Thomas Jarzombek
Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Digital and Public Administration

Federal Ministry for for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation
(BMDS)

Dr. Florian Kammerer
Ministerialrat

Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit (BMUKN)

Arnoud Passenier 
Strategic International Advisor Circular Economy

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in The Netherlands

Oliver Krischer
Minister for the Environment, Nature Protection, and Transport

NRW

Mona Neubaur
Minister of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection, and Energy

NRW

Viktor Haase
State Secretary

Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport

Silke Krebs
State Secretary

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia MWIKE NRW

Dr. Henrik Ahlers
Country Managing Partner EY Germany

EY Deutschland GmbH

Tobias Albers
Principal & PERLab Amsterdam Lead

A.T. Kearney GmbH

Dr. Maike Albers-Malkus
Head of Funding Advice &
Customer Service

NRW.BANK

Saskia Backhaus 
Partner People Consulting

EY Consulting GmbH

Ellis Bauer
Project Management ProDiNA

AWS Institut

Jana Bauer
Research associate and Project Lead

Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences – Institute for Livable and Sustainable Urban Development (In-LUST)

Dr. Britta Bookhagen 
Head of Unit „Secondary Raw Materials“

German Mineral Resources Agency (DERA)

Dr. Lars Börger
CEO

nova-Institut für politische und ökologische Innovation GmbH

Holger Bramsiepe
Managing Partner

Generationdesign

Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart
CEO; Professor of Eco-Design

BRAUNGART EPEA – Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH; Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Matthias Brey
EY Partner and Europe West Sustainability Leader; Carbon2Chem® project partner

EY Consulting GmbH

Volker Buchta
Sales Director DACH Flow Controls

Emerson Sempell GmbH

Dr. Christine Bunte
Managing Director

PlasticsEurope Deutschland e.V.

Mo Chatterji
Head of Circular Economy, EU

Kearney

Bety Chu
Head of Business Unit Sustainable Transformation

NRW Global Business

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Görge Deerberg
Director for Transfer | Coordination Carbon2Chem®

Fraunhofer UMSICHT

Florian Demnitz
Director for Transfer | Coordination Carbon2Chem®

Fraunhofer UMSICHT

Linda Dierke
Head of Development & Cooperation

efa – Effizienz-Agentur NRW

Wolfram Nikolaus Diener
CEO

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH

Prof. Dr. -Ing. Christian Doetsch
Spokesman Fraunhofer Energy Alliance and Head of Institute Fraunhofer UMSICHT

Fraunhofer Energy Alliance and Fraunhofer UMSICHT

Mark Dorn 
Executive Vice President Henkel Adhesive Technologies and member of the Henkel Management Board

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Welf-Guntram Drossel
Executive Director

Fraunhofer IWU

Dr. Ralf Düssel
Head of Sustainability

Evonik Industries AG

Marieke Eckhardt
Project Manager Circular Economy and Green Tech Innovation

Prognos AG

Timo Ernst
Senior Manager

Sustainable Group

Anne Farken
Associate Director, Sustainability Consulting

Designworks, a BMW Group Company

Johannes Fischer
Senior Consultant

VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH – Green AI Hub

Dr. Timo Fleßner
SVP, Manufacturing API & Medical Devices Lead

Bayer AG

Dorothea Flockert
Head of Group Sustainability

Speira

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Franke
Head of the Sulzbach-Rosenberg

Fraunhofer CCPE / Fraunhofer UMSICHT

Antoine Gaillard
Project lead DiCES, Team Lead for Production Planning

FIR e.V. an der RWTH Aachen

Alexander Garbar
Head of Corporate Development, Digitalization and Strategy

duisport- Duisburger Hafen AG

Oliver Geiger
Senior Sustainability Manager at the Performance Materials Division

BASF SE

Daniel Grosse
Division Manager Americas +
Head of Digital Sales

Leser GmbH & Co KG

Melanie Hackler
CEO

Matterr

Michael Heinzelreiter
Project Manager

Business Upper Austria

Tobias Hense
Philips Capital Manager DACH

Philips GmbH Market DACH

Dr.-Ing. Markus Hiebel
Co-Head of Research Department: Circular Logistics and Sustainability

Fraunhofer CCPE / Fraunhofer UMSICHT

Dr. Alexander Hofmann 
Head of Department Advanced Recycling Technologies

Fraunhofer CCPE / Fraunhofer UMSICHT

Gordana Hofmann-Jovic
Head of Engineering Department Concepts & Solutions

YNCORIS GmbH & Co. KG

Christian Hündgen
Managing Director

Hündgen Entsorgungs GmbH & Co. KG

Tim Janßen
CEO

Cradle to Cradle NGO (C2C NGO)

