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| June 2nd  |  08.00-17.30 |

| Edison Park, Emdalavägen 6, Lund |


INNOVATION DAY 2022

Innovation Day is back! The clock is ticking on the UN’s 2030 Agenda. After more than two years of the COVID pandemic, the need to make progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is more urgent than ever. With the war in Ukraine and the ensuing humanitarian catastrophe, these are challenging days for all of us. And the most recent IPCC report, published last month, bluntly stated it was ‘now or never’ to turn the corner on the climate crisis. There is no alternative. 

Yet, it is in the darkest of times that we must reach for light and hope, to nourish our dream of a better and brighter future. This year’s Innovation Day will focus on green energy and food innovations, two key ingredients that are the building blocks of the sustainable future we all deserve.

At Innovation Day 2022, we will showcase everything that the sharps minds of our region are doing to accelerate the green transition. Join us for a day of challenging questions and inspiring answers. What is the future of Skåne? How will Lund lead the change? Do we have the necessary skills and talents we need? What are the innovations that will change the world again? Who are the brightest entrepreneurs in Skåne, and why are they still so optimistic about the future? 

We will answer all of these questions at Innovation Day 2022. Join us for a day of inspiration. Onwards.

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Speakers

Henrik Håkansson
Moderator

Henrik Håkansson, a former student as Design engeneer at LTH, is a man wearing several hats such as local comedian, service designer and podcast host for the podcast "Pissveckan”.

Dr. Elin Östman
CSO of Double Good AB

Dr Elin Östman is a food innovator with strong roots in academic research, and she´s on a mission to introduce scientifically proven, innovative and attractive food concepts to fight the explosion of lifestyle-related disease. She is a former Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Applied Nutrition at the Food for Health Science Centre of Lund University, Sweden. Her 20-year career comprises groundbreaking research on the preventive potential of foods and healthy diets against type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. Dr Elins´ expertise has special emphasis on blood glucose and appetite regulation and, to date, she has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed original articles. She is the co-founder of four food innovation related start-up companies.

Jakob Lindblad
Innovation Collaborations at Oatly

Jakob have spent most of his time trying to foster collaborations, both internally within larger companies and external collaborations, all in the pursuit of creating and implementing innovations.

Eva Johnsson
Advisor with focus on financing and sustainability at Almi Företagspartner

Hannes van Lunteren
Head of KrinovaFOOD at Krinova Incubator & Science Park

Works as responsible for the profile platform KrinovaMAT, one of Krinova Incubator & Science Park's three business areas. Within KrinovaMAT, a number of food-related development projects are run, including foodinova, which is a project to create a national innovation arena for food companies. For more than 7 years, he has been involved in building up and running a systematic incubation and innovation support for food companies in Skåne. He has worked with business development in over 500 SME food companies and was involved in starting the Food hackathon at Krinova 5 years ago. Food Hacket (https://www.foodhack.nu) is now an annual event for KrinovaMAT's Food Community, which today consists of more than 1000 companies. Hannes has a background in the food and beverage industry both as an employee in larger companies and as a self-employed person.

Margareta Wallentén
Innovation Manager at Innovation Skåne

Margareta has a passion for food, entrepreneurship and for participating in creating a sustainable future. Innovation Skåne is the perfect match for these passions. With 20+ years of product and process development in international as well as national food industry and 15 years of business coaching in the innovation system, Margareta is now growth advisor in the project Foodtech Innovation Network, coaching and supporting our members to grow their business. By combining experience with entrepreneurs and opportunities, together we change the food system of the future already today.

Anders Kompass
Interim Director of Institute for Human Rights & Former Swedish diplomat & United Nations civil servant

Nina Meinander
Sr. Dept. Mgr. Product Development & Application at Probi

Lars J Nilsson
Professor of Environmental & Energy Systems Studies and Head of the Department of Technology and Society at Lund University

Lars J. Nilsson (Swedish) is Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies and Head of the Department of Technology and Society at Lund University (Sweden). His research focuses on industrial decarbonisation and co-evolution with energy system transitions in the perspective of circular economy, electrification, industrial development and climate policy strategies. He was Coordinating Lead Author for the WG III contribution to the IPCC AR6 (chapter 11 on Industry) and a Lead Author for the Summary for Policy Makers. He is a member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change since 2022.

