Panel/ Talk
Thursday 24.09.2020 at 11:00
Young Companies and Entrepreneurs demonstrate their solutions towards net zero carbon emissions.
Startups
Speaker
Pierre Garreau
French Floridian in Germany building machine learning magic for the Maritime Industry. Former Quant at Deutsche Bank and Applied Math postdoc at UCLA.
Max Winkler
Max started his career at Siemens. He worked on real time operation systems for automation systems, mainly for the automotive industry. He quickly switched to the startup world.
Sören Johannsen
SubCtech offers underwater power solutions and ocean monitoring systems.
Haris Sefo
Haris comes from Leuphana, Europe’s leading environmental sciences university, where he worked on multiple European research projects. He holds degrees in B.A. and sustainability sciences. In 2015, he joined Breeze Technologies as Head of Science.
Jan P. Brugger
FUELSAVE GmbH is a german energy efficiency enhancement and cleantech company with strong R&D background, which became TOP SME in Europe and got funded by the EU and signed end of 2019 its first 5 Mio Euro contract with the same customer – SAL Heavy Lift GmbH that used the solution to full satisfaction on one of Europes largest heavy lift crane ships for 2,5 years.
Moderation
Steffen Knodt
Dr. Steffen Knodt is the Head of the Fraunhofer Centre for Sustainable Subsea Solutions at the Ocean Technology Campus in Rostock. With its background and PhD in engineering from RWTH Aachen, Steffen worked over his career in various senior management roles in applied research and industry at Hilti, Aker Solutions / MHWirth, Maersk and Wärtsilä. In his recent role as Director Digital Ventures at Wärtsilä, Steffen is focussed impact entrepreneurship as a venture client, since that time supporting the SEADEVCON as a co-organiser and moderator. Steffen as well serves in various boards and as a mentor for startups. Currently, he serves in the German Committee for the UN Ocean Decade of Science for Sustainable Development – as well he serves a member of the board in the German Association for Marine Technology GMT.