7th FOREST & WOOD INNOVATION FORUM
Information & Registration
Check also
Impressions and Presentations of the 6th forum on january 26th (Swiss Krono)
June 21st 2023 (Main Event at June 22nd):
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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Program June 22nd (main event)
7th forest & wood innovation forum, june 22nd, 2023
as per march 11th 2023 | all time p.m. CET
08:00 | check-in, coffee, breakfast booth set-up | |
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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 |
10:00 | Inspirations I | |
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Intro | Metsa Group | Erik Kolehmainen "What do investors look for when investing in the forest/wood based bioeconomy" |
AGDW Die Waldeigentümer - Association of Private Forest Owners | Jürgen Gaulke | |
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) | Martin Gutsch | |
Working Group - Forest and Ecosystem Resilience | ||
Reforestum | Alban Bressand | |
1t.org / UpLink, World Economic Forum | Gianluca Gyga | |
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development | Prof. Ulrich Schwarz |
10:30 | Success Stories | |
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Dryad Networks GmbH | Carsten Brinkschulte | |
Tecnaro GmbH | Jürgen Pfitzer | |
two further tba |
10:40 | Startups & Innovator I |
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11:45 | Coffee Break |
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12:15 | Inspirations II | |
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FUTURE FOREST GMBH & CO.KG | Christoph zu Stolberg, Björn Kaminski | |
Fachhochschule Erfurt Landschaftsarchitektur, Gartenbau und Forstwirtschaft Professur für Waldarbeit, Forsttechnik und Forstnutzung |
Erik Findeisen | |
TU Berlin, C H O R A conscious city lab, Bauhütte 4.0 lab in partnership with Fraunhofer IPK (zoom) | Prof. Raoul Bunschoten a.D. | |
Eco-Environment Innovation GmbH | Dr. Uwe Schneider | |
World for Climate GmbH | Isabel Arens | |
FSC® Germany | Djuran Koopmans | |
HAUTE INNOVATION Agency for Future Materials | Hon.-Prof. Dr. Sascha Peters |
01:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
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Booth visits |
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 |
03:15 p.m. | Inspirations III | |
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World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO Green (zoom) | Anja von der Ropp, Senior Program Coordinator | Climate Change and Food Security | |
studioBLOME Architects | Dieter Blome | |
Plant-for-the-Planet (zoom) | Freya Anton | |
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development | Prof. Tobias Cremer | |
University of Stuttgart Cluster of Excellence IntCDC, Plattform digitize wood |
Julia Mederus, Moritz Mahlke | |
Arboretum Solutions | Stefanie Lang |
04:00 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
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Booth visits |
04:30 p.m. | Startups III |
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05:30 | Resumee Speakers & Keynotes (tba) | |
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Hendrik Hecht, CEO Swiss Krono Tex GmbH & Co. KG | ||
Ulf Leonhard |
06:00 p.m. | Recpetion & game barbecue | |
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Booth visits |
June 23rd (option):
Field trip to forest of the City of Wittstock
09:00 - 11:00