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Boratynski Jakub
Director Networks and Governance, DG GROW European Commission
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs: final pitching session and awards ceremony
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs: final pitching session and awards ceremony
We are organising an EU Industry Days Pitching contest for new business ideas supporting the transition to a sustainable, digital and resilient economy. Four finalists will pitch their business ideas live and get feedback from business experts and investors, as well as the audience. Two winners, by jury and audience vote, will be invited to participate at the next SME assembly in Prague, Czech Republic. During this session there will be also a short presentation of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme, given by Mr Jakub Boratynski, Director of Networks and Governance Directorate in DG GROW of the European Commission.
Moderators:
- Anna Heijker, Moderator & Pitch Trainer, Pitches & Presentations
- Alex Glod
Jury members:
- Ulla Engelmann, Head of Unit, DG GROW, European Commission
- Ruxandra Creosteanu, Co-Founder, Babele Create Together
- Jeremy de France, Founder @ Graphee & VP French Tech Bucharest
Finalists:
- David Pereira de Castro, Founder, Blueveg
- Iulia Dorobantu, Co-founder, Charger.ro
- Dimitri Ionescu, Founder, LightMirror
- Martin Branný, COUNTER SOMETHING s. r. o. Kristina
Speaker:
- Jakub Boratynski, DG GROW Director of Network and Governance, European Commission
Boratynski Jakub
Jakub Boratynski joined DG GROW in January 2022 as a Director for Network and Governance, responsible for Industrial Alliances, Clusters, Skills and services, Market Surveillance, Inter-institutional Relations and Outreach. Before joining DG GROW, head of unit and acting director in DG CONNECT responsible for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity.
Bragason Kristjan
General Secretary European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT)
From co-creation to co-implementation
From co-creation to co-implementation
Bragason Kristjan
Kristjan Bragason is the General Secretary of European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism trade unions, which represents 2.6 million workers in 120 trade unions across 35 countries.
Branný Martin
COUNTER SOMETHING s. r. o.
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs: final pitching session and awards ceremony
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs: final pitching session and awards ceremony
We are organising an EU Industry Days Pitching contest for new business ideas supporting the transition to a sustainable, digital and resilient economy. Four finalists will pitch their business ideas live and get feedback from business experts and investors, as well as the audience. Two winners, by jury and audience vote, will be invited to participate at the next SME assembly in Prague, Czech Republic. During this session there will be also a short presentation of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme, given by Mr Jakub Boratynski, Director of Networks and Governance Directorate in DG GROW of the European Commission.
Moderators:
- Anna Heijker, Moderator & Pitch Trainer, Pitches & Presentations
- Alex Glod
Jury members:
- Ulla Engelmann, Head of Unit, DG GROW, European Commission
- Ruxandra Creosteanu, Co-Founder, Babele Create Together
- Jeremy de France, Founder @ Graphee & VP French Tech Bucharest
Finalists:
- David Pereira de Castro, Founder, Blueveg
- Iulia Dorobantu, Co-founder, Charger.ro
- Dimitri Ionescu, Founder, LightMirror
- Martin Branný, COUNTER SOMETHING s. r. o. Kristina
Speaker:
- Jakub Boratynski, DG GROW Director of Network and Governance, European Commission
Branný Martin
Young entrepreneur and freelancer working on physical research projects in the field of energy and mobility. Trained as an IT and artificial intelligence specialist.Winner of several AI competitions with the receipt of a scholarship to Unicorn College. Interested in space and doing everything in my power to be able to achieve the production of my own fusion reactor.
Breton Thierry
European Commissioner for Internal Market
European Commission
European Commission
Opening - Tourism Spotlight event
Opening - Tourism Spotlight event
Breton Thierry
Thierry Breton is the EU Commissioner for Internal Market, in charge of industry, digital, space, defence, audiovisual and tourism. Engineer in computer science, he began his career as an entrepreneur in the IT sector. A French business leader, he was CEO of Thomson electronics, France Telecom and Atos. French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry.
Broglio Samuele
Vice President for External Relation Small Business Standards
Standardisation in support of the twin transition of industrial SMEs
Standardisation in support of the twin transition of industrial SMEs
Broglio Samuele
Samuele Broglio owns and manages a craft company in the field of special windows and shutters, operating at the EU level with products requiring a high level of standardisation. He is an SBS expert in several CEN/CENELEC TCs and WGs, and he is a Board member since 2019. Since January 2022 Samuele is SBS’ VP for external relations.