Sebastian Karnapp
CliCE-DiPP Project Lead and
Research Assistant

PTW TU Darmstadt

Dr.-Ing. Anna Kerps
Research Department: Circular Logistics and Sustainability

Fraunhofer CCPE / Fraunhofer UMSICHT

Bas Kil
Business Development manager

Ore Energy

Dr. Christian Kirchnawy
Project Manager

OFI Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Klankermayer
Chair of Translational Molecular Catalysis, Director of the Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry (ITMC) @ RWTH and Spokesperson of the WSS Research Centre catalaix

catalaix / RWTH Aachen University

Jan-Philip Kopka
Co-Head of Research Department:
Circular Logistics and Sustainability

Fraunhofer CCPE / Fraunhofer IML

Dr. Stephan Kothrade
Member of the Executive Board and Chief Technology Officer

BASF SE

Eleni Kougioumtzi
Senior Expert for resource‑efficient materials

Mercedes‑Benz AG

Rohit Krishnam
Global Strategy Consultant

Nav Yuj

Cornelius Laaser
Head of Unit for resource efficiency and circular economy

Ministry of Environment, Agriculture, Nature, and Consumer Protection NRW

Claudia Legawiec
Stakeholder Relations Manager

EREMA Group GmbH

Matthias Lesch
Managing Director

Pöppelmann Holding GmbH & Co. KG

Dr. Andreas Mäurer
Head of Department

Fraunhofer CCPE / Fraunhofer IVV

Marc Meijers
Owner / Director

DenimX BV

Maxmilian Merklinger
DACH Lead Sustainability

A.T. Kearney GmbH

Jörn Messner
Vice President Digital Operations Solutions

Lufthansa Group

Daniel Morais
CEO

Aero Labs

Brigitte Mouligneau
Manager
Strategic Advisor Circular Economy

Flanders Circular

Torsten Müller
Leader Research Department Advanced Recycling at Fraunhofer CCPE, Speaker Core-Expertise Polymer Technology at Fraunhofer ICT, Group leader sustainability and circularity assessment (SuCA) at Fraunhofer ICT

Fraunhofer CCPE / Fraunhofer ICT

Inge Neven
CEO

Vito BE

Ingo Noppen
Executive Board

Wupperverband

Dr. Markus Oles
Coordination Carbon2Chem®

Funding2you

Prof. Dr. Regina Palkovits
Chair of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Technical Chemistry @RWTH, Director of the Institute of a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy @FZJ and Spokesperson of the WSS Research Centre catalaix

catalaix / RWTH Aachen University & Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Renner
Institute Director UMSICHT
Spokesperson CCPE

Fraunhofer UMSICHT / Fraunhofer CCPE

Alissa Ritter
Corporate Sustainability Lead

Rosenthal – Arcturus Group

Jana Rödiger
Deputy Head of CIRCO Hub

efa – Effizienz-Agentur NRW

Alexander Roeske

Stiftung Arbeit und Umwelt, IGBCE

André Rolfes
Chief Sustainability Officer

GEFA BANK GmbH

Reinhold Rünker

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Dr. Ingo Sartorius 
Managing Director

BKV GmbH

Talke Schaffrannek
Director Circular Economy

BASF SE

Dr. Michael Scherz
Economic Representative

WKÖ – AUSSENWIRTSCHAFT AUSTRIA

Gloria Schmidt
Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH /  Kompetenznetzwerk Umweltwirtschaft.NRW

Prof. Christoph Schmidt
President

RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

Frank Schockemöhle
Head of Technology Management

Pöppelmann Kunststoff-Technik GmbH & Co. KG

Andrea Scholz
Circular Business Development

Sustina AG

Gerhard Seizer
Executive Director

TEAMS

Dr. Constantin von Selasinky
Head of Circular Economy Coordination Center

Energy4Climate

Dr. Michel Siemon
CEO

Primobius

Kerstin Sochor
Editor-in-Chief

Österreichische Kunststoffzeitschrift

Dr. Thomas Stoffmehl
CEO

Vorwerk Group

Dr. Christoph F. Strnadl
CTO

Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud AISBL

Frank Terhorst
EVP Strategy & Sustainability Crop Science

Bayer AG

Ansgar Thole
President & MD

Komatsu Germany GmbH

Heiko Tullney
Executive Director

Indeed Innovation

Julia Urbauer
Associate Director

Sustainable AG

Torsten Wagner
Manager Piping

Covestro Deutschland AG

Andreas Walingen 
Head of Group Circular Economy

Volkswagen AG

Dr Zee Wang
Founder & CEO

AOLEEN

Dr. Hendrik Wehr
COO and Speaker of the Board

Vorwerk Elektrowerke GmbH & Co. KG

Roger Wietusch
Commercial Manager DACH

KYOTO Group

Dr. Henning Wilts
Head of the Circular Economy Department

Wuppertal Institut / FernUni Hagen

Dr. Laura Wollny
Research assistant

VDI-Gesellschaft Energie und Umwelt