Programme (2022)

Registration will open at 8am. There will be tea/ coffee served in the Exhibition hall to allow you to network with your peers.

Welcome, Percy Foster

Management Skills for the Green Economy
Sven Spollen-Behrens, Director, Small Firms Association

The New CBE JU Partnership and the Achievements of its Predecessor
Dr. Chloë Johnson, Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking

Bioeconomy on the Island of Ireland -What’s happening and Where is the Opportunity?
This presentation will give an overview of what is happening by the key actors and also present the opportunities island of Ireland in developing the bioeconomy.
Catriona Power, Circular Bioeconomy Cluster Southwest &
Dr. Elaine Groom, Agri-Food & Bioscience Institute

Adjusting to the New World Order- How Does the Bioeconomy Play its Role?
David Newman, European Circular Bioeconomy Policy Initiative

Q&A

10.30   Coffee Break & Networking

11.00   Ministerial Address

Charlie McConalogue, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

11.15    Irish Bioeconomy Awards

Keynote Speaker: Richard Kennedy, CEO of Devenish & EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019

Finland’s New Bioeconomy Strategy
Under-Secretary of State Petri Peltonen, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. Finland

The Role of the Bioeconomy in New York’s Climate Law

Dr. Tristan Brown is Director of the Bioeconomy Development Institute and Associate Professor of Energy Resource Economics at SUNY-ESF College of Environmental Science & Forestry, New York, America

Discussion Panel: What Initiatives Will Help Develop the Bioeconomy in Ireland and Northern Ireland?
Dr Filippo Giancarlo Martinelli, European Ambassador, Irish Bioeconomy Foundation

Máire Ní Éinniú, Marine Development Executive, Údarás na Gaeltachta

John Malone, Bioeconomy Forum

Damien McConville, Synergy Project Manager, InterTradeIreland

13.00    Lunch & Networking