EuroNanoForum 2021 PROGRAMME

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Day 1 | 5^th May

*All times displayed in CEST

10:00h – 12:00h

Virtual Poster Session | Virtual Exhibition Area

13:30h – 13:45h // OPENING ADDRESS

Ricardo Rio, Mayor of Braga

Manuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Government of Portugal

Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, European Commission

13:45h – 14:15h // PLENARY SESSION 1

Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness

Lars Montelius, Director-General, INL

Peter Dröll, Director Prosperity-DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Noushin Nasiri, Head of the NanoTech Laboratory at the School of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University

Wearable Devices: the Big Wave of Innovation

14:15h – 15:15h // Large Industry & SMEs: Successes, challenges, foresight. What’s next?

Parallel Sessions 1, 2 & 3

PARALLEL SESSION 1: Climate, Environment and Natural Resources

This session will take place in ROOM A

MODERATOR

Durk Krol, Executive Managing Director, Water Europe

SPEAKER

Martyna Sztaba, CEO & co-founder Syntoil

SPEAKER

Ana Fernandez-Iglesias, R&D Global Portfolio Director – Sustainable Mining ArcelorMittal

SPEAKER

Manfred Mühlberger, Chairman of the board Ecopreneur.eu

SPEAKER

Christian Haessler, Global Program Lead
Circular Economy Covestro

PARALLEL SESSION 2: Digital, Industry and Space

This session will take place in ROOM B

MODERATOR

Ricardo Conde, President, Portuguese Space Agency – Portugal Space

SPEAKER

Carlos Ribas, Bosch Representative

SPEAKER

Jari Kinaret, Professor of Physics at the Chalmers University of Technology

SPEAKER

Filippo Di Giovanni, Strategic Marketing, Innovation and Key Programs Manager at STMicroelectronics

SPEAKER

Blanka Lenczowski, R&T Business Development – European Affairs bei Airbus

SPEAKER

César Perez, CTO – Teknologi Zuzendaria – Technical Director Lortek

PARALLEL SESSION 3: Sustainable by Design: Embedding sustainability criteria throughout life cycle of products and processes

This session will take place in ROOM C

MODERATOR

Renata Kaps, Assistant at Vienna University of Technology

SPEAKER

Marzia Traverso, Head and Full Professor of Institute of Sustainability in Civil Engineering (INaB) at RWTH Aachen University

SPEAKER

Josef Wuensch, Senior Vice President at BASF SE

SPEAKER

Anna Hultin Stigenberg, Senior Director – Advanced Research Infrastructures at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

SPEAKER

Bernhard Berger, Deputy Head of the Sustainable Chemicals Unit in DG Environment, European Commission

SPEAKER

Molly Jacob, Project Manager, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

15:15h – 15:30h // Coffee Break

15:30h – 16:30h // Large Industry & SMEs: Successes, challenges, foresight. What’s next?

Parallel Sessions 4, 5 & 6

PARALLEL SESSION 4: Mobilising industry for a clean and circular economy

This session will take place in ROOM A

MODERATOR

Javier Sanfelix, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

SPEAKER

Lisbeth Randers, Head of Secretariat in Kalundborg Symbiosis

SPEAKER

Lerwen Liu, Founding Director of STEAM Platform & Managing Director of Circular Economy Accelerator, KX Innovation Center

SPEAKER

Joaquim Menezes, Owner Iberomoldes

SPEAKER

Michaela Holmdahl, Regional Manager CirEko

SPEAKER

Pierre Joris, Chairman of A.SPIRE

PARALLEL SESSION 5: Accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility

This session will take place in ROOM B

MODERATOR

Paulo Ferrão, President of COST | European Cooperation in Science and Technology

SPEAKER

Stefan Deix, Director, European Council for Automotive R&D (EUCAR)

SPEAKER

Spiros Pantelakis, Professor at University of Patras, Honorary Chairman of the European Aeronautics Science Network

SPEAKER

César Águia, TMG Automotive /R&D+I Manager Technical Director

SPEAKER

Yohan Oudart, R&D Director at Nanomakers

SPEAKER

Vito Guido Lambertini, Engineering Methods & Tools Centro Ricerche FIAT

PARALLEL SESSION 6: Market access of Nanomaterials: Regulations, Standards, Characterisation

This session will take place in ROOM C

MODERATOR

Blanca Suarez Merino, Director of Regulatory Affairs NIA

SPEAKER

Denis Koltsov, Director and Consultant in Nanotechnology, Brec Solutions Limited

SPEAKER

Shareen H. Doak, Professor of Genotoxicology and Cancer in Swansea University Medical School

SPEAKER

Thomas Kuhlbusch, Federal Institute for Occupational Hygiene and Health

SPEAKER

Adriënne Sips, Research Coordinator Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials at RIVM

SPEAKER

Olivier de Matos, Secretary General, ECETOC

16:30h – 16:45h // Coffee Break

16:45h – 17:45h // Innovative Europe: European Innovation Ecosystems

Parallel Sessions 7 & 8

PARALLEL SESSION 7: Health and Wellbeing

This session will take place in ROOM A

MODERATOR

Ruth Schmid, Vice President Marketing at SINTEF in Trondheim

SPEAKER

Filipe Assoreira, Co-founder and CEO at Nano4

SPEAKER

Luigi Nicolais, Emeritus Professor at School of Polytechnic and Sciences at the University of Naples Federico II, President of Materials

