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Name: Sari Baldauf
Country: Finland
Presentation: Clean target setting: Sustainable development and new business opportunities |
Curriculum: Ms. Baldauf served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Networks business group of Nokia Corporation until February 2005. She held various positions at Nokia since 1983 and was member of the Group Executive Board 1994-2005. Ms. Baldauf serves as a board member at Hewlett- Packard (USA), SanomaWSOY, F-Secure Corporation, YIT Corporation and Capman and is the non-executive chairman of the Savonlinna Opera Festival and vice-chair of the International Youth Foundation (USA). |
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Name: Jakob Steen Jensen
Country: Denmark
Title of the presentation: Seed investing for cleantech |
Organisation: SEED Capital - www.seedcapital.dk
Position/title: Investment Manager, Cleantech and Materials
Curriculum: Jakob Steen Jensen has 10 years experience in investing and developing hi-tech companies. His fields of expertise include all elements of the due diligence processes (with respect to technical, commercial, IPR, and organizational matters) needed in order identify, qualify, and materialize investment opportunities. Further, Jakob has extensive experience as board member, where he assists companies in a constant pursuit of value creation. He is presently focusing on new business ideas within cleantech and advanced materials. |
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Name: Anne Worsøe
Country: Norway
Title of the presentation: The world’s first osmotic power plant
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Organisation: Statkraft - www.statkraft.com
Position/title: New Energy
Curriculum: After ten years of research and development, Statkraft has decided to build the world's first prototype osmotic power plant. With this decision Statkraft will have invested more than NOK 100 million to develop a new, renewable energy technology. Osmotic power is based on the natural process of osmosis. In an osmotic power plant, sea water and fresh water are separated by a membrane. The sea water draws the fresh water through the membrane, thereby increasing the pressure on the sea water side. The increased pressure is used to produce power. The global technical potential for osmotic power production is estimated at around 1600 TWh, including around 200 TWh in Europe and 12 TWh in Norway, or 10 percent of Norway’s current power production. The innovation has already attracted attention in the international energy community.
Anne Worsøe is Vice President of Commercialisation in Statkraft New Energy. She was former the Secretary General of Norwegian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. She has been an entrepreneur and partner in a startup company, and worked as a management consultant in Gemini Consulting. Worsøe serves as a board member in several companies. She holds a Master degree from the Norwegian School of Management. |
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Name: Lydia Whyatt
Country: United Kingdom
Title of the presentation: Investment opportunities in water technology |
Organisation: Foursome Investments - www.foursome.co.uk
Position/title: Managing Director
Curriculum: Foursome Investments Ltd manages a $115m VC fund focussing on early/growth stage clean technology investments. The fund has been active in the clean technology field since 2002 and typically makes investments into companies in the following areas: Water technologies addressing industrial and municipal markets; Clean manufacturing technologies that reduce the use of natural resources and minimize waste; Materials recovery technologies including recycling; and New materials substituting scarce natural resources. Prior to joining Foursome she worked for one of the most successful early stage ICT VC funds in Europe, Kennet Venture Partners, and has 9 years of early stage hands-on technology VC experience. Prior to joining Kennet she was a management consultant with McKinsey, a leading global management consulting group. was born and educated in , and has a PhD in Applied Physics from Moscow State University. |
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Name: Bernd Nowack
Country: Switzerland
Presentation: Nano-tech: Promising applications for the environment |
Organisation: Technology and Society Lab, Empa (Switzerland) - www.empa.ch
Position/title: Research Associate
Curriculum: Empa is a materials science and technology research institution, specializing in applications, focused research and development, and providing high-level services in the field of sustainable materials science and technology. Dr. Bernd Nowack is group leader of the Materials, Innovation and Technology Assessment Group and lecturer in environmental chemistry at ETH Zurich. B. Nowack is an expert about the behavior of anthropogenic and natural compounds in the environment. His current goal at Empa is to establish the scientific knowledge required to assess the benefits and risks of nanotechnology for natural and technical systems. |
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Name: Stefan Henningsson
Country: Sweden
Presentation: Winners in a low carbon economy - an NGO perspective on innovation |
Organisation: World Wide Fund (WWF) - www.wwf.se
Position/title: Strategic coordinator climate innovation
Curriculum: Stefan works to identify and support the small innovators and enterprises with the big innovations that will be winners in a low carbon economy, i.e. the enterprises/innovations we need to expand sooner rather than later as we reduce CO2-emissions, not mainly in Sweden, but globally. Particular focus will be on supporting entrepreneurs that can help to reduce emissions in China and India. Key actions will be to influence politicians and businesses to invest in a strategic shift towards becoming winners in a low carbon economy. Stefan has worked for six years at Nutek (Swedish Government Agency for Economic and Regional Growth) to strengthen competitiveness in numerous enterprises with a Sustainability-driven business development approach. Previously he worked for three years in the UK with Waste Minimisation in the food and drink industry. Stefan has authored four peer-reviewed and published research articles in the area of business and sustainability. He has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management with specialisation towards Environmental Management. He was a member of the Swedish Government’s Council for Sustainable Development between 2005 and 2007.
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Name: Jukka Noponen
Country: Finland
Title of the presentation: Finnish strongholds and opportunities in cleantech |
Organisation: SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund - www.sitra.fi
Position/title: Executive Director
Curriculum: Jukka Noponen (M.Sc. Tech) is the Executive Director of the Environmental Programme in Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. The aim of the programme is to boost Finnish cleantech industry to grow in the global market. Prior to joining Sitra in 2005, Jukka Noponen worked for Pöyry, a global consulting and engineering firm focusing on the energy, forest industry and infrastructure & environment sectors. Jukka Noponen was Commercial Director of Pöyry's Infrastructure and environment business group. |
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Name: Elisabet Alfonsson
Country: Sweden
Title of the presentation: Stainless steel as a driver for cleantech |
Outokumpu - www.outokumpu.com
Position/title: Manager Applications Development - Avesta Research Centre
Curriculum: Elisabet Alfonsson, B.Sc. Chemistry is currently Manager Applications Development at Outokumpu´s Research Centre in Avesta. She has about 20 years of experience from the stainless steel industry, mainly from the areas of product and market development. |
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Name: Ilkka Herlin
Country: Finland
Title of the presentation: Dinner keynote speaker |
Curriculum: Mr Ilkka Herlin, Ph.D. is the Chairman of the board of Cargotec Corporation and a member of the Board at WIP Asset Management. He has served as a board member at Kone Corporation 1990-2000. Mr Herlin has been active in environmental issues since 1980's. Mr Herlin is the first Finnish member of the Clinton Global Initiative, since year 2007. |
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Name: Mika Sulkinoja
Country: Finland
Title of the presentation: Moderator |
Organisation: GreenStream Network Ltd – www.greenstream.net
Position/title: Manager
Curriculum: Mika Sulkinoja has served over 12 years international and governmental and regional organisations in cleantech business and policy development issues. Currently he holds a managerial position at GreenStream Network, a company specialising in services related to emissions trading, renewable energy certificates and other environmental derivatives. |
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