable future.
26/OCT
How to create education formats & systems where talents learn to create the green transformation
Melanie Stefandl
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While always being intrigued by the impact of cities, Melanie desired to focus on knowledge transfer in international city collaborations, for example in contributing to a conference in Gothenburg on the educational integration of refugees or international education exchange programs with Amman or Cincinnati. As part of the RISE Cities program, she can continue to live her passion for organizing international encounters and above all help facilitate a space for exchange for all necessary stakeholders. To unwind, Melanie also likes to get out of the city. In winter, she heads to the mountains with her touring skis. For her, there are not many things that are better than climbing towards the sunrise, headlamp and Bialetti in tow. In summertime, she exchanges her skis for a stand-up paddle board and the mountains for a mountain lake. As close to a Münchner Kindl as it gets!
26/OCT
HOW TO REDEFINE MOBILITY - FROM SPACIAL TO SOCIAL
Marie-Louise Harritso
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Marie-Louise Köhl Harritsø has fifteen years of experience working with social entrepreneurship, impact investment, and multi-stakeholder and cross sector partnerships. Marie-Louise is Director Partnerships & Development at Reach for Change; an international non-profit organisation unleashing the power of social entrepreneurship and creating a world where more children and youth can reach their full potential.The organisation provides capacity building to social startups and ecosystem development. Since 2010 Reach for Change has supported more than 1.200 social entrepreneurs who in return have supported 4.5 million children and youth in 18 countries across 3 continents.
26/OCT
HOW TO LEAD IN THE AGE OF A LEADERSHIP CRISIS
Markus Hipp
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Markus Hipp studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Munich. Upon graduation, he spent two years as a lecturer in German and philosophy at the Czech universities of Budweis and Brno, before taking up positions in the marketing and publishing industry in Munich and in Augsburg. In 1998, he joined the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart as assistant to the executive director. In 2000, he became the Foundation's deputy chief executive for Central and Eastern Europe, before being appointed to establish the Berlin office of the Robert Bosch Foundation in 2002, which he directed until August 2006. Since then he has been board member of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. The married father of four is the supervisory board member of Museum of Tomorrow International and advisory board member of betterplace.org and the Quadriga University in Berlin. Moreover, he lectures at the European Business School and is founder of MitOst e.V., an association for language and cultural exchange in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
26/OCT
HOW TO LEAD IN THE AGE OF A LEADERSHIP CRISIS
Nicola Tollin
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Dr. Nicola Tollin is Professor with special responsibilities in Urban Resilience at the University of Southern Denmark, with a mandate to form and coordinate a research group on urban resilience, a key research area within SDU Civil and Architectural Engineering. He has over 20 years of international experience in research, capacity-building, education on sustainable development, resilience, climate change, the circular economy and innovation focusing on cities and regions. Dr. Tollin has coordinated or participated in over 100 research, education and urban development projects worldwide, authored over 100 scientific publications, delivered over 100 presentations and co-organized over 30 international conferences and official side events at UN conferences. He also serves as an expert for numerous private and public organizations, including local authorities and European Commission and United Nations programs and agencies, such as UN-Habitat and UNFCCC.
26/OCT
HOW TO ENSURE AN URBAN RESILIENCE TRANSITION FOR A JUST AND GREEN RECOVERY
Nidhi Gulati (virtual)
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Nidhi Gulati is a social impact executive and a human-centered design practitioner with 8 years in the nonprofit sector. During this time, she has held various positions leading community-based consulting projects, managing a team of placemakers, to serving as a Co-Executive Director.Nidhi Gulati is committed to solve widespread social issues through the built environment and build bridges across the public, private, and impact sectors. She leverages her skills to support ventures that simultaneously prioritize environmental, social, and financial resilience for communities, with a special focus on their youngest members.She is a born and raised Indian with tremendous appreciation for trains, a love for walking as a mode of transportation, and a deep sensitivity towards issues of gender, race, and their manifestation in the built environment.
26/OCT
HOW TO REDEFINE MOBILITY - FROM SPACIAL TO SOCIAL
niels Fibæk
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Niels is CEO & co-founder of Matter, a fintech company specialized in sustainable investments. Matter works provides portfolio sustainability analysis and reporting to institutional investors, and is backed by Nasdaq Ventures.
26/OCT
How to integrate the SDGs into your core business
Peter Andreas Sattrup
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Peter Andreas Sattrup, Architect MAA PhD is Head of Sustainability at the Danish Association of Architectural Firms. He works to promote innovation for a more sustainable built environment through communication and competence building, engaging both policymakers and professionals in the building sector. His research focuses on the value creation of architecture and architectural design for clients users and society.
