Main Stage Programme
Conference Opening
Matthias Fischer | Prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner
Opening of the LCM 2021
Speakers
- Matthias Fischer | Head of Department Life Cycle Engineering – Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner | Head of Chair Sustainable Engineering – Technische Universität Berlin
Keynote Speech
Eric Mieras
“Is it the perfect wave for LCA?”
Speaker
Eric Mieras | Managing Director – PRé Sustainability
Host Session
Fraunhofer IBP
“Rethinking LCA for Product Stewardship and Corporate Sustainability”
Speakers
- Dr.-Ing. Robert Ilg | Head of Business Development – Department Life Cycle Engineering
- Ann-Kathrin Briem | Expert in the field of Data-Science powered Product Stewardship – Department Life Cycle Engineering
- Sun Hea Hong | Expert in the field of Data-Science powered Product Stewardship – Department Life Cycle Engineering
- Tobias Prenzel Expert in the field of Data-Science powered Product Stewardship – Department Life Cycle Engineering
Description
Efficient, scalable and flexible LCA capacity has become a major success factor for today’s businesses. Based on the experience from various applied research projects, the session will provide practical insights into operationalizing sustainability data science in industry.
Keynote Speech
Dr. Janin Schaffer
“The MOSAiC expedition – A year-long drift across the Central Arctic to study climate processes”
Speaker
Dr. Janin Schaffer | Physical Oceanographer – Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Honoring the life work of Prof. Dr. Peter Eyerer
Special
GaBi Lifetime Award
Speakers
- Martin Baitz | Senior Life-Cycle-Sustainability Expert – Sphera
- Ulrike Bos | Manager and Team Lead GaBi Content Team – Sphera
- Prof. Dr. Peter Eyerer
Keynote Speech
Hannah Helmke
“Effective decarbonisation: the significance of measuring climate impact in °C”
Speakers
Hannah Helmke | Co-founder and CEO – right. based on science
Host Session
DGNB
“Carbon lifecycle management of buildings: How to design and build with a focus on embodied carbon?”
Speakers
- Johannes Kreißig | Chief Executive Officer – DGNB e.V. || DGNB GmbH
- Thomas Kraubitz | Director – Buro Happold
Description
The session shows, using the example of the wood hybrid project EDGE-Suedkreuz in Berlin, why and how embodied carbon plays an essential role to meet future requirements.
Keynote Speech
Dr. Auma Obama
“Valuing the sum total of all of us to guarantee a better and more sustainable future”
Speaker
Dr. Auma Obama | Founder and Executive Director – Sauti Kuu Foundation
Host Session
Festo
“Sustainable future paths for industry – bringing together the ecological and digital transformation”
Speaker
Dr. Heinrich Frontzek | Vice President Corporate Communication – Festo SE & Co. KG
Description
Bringing together the ecological and digital transformation opens the room to enable industrial value creation, business models and production processes in a sustainable, resource-efficient and circular way.
Keynote Speech
Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner
“The Missing Link: Merging Sustainability Transformations and Digitalization”
Speaker
Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner | President – German Environment Agency (UBA)
Panel Discussion
Plattform Industrie 4.0
“Sustainable production – actively shaping the ecological transformation with industry 4.0”
Speakers
- Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner | President – German Environment Agency (UBA)
- Prof. Dr. Frank Piller | Institute for Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) – RWTH Aachen University & Working Group Digital Business Models – Plattform Industrie 4.0
- Dr. Carsten Polenz | Vice President – SAP SE & Member of the Steering Committee – Plattform Industrie 4.0
- Lisa-Alexandra Unkelhäuser | Senior Partner – Bosch Climate Solutions GmbH
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Liselotte Schebek | Chair of Material Flow Management and Resource Economy – TU Darmstadt & Scientific Director – Fraunhofer IWKS
- Dr.-Ing. Johannes van der Beek | Group Director R&D / Design & Engineering and Member of the Executive Board – MOSCA GmbH
Host Session
Festo
“Sustainable future paths for industry – bringing together the ecological and digital transformation”
Speaker
Dr. Elias Knubben | Vice President Research and Innovation – Festo SE & Co. KG
Description
Bringing together the ecological and digital transformation opens the room to enable industrial value creation, business models and production processes in a sustainable, resource-efficient and circular way.
Conference Closing
Matthias Fischer | Prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner
Conclusion of the LCM 2021
Speakers
- Matthias Fischer | Head of Department Life Cycle Engineering – Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner | Head of Chair Sustainable Engineering – Technische Universität Berlin