South Pole’s head of Climate Solutions Netherlands René Groot Bruinderink hosts an interactive panel together with sustainability experts from Schoeller Allibert and Koninklijke Auping about innovations within the climate journey and inspiring sustainability highlights.

Rapid technological developments, increasing market pressure and digitalization creates worldwide a fast changing work environment. We are also facing an ageing workforce and other modern world developments like stress and other unhealthy habits. This has resulted in an increased need to promote employees’ sustainable employability. Therefore DAF trucks invests in the work ability of their employees to remain productive, competent, healthy and motivated. Katja Wouters is program manager Sustainable Employability at DAF Trucks and is responsible for projects and solutions in the field of employability, job mobility and vitality. In this session she will give an introduction on the approach of the ‘Fit for the future’ program and will give an overview of different initiatives at DAF. Learn from her experience and start investing in the employability of your employees!

Of course there are times when you want or need to meet in person for work, but if the recent past has taught us anything, it’s that we can often do without them. Even if there is no need for remote cooperation, the benefits are obvious: it prevents unnecessary CO2 emissions and it helps companies to operate more sustainably. However, the technology must offer a real alternative to physical presence.

Joost Jetten is Head of Enterprise at Logitech Benelux and knows better than anyone how a technology company has to adapt to current conditions. Logitech is committed to developing video technology that makes a remote meeting a better experience than being physically present. When communication is optimal, people and companies can accomplish positive change both within their own organization and in the rest of the world.

Do you want to know how? Register for our session and have a chance to win great prizes for your workplace!

The Port of Rotterdam is thinking big. As Europe’s largest port, it wants to continue to provide a thriving environment where shipping runs smoothly and safely and businesses flourish. At the same time, it wants to minimise impact on climate and nature – creating a cleaner and greener port which contributes to a healthy living environment for everyone. This journey to a smart carbon-neutral port of the future calls for radical innovation and new technologies. It involves a new energy system which will be based on green power and hydrogen in combination with a material transition based on circular economy principles. Discover how these big ideas are being converted into reality. In this session Maike Akkers and Douwe van der Stroom, who manage infrastructure and digitalisation respectively for the energy transition at the Port of Rotterdam, join with Bart Vander Velpen, who leads the net zero industry programme at Royal HaskoningDHV. They will describe how the port is achieving its ambitions, with particular reference to the energy transition, resource transition and innovation.

During this session Sankalp Sharma, Head of Talent Management, Leadership and DEI at Signify and

Evangelia Demerouti, Professor and Chief Diversity Officer at Eindhoven University of Technology discuss the importance of diversity and inclusion in a technology driven environment. They will share their approaches, findings, ambitions and achievements about diversity, equity and inclusion.

The future energy mix will change completely when the worldwide use of fossil fuels is replaced by renewable energy sources such as, sun, wind, and geothermal energy. Globally there is plenty of renewable energy available. Locally, however, there is a significant mismatch between supply and demand of renewable energy. An energy storage and transportation medium is required to overcome geographical and temporal (diurnal, monthly or seasonal) variations associated to renewable energy production.

Iron fuel is a clean renewable energy carrier concept that is based on circular combustion and regeneration of iron powder. In this session we will introduce the technology and its ecosystem. We will explain what potential iron fuel has, where it will be applied and what the next steps are.

During this session you’ll learn how my companion and I help companies to transform their selves to making more impact. You’ll learn about the steps to take to go from a little or no focus on sustainability to a clear sustainability strategy and how to include colleagues in the implementation. These steps will be backed up with examples from SMEs previously working with our method. During the interactive session you will have the chance to discuss with a couple of other participants what options there are for you and your organization. You will walk out of the session with a clear view on how to get a structured sustainability strategy and a clear idea of how you can contribute to sustainability in your professional role.

In the last two years health and wellbeing have been central and reminded us that, in any building, nothing is as important as its users. There is now an opportunity to ensure workplaces welcome users back into healthy environments where they feel and perform at their best. Signify is committed to demonstrate the major role lighting has on our wellbeing and quality of life and is pleased to showcase market ready solutions like NatureConnect, that both inspire innovations and can create better lighting for people worldwide. NatureConnect by Signify brings the benefits of natural light back into our daily lives, at the spaces where we spend most of our time. Built on Biophilic Design principles combined with application knowledge, and innovative LED and connected technologies, NatureConnect creates rich and meaningful lighting solutions for comfortable, engaging and attractive indoor environments that support wellbeing.

The current global data traffic has soared to unprecedented heights. This has further motivated the growth of the High-Performance Computing Market (HPC) which is driven by the advances in the AI sector. In the meantime, Europe has set new policies in the fight against climate change, with data centreoperators and associations making a pledge to make the industry carbon neutral by 2030. The industry is facing an unforeseen sustainability challenge and therefore is driven to look for novel solutions to achieve these goals.

But what can you do as an individual or as a company to contribute to this goal? We aim to explain how the world of computers work and where do the major bottlenecks occur and how you can solve them – whether on a company level or in your own personal computer room.