The conference kicks off on 13 November with registration and lunch at the market place closely followed by the opening address. Parallel discussion sessions and panel interviews on Water, Energy, Future cities and Tourism follow on the agenda.
Day 2 of the conference continues with a new round of thematic sessions on Mobility, Agriculture, Health and Disaster risk reduction.
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Our site visit
A limited number of participants will have the opportunity to visit Antwerp Circular South - an innovative and sustainable community project. Circular South is an Urban innovative action project in the New south district in Antwerp. It is a real-life city lab for sustainability where residents will live smarter together. The aim is to encourage smarter use of energy and water, to produce less waste and to keep materials in the circular loop as long as possible.
The tour will take between around 2 hours and is limited to 50 participants, so hurry up and book your seat!
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Networking
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You will have the opportunity to network with our speakers and all conference attendees. We have planned two lunch network events on both days, as well as a cocktail reception on 13 November and a site visit for those of you who have booked it on 14 November.
Meet the Speakers
After a career in the private environmental services sector, Stijn worked for 7 years at the European Commission DG RTD and Research Executive Agency within the Climate and Environmental Risks and the Space Research programmes. Stijn joined ECMWF in 2015 as part of the Copernicus management team where he contributed to the initiation of the operational phase of the Copernicus Climate Change and Copernicus Atmosphere Composition activities as entrusted to ECMWF by the European Commission. As of November 2019, Stijn will develop the new User Engagement capacity for the Copernicus services at ECMWF.
Head of Copernicus Contract Management Section
Stijn Vermoote
Hanane Taidi joined IFIA (The International Federation of Inspection Agencies) as Director General in July 2016. IFIA has since then merged with CEOC International, forming a new entity called TIC Council. Hanane Taidi was appointed Director General of the TIC Council in June 2019. In this role, Ms Taidi represents the Testing, Inspection and Certification Industry, a sector that provides independent conformity assessment around the world with a combined revenue of over €30 billion euros and over 400,000 employees.
Director General of the TIC Council
Hanane Taidi
Dirk Fransaer is Managing Director of VITO, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research, the largest research institute in Belgium in the field of sustainability and cleantech. VITO counts more than 850 staff members with an available budget of more than EUR 185 million. Dirk Fransaer is also president of the board of directors of LIBOVITO (a 100 % daughter company in China, Beijing), of VITO Middle East (Qatar) and VITO Arabia (Dubai) and member of the board of directors of VITO Asia (Hong Kong).
Managing Director of VITO, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Dirk Fransaer
Blaž Kurnik has worked at the European Environment Agency since 2010 in various positions. He has been a coordinator or contributor to various EEA tasks on climate change impacts and adaptation and on disaster risk reduction. In 2018 and 2019, he was the acting head of a group on climate change adaptation and LULUCF. Blaž has been a coordinator and the lead author of a recent EEA assessment on climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector in Europe.
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Expert at the European Environmental Agency
Blaž Kurnik
Gaby Langendijk is a climate scientist, focusing on regional climate modeling and climate change impacts in cities. She is going to present GERICS adaptation toolkit for cities, concept and application case studies within the panel on Future cities.
Researcher at Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), HZG
Gaby Langendijk
Roger Cremades is a climate change economist and complex systems scientist, he coordinates the project #CLISWELN on climate services and the water-energy-land nexus.
Project leader at HZG, Germany
Roger Cremades
Maria was a coordinator of the preparation of the first Prague Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change approved by the Prague City Council in 2017. Then she was responsible for the preparation of the subsequent Implementation Plan to Prague Adaptation Strategy for the years 2018-2019 approved by the City Council in 2018. Now she is involved in preparation of the Implementation Plan for the period 2020-2024. Maria took an active part in various EU projects dealing with adaptation to climate change as UHI - Urban Heat Island, BASE and Urban Adapt, PUCS and Climate-fit city.
Senior Advisor at the Department of Environment of Prague
City Hall
Maria Kazmukova
Since his high interest in technology, the projects he has managed have always had a technological flavour. He has been enjoying pushing boundaries in an international and national context for the last decade. Today he has taken up the role of project manager of the internet of water project and will explain how technology can assist in water decision making.
