Sessions #7 & #8 in numbers
Sustainability Expert Panel
Olivier Houpert
Nathalie Roosen
Tessa Gijbels
Massimo Venegoni
Manufacturing Expert Panel
Patrizio Ricci
Steven Lambert
Jochen Vincke
Joshua Zake
About our Session Partner
Our seventh session focuses on Sustainability. The past year it became once again clear that innovation in sustainability is essential. Together with our Session partner P&G we invite 8 startups active in the industry to pitch their solutions live on stage and receive valuable business feedback from an expert panel of investors, corporates innovators and though leaders.
Challenges
The pitching startups will have to tackle the following challenges curated by P&G.
Together with Belgium based FMCG partner, GITEC, the Global Innovation and Technology Center of AB InBev, P&G is looking at how start ups and scale-ups can help identify solutions to some of the key challenges on reducing packaging footprint and removing the need for fossil fuels in production and supply chains.
Sustainability Expert Panel
Olivier Houpert
Olivier Houpert is a chemical engineer and started his career at P&G in 1991 as Scientist, Laundry Powders Products Research in Paris. Momentarily he is Vice President Global Dish Care R&D and Brussels Innovation Center Site Leader.
Nathalie Roosen
Nathalie joined LRM in 2016 and is currently working as investment manager and board member of several portfolio companies, both with main focus on Sustainable Societies (Green Energy, Smart Cities, Recycling & Materials and Agricultural Technology, investments are based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals) and Health and Care (innovative technologies in the health and care sector).
Tessa Gijbels
As head of the commercial team within Four & Five, Tessa has extensive experience in commercial and corporate matters and counsels domestic and international clients – ranging from start-ups to established companies – on a variety of commercial contracts. She is also a sought-after expert for entrepreneurs at numerous business incubators.
Massimo Venegoni
Innovation and Sustainability SME, on a quest to embed objective Sustainability into Innovation streams, to accelerate the pace towards our Net Zero and Circularity commitments.
Session Program
About our Session Partner
Our eight session focuses on Manufacturing. The past year it became once again clear that innovation in production and manufacturing is essential. Together with our Session partner P&G we invite 8 startups active in the industry to pitch their solutions live on stage and receive valuable business feedback from an expert panel of investors, corporates innovators and though leaders.
Challenges
The pitching startups will have to tackle the following challenges curated by P&G.
P&G together with the Global Innovation and Technology Center of AB InBev want to reduce use of fossil fuels with cost effective alternatives for manufacturing. Focusing on the following areas: electrification, carbon capture, biomass and biogas.
Manufacturing Expert Panel
Patrizio Ricci
Supply Chain professional with strong experience in Manufacturing technologies, Digital work processes and Data Analytics, Innovation processes and external co-creation, Project Execution and Lean Integrated Project Delivery , Engineering core capabilities and Cost target design.
Steven Lambert
Steven is Investment Director at Capricorn’s Digital team, investing in Industry 4.0 start ups in Europe.Prior to Capricorn, he led a scale up in the IoT space, and 15 years in technology consulting, across several manufacturing sectors in Europe and 8 years in Silicon Valley. He holds degrees in Engineering from Leuven and MBA from Wharton.
Jochen Vincke
Jochen Vincke is Partner at PwC Belgium, leading the manufacturing services and passionate about industry 4.0. His areas of expertise include manufacturing performance management (production, maintenance, quality) and developing continuous improvement organizations. Jochen is focused on installing new habits and behaviors and is passionate about new technology and its impact on the shop floor (wearables, 3D printing, IoT, AI,…).
Joshua Zake
Joshua Zake is a Global Director within the Supply Transformation team focusing on Sustainability and Reliability technology and process solutions for AB-InBev. He has a strong background in operations management, plant engineering, systems engineering and new product and process development
Session Program
About our Session Partner
