On October 27 will take place the Launch of the INSURE.HUB - Innovation in Sustainability and Regeneration Hub.
Sustainability and Regeneration are key areas for organizations today, in line with what is proposed by the European Green Deal. INSURE.hub is an initiative whose main objective is to create a vibrant international ecosystem of transdisciplinary knowledge that promotes business solutions with a circular, sustainable and regenerative scope, powered by disruptive technologies. It results from the mobilization of the Porto Regional Centre of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, through its Schools - Católica Porto Business School and Escola Superior de Biotecnologia - and of Planetiers New Generation, along with a set of national and international entities that constitute themselves as thought leaders and agents of Transformation for Sustainability and Regeneration.
14:30 Opening Remarks
Isabel Capeloa Gil | Rector | Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Isabel Braga da Cruz | President | Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Porto
14:40 Brief presentation of INSURE.hub - “Innovation for Sustainability and Regeneration Hub”
Manuela Pintado | Director | Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF/ESB/UCP)
João Pinto | Vice-President Católica in Porto | Católica Porto Business School
António Vasconcelos | Co-Leader | Planetiers New Generation
15:05 European Survey Corporate: Sustainability, Innovation and Leadership
Edwin Janssen | Sustainable Growth Associates - The Natural Step Germany
15:20 Backcasting from net-zero and from positive pursuits enabled by tech acceleration
Rüdiger Rohrig | CEO SGA | TNS-Germany
15:40 Panel discussing the findings of the survey and the challenges ahead
Symington, Grupo Bel, Bondalti
Edwin Janssen and Rüdiger Rohrig
16:00 NETWORK BREAK
16:10 Future-Fit Business as a navigation toolkit aligned with backcasting
Tom Bregman | Future-Fit Foundation, UK
16:30 Sustainable & regenerative financing and investing
Telmo Valido | Hudson Advisors (private equity), UK
Tom Bregman | Future-Fit Foundation, UK
João Pinto | Católica Porto Business School
16:50 Green Deal – a mandate for sustainability and regeneration
João Cortez | R&D I Funding Advisor | CBQF/ESB/UCP
17:05 Regenerative business – the new wave
John Fullerton | CEO Capital Institute
17:25 Case study of Circular and Sustainable Innovation: Alchemy
John Melo | CEO Amyris Inc, US
Manuela Pintado | Scientific Coordinator of the Alchemy Project
17:40 Example of an international movement into regeneration with corporates
Paolo DiCesare | Co-Leader | Nativa Lab, BCorp Italy and Regeneration 2030 in talk with John Fullerton and Sérgio Ribeiro | Co-Founder, Planetiers
17:55 Open Discussion: Ambition and scope of the INSURE.hub, the road ahead
Moderator: António Vasconcelos | Co-Leader, Planetiers New Generation
18:15 Closing Words
Paula Castro | Dean | Escola Superior de Biotecnologia
Rui Sousa | Dean | Católica Porto Business School
If you have any doubts regarding this event, please send an email to eventos@porto.ucp.pt.