Merete Eskilander
Application Manager at Probi

Fredrik Bågenholm
Business Developer at Sigma Lundinova

Fredrik has spent his last 18 years as business developer and project manager at Lundinova (now part of Sigma Connectivity Group) helping customers from all different business segments to realise their designs and ultimately reach their business goals. Fredrik has a master degree from Lund Institute of Technology and has been working as Electronics Engineer in different business segments before joining Sigma Lundinova and eventually his current role. Fredrik loves tech innovation and has co-funded a few start-ups, one of them is the company Orlo developing great performing loudspeakers.

Thea Ohlander Arfwidsson
Project leader Klimatneutrala Lund 2030 at Lunds Kommun

Pernilla Ademar
Head of business development at Modity Energy Trading AB

Pernilla has 20 years of experience from risk management and trading within electricity and energy related commodities. She is currently focusing on creating new business models that are suitable for the new conditions of the energy market.

Stefan Borg
CEO of SiB Solutions

Stefan Borg is co-founder and CEO of SiB Solutions. Entrepreneur with a strong belief in evolving ecosystems where all members are contributing with experience and knowledge to jointly create values for companies, people and society. Stefan has a demonstrated history of working in the software industry for energy and logistics.

Vanja Samuelsson
CEO & Founder of Qoitech

Vanja is the founder and CEO of Qoitech, an energy tech start-up based in Lund, Sweden. Her background is in engineering and product development for the telecom industry and, most recent research and innovation on 5G, cellular IoT connectivity and low power IoT. She is passionate about lowering our energy consumption and footprint through smart engineering. She founded Qoitech in 2017, launched a global product with her team a year later and is now excited about scaling the business.

Vahid Sohrabpour
Co-Founder & CEO of Saveggy

Arwa Mustafa, Phd
Founder & CEO of ARWA Foodtech

Arwa Mustafa, has a PhD in Food Science with more than a decade of experience in the field of food chemistry, food innovations and new product development, having focus on food for health, and functional products using Green & Clean Technologies. She has received a number of innovation awards and have a patent.

Arwa’s international academic and work experience, countries including USA, England, Sudan, Denmark and Sweden.

Arwa has a track record of scientific publications, supervision undergraduate and master student, as well as international academic and research collaboration. Current academic collaboration project with Lund University includes: departments: Analytical Chemistry, Food Technology, Biotechnology and LUNARC. In addition to department of molecular science at SLU.

She is the founder & CEO at ARWA FoodTech AB- member of Aventure AB Group.

ARWA Foodtech AB will be launching their first product, Baobab based plant-based savory sauces in Autumn, which will be followed by range of product soon after.

Ola Svedin
CEO of Mobile Heights

Ola Svedin is the CEO of Mobile Heights, the ICT cluster organization of Southern Sweden, and he is also the chair person of the national Swedish cluster association, Clusters of Sweden. Ola is a passionate driver of the transition of society to the digital world. Under his leadership Mobile Heights has doubled in size and is also leading the regional Digital Innovation Hub, DigIT Hub Sweden. Ola has more than 25 years of experience from telecom, IT security, smart card, biometrics and space industries. He has lead large mobile phone and chipset development programs, and as inventor and R&D director of a world leading fingerprint tech startup he was a pioneer in the biometrics industry.

Anders Sjögren
CEO of Enersize

Anders, CEO. Anders holds a PhD in physics engineering, and has a background in the IT industry, among others, as CTO of Anoto AB. As CTO, Anders was instrumental in the start-up of Lumito AB, a company that is developing a novel solution for digital pathology. In 2017, Anders was recruited as Head of Research of Finnish Enersize Oyj. A year later he became CEO of the corporation and has led the company through a major restructuring operation. With the global industry as end customers, Enersize develops a cloud-based solution for energy optimization of industrial compressed air and expands through an international network of partners. Since 2019 Anders is a board member of Anoto Group AB.

Anders has a modern and inclusive leadership that promotes growth and innovation. He is driven by visionary and strategic business development, always with a solid foundation in research, and likes to be part of breaking new ground. Through Enersize he has recently found a new and important motivation factor; improving our environment.

