SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 2014

Cities & Regions as Catalysts for Smart & Sustainable Innovation

Part of the ‘Towards Sustainable Product Design’ series of conferences

19th International Conference
3rd-4th November 2014
KADK
Copenhagen
Denmark

ORGANISED BY

The Centre for Sustainable Design ® at UCA, UK

VENUE PARTNER

KADK

STRATEGIC PARTNERS
Climate KIC
European Environment Agency

R20

Programme

Day 1

Chair: Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, UCA, UK

08:30	Registration
09:30	Introduction and Opening Remarks Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, UCA, UK
10:00	Green Economy, Growth & Innovation: Countries, Regions & Cities Christophe Nutall, Executive Director, R20 Regions of Climate Change, Switzerland
10:30	Transition to Sustainable Cities Professor Fred Steward, Policy Studies Institute & Climate KIC, UK
11:00	Coffee/Tea and Networking
11:30	Cities, Sustainability & Innovation in China Professor Wang Yi, Deputy Director-General, Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
12:00	Smart & Sustainable Cities Driving Innovation IBM, UK*
12:30	Smart & sustainable cities as drivers for innovation Martin Andersen, CEO, Smart City Denmark, Denmark
13:00	Lunch
14:00	City of Copenhagen: Systems, Innovation & Start-ups City of Copenhagen, Denmark*
14:30	Urban Grassroots Innovation & the Circular Economy Guido Braam, CEO, Circle Economy, Netherlands
15:00	Cities & Regions as Catalysts for Sustainable Innovation: Personal Visions, Perspectives and Stories Chair: Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, UCA, UK Laurent Bontoux, JRC, European Commission, Belgium Sascha Gasl, Founding Partner, Space and Matter, Netherlands Per-Arne Nilsson, City of Malmo, Sweden Martine Posta, Founder, Stichting Repair Café, Netherlands Henrik Poulsen, Green Startup House, Denmark Almut Reichel, European Environment Agency, Denmark
16:00	Coffee/Tea and Networking
16:30	Panel: Driving Sustainable Innovation in Cities Chair: Lars Mortensen, Head of Unit, European Environment Agency, Denmark
17:30	Summary Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, UCA, UK
17:45	Drinks & Entertainment
20:00	Conference Dinner

Day 2

Chair: Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, UCA, UK

08:30	Registration
09:00	Introduction and Opening Remarks Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, UCA, UK
09:05	Keynote Gil Friend, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Palo Alto, US
09:40	Refereed Papers – ‘Top 30′ – 30 second pitches
10:15	Refereed Papers sessions
13:15	Lunch
14:15	Sustainable Innovation & Regions: Challenges & Opportunities Gianluca Salvatori, CEO, European Research Institute on Cooperation and Social Enterprises, University of Trento, Italy*
14:45	Islands as Living Laboratories for Sustainable Solutions Panos Coroyannakis, Director, ISLENET, Belgium Soren Femmer Jansen, Founder & Director, Co-creative, Denmark
15:15	Coffee/Tea and networking – Marketplace
15:45	Panel: Driving Sustainable Innovation in Regions Chair: Eva Grambye, Special Envoy & Head of Department, Global Green Growth Forum, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
16:45	Conference Summary Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, UCA, UK
17:00	Close

* To be confirmed

Contact

For more information on Sustainable Innovation 2014 please contact:

Professor Martin Charter
Director
The Centre for Sustainable Design ®
University for the Creative Arts
Farnham Campus
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7DS
UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 1252 892772
Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747
Email: mcharter@ucreative.ac.uk

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