Corporate – Startup Collaboration for a Sustainable Future

Corporate - Startup Collaboration for a Sustainable Future

During Oslo Innovation Week, we invite corporates and startups to discuss ways to collaborate to co-develop sustainable solutions

 

Where: Online
When: 28 September, 11:30 – 13:30 CET
Cost: Free
 
 

About

Startup Norway aims to bring the startups and corporates to a roundtable format of discussion to highlight the challenges and opportunities that come with collaborating and co-developing products and services for a more sustainable world.

Consumers will always go for the better product, with sustainability being the added value to it. So, the challenge is for companies to find a way to combine sustainability with high quality delivery, without prioritizing one over the other.

 

CORPORATE STRENGTHS

Companies have the size and distribution power on their end, but innovation tends to be treated with cautiousness.

 

STARTUP STRENGTHS

Startups have seed & flexibility in how to address a challenge and how to solve it, but lack access to a large testing ground.

 

COLLABORATION

Collaboration is critical for efficient & profitable sustainability practices, but can these two sides collaborate over the culture gap in their operational model?

How can corporates and startups align on the innovation front without competing and instead, create a win-win solution?

Agenda

1.INTRODUCTION

Startup Norway welcomes you to a very exciting roundtable of corporates and startups

11:30 – 11:40

 

2.ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

A moderated free-flowing discussion between our corporate and startup speakers

11:40 – 12:30

 

3.CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES

A roundup of the challenges and opportunities in startup – corporate collaborations

12:30 – 12:45

4.AUDIENCE QUESTIONS

Time to flip-the-script and let our roundtable participants answer all of your burning questions

12:45 – 13:15

 

5.CONCLUDING REMARKS

Startup Norway closes off the event by concluding the discussion of our roundtable participants

13:15 – 13:30

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Corporate speakers

Melissa Ciardullo

IKEA, Project Leader for Circular Product Development

 
 

Illai Gescheit

Siemens Energy Ventures, Partner

 

Philip Hansteen

Equinor, Leader of the Equinor & Techstars Energy Accelerator

Startup speakers

Thommy Tellefsen

Leid, CEO

 
 

Ingvar Aune

Sirken, Co-Founder

Hasse Storebakken

Aqua Alarm, CEO & Co-Founder

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THE EVENT IS PART OF OSLO INNOVATION WEEK 2021

Contact person

 

Verineia Codrean

Head of Sustainability
 

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Orca! The world’s best bet against climate change?

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Today, the Swiss company Climeworks formally opened the air purification plant Orca in Iceland. It has only been sixteen months since the construction of the plant began in May last year. Orca is the world’s first and largest climate-positive direct air capture and storage plant.

The plant captures 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year and disposes of them underground. This new technology from Climeworks is one of the most impactful ways to tackle climate change that exists today.

The launch event was opened by former President of Iceland, Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and followed by Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Dagur B Eggertsson, Mayor of Reykjavik and a number of other speakers. Watch the full launch event below:

 

For more information about this project please visit Climeworks.com/orca.

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Circular Roundtable Series: Norwegian Construction

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Waste & Circular Opportunities in Construction - How Construction Companies can profit from Circular Economy

 

Construction in Norway is the most waste-heavy sector, accounting for a hefty percentage of the waste in 2019 (Statistics Norway, 2021). In the last 10 years, 27% of Norwegian companies that went bankrupt were within construction.

To keep up with growth, construction companies need to insure themselves against a disruption in the supply chain. This roundtable will discuss how companies can collaborate with startups to find ideas and solutions to plan today for an alternative supply of tomorrow.

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When: 22 Sep, 21 11:00 – 13:00
Venue: Online
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WHAT IS CIRCULARITY IN CONSTRUCTION?

Circular construction is the economic model that aims to use materials for as long as possible and reduce waste — via reuse and recycling. Savvy construction companies are finding it very appealing because it:

  • shrinks their environmental footprint
  • trims operational waste
  • uses expensive resources more efficiently.

WHY DO WE NEED IT?

McKinsey Group has estimated that there is the potential of 1.8 trillion euros of new profits from circularity in the EU space, with 34% going to construction.

Additionally, the Norwegian Government has stepped in and put forward in June 2021 a circular strategy that will gradually transform incentives to legislation – making circularity mandatory.

 

What you'll learn

IMPLEMENTING CIRCULARITY

Explore the alternative & additional functions of a building beyond living or working use

 

NEW BUSINESS MODELS

Find out how circular economy can lead to new business models with expected growth of 30%

 

NEW MATERIALS

Hear how new materials are one possible solution to circularity in the construction industry

DESIGN FOR DECONSTRUCTION

Listen to different views on how to design for the reuse of building materials and marketplace

RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Learn how to build resilience against the environmental consequences of climate change

 

SOLUTIONS

Hear about the exciting solutions that are being developed in the construction space

Agenda

Join us to hear from corporates and startups that are working on the issue of circularity within the construction industry. 

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

A short welcome and introductions from Startup Norway and Loop. Followed by introductions of our panelists from the corporate and startup world.

11:00 – 11:20 – Online

PANEL DISCUSSION

In this round table, corporates and startups will come to the same table to discuss the opportunities and threats for the Construction industry in Norway. Topics to be discussed include solutions and how to implement them, as well as the benefits startups offer corporates and how to succeed in those partnerships.

11:20 – 12:20 – Online

SOLUTIONS, CONCLUSIONS, AND NEXT STEPS

The panelists will wrap up their thoughts on the future of circularity in the construction industry. With the big question being, what is next?

12:20 – 13:00 – Online

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Contact person

 

Verineia Codrean

Head of Sustainability
 

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