26/OCT
How to ensure and urban resilience transition for a just and green recovery
Peter Rathje
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Peter Rathje has since 2007 managed Sønderborg´s ProjectZero, a public private partnership focused on achieving Sønderborgs ambitious climate goals. During 2007-2009 Peter was also responsible for the “Gehry harbour” Sonderborg masterplan creation. Peters background is business.
26/OCT
How to transform the city of Sønderborg towards a sustainable future
RAFAEL TUTS (virtual)
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Rafael Tuts is Coordinator of the Urban Planning and Design Branch of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, based in Nairobi, Kenya. The current focus of his work is to support national, regional and city authorities to achieve compact, integrated, connected and inclusive cities that are resilient to climate change. This is being implemented in over thirty countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is also contributing to the formulation of Sustainable Development Goals, mandated by the Rio+20 Conference. Earlier assignments for UN-Habitat included Localising Agenda 21, the Global Campaign on Urban Governance and strengthening local government capacity development institutions.
26/OCT
HOW TO ENSURE AN URBAN RESILIENCE TRANSITION FOR A JUST AND GREEN RECOVERY
Signe Sand
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Advisor, architect and climate activist.
26/OCT
How to scale socially, environmentally and financially sustainable housing that fosters inclusive and resilient communities
Sinus Lynge
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Sinus Lynge is a principal and founding partner at EFFEKT a world-leading architecture practice dedicated to designing and realizing buildings and places of the highest architectural quality that remain responsible in the acknowledgment of their impact on the environment.
Sinus is an educated architect and urban planner from The Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture.
Since EFFEKT was founded in 2007, Sinus has led national and international projects within urban planning, architecture, urban spaces, and innovative, sustainable strategies and concepts for future living. All projects centered around social coherence and vibrant city life, as well as intelligent solutions to energy consumption and sustainability.
Sinus has acted as a professional and creative driving force behind several of EFFEKT’s successful, international projects. Most recently the visionary concept for Urban Villages Project - a new visionary model for developing sustainable, affordable, and livable homes for the many people living in cities around the world. As well as the concept for ReGen Villages, a new visionary model for the development of off-grid, integrated and resilient eco-villages that can power and feed self-reliant families around the world.
Sinus has had several visiting professorates, most recently he taught a studio on sustainable design at the University of Washington – Department of Architecture for the ScanDesign Foundation’s Distinguished Visiting Professorship program.
The firm’s work has been recognized by numerous national and international design awards and has been published widely in books, magazines, and digital media around the world. As a partner at EFFEKT, Sinus has received Nykredits Motivation Award for EFFEKT’s focus on social inclusion in urban planning and architecture.
Currently, EFFEKT is exhibiting the installation ‘Ego to Ego’ at the Venice Biennale of Architecture themed ‘How will we live together'.
26/OCT
How to scale socially, environmentally and financially sustainable housing that fosters inclusive and resilient communities
Scott Young
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Scott Young is a digital strategist and research consultant, who works with numerous groups on both sides of the Atlantic on how to enhance their digital presence and maximize their impact. He is a Network Driver for the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, and the former director of ideas and insights at the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Canada's leading civil society organization dedicated to citizenship, diversity, and inclusion. Scott also sits on the jury of the inaugural Balsillie Prize for Public Policy, a new book prize dedicated to celebrating the best in Canadian public policy writing. He was a 2015/16 CivicAction DiverseCity fellow, is a member of the Banff Forum, and has been named a Leader of Tomorrow by the St. Gallen Symposium. Originally from Canada's Pacific coast, Scott holds degrees from Simon Fraser University, the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford.
26/OCT
How to lead in the age of a leadership crisis
Sofie winge-Petersen
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Sofie Winge-Petersen is a former member of the Danish Youth Climate Council, which brings new thinking into Danish climate policy and advises the government on climate solutions. She studies process and innovation engineering at the Technical University of Denmark and is a co-founder of Paint'R, a startup rethinking paint packaging. Sofie is also a member of Global Shapers, a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change as part of the World Economic Forum.
26/OCT
How to create an inclusive innovation culture within your organization
Stine Bang Larsen
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Stine Bang Larsen is passionate about global and sustainable development, where the sustainable development goals help to set a direction for the future. As a Danish Youth Delegate to the UN and SDG Ambassador, she has focused on gender equality and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, but also how to generally implement the SDGs in schools and workplaces. Stine is currently studying MSc. in International Marketing and Management at CBS, where she focuses on the importance of strategic choices when it comes to sustainability.
26/OCT
How to create an inclusive innovation culture within your organization
Thandi Allin Dyani
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Thandi Dyani is passionate about building communities, connecting people and organisations to solve the most wicked challenges facing our societies. She believes in radical collaboration, responsible leadership, equity and equality. Thandi always focused on Global South issues & justice, gender equality, Diversity Equity and Belonging, enabling social entrepreneurship and ecosystems, connecting dots, people and ideas. She has also been a DJ for more than 20 year and splits her time and work between the Nordics and Sub- Saharan Africa.
