Main Stage

Mittwoch, 12. März 2025 bis 
Donnerstag 13. März 2025

Das Programm der Main Stage

Die Main Stage ist ein Highlight der Circular Valley Convention – ein Ort, an dem führende Köpfe aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft ihre Visionen und bahnbrechenden Projekte präsentieren. Hier erfahren Sie aus erster Hand, wie die Zukunft der Circular Economy gestaltet wird. Mit inspirierenden Keynotes und richtungsweisenden Impulsen bieten renommierte Experten wertvolle Einblicke in innovative Strategien, transformative Technologien und globale Trends. Lassen Sie sich von den Perspektiven der Top-Speaker begeistern und erleben Sie, wie Ideen Gestalt annehmen, die unsere Welt nachhaltig verändern werden.

Donnerstag, der 13. März 2025

09:30 - 10:30 Uhr

Eröffnung, Begrüßung & Keynote

09:30 - 09:40 Uhr

Eröffnung

 Format: Eröffnung

 Session: Eröffnung & Begrüßung

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Chérine de Bruijn

Moderatorin

Dr. Carsten Gerhardt

Chairman
Circular Valley Stiiftung

09:40 - 09:45 Uhr

Grußwort des Düsseldorfer Oberbürgermeisters

 Format: Eröffnung

 Session: Eröffnung & Begrüßung

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Dr. Stephan Keller

Oberbürgermeister
Stadt Düsseldorf

09:45 - 10:00 Uhr

Grußwort des NRW Umweltministers

 Format: Keynote

 Session: Eröffnung & Begrüßung

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Oliver Krischer

Minister für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Verkehr
Land NRW

Vortragsinfos

TBA

10:00 - 10:15 Uhr

Speech: TBA

 Dauer: 00:15 h

 Format: Speech

 Session: Eröffnung & Begrüßung

 Sprache: English

Speaker

TBA

Position
Unternehmen

Vortragsinfos

TBA

10:15 - 10:30 Uhr

Perspective on Circular Economy in the Context of Federal Policy

 Format: Speech

 Session: Eröffnung & Begrüßung

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Dr. Armgard Wippler

Deputy Director General
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

Vortragsinfos

TBA

11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

Session 4 - Electronic Products in a Circular Economy

10:30 - 10:45 Uhr

Speech Dr. Thomas Stoffmehl: TBA

 Dauer: 00:15 h

 Format: Speech

 Session: Electronic Products in a Circular Economy

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Dr. Thomas Stoffmehl

Vorstandssprecher
Vorwerk SE & Co. KG

Vortragsinfos

TBA

10:45 - 11:00 Uhr

Speech: TBA

 Dauer: 00:15 h

 Format: Speech

Session: Electronic Products in a Circular Economy

 Sprache: English

Speaker

TBA

Position
Unternehmen

Vortragsinfos

TBA

11:00 - 11:15 Uhr

Circular Economy in The Automotive Industry – The BMW Perspective

 Format: Speech

Session: Electronic Products in a Circular Economy

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Dr. Markus Seidel

Senior Expert, Head of Research Circular Economy BMW Group

Vortragsinfos

The vision of creating a Circular Economy is an integral part of the European Green Deal. Several regulatory initiatives are underway that will have a significant impact on the automotive industry. The presentation will provide an overview of how the BMW Group positions itself and which areas of innovation should be addressed to improve circularity. Furthermore, the presentation will highlight how the company is proactively engaged at the EU level through automotive associations and technology platforms in Brussels to drive change through complex collaborations.

11:15 - 11:30 Uhr

Lenovo & the Circular Economy

 Format: Speech

Session: Electronic Products in a Circular Economy

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Prof. Christian Eigen

stellv. CEO
Medion AG (Lenovo)

Vortragsinfos

With a vision for a net-zero future, Lenovo knows the transition to a circular economy is critical. During this presentation, Medion AG CFO Christian Eigen will share how Lenovo’s vision to deliver smarter technology for all extends to its circular economy practices that include Smarter Circular Design, Smarter Circular Use, and Smarter Circular Return activities.

11:30 - 11:45 Uhr

Speech Schaeffler: TBA

 Dauer: 00:15 h

 Format: Speech

Session: Electronic Products in a Circular Economy

 Sprache: English

Speaker

TBA

Position
Schaeffler

Vortragsinfos

TBA

11:45 - 12:00 Uhr

Fraunhofer Research Battery Cell Production FFB

 Format: Speech

Session: Electronic Products in a Circular Economy

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Prof. Simon Lux

Director
Batteriefabrik Münster Fraunhofer-Einrichtung Forschungsfertigung Batteriezelle FFB

Vortragsinfos

TBA

12:00 - 13:30 Uhr

Session 5 - Circular Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence

12:00 - 12:15 Uhr

Sustainable AI / AI for sustainability

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Sean Jones

Head of Sustainability
Microsoft

Vortragsinfos

How does Microsoft tackle sustainability?