Project Manager at IMEC City of Things
Koen Triangle
Cláudia Pascoal is a professor at the University of Minho, vice-director of the Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability and a researcher at the Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), in Portugal. Her research has been addressing the impacts of global change on biodiversity and ecosystem processes in freshwaters. Currently, she is leading the CLIMALERT project aiming to provide climate information in a format that prospective users find easy to understand and incorporate into decision-making.
Senior Researcher at CLIMALERT, University of Minho, Portugal
Cláudia Pascoal
Erik De Bruyn has a Master’s degree in chemistry and in environmental sciences. He is the founder of the Antwerp Environmental Law Enforcement Department. Nowadays, he coordinates several projects to prepare the city for climate change.
Environmental Advisor for Antwerp City, Belgium
Erik De Bruyn
Judith Köberl is an environmental economist and works at Joanneum Research in Graz, Austria. Her main research areas include the economics of weather and climate risks, climate change impacts and climate services.
Researcher at Joanneum, Austria
Judith Köberl
Michael Schmutz is a meteorologist and data scientist at Meteotest working in the Energy and Climate team.
Meteorologist and Data scientist at Meteotest, Switzerland
Michael Schmutz
Rebecca Beeckman works for the data management and smart city department for energy and environment in Antwerp, Belgium. She is going to present 'Forecasting and communicating urban heatwaves in Antwerp' within the Health panel.
Project leader in the Data management and Smart City Department for Energy and Environment, Antwerp, Belgium
Rebecca Beeckman
Urs Grossenbacher is an electrical engineer. He holds a master’s degree in sustainable construction and is the director, co-founder and co-owner Pronoó AG, CH-Givisiez. Pronoó provides predictive control optimisation and energy monitoring services for HVAC-systems in buildings in Switzerland and France.
Project leader at Pronoó AG, Switzerland
Urs Grossenbacher
Frédéric Rosseneu is business development manager at Greenyard, a global player in fresh, frozen and prepared fruit & vegetables. He coordinates the group’s sustainability and innovation efforts. Prior to joining Greenyard in 2014, he was food quality & sustainability director at Freshfel, the European fresh produce association.
Business Development Manager at Greenyard, Belgium
Frédéric Rosseneu
Andrea Perrotta is a consultant, researcher, and an expert in technology and cultural heritage supporting Special Superintendency of Rome since 2014.
Researcher at SSColosseo, Italy
Andrea Perrotta
Joan Ballester is a mathematician specialised in climate and epidemiology. The primary focus of his current research is the link between climate variability and health impacts, describing the major sources of vulnerability and how European societies are starting to adapt to climate change from a public health perspective.
Assistant Research Professor of the Climate and Health Program of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Joan Ballester
Luc Int Panis is a senior scientist at VITO with more than 25 years of experience in the evaluation of environmental and public health impacts of transport and air pollution. He is affiliated with Hasselt University as a guest professor with the transportation research Institute and Centre for Enviromental studies, teaching courses in Transport efficiency, Environmental policy, spatial aspects of transport, cost benefit analysis and external costs. His most recent research focusses on active mobility and health.
Senior Scientist, VITO, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Luc Int Panis
Sébastien takes part to projects related to tourism adaptation with different approaches and targets. His team is currently involved in some projects related to the tourism adaptation, such as PROSNOW, a prediction system dedicated to ski resorts, and C3S (Copernicus Climate Change Service).
Consultant and researcher at Ramboll France
Sébastien Bruyère
Guy Hendrickx is the CEO of Avia-GIS, a consulting company which specialises in the development of spatial decision support systems to support the management of vector-borne disease. He was one of the first to use satellite imagery to reduce the cost of mapping the distribution of insects and the diseases they transmit, using the tsetse fly in West Africa as an example.
Guy Hendrickx
Dr Adewole Adesiyun is the Deputy Secretary General of FEHRL (Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories).
He has a MSc and PhD in Civil Engineering from the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland.
He was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Road and Bridge Research Institute in Poland and a Visiting Scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Deputy Secretary General, Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories
Adewole Adesiyun
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