Speakers

Conference chairs

Dr. ir. Anton Franken MBA

Member of the Executive Board of HU UAS Utrecht in Utrecht, the Netherlands


Dr. Joachim Hafkesbrink

President of Technology Innovation International and Managing Director of Innowise GmbH in Duisburg, Germany

Session chairs

Prof. dr. Kornelis Blok

Director of Science at Ecofys Group Utrecht and Professor of Sustainable Energy at Utrecht University, the Netherlands


Ing. Arjan de Bruin

Director of Innovation at Consultancy Van der Meer & van Tilburg in Zeist, the Netherlands, and member of the Board of Management of the European association Technology Innovation International


Prof. dr. Jacqueline Cramer

Director of the Utrecht Sustainability Institute (USI), Professor of Sustainable Innovation at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and former Dutch Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment


Beverley Hurley CBE MSc

CEO of YTKO in Cambridge, United Kingdom and one of the UK’s leading authorities on female entrepreneurship


Prof. dr. ir. Remko van der Lugt

Professor of Co-Design at HU UAS Utrecht, the Netherlands


Gordon Ollivere CBE

CEO of RTC North in Sunderland, United Kingdom


Prof. dr. Ivo Opstelten

Professor of New Energy in the City at HU UAS Utrecht, the Netherlands


Koen Verhaert

CEO of Verhaert in Kruibeke, Belgium

Keynote speakers

Willibrord van Beek

King’s Commissioner of the Province of Utrecht, the Netherlands


Dr. Zhengping Liu

Vice President of Coway International TechTransfer Company, China


Prof. dr. Jacqueline Cramer

Director of the Utrecht Sustainability Institute (USI), Professor of Sustainable Innovation at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and former Dutch Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment


Irene ten Dam

Programme Manager Green Economy at the Economic Board Utrecht, the Netherlands


Drs. Maurits Groen

CEO of MGMC in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and international sustainable entrepreneur and also one of the Netherland’s foremost thinkers on sustainability (nr. 3 of TOP 100)


Prof. Georges Haour

Professor of Technology & Innovation at the Institute of Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland


Beverley Hurley CBE MSc

CEO of YTKO in Cambridge, United Kingdom and one of the UK’s leading authorities on female entrepreneurship


Menno de Jonge MBA

Director Sustainable Business Innovation at Ballast Nedam


Prof. dr. Ivo Opstelten

Professor of New Energy in the City at HU UAS Utrecht, the Netherlands


Thomas Rau

CEO of RAU Architects in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, famous for his ecological architecture and one of the Netherland’s foremost thinkers on sustainability (nr. 3 of TOP100) and winner of the ARCH13 Oeuvre Award


mayor of Utrecht

Jan van Zanen, Mayor of the City of Utrecht, the Netherlands

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Willibrord van Beek

Prof. dr. Kornelis Blok

Ing. Arjan de Bruin

Prof. dr. Jacqueline Cramer

Irene ten Dam

Dr. ir. Anton Franken MBA

Drs. Maurits Groen

Dr. Joachim Hafkesbrink

Prof. Georges Haour

Beverley Hurley CBE MSc

Menno de Jonge MBA

Dr. Zhengping Liu

Prof. dr. ir. Remko van der Lugt

Gordon Ollivere CBE

Prof. dr. Ivo Opstelten

Thomas Rau

mayor of Utrecht

Koen Verhaert