MEET OUR EXPERTS

PHILINE MOELLER  is a global tech marketing and operations leader. She has 10 years of experience in scaling businesses and teams through marketing and internal operations across Europe with a strong focus on building data platforms and teams. Learning Onlinemarketing and Analytics from scratch at one of the most successful real estate portals in Europe, moving to Business Development and M&A for more holistic growth strategies before building a marketing operations force at N26, she is always striving for building successes as a team with strong leadership capabilities. Furthermore, she is passionate about building purpose-driven businesses and brands with a strong focus on social and sustainable topics.

MARCEL ABERLE's career is characterized by technology and strategic consulting. Besides 10 years of experience in the IT industry, he is a start-up founder and driven by a deep fascination for the trends of our time. A broad knowledge of the deep currents of change combines Marcel Aberle with systemic thinking and hands-on mentality. He is part of the management board of the Zukunftsinstitut. He developed the Trend Canvas at the Zukunftsinstitut in order to support companies together with his team in analysing the effects of trends, recognising potential and deriving sustainable strategies.

LOUISE FUGLSANG is Lead Service Designer at Futurice. She supports organizations in creating lovable products, services, and brands. Using design thinking methods. Working in a lean, agile way. Bringing together both user-, business, and tech perspective. And thereby aiming to create a positive impact for both users, organizations and society.

NOD DE LA FORGE is Co-founder and Partner of Planet A - a newly formed investment company that focuses on impact companies to advance an economy that serves the people and the planet. Given his background in deep tech and engineering, Nick is focussing on startups aiming for groundbreaking technological advancements for the planet. At Planet A, Nick is leading the fundraising and networking efforts.

KAORI PI worked as a global financial strategist for Greenpeace International after leaving the financial sector. She develops products and brands that are focused on the sustainable future and can make a difference. She is the creative force behind Durat Palace, an award-winning solid surface recycled material manufactured in Finland. She puts change into action, sometimes even against all standards. She transforms and distils seemingly impossible ideas until they can be realised as viable, value-oriented and sustainable ventures.

TOM SZAKY is the Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams. TerraCycle operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world's largest brands, retailers and manufacturers to create national platforms to recycle products and packaging that currently go to landfill or incineration. It is also the lead company in a new circular shopping platform called Loop that enables consumers to purchase products in durable, reusable packaging.

LUBOMILA JORDANOVA is the Founder and CEO of PlanA, a data-driven platform that helps companies reduce their environmental impact. Prior to PlanA, she worked in investment banking, venture capital, and fintech in Asia and Europe. She holds a Master in Management degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

STEFAAN DE WILDEMAN is a Chemical Engineer. He co-developed the Master “BioBased Materials” at Maastricht University, and launched strategic projects on new biobased building blocks at Maastricht University, Ghent University and KULeuven. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of B4Plastics designing novel polymeric backbones with the BioBased Building Block (B4) technology platform for functional applications from scratch. The company offers custom made oligomeric and polymeric material products with outcompeting eco-profile at an acceptable cost.

MAXIMILIAN GLASS is CEO and Founder of Less Waste Club, a creative mind, and an out of the box guy. During his time with an FMCG company, he realized that there must be other sustainable ways to meet the needs of everyday life. Said and done with some delay - He tries to make the world of everyday products more environmentally friendly.

LIVIA ZIMERMANN is the Co-Founder and CEO of Era Zero Waste. Before Era, Livia has developed 200+ personal care products, the digital strategy of billion-dollar FMCG brands. Furthermore, she has helped create the first green coffee marketplace and founded three businesses.

ADRIAN WONS is co-founder of Wagestolz. He will be taking the stage for "Applying moonshot thinking for bigger impact".

SIAN SUTHERLAND is the Co-Founder of the global campaign organization A Plastic Planet. Igniting social change, creating brands, campaigns, and businesses with soul is Sian’s passion. Multi-award winner, including Female Marketer of the Year, CEW Achiever Award, Entrepreneur of the Year, and British Inventor of the Year; Sian is a serial entrepreneur with a varied background in advertising, Michelin Star restaurants, film production, skincare, and brand creation design agencies.

SEBASTIAN VETTER is the Co-Founder of Hacking Cultural Beliefs, a think tank specialized on radical innovation. Our cultural beliefs determine, and often limit, what opportunities we are able to see and realise. By questioning what everyone else accepts as given we can unlock our innovation potential, achieve radical innovation, and organisational change. He will open the discussion on „Rethinking our relationship with plastic – or how to change consumer behaviour“

KATHY WALKING is the Co-founder and Not-For-Profit Team Leader of Eco Femme. She moved from Australia to the international township of Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India in 1997. Eco Femme is a social enterprise that has helped make cloth menstrual pads „cool“ in India – ten years ago as a way of combining her passion for sisterhood, community, and the earth. When not busy with Eco Femme, she loves to spend time in nature. Her talk will be on „Seeing Red: Solutions to the Plastic Problem in Menstruation“.

MIKE BOYLE is a lecturer for recycling management at various universities in Austria. He is a convinced frugalist and runs a websiteto spread the Frugal Innovation Methods, i.e. to develop sustainable and valuable solutions with the currently available means. In addition to the Open Education Initiative, which he Twitch he is also a radio producer (Moniker Radio Tipping Point) on Radio Orange 94.0 Vienna.

ANNELI ANGLAS RODRIGUEZ is a designer and works under the motto "Being green is not only for aliens" with novel natural materials. For her brand Onno Bruu it develops modern lifestyle products. In her design workshops she lets participants experience how to make bioplastics from milk or what can be made from bacterial cellulose leather.

CONRAD DORER works for the Federal Environment Agency and is concerned with sustainable consumption. His current focus is on how to further promote the sustainable design of products and services. Since 2016 he has been coordinating the EU Interreg project in the Baltic Sea region "EcoDesign Circle (4.0)", in which design centres and companies are enabled to design for recirculation systems using practical methods and knowledge.

ANTOANETA TICA is a visual artist. To illustrate her concern about environmental problems, she transforms plastic, the artificial product of pollutants, into objects with aesthetic value. In this way she can effectively convey her message of protecting nature. Antoaneta holds a PhD in Fine Arts and teaches at the Fashion Department of the National University of the Arts in Bucharest, Romania.

JEFFREY BARBEE is a sought-after author and filmmaker. He is director and founder of Alliance Earth, an independent non-profit initiative and director of the Dung Beetle Project. He specializes in cross-platform multimedia and event-based projects that bring together art, media and technology to raise awareness of global environmental issues. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

professor ANGELICA BOHEMIA has headed the artistic research project "Transmediales Erzählen: Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan" at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. More than 100 students, alumni and experts are involved. Based on the scientific expertise of the project partners from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Marine and Polar Research Bremerhaven, which specialises in plastic waste in the oceans, this project is a mind-opener, web exhibition and future workshop.

JOERG ALTEKRUSE is a well-known filmmaker and producer with a lot of experience in documentary, feature film and cross-media art. He founded Youth4planet to empower young people as cooperative storytellers and change agents to use their smartphones to film their actions.