I CONGRESS
Tech-Driven Circular Industry
2021
Soren Schou
Director of Acacia, Deloitte’s Sustainable Innovation Hub, Copenhagen.
1st Webinar
20 January 2021
Conference with simultaneous interpretation
Sustainability as a lever for innovation and business growth
4pm–5pm. Soren Schou, Director of Acacia, Sustainable Innovation Hub at Deloitte, Copenhagen. Former Chief Consultant at the Danish Ministry of Industry, Business and Foreign Affairs.
5pm–6pm. Business Round Table: Sustainable strategies for the growth of the chemical and logistics sectors.
Panellists: Bruno De Bièvre, President of UBE Corporation Europe, Pedro Hernández, General Manager of Zschimmer & Schwarz Spain, Vicente Ramos, General Manager of Raminatrans, and María José Rubio, Head of Sustainability at Port Castelló. Moderator: Enrique Vicedo, Managing Partner of Co-enable Advisors.
María Esteban
Researcher at the Self-Assembly Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2nd Webinar
4 March 2021
Smart materials, the intersection of design and technology, for a sustainable industry
4pm–5pm. María Esteban, Researcher at the Self-Assembly Lab, MIT, Boston, USA.
5pm–6pm. Business Round Table. Advanced materials. Why advanced materials? What comes first, function or need?
Panellists: Teresa Burguillo, Sales Manager at Diab Spain, Javier Chiva, Technical Director of Butech Building Technologies (Porcelanosa Group), Vicente Lázaro, Head of the Competitive Intelligence Unit at ITC -Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica-, Ignasi Gómez, Manager of Railgrup. Moderator: Toni Clariana, Founder of Magma Design.
Michail Bletsas
Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
3rd Webinar
6 May 2021
Conference with simultaneous interpretation
IoT: When things start to think
4pm–5pm. Michail Bletsas, Director of Computing at the Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, United States.
5pm–6pm. Business Round Table: Thinking businesses, smart businesses
Jesús Ortiz, General Manager of Orbel Grupo, Jorge Patiño, Director of Product Engineering and R&D 4.0 at Frost-Trol, and Jose Ignacio Roselló, Head of Robotics and Instrumentation at GDES. Moderator: Alberto Conde, Co-founder and CEO of Xabet.
Emma Fromberg
Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
4th Webinar
16 June 2021
Conference with simultaneous interpretation
Redesigning the world through the Circular Economy
4pm–5pm. Emma Fromberg, Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge (CISL). At CISL she directs the postgraduate course in Sustainable Business. She was also part of the Circular Design team at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
5pm–6pm. Business Round Table: 360º Sustainable Construction: Creating better spaces for sustainable living.
Panellists: María Morales, Responsible Business Specialist at Leroy Merlin, José María Soler, Head of Specification at APE Grupo, Paula Rivas, Technical Director of Green Building Council Spain (GBCe), Miguel Ángel Núñez, Partner and Technical Director of Envolventes Arquitectónicas (ENAR), Ruben Navarro, CEO of Casas inHAUS. Moderator: Cristina Fernández, Sustainability and Architecture Association (ASA).
Adolfo Plasencia
Visiting lecturer at MIT and Harvard.
Francisco J. Martín
Co-founder and CEO of BigML -Machine Learning-
5th Webinar
19 October 2021
The final stretch of artificial intelligence.
4pm–5pm. Adolfo Plasencia, former visiting lecturer at MIT and Harvard University. Science journalist, lecturer and author of the book From Neurons to Galaxies: Is the Universe a Hologram? published by the University of Valencia (English edition published by MIT Press and Oxford University Press). Francisco J. Martín, co-founder and CEO of BigML -Machine Learning-, USA.
5pm–6pm. Business Round Table: How AI can impact your company
Panellists: Vicent Botti, Professor of Computing and Director of the Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN) at the UPV, Juan Ignacio Torregrosa, Director General for the Advancement of the Digital Society of the GVA, Alfredo R. Cebrián, Founding Partner and CEO of the technology consultancy Cuatroochenta. Moderator: Sergio Méndez, Director of Panamerican Business School.
Eduardo González
Researcher at the Markita Landry Lab, University of California, Berkeley.
6th Webinar
2 December 2021
CRISPR gene-editing technologies for sustainable agriculture and food
4pm–5pm. Eduardo González, Researcher at the Markita Landry Lab, University of California, Berkeley.
5pm–6pm. Round Table
Panellists: Ángel Carbonell, Director General of Science and Research of the Generalitat Valenciana; José Cuenca, General Manager of AVASA -Citrus Nursery Growers Association-; Magdalena Cervera, Head of Biotechnology in the R&D department of GCM Citrus S.L.; Pablo Aleza, Researcher and Head of the Tissue Culture Unit of the Citriculture and Production Department at IVIA, the Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research. Moderator: María Martí Santapau, Director of AgroBank at CaixaBank, Valencian Community.