Welcome and thank you for registering to the executive leadership panel and roundtable discussions.
The spirit of this exclusive event is to provide a platform for leading European industrial and logistic players around greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction.
During this half day you will exchange with your peers on how to tackle such challenges and the concrete solutions developed. In particular executive board members of industrial companies will provide exclusive insights on how they realized their sustainability transformation in terms of GHG reduction.
Senior executives from different industries will attend the panel and roundtable discussions to share experiences and ideas on key topics related to sustainability (not exhaustive list).
08:00 – 09:00 am | WELCOME breakfast at Lobby |
09:00 – 09:10 am | OPENING by Marcia de Troyer, Vice President, EFESO Group |
09:10 – 09:30 am | KEYNOTE SPEECH by Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO, Port of Antwerp Bruges: From one of Europe´s leading industrial port to “Green energy hub” |
09:30 – 10:40 am | PANEL DISCUSSION (starting a sustainability transformation journey; biggest hurdles & levers; funding) |
10:40 – 11:00 am | BREAK – Networking session |
11:00 – 12:30 pm | ROUNDTABLES (to be chosen by the attendees) |
12:30 – 12:40 pm | CLOSING by Jacques Vandermeiren & Marcia de Troyer |
12:40 onwards | LUNCH at Lobby |
Please select your 2 roundtable topics, our aim is let you participate in your first 2 choices. But for practical reasons kindly indicate a 3rd option as well.
Realizing a company-wide Energy Efficiency and CO2 savings program for a leading industrial group in the process industry. Initially a CO2 reduction context but external crisis brought the need for acceleration and support from outside to tackle 40 sites.
Participate in this roundtable if you want to gain insights on:
OQ Chemicals has set itself the goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030. To achieve this ambitious goal, OQ Chemicals partnered with EFESO to conduct a novel, breakthrough innovation process.
Participate in this roundtable if you want to gain insights on:
Through a partnership of 3 parties and technological innovation, it was possible for ETEX to move from down-cycling to recycling, and evolve to a profitable business model for the 3 business parties. This case has been preselected to be presented on the World Economic Forum of Davos 2023.
Capital expenditures become increasingly relevant for carbon footprint optimization, as such proper methods and tools taking cost and greenhouse gas aspects into consideration become crucial for decision making.
Participate in this roundtable if you want to gain insights on:
Watch the video we developed as part of our collaboration with OQ Chemicals which has been a challenging but positive journey to reach climate neutrality by 2050.
The discussions will be hosted at Port Authority of Port of Antwerp-Bruges
Zaha Hadidplein 1
2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
Free parking on ‘Straatsburgdok-Zuidkaai’ – located next to restaurant ‘Het Pomphuis’.
Venus also accessible via tram 24 direction of Silsburg-Havenhuis (last stop of the line).