08.00

Registration & Networking Coffee

09.00

Opening Session 

Master of Ceremony: Katie Gallus, independent journalist, moderator, author

Welcome Address

• Dr. Malte Heyne, Chief Executive Officer, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce

Opening Panel

• John Denton, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce

• Tatiana Molcean, Under-Secretary-General & Executive Secretary, UNECE

• Samed Ağırbaş, COP31 High-level Climate Champion and President, Zero Waste Foundation

10.00

Coffee Break

10.15

Panel and Solution Session 1 – Making the Twin Transition Work: Local Approaches to the Green and Digital Transformation

Panel

• Henrique Bussacos, Executive Director, Impact Hub São Paulo 

• Nalin Agarwal, Founding Partner, Climate Collective Foundation

• Dr. Dirk Lumma, Executive Vice President Innovation & Technology, Körber AG 

• Juliana Rotich, CEO, Fintech leader and technology entrepreneur

Solution

• Alice Leão Luz, Business Vertical Director, Softplan (remote)

• Avnish Kumar, Founder & CEO, LivNSense (remote)

• Bilha Ndirangu, CEO, Great Carbon Valley

• Dr. Christine Prauschke, CEO, leadity 

• Mirko Schedlbauer, Founder & CEO, Shipzero

• Nicolás Juhl, CEO, encentive

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Professor for Sustainable Business, University of Hamburg

12.00

Networking Lunch

13.00

Keynote

• Dr. Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien, Board Member, (Africa Rep) International Sustainability Standards Board, IFRS Foundation

13.10 

Panel and Solution Session 2 – Unleashing Enablers and Accelerators: Financing Technology for a Resilient, Net-Zero Future

Panel

• Ksenia Brockmann, Director, Green Financial Systems (GFS), Climate Strategy Delivery, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) 

• Juan José Febles, European Investment Bank (EIB) 

• Sagarika Chatterjee, Department Director, Climate Finance, Climate Champions

• Florian Sommer, Head of ESG Strategy, Portfolio Management, Union Investment

Moderator: Marcus Pratsch, Head of Sustainable Bonds & Finance, DZ BANK

Solution

• Tobias Engelmeier, CEO, Vida

• Ana Gabriela Fernández Vega, Programme Officer, Green Digital Action, ITU

• Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Managing Director, GIZ 

• Lotte Schou Zibell, Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Moderator: Dario Liguti, Director, Sustainable Energy Division, UNECE

14.55 

Coffee Break

15.10

Panel and Solution Session 3 – Circular Economy in the Twin Transition: Rethinking Value Chains for the Future

Keynote

• Ani Dasgupta, CEO and President, World Resources Institute

Panel 

• Martin Clemesha, Biopolymers & Advocacy Senior Specialist, Braskem S.A.

• Claas Oehlmann, Managing Director, Circular Economy Initiative, Federation of German Industries – BDI 

• Shikha Pillai, Global Head of Sustainability, Siemens Healthineers AG

• Matthias Steybe, Vice President Corporate Sustainability, Voith Group

Integrated Solutions

• Xiaoyu Cheng, Business Partnership Manager, WEIQIAO Germany GmbH

• Ulvinur Müge Dolun, Programme Manager - Circular Economy and Industrial Resource Efficiency, UN Industrial Development Organization – UNIDO

• Dr. Carsten Gerhardt, Chairman, Circular Valley Foundation

• Claudia Wieczorek, Project Manager Circular Value Chains, Yunus Environment Hub

Moderator: Katarin Wagner, Executive Director, econsense

16.55

Closing

• Frank Scheidig, Global Head of Senior Executive Banking, DZ BANK

17.00

Event Close