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The programme is based on four theme areas of the World BioEconomy Forum. The programme will consist of presentations and high level panel discussions. The programme planning is under way in the Advisory Board.
Day I
Opening
The Bioeconomy: People, Planet, Policies
Lunch break
Corporate Leaders and the Financial World
Day II
Bioproducts around us
Lunch break
Looking to the Future
Closing of the Forum 2022
Conclusion
Annual awards 2022
Declaration 2022
Times expressed in EET – local time in Finland
08:00
Jukka Kantola, Founder
Mark Rushton, Co-Founder
Aida Greenbury, Co-Founder
Matthias Zscheile, Membership Director – World BioEconomy Circle
08:30
Jukka Kantola, Word BioEconomy Forum
Mika Lintilä, Minister of Economic Affairs, Finnish government
John Bell, Director Healthy Planet, DG Research & Innovation at European Commission
Nils Torvalds, Member of European Parliement
Helder Barbalho, Governor of the state of Pará, Greetings from the World BioEconomy Forum 2021 host
Matti Heikkilä, Greetings from local government
09:30
Dr. Christian Patermann
Dr. Christian Patermann,”Father” of European bioeconomy, Former Director EU Commission and Advisor to the German Government on bioeconomy matter
Stefan Bößner, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute, SEI
Ole Jørgen Marvik, PhD, Special Adviser Life Sciences, Innovation Norway
10:30
11:00
Moderated by Dr Christian Patermann
Paulus Mungeyi, Manager for the Biotechnology Division at the National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST), Namibia
Sari Tasa, Senior Advisor, The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, Finland
Wataru Mizunashi, Director General, Bioeconomy Unit Technology Strategy, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan
Mary Maxon, Senior Fellow, Schmidt Futures, USA
Yin Li, Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
12:15
13:30
Teresa Presas, Senior advisor World BioEconomy Forum
13:40
Rafael Cayuela, EMEAI Senior Strategy Development Director, Corporate Chief Economist & the Chair of the EU Sustainability Leadership Team, Dow
14:00
Moderated by Michael Nettersheim, Managing Partner at European Circular Bioeconomy Fund ECBEF
Mark Wishnie, Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of Landscape Capital, BTG Pactual
Virginia Puzzolo, Head of Programme Bio-based industries, CBE JU
Ben Vickers, Land Use, Forests and Ecosystems Senior Specialist, Green Climate Fund
Jarmo Heinonen, Senior Director at Innovation Ecosystems, Business Finland
15:00
15:30
Adrian Leip, Head of Sector Bioeconomy in the European Commission
15:50
Moderated by Teresa Presas, Senior Advisor, World BioEconomy Forum
Catia Bastioli, CEO, Novamont Group
Fernando Leite, CEO, Lipor
Marco Eikelenboom, CEO, Sappi Europe
Petri Rasinmäki, Vice President, Board and Paper Mills Business Unit, Valmet
17:00
Times expressed in EET – local time in Finland
08:15
Jukka Kantola, Founder
Mark Rushton, Co-Founder
Aida Greenbury, Co-Founder
Matthias Zscheile, Membership Director – World BioEconomy Circle
08:45
Introduction of the theme by the session head Ludo Diels, Senior advisor, Sustainable Chemistry Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Professor Emeritus at Antwerp University, Chair of the Advisory and Programming Group of Processes4PlanetT
09:00
Jim Philp, Science and Technology Policy Analyst, OECD
09:15
Moderated by Tiina Nakari-Setälä, Head of Business Development at VTT
Peep Pitk, CDO, Fibenol Biorefinery
Pasi Vainikka, CEO, Solar Foods
Philipp Morgenthaler, Head of Manufacturing, Circa Group
Elias Junker, Area Sales Manager, ANDRTZ Laroche
Karolien Vanbroekhoven, Lignovalue plant VITO
10:30
11:00
Constance Ißbrücker, Head of Environmental Affairs, Bioplastics Europe
11:15
Moderated by Ludo Diels, Senior advisor, Sustainable Chemistry Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Vice-chair of the Public-private-partnership SPIRE
Ylwa Alwarsdotter, EVP Business Development, Sekab BioFuels & Chemicals AB
My Hanh, Natural Science University HCMC
Petro Lahtinen, CEO and Founder, Woodio
Dr. Christian Haessler, Global Head of Circular Economy, Covestro
12:30
13:30
Mark Rudnicki, Professor of Practice, Forest Biomaterials, Michigan Technological University
13:45
Hans Pörtner, Professor, Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research, AWI,Co-Chair, Working Group II IPCC
14:00
Moderated by Flora Ismail Tibazarwa, Programme Director, Southern African Innovation Support Programme (SAIS)
Antti Asikainen, EVP Research, Luke
Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Team Leader, Global Forest Governance, EFI, Coordinator, Circular Bioeconomy Alliance
Hans Pörtner, Professor Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research, AWI
Arne Tobian, Planetary Boundaries
15:00
15:30
Jim Hourdequin, CEO, Lyme Timber
15:45
Moderated by Dr. Mark Rudnicki, Professor of Practice, Forest Biomaterials, Michigan Technological University
Philip Osano, Centre Director SEI Africa
Jeff Nuss, Founder and Former President & CEO, GreenWood Resources, Inc.
Rainer Häggblom, Chairman of the Board, Häggblom & Partners
Michael Jenkins, CEO, Founding President, Forest Trends
Jim Hourdequin, CEO, Lyme Timber
17:00
17:15
Sponsors’ speech by Juha Peltomäki, Head of Invest in Finland, Bio and Circular, Business Finland