Stephanie Alvarez
CTO at Enersize

Stephanie is the CTO of Enersize. She holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brasília, Brazil. In her career, she is passionate about applying new technologies and to learn and share new ideas while leveraging on each other's expertise. With a fine eye and a creative approach to problem solving, she understands how to optimize results, capture the need, deliver system configuration, produce detailed documentation, and present results for a range of audiences. Caught in the global digitalization trend, she believes that digital transformation is the way forward. Excited to be part of the boots on the ground to drive the movement.

Erik Lindell
Koordinator kompetenssamverkan Skåne at Region Skåne

Dominika Szot
Head of Communications at GRID Esports

Head of Communications at GRID Esports. Founder of 1st organization in CEE focused on supporting women in games and esports - IT’S HER GAME. Creator of the 1st podcast about female professionals in games & esports - IT'S HER GAME

Ranked 10. in 50 Most Creative People in Business 2021 by brief.pl and the winner of Top Ambassador of the Year Women in Games WIGJ 2021 Award. Dominika is experienced in communications, growth, and operations for esports, tech, and game industries.

Camilla Bark
Director of Marketing and Communications at Invest in Skåne

Camilla Bark is Director of Marketing and Communications at Invest in Skåne, the official trade and investment promotion agency for Skåne.

Invest in Skåne helps international companies invest and expand in the region, and local companies find international partnerships and grow global sales. Invest in Skåne also aims to attract valuable talent to the region, securing a skilled, diverse and competent workforce in the region. In addition, Invest in Skåne has the task of promoting Skåne internationally as an attractive, dynamic and world-class region for business, research and innovation, and which provides a gateway to, not just the Nordics, but Europe as a whole.

Camilla leads a team of six employees responsible for marketing, communications, PR, talent retention/attraction and business intelligence. She holds a double Bachelor degree in Business Administration and Human Resources (with a focus on Competence Resourcing) and has several years of experience working with international marketing and branding within B2B as well as competence resourcing and Employer Branding.

Lotta Wessfeldt
CEO of Ideon Science Park

Maya Malmqvist
Founder & CEO of Pink Safety

We at PinkSafety are two very ambitious and driven 18-year-old girls who are passionate about women's safety in society. We have on most occasions felt that it would be nice to be able to accompany someone as it increases safety for us women. We were commissioned to create a UF project and we quickly felt that our idea is realistic, simple, scalable but not least important. As proof of this, we won the competition "Innovation of the Year" in Skåne 2022 and were also invited to pitch our idea at Ideon Science Park in Lund on 2/6 2022. As this is the first time we run a company, we have no direct experience and we have seeked help throughout the journet from experienced entrepreneurs. It has been instructive and we have faced many different challenges and despite the fact that we are constantly learning, there is still a lot to learn. We two represent a typical example of the large part of the female population that we turn to as we feel very strongly that focus and arrangements for women's safety must be prioritized. In a developed and democratic society, it should be an absolute matter that women should feel safe and have total and unconditional freedom of movement and a sense of freedom without being assaulted or subjected to sexual assault.

Alina Gabrielsson
Founder & Finance Manager of Pink Safety

We at PinkSafety are two very ambitious and driven 18-year-old girls who are passionate about women's safety in society. We have on most occasions felt that it would be nice to be able to accompany someone as it increases safety for us women. We were commissioned to create a UF project and we quickly felt that our idea is realistic, simple, scalable but not least important. As proof of this, we won the competition "Innovation of the Year" in Skåne 2022 and were also invited to pitch our idea at Ideon Science Park in Lund on 2/6 2022. As this is the first time we run a company, we have no direct experience and we have seeked help throughout the journet from experienced entrepreneurs. It has been instructive and we have faced many different challenges and despite the fact that we are constantly learning, there is still a lot to learn. We two represent a typical example of the large part of the female population that we turn to as we feel very strongly that focus and arrangements for women's safety must be prioritized. In a developed and democratic society, it should be an absolute matter that women should feel safe and have total and unconditional freedom of movement and a sense of freedom without being assaulted or subjected to sexual assault.

Pierre Bellin
HR Manager at FlatFrog

HR profile with a strong commercial focus and high business understanding and knows the importance of aligning business goals with competence and learning needs, to secure business progression and innovation.Wide experience from developing talent across several different industries and handling competence needs in global organizations. Motto: The People Strategy is the Business Strategy!

MORE SPEAKERS TO COME!

PROGRAM

08.00 Check-in and coffee


08.30 Welcome!

What are the trends and what challenges do we meet? What new innovations are coming? Where do we go from here? Join some of Skånes leading foodtech experts as we learn more about the future of the Foodtech industry.