Brudermüller Martin
Chief Executive Officer BASF
Transition Pathways for the EU industrial ecosystems – a co-creation process
Transition Pathways for the EU industrial ecosystems – a co-creation process
The ‘transition pathways’ will guide the industrial ecosystems along the green and digital transition through an actionable plan, with the ultimate goal of strengthening the resilience of our European industrial fabric. They are being co-created by a wide array of stakeholders, including EU institutions, industrial representations, Member States authorities, NGOs, research institutes and social partners. In this context, the Industrial Forum - set up by the Industrial Strategy – plays a very important role. One of the objectives of the Forum is to deepen the systematic analyses of industrial ecosystems and support the development of these transition pathways. In this session, the European Commission will present the results of this intense co-creation process and a high-level panel will discuss the practical implementation of such pathways.
Brudermüller Martin
Martin Brudermüller studied Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. After his doctorate, he did a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined BASF in 1988, became a member of the Board of Executive Directors in 2008 and BASF’s CEO in 2018. He is currently the President of Cefic and the Chairman of the “Competitiveness & Innovation Working Group” of the ERT.
Buffolo Ingrid Elisabeth
Director of the Customer Department EUIPO - European Union Intellectual Property Office (Moderator)
New SME Fund - Intellectual property voucher for post-Covid-19 recovery and green and digital transitions
The European Commission and the European Union Intellectual Property Office launched a €47 million fund to protect intellectual property of EU SME. This new grant scheme aims at supporting SMEs in the Covid-19 recovery and green and digital transitions. The fund offers reimbursements of trade mark, design and patent application fees as well as IP pre-diagnostic services for 2022-2024. If you are an EU SME, join the session and learn about this new funding opportunity.
Buffolo Ingrid Elisabeth
Director of the Customer Department at EUIPO where she drives the customer focused evolution incorporating data driven customer feedback to EUIPO solutions and communication. Since 2018 she has led EUPO’s SME focused activity to get IP information and protection to European SMEs. The SME Fund launched in 2021, has to date provided grants to over 10.000 SMEs to help them access their IP rights.
Buntinx Benoit
Director of Business Creation EIT Food
Photonics and AgriFood: the synergy through cross-ecosystem collaboration
Photonics and AgriFood: the synergy through cross-ecosystem collaboration
Agri-food sector is identified as one of the 14 industrial ecosystems spanning across the EU, so cross-sectorial R&D collaboration and innovations are essential to ensure the ecosystem’s future sustainability, accelerate green and digital transition. On the other hand, photonics is a key enabling technology that plays an important role in building more circular EU economy, a climate-neutral and digital single market. Adapting light technologies to the Agri-food sector will enable new tools for twin transition. During this session we will discuss cross-sectorial collaboration towards twin transition, what kind of support schemes for demo projects already exists, what success stories do we already have, and what the future holds.
Organiser: AgriFood Lithuania DIH /LITEK
Buntinx Benoit
Benoit works at EIT Food, where he helps entrepreneurs and startups to launch and scale their agtech & foodtech businesses in Europe. He has co-founded and managed 2 startups, a start-up incubator and a €43m seed fund. He also served on the Board of ag & food startups. Before joining EIT Food in 2017, he spent 5 years in LATAM where he was a consultant in tech transfer and venture creation.
Buzzi Eva
Managing Director of ÖBB RailTours
From co-creation to co-implementation
From co-creation to co-implementation
Buzzi Eva
After a degree in business administration Eva Buzzi held various management positions in the Austrian tourism sector. Since 2006 she has been responsible for the package travel division of Austrian Railways. Eva Buzzi is the current President of the Austrian Travel Association and lecturer at the St. Polten University of Applied Sciences in the course 'Railway Technology and Mobility'.
Bye Gøran
Chief Executive Officer Norwegian Crystals AS
Reshoring the Solar PV Industry in Europe with the European Solar Initiative
Reshoring the Solar PV Industry in Europe with the European Solar Initiative
Solar energy is a central component of Europe’s transition to a climate-neutral economy. The Commission estimates that the deployment of new solar generation capacity will reach 18 GW per year from now to 2030 and as high as 34 GW per year 2030 onwards. It is therefore critical to ensure that the solar panels that will meet Europe’s energy demand are "Made in Europe" and trigger growth and job creation locally. The European Solar Initiative, firmly anchored in the new Industrial Strategy for Europe presented by the Commission, aims at scaling up the European solar PV industrial ecosystem at the 2025 horizon and at providing a for industry and policy-makers to come together and deliver this objective. This session will take stock of the initiative one year on, present three large-scale PV manufacturing projects across the value-chain, and discuss what can be done to help projects reach the scale and speed needed to reshore the PV industry.
Organiser: EIT InnoEnergy