26/OCT
How to lead in the age of a leadership crisis
tim logan
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Tim Logan is a generalist designer and facilitator, who co-created the Waterkant programme and supported the Waterkant team to each take action at their highest points of contribution.
26/OCT
How to tear down obstacles and build a dynamic framework for collaboration between startups and corporates
Torben Klitgaard
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Torben Klitgaard is the CEO of BLOXHUB – a community and co-working space for everyone who works with sustainable urbanization. Torben bridges architecture, engineering, design, construction and digitization, and is a driving force behind the BLOXHUB activities and programs which are designed to unlock the full potential of the member’s businesses through partnerships. Torben Klitgaard comes from a position as Director in Bips – Denmark’s largest professional network for digitizing construction. He holds an M.Sc in Economics, an M.Sc in Information Management and an MBA in construction.
26/OCT
HOW TO ENSURE AN URBAN RESILIENCE TRANSITION FOR A JUST AND GREEN RECOVERY
Valerie Marouche
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Valerie is building a network of responsible leaders across Europe at the BMW Foundation. Bridging sectors and cultures, she aims to open up spaces of inspiration, connection and belonging that encourage humans to find genuine ways of collaborating towards a more just and sustainable future. Throughout this work, she is guided by a belief in the powerful serendipity that can emerge when lives and minds intersect openly, driven by a common vision.
26/OCT
How to lead in the age of a leadership crisis
Christian Erfurt
Bio
Christian Erfurt is the CEO of Be My Eyes, a company dedicated to making the world more accessible and inclusive for people with visual impairments. His work at Be My Eyes focuses on enabling people with low vision to lead more independent lives through innovative business models and strategic corporate partnerships. Be My Eyes has supported hundreds of thousands of blind and low-vision users by connecting them to over four million sighted volunteers and industry leading companies, all at no cost to the users. Christian is passionate about the interplay between social inclusion, technology and human connection, and is thrilled to have the opportunity to share his learnings with the global community.
26/OCT
7 pm
John Ankjær
Bio
John Ankjær holds over 30 years of experience within the service and experience industry. He has provided leadership and been responsible for financial management, operations and innovation in a wide range of companies within the hospitality sector, and is currently CEO of Alsik Hotel & Spa, located in Sønderborg.
26/OCT
7 pm
Søren Stig
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Søren Stig is an experienced impact investor, board member, mentor and social entrepreneur. He’s also a founding partner of The Shared Value Company, Ashoka Denmark, Nordic Impact and Katapult. Søren has been with A.P. Møller – Maersk A/S for almost 20 years, where he has held various senior positions. Most recently, he has served as Chief Sustainability Officer for Maersk Line, where he repositioned the company as an industry leader. He has received KPMG’s Global Strategy Prize (2011) and the European Business Award (2010) in recognition of his sustainability efforts and industry leadership. Recently, Søren co-founded Lifeline Robotics, the world’s first automatic swab robot, which is being used to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
26/OCT
7 pm
Zenia W. Francker
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Zenia W. Francker, Entrepreneur and ConnectorZenia has a passion for connecting people. For 10+ years she has built businesses connecting startups, investors and corporates. Also, a sought-after Public Speaker and Moderator. She is a key driver of the Danish and Nordic startup ecosystem and involved in a variety of community initiatives including co-founding Startup Village.
Today, she empowers Danish startups at the marketing consortium Digital Hub Denmark helping them fundraise and connect with international investors. She builds upon her knowledge, relations and experience as CEO & Chief Relations Officer MESH Community which is the organisation and brand behind co-working spaces such as Founders House that is the first early-stage tech hub for international, scalable and ambitious startups. Latest, member of the family is the innovation hub Matrikel1 in central Copenhagen and received backing from leading investors in Denmark, including Mette Lykke, Morten Strunge, Jimmy Fussing, Gregers Kronborg and Martin Hauge, among others. Covering 7,000 sqm over five floors, the building is an epicentre of innovation and entrepreneurship.
26/OCT
7 pm
Marie Louise Gørvild
Bio
Marie Louise Gørvild is a sociologist, journalist and independent advisor who has worked in tech and innovation in both the US and Europe. Her past roles include working as a communications associate in San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom’s office, serving as a curator and board member at the local Danish TED chapter and being a founding member and CEO of Copenhagen-based Techfestival, which gathered an international audience to discuss the societal impacts of new technologies. Today, she is an independent advisor, the founder of the agency Stories I Heard and a Commission Member of TechDK, which publishes policy recommendations related to tech disruptions, new digital business models and the digitalization of our lives.