Speakers

• Astrid Boeijen

  CEO of Brightlands Chemelot Campus with 20+ years of expertise in the field of organisational development and change, innovation and strategy.

• Wayne Visser

  Dr Wayne Visser is a globally recognised “pracademic”, poet and “possibilist” on the impact of business on nature and society, with faculty roles at the University of Cambridge and Antwerp Management School. He is also director of the think-tank Kaleidoscope Futures, founder of CSR International, and former director of Sustainability Services at KPMG and strategy analyst at Capgemini. He has written 44 books, including the Amazon bestseller Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society, and the Economy. His work has taken him to 78 countries and he has been listed as a top 100 thought leader in trustworthy business.

• Prof. Fritz Vollrath

  Prof. Fritz Vollrarh is an evolutionary biologist with a long history of studying the behaviour, ecology, life history and evolution of spiders, webs and silks. More recently, the growing fields of biomimetics, bionics, and soft robotics, have attracted his interest, as well as the general idea of copying concepts from Nature. 

• Prof. Barbara Milow

  Prof. Dr. Barbara Milow heads the Aerogels and Airgel Composites Department at the Institute of Materials Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne. In her research, she deals with the synthesis of highly porous, open-pored and nano-structured materials, the so-called aerogels. 

• Assoc. Prof. Jules Harings

  Jules Harings is asst. Prof. Macromolecular Physics & Technology at Maastricht University. His research focuses on studying, understanding and technically tailoring/exploiting the behaviour of macromolecules from nano- to macroscopic length scales, envisioned in Jules’ research topics, comprising (I) molecular design for high performing biomedical polymers in 3D printing and regenerative tissue engineering, (II) molecular design of polymer and process specific nucleating agents, (III) controlling structure evolution of polyamides towards ultimate properties via molecular design and aqueous processing.