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A Shared Future

Conference Keynote

Introduction to A Sutainable Future

Meet the engineers, entrepreneurs, politicians, polemicists, funders, futurists, and founders who areleveraging emerging technologies to stave off planetary meltdown addressing solutions from renewables and green energy solutions to optimizing manufacturing processes. What is the promise and potential of these breakthrough technologies?

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The Green Consumer Driving Change

Europe’s Consumers are demanding that brands take real action to develop a truly authentic green approach. An overview on the companies which are ahead of the curve and winning the loyalty of the empowered customer.

Breaking the Mould

Mitigating the carbon impact of large-scale industrial facilities such as data centres and assessing carbon tax initiatives. Identifying the new green technologies which can succeed in business and environmental terms. Plus an expert insight into the emerging technologies being adopted by cement producers in response to changing consumer demand and governmental action to tax carbon emissions.

Switching from Emissions to Removals

How much CO2 do we need to remove over the next decades? How can we integrate removals into our economy and create carbon-negative products and value chains?

Cementing Change

Cement production worldwide releases nearly four times as much carbon dioxide into the air as global air tra c. This session introduces next-generation technology for the mineralisation of carbon dioxide, turning broken concrete into stone granulate as a replacement for sand and gravel in fresh concrete.

Removing Carbon from the Sky

A multitude of challenges face the cutting-edge companies deploying ‘miracle’ technologies to capture carbon. Vital questions abound: How e ective is it to deploy these technologies at the mammoth scale our overheating planet requires? How will the carbon be stored? And how to avoid pumping even more CO2 from carbon capture machines into the atmosphere?

Green Energy at Industrial Scale

Which alternative fuels provide the best solutions for energy-hungry large industries reliant on coal, oil and gas? Can bulky batteries compete with hydrogen, methanol or, indeed, the latest breakthrough in ‘mini-nuclear’ power?

Is Battery Technology the Solution to the Green Transition?

Carmakers are under pressure in Europe to sell more electric cars or face huge nes for breaching new emissions rules aimed at tackling global warming. However, signi cant barriers to truly widespread adoption of electric batteries in vehicles remain in relation to cost, energy storage e ciency and recharging. But are exploiting the full potential of the electric vehicle revolution to accelerate a societal green shift?

Taking Flight

Anxiety bedevils plans for all-electric aircraft — to date the technology to enable sustained battery power over thousands of kilometres doesn’t exist. And then there are issues of weight and of cost, not to mention production at sector scale and safety. However, NASA has advanced proposals to test electric, vertical take-o and landing aircraft while Rolls Royce claims to be on the cusp of manufacturing power systems for some of the rst eVTOLs. Which technologies will fuel a clean and green aviation industry?

Charging Forward

If sustainability is to be a pillar of the global economic recovery, then the innovation and swift rollout of new electric charging solutions will form the bedrock of tomorrow’s energy landscape. Consumers used to three-minute fuel stops are demanding batteries which can be charged in minutes, not overnight, and they want access to that solution to be ubiquitous. Who is best-placed to ensure the switch to electric cars runs smoothly?

Green Gamechangers

Cities with ambitious green agendas are critical if Europe is to do more than just pay lip-service to its Sustainable Development Goals. Barcelona is regarded as one of the most exciting cities in Europe, can it also become a hub of innovation and Europe’s Green Capital? Lahti, Finland, rst unveiled plans to drive down emissions in 1997. Today it is a global leader in air quality, waste, green growth and eco-innovation, earning it the European Commission’s title of Green Capital 2021

The Future is Wood

The developers and architects behind Europe’s rst timber skyscraper plan nothing less than a social and ecological paradigm shift.

Small is Beautiful

One of the regions at the very cutting edge of technological change and the creation of smart cities is Andorra, a tiny country tucked between Spain and France. The 180-square-mile nation of 77,000 people has served as a ‘living lab’ for researchers for MIT Media Lab’s City Science Initiative to prototype, deploy and test urban innovation.

A Twin for Planet Earth

A new digital model of the earth being developed by the European Union will enable the testing of breakthrough technologies to tackle the climate crisis. Rending the planet’s atmosphere in boxes one kilometre across, Destination Earth will use arti cial intelligence and draw on advances in weather prediction to forecast oods, droughts and res from days to years in advance. The creation of this digital twin will be part of a €1tn investment by the EU in green technologies.

CONFERENCE KEYNOTE

The Breakthrough Technologies which Can Help Us Avoid a Climate Disaster

New Food

Cattle are the No. 1 agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide. Ine cient animal agriculture practices that contribute to climate change drive the need to create safe, humane and sustainably produced animal proteins. Can new breakthroughs in bioscience not only bring us dairy products without cows but make cheese and butter which is just as tasty?

Introduction

The Covid-19 Pandemic continues to put healthcare services under unprecedented pressure. Yet there are technological breakthroughs to navigate this crisis and usher in a healthier future across many other elds of medicine. How is the innovative use of data across Europe being used to improve health outcomes? Practitioners and thought leaders examine emerging solutions in connected health and telemedicine, and breakthroughs in the development of Messenger RNA vaccines for Covid. How can these advances be applied to tackle other healthcare delivery issues and disease states?

Telemedicine and Connected Health

Arti cial Intelligence, blockchain, chatbots and personalised mobile apps are among the advances in technology being utilised to transform healthcare. Meet the experts on the frontlines of the healthcare revolution and hear about the innovative work making a real di erence in the lives of patients.

Sweden as a Biotech Hotspot – the Best is Yet to Come

Sweden (population 10m) regularly ranks Number One in the European Innovation League Table and its status as a biotech hotspot – with its very own Medicon Valley — has been burnished by Swedish involvement in the development of the Moderna and AstraZeneca Covid vaccines. Does the country and its capital, Stockholm, long a magnet for Nobel Prize-winning scientists, o er a template for life sciences enterprise which can be copied by other regions? And what are the societal and governmental building blocks which underpin the city’s deserved reputation as an entrepreneurial powerhouse? We chat with acclaimed scientist and Moderna co-founder Kenneth R. Chien — who hails from the global life sciences capital of Boston but is a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm — to get his take.

Messenger RNA Technology

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has catapulted Messenger RNA Technology into the limelight. What are the prospects for this breakthrough technology in the future and which governments, academic institutions and business leaders are best-placed to exploit mRNA to tackle other intractable medical problems?

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