2023 Pre-forum event – Unlocking Innovation: Start-Ups Voice

Unlocking Innovation: Start-Ups Voice: Promoting stronger ecosystem services through agriculture and forestry. How to sustainably manage natural resources?  

After the success of the first start-up session during its annual conference in March 2022, the Forum for the Future of Agriculture continued the dialogue in the annual conference of March 2023.

During this online pre-forum session, start-ups discussed their approach to the challenges of natural resources management for sustainable supply chains in agriculture and forestry. From the planning, production and delivery of natural resources such as food or wood, the impact on ecosystems therefore needs be assessed and measured to avoid, limit, or compensate negative externalities. On the other hand, innovation aiming to optimize our use of natural resources or enhancing their ecosystem services should be endorsed.

This session focused on how these small companies are innovating to answer the call for sustainable management of natural resources to promote stronger ecosystem services in the agriculture and forestry sectors.

You can read a summary of this event here and watch a full video here.

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)

Ivo Degn

Cooperations & Strategy, CEO, Co-Founder, Climate Farmers

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Ivo Degn

Cooperations & Strategy, CEO, Co-Founder, Climate Farmers

Ivo Degn is Cooperations & Strategy, CEO, Co-Founder, Climate Farmers an organization that are scaling regenerative agriculture, empowering farmers and field practitioners to fight climate change. Climate Farmers emerged with a simple yet bold idea: to build the infrastructure to scale regenerative agriculture in Europe. The unparalleled potential of regenerative agriculture to store carbon in the ground and restore healthy ecosystems, all while improving the livelihood of farmers must be brought to its full potential. They are developing a three-pronged approach to facilitate this transition through: Gathering all available information, measuring regenerative agriculture, and developing financial instruments.

Georg Koenig

COO Kiebitz

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Georg Koenig

COO Kiebitz

Georg Koenig is COO of Kiebitz, an organization that supports companies to invest in natural capital and create high quality nature-based solutions that build biodiversity, sequester carbon and regenerate the ecosystem.

Marie-Christine Schönborn

Marketplace Manager for Karopharma Healthcare & President of Young Friends of the Countryside (YFCS)

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Marie-Christine Schönborn

Marketplace Manager for Karopharma Healthcare & President of Young Friends of the Countryside (YFCS)

Marie-Christine Schönborn is a Marketplace Manager for Karopharma Healthcare and the President of the association Young Friends of the Countryside (YFCS), a network of young rural entrepreneurs of Europe ready to take on the challenge of their familial exploitation. As a dynamic and enthusiast member of the farming community herself, she understands well the challenges of local food production in Europe and its complex environmental challenges. Through her career she developed an appetence for sustainable business cases, in particular within the start-up agile community.

Alexander Vilsmeier

Forestry Expert & Sales, Tree.ly

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Alexander Vilsmeier

Forestry Expert & Sales, Tree.ly

Tree.ly gives forest owners in Europe a whole new way to profit from their forests. They help forest owners to manage the CO₂ potential of their trees to optimize carbon sequestration, bringing us all closer to a sustainable future.

Agenda

Mar 27, 2023

09:30 - 10:30 (CET)

09:30 - 10:30 (CET)

Unlocking Innovation – Start-Ups Voice: Promoting stronger ecosystem services through agriculture and forestry, how to sustainably manage natural resources?

Speakers

#1 Kiebitz – Georg Koenig
Kiebitz supports companies to invest in natural capital and create high quality nature-based solutions that build biodiversity, sequester carbon and regenerate the ecosystem.
More information at www.kiebitz.land

#2 Climate Farmers – Ivo Degn
Scaling regenerative agriculture, empowering farmers and field practitioners to fight climate change.
More information at www.climatefarmers.org

#3 Treely – Alexander Wolfgang Vilsmeier
Tree.ly gives forest owners in Europe a whole new way to profit from their forests. They help forest owners to manage the CO₂ potential of their trees to optimize carbon sequestration, bringing us all closer to a sustainable future.
More information at https://tree.ly/

Moderator: Marie-Christine Schönborn

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