Margareta Wallenten, Innovation Skåne

About the Foodtech Innovation Network Project. What are the trends, and how to create the food system of the future.


Hannes van Lunteren, Krinova

TBA


Nina Meinander & Merete Eskilander, Probi

Recent developments, opportunities and challenges in the probiotic product.


Dr. Elin Östman, Double Good

Good Idea® – a functional sparkling water proven to reduce the blood sugar spike after a meal.


Panel discussion

    • Dr. Elin Östman, Double Good
    • Nina Meinander & Merete Eskilander, Probi
    • Margareta Wallentén, Innovation Skåne
    • Hannes van Lunteren, Krinova


    Arwa Mustafa, PhD, Arwa Foodtech

    Food entrepreneurship- Innovations from science to the market. ARWA will be launching their first product, Baobab based plant-based savory sauces in Autumn. Curious about the product? ARWA will bring some samples to the event.


    10.00 - 10.25 COFFEE BREAK


    Jakob Lindblad, Oatly 

    Collaborate to prosper, on the importance and the challenges of collaborations.


    Fredrik Bågenholm, Sigma Lundinova 

    Speaking about a great machine for foodtech and cleantech application. 


    Vahid Sohrabpour, Saveggy 

    Environmentalists at heart committed to helping the world waste less. Their bio-based edible vegan coating extends the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables.


    Eva Johnsson, Almi Företagspartner

    About Almi's sustainability program.


    Maya Malmqvist & Alina Gabrielsson, Pink Safety 

    Winners of the UF (Ung Företagsamhet) competition "Innovation of the Year" in Skåne 2022. PinkSafety will create a service for women's safety in society.



    12.00 LUNCH


    13.00 Welcome back! 

    The afternoon will discuss the IPCC report and the green transition that must take place. Experts within energy and companies with new energy innovations will be on stage. How human rights is vital for the sustainable world we wish to create and how we need to attract more talents to fill the shortage of skills to the companies.


    Lars J Nilsson 

    Latest IPCC report and what it means for industry development.


    Thea Ohlander Arfwidsson

    About "Klimatneutrala Lund 2030".


    Pernilla Ademar, Modity Energy Trading 

    Flexibility - tomorrow's commodity.


    Vanja Samuelsson, Qoitech 

    Getting the most out of the batteries - what hardware, software and battery companies can do and why you should care! 


    Stefan Borg, SiB Solutions 

    Make logistics greener – one less error at a time. Offers Intelligent Video and AI Services that enable flawless logistics. 


    Anders Sjögren and Stephanie Alvarez, Enersize 

    A substantial opportunity for energy and carbon savings hidden in the global industry.


    14.40 - 14.55 COFFEE BREAK


    Anders Kompass

    Collaborations, exchanges of knowledge and trade agreements are put to an end in a war like the one we see in Ukraine. Democracy and human rights as well. We know many of us are deeply affected.

    How does all this affect the work at the Institute of Human Rights? And how can we as a society support? 


    Panel about Skåne skilled competencies shortage

    • Camilla Bark, Invest in Skåne
    • Ola Svedin, Mobile Heights
    • Lotta Wessfeldt, Ideon Science Park
    • Stefan Borg, SiB Solutions
    • Erik Lindell, Region Skåne
    • Pierre Bellin, FlatFrog


    Dominika Szot, GRID Esports

    Current situation of women in esports - compare regions. Main challenges to overcome, why 'women exclusive' is not a long-term solution, and suggested ways to approach and improve the female esports scene.


    Award ceremony of the Ideon Stipendium 2022

    The Ideon Stipendium is awarded to the Ideon company that has great growth potential, an innovation that is based on research, is not older than five years and shows good entrepreneurship. The Ideon Stipendium is 25,000 SEK.


    Closing remarks


    16.00 AFTER WORK

    All you need to know

    After a long pandemic we can finally meet again. The event will take place on the 2nd of June at Edison Park, Emdalavägen 6 @ Ideon Science Park. The day consists of a full day program that includes inspiring speakers, networking, foodtrucks, pitches and fun Afterwork! 

    Innovation Day is our contribution to share and celebrate ground-breaking innovations from Lund and Skåne. Every year the event focuses on the innovations for a sustainable future!

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