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Friday, June 14 • 15:00 - 15:45
Green Unicorn Pitch Competition

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5 Teams from Northern Europe have been nominated by the Waterkant Festival and 1E9, one of the leading media for startup journalism in germany, for the Green Unicorn Award ✨

Each team will have five minutes to convince the jury from their product or service, that needs to be scalable and with the aim of a high impact against climate change. We are explicitly searching for gamechaning technologies and approaches.

At the end a jury consisting of the impact investor Heidrun Twesten, the green investor Elina Akerlind and the State Secretary for Energy Transition and Climate Protection in Schleswig-Holstein, Joschka Knuth, will decide about the winning team. As a prize the team will get support from 1E9, the jury will get connected to their long ranging network as well, will be featured at 1E9 and StartupTV plus receive an invitation on the stage of Festival of the Future in Munich.

The prize money for the winning team is made possible by the KITZ - Kiel Innovation and Technology Centre and the Ministry for Energy Transition and Climate Protection in Schleswig-Holstein 🙏.

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5 Teams aus Nordeuropa sind vom Waterkant Festival und 1E9, einem der führenden Medien für Startup-Journalismus in Deutschland, für den Green Unicorn Award ✨ nominiert worden.

Jedes Team hat fünf Minuten Zeit, um die Jury von seinem Produkt oder seiner Dienstleistung zu überzeugen, die skalierbar sein muss und eine große Wirkung gegen den Klimawandel haben soll. Wir suchen ausdrücklich nach spielerischen Technologien und Ansätzen.

Am Ende wird eine Jury, bestehend aus der Impact-Investorin Heidrun Twesten, der Green-Investorin Elina Akerlind und der Staatssekretär für Energiewende und Klimaschutz in Schleswig-Holstein, Joschka Knuth über das Gewinnerteam entscheiden. Als Preis erhält das Team Unterstützung von 1E9 und die Jury wird in deren weitreichendes Netzwerk eingebunden, wird bei 1E9 und StartupTV vorgestellt und erhält eine Einladung auf die Bühne des Festivals der Zukunft in München.

Das Preisgeld für das Siegerteam wird ermöglicht durch das KITZ - Kieler Innovations- und Technologiezentrum und das Minsterium für Energiewende und Klimaschutz in Schleswig-Holstein 🙏.

Moderators
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Wolfgang Kerler

Chief Editor & Co-Founder, 1E9
Wolfgang is chief editor and co-founder of 1E9, a digital magazine, community, and series of events about technology and the future. Previously he worked as a political correspondent at Berlin's ARD studio and as editorial director of WIRED Germany.

Speakers
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Alina Klarner

GP / Head of Ventures, Impact Shakers
Alina Klarner is the Head of Ventures for Impact Shakers and a GP at Impact Shakers Ventures, a €20mil impact VC fund investing at the intersection of Impact and Diversity. Prior to joining Impact Shakers, Alina spent over a decade in Advisory Services and Private Equity.
avatar for Amr Aswad

Amr Aswad

Co-Founder, Zayt Bioscience
I am a life-long nerd with an interest in evolutionary biology, computational genomics and biotechnology. I am passionate about how the living world works and how we can interact with it in a healthier, more ethical and sustainable way. I am especially fascinated by the elegance... Read More →
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Alexander Ohrt

Co-Founder, opencampus.sh
Now: Super keen and curious about curating for the Waterkant Festival, helping startups to realise their potential and support our open educational program: https://edu.opencampus.sh/In my first life, I was a journalist in Kiel, Hamburg and New York City before coordinating public... Read More →
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Joschka Knuth

Staatssekretär für Energiewende und Klimaschutz in Schleswig-Holstein, Land Schleswig-Holstein
Staatssekretär im Schleswig-Holsteinischen Ministerium für Energiewende, Klimaschutz, Umwelt und Natur
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Heidrun Twesten

CEO, Angel Investor, Impacct
I advise companies and their executives in capital markets and transformation processes.
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Ony Yan

Co-Founder, CEO, Cerberus Seaweed Systems
Ony Yan, together with Alexander Lempp as co-founder, leads the startup Cerberus Seaweed Systems. With an innovative underwater cultivation system, they aim to cultivate the future (algae as a super resource) in the smallest space possible: scalable, accessible, and maximally eff... Read More →
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Alexander Lempp

CO-Founder, CTO, Cerberus Seaweed Systems
CO-Founder of Cerberus Seaweed Systems, together with Ony Yan. Passionate engineer, driven by finding solutions and creating new innovations. Started as mechanical engineer for production autmomation, endet up as technical project lead developing medicin products.
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Jerry Becker

Co-Founder, Skywalker Energie
Skywalker ist ein Start Up aus Kiel, welches die Effizienz der Wärmeplanung optimieren möchte um damit einen Beitrag zur Erreichung der Klimaziele in Deutschland leisten möchte. Wir nutzen für die Bestandsermittlung Drohnentechnologie mit einer hochauflösenden Wärmebildkamera... Read More →
avatar for Raitschin Raitschew

Raitschin Raitschew

Geschäftsführer, eniqo
Passionate about building digital companies.eniqo ist ein innovatives Unternehmen, das sich auf die Bewältigung der Herausforderungen im Bereich der Energiewende spezialisiert hat. Angesichts der zunehmenden Nutzung erneuerbarer Energien und der damit verbundenen Schwankungen in... Read More →


Friday June 14, 2024 15:00 - 15:45 CEST
Future Stage