Programme Participants
Meet the experts driving this programme forward
Speakers
Michael Brandkamp
General Partner
ECBF VC
Siebe Briers
Senior Expert
European Forest Institute
Lisa Christina Münzer
Consultant
Office for Sustainable Development
Willibald Ehrenhöfer
Styrian Regional Minister
Ministry for Economy, Labor, Finance, Science and Research
Víctor Falguera
General Manager
BioHubCat: el Hub de la Bioeconomia de Catalunya
Helmut Fink-Neuböck
Business Development
Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark
Julian Gallardo
New Business Development Manager
Mondragon Ventures
Viviana Hermosilla
Innovation and Technical Lead Europe
CMPC Ventures
Marke Kallio
Director, R&D programs, Valmet R&D
Valmet
Florian Kamleitner
Platform Manager Bioeconomy
ecoplus. Niederösterreichs Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH
Martin Karner
CEO Weitzer Woodsolutions GmbH
One-Stop-Shop: Weitzer Woodsolutions GmbH & Wood Vision Lab GmbH
Clara Lenz
Senior Project Manager
Internationalisation Center Styria (ICS)
Inazio Martinez de Arano
Coordinator of Bioregions Facility
European Forest Institute
Diana Materi
Deputy Head of Department for Economic Development
City of Graz
Philippe Mengal
Executive Director
Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)
Bart Muys
Professor at KU Leuven & Chair of EFI’s Scientific Advisory Board
European Forest Institute
Anna Niittylä
Scout and Nordics Representative
CMPC Ventures
Magnus Persson
Policy Advisor Research & Innovation
Region Värmland
Alexander Pinter
Managing Director
Holzcluster Steiermark GmbH
Martin Popowicz
Project Manager Circular Solutions
Green Tech Valley Cluster
Bruno Rudnik
Managing Partner
SEF Ventures
Julia Seeliger
Associate
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF)
SFG Opening Video
SFG - Startupmark
Philipp Stangl
Venture Capital Investor
Noctua Science Ventures
Matthias Strolz
Managing Director & Chief Capacity Builder
TRIQBRIQ Austria
Remo Taferner
Managing Director
Center for Applied Technology Leoben (ZAT Leoben)
Mashrukh Talukder
Business Development Lead for Sustainability
Tech Tour
Fredrik Tärneberg
Senior Business Development Manager
Södra
Marco Turchini
Founding Partner
Algebris Investments
Selection Panel & Experts
Samuele Ambrosetti
Innovation and Programming manager
Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)
Marie Ammann
Senior Startup & Innovation Manager
BayWa AG
Stuart Askew
Senior Director
Procter & Gamble
Mario Augusto Maia
Managing Partner
Cogent Venture Partners
Daria Batukhtina
Sr. Manager Strategic Business Development
Kubota Holdings Europe
Marlis Baurecht
Senior Investment Manager
SymbiaVC
Jean Bel
Head of GreenTech Investment Banking
Crédit Agricole CIB
Jordan Berginc
Director
Studio of Entrepreneurship, Ljubljana
Jarno Hämäläinen
Ecosystem Lead
Forest Joensuu
Tor-Oskar Karlberg
Investment Director
Stephen Industries
Nicole Keating
Impact Analyst
World Fund
Verena Kraßnig
Business Development Circular Economy
Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark
Michal Lasocki
Partner
EEC Ventures
Christian Laurer
Senior Investment Manager
tecnet equity
Bernard Likar
Advisor
Wood Industry Cluster Slovenia
Erik Madeyski Bengtson
Investment Manager
Almi Invest Green Tech
Rolf Nagel
Managing Partner at Munich Venture Partners
Munich Venture Partners
Claes Mikko Nilsen
Investor
NordicNinja VC
Colm O'Driscoll
International Project Development Strategist
Etifor | Valuing Nature
Pierre Poublan-Couzardot
Strategic Development & Partnership Europe
Kubota Holdings Europe
Florian Schlehuber
Head of Business Development
ZAZ Ventures
Alexander Starchenko
Managing Partner
First Imagine! Ventures
Lia Sweetman de Clar
Junior Expert
European Forest Institute
Katariina Torvinen
Director, EU Projects
Valmet Oyj
Franko Vrhovac
Investment Manager
Emerald Technology Ventures
Vicktor Wahlberg
Investment Director
Taaleri Bioindustry
Florian Weinhandl
Investment Manager
Steirischer Wirtschaftsförderung SFG
Coaches
Andrea Baldoni
Investor, Mentor, and Expert Selection Member
Martine Ballinger
Manager Startup Research & Intelligence
chemstars
Edvard Bergiton
Head of AgriFoodTech
T:Lab
George Dimitriou
Advisor
SEPVE - Association of Information Technology Companies of Northern Greece
Caroline Gueissaz
Member
Business Angels Switzerland
Olav Heskestad
Senior Advisor - Entrepreneurship and Business Development
Norges Vel
MĀRTIŅŠ KOKALIS
Head of Research and Innovation
Latvijas valsts meži
Hannes Meixner
Chief Intrapreneur aka Future Builder
Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark
Patrick Muller
Equity Partner
HEUKING
Nadine Reichenthal
Educate & Empower Entrepreneurs, Business Coach, Executive & Non Executive Board Member
UNIL
Willem-Jeroen Stevens
Founder & Managing Partner
CLEAR Corporate Finance
Marco Tibaldi
Director
Amsterdam Chemistry Network
Winfried Weigel
Founder
Clean Tech Capital
Eleonore Windisch
Advisor
act.on
Armin Winter
Sen. Scientist & Project Manager
BOKU University
Roland Zonai
Senior Coach and Senior advisor and evaluator
Presenting Companies
Remy Buser
CEO & Co-founder
Bloom Biorenewables
Tomasz Ciamulski
CEO/Founder
FibriTech
Dirk den Ouden
CEO
Vertoro
Olle Gelin
Co-founder | Chief Product Officer | Forestry technology expert
AirForestry
Justin Grabow
COO, Co-Founder & Managing Director
LigniLabs GmbH
Tuomo Halonen
CEO
Fiberwood
Carlotta Hebisch
Development Project Manager
HASSLACHER Green Tower GmbH
Markus Hochegger-Krawanja
CEO & Co-Founder
PureSurf FlexCo
Dhaarsi Jaksch
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer
Magmatic Bio
Dejan Jancic
MD Trapview North America LLC | Administrator Trapview do Brazil LLTD
Trapview
Outi Kallio
Chief Executive Officer
Treet (Nordtreat Oy)
Siim Karro
CEO & Co-Founder
Myceen
Vladimir Kaverin
CEO and Founder
VK ReSpawn FlexCo
Joona Kotilainen
Co-founder, Marketing and Communications
Hiil
Mario Leitner
CEO
royos joining solutions GmbH
Majid Madadi
CEO and Co-Founder
Fibu AB
Andres Mitnik
CEO
Strong by Form
Hanna Munge
CEO & Co-founder
Adsorbi AB
Jaakko Pajunen
Managing Director
Boreal Bioproducts
Karl Pärtel
Co-Founder
RAIKU Packaging
Simon Rauscher
Co-Founder
AITARK GmbH
Pekka Ritvanen
Chief Technology Officer
Avant Wood Ltd.
Petr Skrla
Founder and CEO
Senzomatic
Valentin Streif
Managing Director
Streif Software GmbH best digital forest solution
Expert Panel
Karl Hartleb
Managing Director
Internationalisation Center Styria (ICS)
Roel Vleeschouwers
Business Development Manager
VITO