SPEAKER

Serban Ghiorghiu, Vice President, Head of Clinical, Late Development Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca; Cancer Mission Board Member, European Commission

SPEAKER

Annalisa Chiocchetti, Assistant Professor University of Eastern Piedmont

SPEAKER

Peter Villax, Chief Executive Officer at Mediceus | Chairman at Hovione Capital

PARALLEL SESSION 8: Catalysis and Nanotechnology

This session will take place in ROOM B

MODERATOR

Laura M. Salonen, Staff Researcher Nanochemistry at INL

SPEAKER

Javier Garcia-Martinez, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Director of the Molecular Nanotechnology Laboratory of the University of Alicante /
President-elect IUPAC

SPEAKER

Andrzej Stankiewicz, Emeritus Professor of Process Intensification and former Director of TU Delft Process Technology Institute

SPEAKER

Silke Behrens, Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology Nanostructured Materials Group Leader

SPEAKER

Vladimiro Dal Santo, FREECATS, Critical raw material Coordinator

SPEAKER

Udo Kragl, German Society for Catalysis GeCatS Chairperson

Day 2 | 6^th May

*All times displayed in CEST

10:00h – 12:00h

Virtual Poster Session | Virtual Exhibition Area

13:30h – 14:30h // PLENARY SESSION 2

Empowering citizens for the transition towards a climate neutral and sustainable Europe

MODERATOR

Anthony Zacharzewski, President of the Democratic Society

SPEAKER

Hilary Sutcliffe, Director of SocietyInside and TIGTech

SPEAKER

Jovana V. Milić, Group Leader at the Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg in Switzerland

SPEAKER

Jenny Holmqvist, Coordinator International Affairs and Nanomaterials European Chemical Agency (ECHA)

SPEAKER

Oriana Romano, Head of Unit, Water Governance and Circular Economy in Cities in the OECD

SPEAKER

Ana Noronha, Executive Director of Ciência Viva

14:30h – 14:45h // Coffee Break

14:45h – 15:45h // Large Industry & SMEs: Successes, challenges, foresight. What’s next?

Parallel Sessions 9 & 10

PARALLEL SESSION 9: Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way

This session will take place in ROOM A

MODERATOR

Verónica de Zea Bermudez, Full Professor at UTAD

SPEAKER

Jorge Corker, Researcher at IPN

SPEAKER

Gian Marco Revel, Professor in Mechanical and Thermal Measurement and Rector Delegate for European Research at Università Politecnica delle Marche

SPEAKER

João Matos, Executive Director at dstgroup

SPEAKER

Stefano Carosio, Executive Director of STAM

SPEAKER

Michael Neaves, Manager at ECOS

PARALLEL SESSION 10: Energy storage

This session will take place in ROOM B

MODERATOR

Belén Gallego, Co-founder & CEO of ATA Insights

SPEAKER

Adélio Mendes, Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of FEUP

SPEAKER

Oscar Miguel Crespo, Director of the CIDETEC Energy Storage Institute

SPEAKER

Kristina Edström, BATTERY 2030+ Project Coordinator

SPEAKER

Graham Cooley, CEO ITM Power

SPEAKER

Kurt Vandeputte, SVP global Government Affairs, Umicore

15:45h – 16:00h // Coffee Break

PARALLEL SESSION 11: Scale-up: Pilot lines & OITBs

This session will take place in ROOM A

MODERATOR

Ozlem Cangar, Project Manager in the Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) of the European Commission

SPEAKER

Patrick Boisseau, Director, EU Research & Innovation Partnership Policies MedTech Europe

SPEAKER

Eckhard Schwenner, Board Member of the EU sponsored Healthtech Translation Advisory Board

SPEAKER

Felix Hanisch, Head of Industrial Automation, Bayer Engineering & Technology, Germany

SPEAKER

Jana Kolar, Executive Director CERIC-ERIC

SPEAKER

Iraida Loinaz, Director of the CIDETEC Institute for Nanomedicine Fundación CIDETEC

PARALLEL SESSION 12: Clean, affordable and secure energy

This session will take place in ROOM B

MODERATOR

Hélène Chraye, Head of Clean Energy Transition Unit – DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

SPEAKER

Joana Kargul, University Professor in solar conversion, and Head of the Laboratory of Solar Fuels at the Center of New Technologies, University of Warsaw

SPEAKER

Robert Dominko, Research professor at the National Institute of Chemistry and associate professor at University of Ljubljana

SPEAKER

Laurent Antoni, President of Hydrogen Europe Research

SPEAKER

Marcel Meeus, Managing Director at Sustesco, Sustainable Energy Services Consulting

17:00h – 18:00h // PLENARY SESSION 3

Recovery plan for Europe

MODERATOR

Susana Frexes, Journalist and Correspondent in Brussels for SIC and Expresso

SPEAKER

Zina Jarrahi Cinker, Director General at AMPT

SPEAKER

Valérie Hayer, Member of the European Parliament

SPEAKER

Clare Skentelbery, Director General at EuropaBio – the European Association for Bioindustries

SPEAKER

Maria Teresa Fabregas Fernandez, Director Task Force RECOVER of the European Commission

SPEAKER

António Costa e Silva, Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico & Chairman of the Management Commission of PARTEX OIL AND GAS Group

18:00h – 18:15h // Closing Session

Lars Montelius, Director-General at INL

Peter Dröll, Director Prosperity-DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

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