Discover the speakers of the conference
Bäckar Anne-Sofie
Executive Director ChemSec
Transition for the EU chemicals industry
Transition for the EU chemicals industry
A new long-term vision for the EU's chemical policy is now defined by the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. It proposes a transformation of the EU chemicals industry becoming global leader in the production and consumption of safe and sustainable chemicals and materials, including through low-carbon, zero pollution and energy- and resource-efficient processes and technologies. It is now necessary to define the pathway to be followed by the chemicals industry and all main stakeholders for this transformation to happen. This session aims to identify the key elements - e.g. Safe and Sustainable by Design - as well as the challenges, opportunities and milestones of the transition pathway in a discussion with representatives from the EU institutions, the chemicals sector, civil society and the audience.
Bäckar Anne-Sofie
Anne-Sofie Bäckar has worked with chemical management for 20 years as policy advisor and the past 15 years as Excutive Director of ChemSec. Under her tenure as Executive Director, ChemSec has grown into a well-respected player within the world of chemicals and developed world-class chemicals management tools such as the SIN List and the Marketplace
Bénassy-Quéré Agnès
Chief Economist Treasury in France
The impact of supply chain disruptions on the European economy
The impact of supply chain disruptions on the European economy
Bénassy-Quéré Agnès
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré is Chief Economist at the French Treasury, on leave from Paris School of Economics. From 2012 until 2017, she chaired the French Council of Economic Advisors. Prior positions include Director of CEPII, the French research institute in international economics (2006-2012).
Bölke Matthias
Vice President Industrial Automation Schneider Electric
Uptake of Advanced Manufacturing
Uptake of Advanced Manufacturing
Bölke Matthias
After his academic career, M. Bölke was active at Schneider Electric: in R&D, Marketing and as CEO of Schneider Electric’s Country organizations. Today he is global VP Strategy Industrial Automation for Schneider Electric and engaged at various boards and associations. As chairmen at IDTA, he leads most relevant and critical topics of the digital transformation of manufacturing.
Bütikofer Reinhard
Member European Parliament
Standardisation in support of the twin transition of industrial SMEs
Standardisation in support of the twin transition of industrial SMEs
Bütikofer Reinhard
REINHARD BÜTIKOFER is Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA). He sits on the AFET committee and serves as Greens/EFA foreign affairs spokesperson, and on the INTA committee as substitute member. He is the Chair of the EP’s Delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China as well as a member of the Delegation to the United States and a substitute member of the ASEAN Delegation.
Campos Luis
EU Affairs Delegate Turismo de Portugal
Supporting the co-creation of Transition Pathways for the EU industrial ecosystems
Supporting the co-creation of Transition Pathways for the EU industrial ecosystems
Campos Luis
Luis has been working over 20 years in EU Affairs: EU external relations, ECOFIN, policies for SMEs, and the years at the Competitiveness row as PT Director for European Affairs. In 2019 felt in love for Tourism and took the challenge of Chair of the Tourism WP during the EU PRES21 and is nowadays PT Delegate and collaborates as Curator in the Tourism and Social Economy pathways.
Cardenete Manuel Alejandro
President NECSTouR
Exchanges with representatives of destinations and young travellers on their commitments and expectations
Exchanges with representatives of destinations and young travellers on their commitments and expectations
Cardenete Manuel Alejandro
Professor Cardenete is Deputy Minister at Vicepresidence-Regional Ministry of Tourism, Regeneration, Justice and Local Administration at Regional Government of Junta de Andalucia, Member of the Committee of the Regions at European Union and President of NECSTouR. He is Professor of Economics and in the recent years he was Vice-rector of Universidad Loyola Andalucia.
Carencotte Frederic
President Director General CARESTER
Towards a resilient, innovative, sustainable and digital energy-intensive industries ecosystem
Towards a resilient, innovative, sustainable and digital energy-intensive industries ecosystem
The session aims to give impulse to the co-creation process of the Energy Intensive Industries Transition Pathway; showcasing the commitments and pledges made by stakeholders of the energy intensive industries ecosystem and thereby illustrating the good practices and the way forward for other industrial actors.
Carencotte Frederic
Founder of Carester, Frederic Carencotte is a chemical engineer. He has twenty-two years of experience in Chemical Company. He has worked for fifteen years in Rare Earths in France and China in various positions. His mission with Carester is to improve Rare Earth extraction processes around the world, so that industry can choose the best quality solutions.
Cartuyvels Paul
Executive Director BOUYGUES Europe
Construction ecosystem: a path towards resilience, green and digital transformation
Construction ecosystem: a path towards resilience, green and digital transformation
Cartuyvels Paul
Paul is the Executive Director of BOUYGUES Europe. He is the President of ECTP, which gathers actors from across the Construction sector value chain. ECTP is the co-chair with WGBC of the EC Built 4 People Partnership (B4P) of Horizon Europe. Within the EU Smart Cities Markeplace, he leads the Action Cluster on Sustainable Built Environment. Paul graduated in Bioengineering from UCL, Belgium.
Cass-Beggs Duncan
Counsellor for Strategic Foresight OECD
Future-proof: how foresight helps policy makers and businesses anticipate and shape the future
Future-proof: how foresight helps policy makers and businesses anticipate and shape the future
Change in climate, digital technologies and geopolitics are having a profound effect on the lives of Europeans and people around the world. These transformations are taking place at all levels, from grassrotts politics to global power structures. To support the transitions to a green, digital and fairer Europe, the EU and other institutions, e.g. OECD or national governments, are strenghtening their culture of preparedness and evidence-based anticipatory policy-making. This session will present foresight as a tool which helps policy makers and businesses prepare for and shape tomorrow. Speakers from the OECD? Finnish government and the European Commission will showcase specific foresights tools developed at different levels, and by different actors.
Cass-Beggs Duncan
Duncan Cass-Beggs is the Counsellor for Strategic Foresight at the OECD with a mandate to strengthen strategic foresight across the OECD and bring a stronger future focus to global dialogue on key policy issues. His team works with OECD staff, governments and leading global foresight practitioners to explore alternative futures and implications for policy.
Castaignet Arnaud
Head of Communications and Policy Skeleton Technologies
Spotlight session: R&D investment and EU green technologies leadership
Spotlight session: R&D investment and EU green technologies leadership
The session will showcase R&I-based success stories and discuss how to support industrial eco-systems in their green transition and how to build on EU leading position in green technologies. The starting point for the conversation will be the new figures from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard 2021 which shows that EU companies are among the global leaders in green technologies but must nonetheless increase their efforts in R&D investment for Europe's industry to lead the green transition in the global economy.