12:15 - 12:30 Uhr

Enhance Circularity with SAP

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Stephen Jamieson

Global Sustainability Principal
SAP

Vortragsinfos

TBA

12:30 - 12:45 Uhr

Speech: TBA

 Dauer: 00:15 h

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence

 Sprache: English

Speaker

TBA

Position
Unternehmen

Vortragsinfos

TBA

12:45 - 13:00 Uhr

Augmented Engineering: Supercharge Circularity by Artificial Intelligence

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Jochen Bechtold

CEO
Capgemini Engineering

Dr. Dorothea Pohlmann

CTO Sustainability
Capgemini Engineering

Vortragsinfos

Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing from a specialised application into a general-purpose technology. In the course of this, all engineering activities and products will be augmented. Whether people, processes, products or services: they will all reach new levels of intelligence and effectiveness, which offers great potential for sustainability.

13:00 - 13:15 Uhr

Speech: TBA

 Dauer: 00:15 h

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence

 Sprache: English

Speaker

TBA

Position
Unternehmen

Vortragsinfos

TBA

13:15 - 13:30 Uhr

Data Ecosystems and the Circular Economy

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Boris Otto

Direktor
Fraunhofer ISST

Vortragsinfos

To seize the business and environmental opportunities of the circular economy, various stakeholders in the ecosystem needs to team up to share their data. Data spaces have emerged as the architecture approach to stimulate data sharing while contribution to the trust and sovereignty needs of data providers and users. The presentation presents industry examples, discusses the state of the art and gives an outlook to future developments.

13:30 - 15:30 Uhr

Session 6 - Circular Business Models Strategies

13:30 - 13:45 Uhr

Building your Zero Waste Framework

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Business Models Strategies

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Dietmar Böhm

Vorstand
Prezero

Vortragsinfos

TBA

13:45 - 14:00 Uhr

Circular business model to accelerate the hydrogen economy

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Business Models Strategies

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Liam Condon

CEO
Johnson Matthey plc

Vortragsinfos

This presentation will explain how the principles behind the well-established circular business model for automotive catalysts can be combined with digital innovation to accelerate the energy transition.

14:00 - 14:15 Uhr

Metal recycling solution

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Business Models Strategies

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Henning Reuter

Managing Director
Siegfried Jacob Metallwerke

Vortragsinfos

TBA

14:15 -14:30 Uhr

Circular Economy solutions by Ernst & Young

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Business Models Strategies

 Sprache: English

Speaker

TBA

Position
Ernst & Young

Vortragsinfos

TBA

14:30 - 14:45 Uhr

Why digitalisation is becoming a game changer in the circular economy

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Business Models Strategies

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Claudia Wegener

CIO
Interzero Circular Solutions Germany GmbH

Vortragsinfos

Digitalisation plays a key role in the transformation towards a genuine circular economy. In her presentation, Claudia Wegener will show how digital technologies are making the circular economy more efficient, sustainable and future-proof. She will highlight how digitalisation is helping to increase transparency in material flows, raise recycling efficiency and optimise processes in the circular economy.

14:45 - 15:00 Uhr

Resource Efficiency solutions by Canon

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Business Models Strategies

 Sprache: English

Speaker

TBA

Position
Canon Deutschland

Vortragsinfos

TBA

15:00 - 15:15 Uhr

Speech: TBA

 Dauer: 00:15 h

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Business Models Strategies

 Sprache: English

Speaker

TBA

Position
Unternehmen

Vortragsinfos

TBA

15:15 - 15:30 Uhr

Speech: TBA

 Dauer: 00:15 h

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Business Models Strategies

 Sprache: English

Speaker

TBA

Position
Unternehmen

Vortragsinfos

TBA

15:30 - 16:15 Uhr

Paneldiskussion

15:30 - 16:15 Uhr

How to make plastic packaging circular? Opportunities and Challenges in Medium-Sized Businesses

 Format: Panel Discussion

 Session: Circular Packaging & Printing

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller-Kirschbaum

Chief Scientist
Circular Valley

Matthias Lesch

Managing Director
Pöppelmann Holding GmbH & Co. KG

Jens Stadter

CEO
Jokey SE

Andreas Vogt

Geschäftsführer
Vogt Plastics

Georg Pescher

Managing Director DBNL
Alpla

Gunda Rachut

Vorstand
Stiftung Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister

Vortragsinfos

Plastic packagings play a key role in sustainable consumption, reducing food waste and conserving resources. At the same time, these same packaging solutions are also under intense social and political scrutiny - primarily due to waste discharges into the environment and fossil-based raw materials. And so the predominantly medium-sized companies are facing up to three transformative processes: Optimized design with consistent recyclability, a changed raw material base away from fossil-based virgin material towards recyclates and correspondingly adapted efficient production processes - all within the framework of comprehensive packaging regulation. The panel discussion will focus on the challenges, responsibilities and milestones of this transformation.

16:15 - 18:00 Uhr

Session 7 - Circular Logistics

16:15 - 16:30 Uhr

Duisburger Hafen: Drehscheibe der Kreislaufwirtschaft - Wie der größte Binnenhafen der Welt zur Transformation beiträgt

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Logistics

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Markus Bangen

CEO
Duisburger Hafen

Vortragsinfos

Kreislaufwirtschaft braucht mehr als innovative Ideen - sie braucht effiziente Logistik und zentrale Knotenpunkte, die den nachhaltigen Fluss von Ressourcen ermöglichen. Der Duisburger Hafen spielt als größter Binnenhafen der Welt eine Schlüsselrolle in diesem Wandel. Der Vortrag beleuchtet, wie der Duisburger Hafen als logistisches Herzstück die Kreislaufwirtschaft vorantreibt. Durch eine optimierte Infrastruktur und gezielte Unternehmensansiedlungen werden die Weichen für eine nachhaltige Zukunft gestellt. Dabei wird die entscheidende Bedeutung zentraler Logistikknoten für das Gelingen der Kreislaufwirtschaft hervorgehoben.

16:30 - 16:45 Uhr

The role of logistics in the journey from linear to circular

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Logistics

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Vortragsinfos

Logistics serve as a critical enabler towards achieving circularity. Driving supply chains from linear to circular requires finetuned logistics to support brands and manufacturers in this transition – learn more about the role of logistics, the meaning of “the 5Rs” and a few real-life examples.

16:45 - 17:00 Uhr

Sustainable IT solutions for twin transformation

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Logistics

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Dietmar Focke

CEO
Lufthansa Innovation

Vortragsinfos

TBA

17:00 - 17:15 Uhr

Exemplary sustainability - the airport's path to a sustainable future

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Logistics

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Pradeep Pinakatt

Commercial Director of the airport and Labor Director
Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH

Vortragsinfos

Düsseldorf Airport is pursuing an ambitious sustainability strategy. Pradeep Pinakatt, Commercial Director of the airport and Labor Director, gives an exclusive insight into the comprehensive corporate sustainability approach of NRW's largest airport. “Excellent airport”, ‘Exemplary sustainability’ and ‘For employees and the region’ - the airport's three strategic goals are the focus of his presentation. Pradeep Pinakatt outlines the airport's path to a sustainable future in harmony with the people in our region and the environment. The airport relies on technological innovations and innovative business models to minimize its emissions and the use of raw materials and energy. It promotes the avoidance, recycling or environmentally friendly disposal of waste and the sustainable use of renewable resources. At the same time, it supports its catering partners in the terminal in the selection and implementation of reusable offers for travelers. As a cooperation partner for universities and companies, the airport offers a platform for testing and promoting innovative, environmentally friendly technologies.

17:15 - 17:30 Uhr

From Fossil Fuels to Clean Mobility: The Role of Circular Economy in Financing the Transition of Commercial Transport

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Logistics

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Dr. Albrecht Haase

Sprecher der Geschäftsführung
GEFA Bank GmbH

Andre Rolfes

Head of Sustainability
GEFA Bank

Vortragsinfos

Leasing models are highly dependent on the value retention of the leased asset. Battery electric vehicles currently suffer from rapid and steep depreciation over the lifetime of the vehicle. This reduces the attractiveness of transitional financing with these assets, as they carry significant risks for the bank or leasing institution.
Circular economy approaches that aim to close the loop on the value of BEVs support transition financing by increasing longevity and predictability.

17:30 - 17:45 Uhr

Logistic network design and digitization - how we get to a sustainable circular economy

 Format: Speech

 Session: Circular Logistics

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Uwe Clausen

Institusdirektor
Fraunhofer Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik (IML)

Vortragsinfos

Efficient logistical structures and processes play a key role for a successful circular economy.
The talk provides insights from applied research on circular logistics, including digitization concepts.

17:45 - 18:00 Uhr

Wrap up / Closing Words

 Format: Wrap Up

Session: Wrap Up

 Sprache: English

Speaker

Chérine de Bruijn

Moderatorin

Innovation Stage

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Masterclasses

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