Agenda update: RSB Annual Conference 2022
This year’s RSB Annual Conference, in partnership with Gevo and The Boeing Company, is less than a month away!
Each day will have a different emphasis, based on RSB’s theory of how change works.
- Day 1 – INNOVATE – looking at the vision, energy and activism required to affect meaningful and sustainable change.
- Day 2 – BUILD – this is where we start creating the conditions for collaboration.
- Day 3 – SCALE – evolving our mindsets so critical mass can be achieved and enabling environments can be established.
See below for the RSB Annual Conference’s agenda (subject to change):
Monday, 29th November 2022 – INNOVATE
14:30 – 15:00 CET
Keynote
Elizabeth Wathuti (Founder, Green Generation Initiative)
15:00 – 15:15 CET
Welcome & introduction
Elena Schmidt (Executive Director, RSB)
15:30 – 16:45 CET
The world we’re in: And the promise of the bioeconomy
We know that the bioeconomy offers huge potential to tackle the climate crisis, but what is holding us back? In this session, we review what it means to “innovate” towards a circular bioeconomy – identifying the challenges that stifle progress, and the opportunities that RSB and its membership community are exploring to overcome these barriers.
17:00 – 18:00 CET
Magic ingredients:
Making emerging tech work for people and planet
RSB’s collaborative network is driving innovation and creating new solutions to the planet’s most pressing challenges. In this session, sponsored by Airbus, we invite experts to look at the mix of ingredients needed to take emerging tech to adopted global practice in a way that benefits both people and the planet.
18:00 – 19:00 CET
Funding futures:
How financing can advance the bioeconomy
Finance is needed to develop the R&D, technologies and projects that will bring us into a low carbon future. In this session, we learn from those that have successfully directed funding towards supporting decarbonisation, and ensuring broader positive social and environmental outcomes – as well as what RSB’s supporting role is.
Tuesday, 30th November 2022 – BUILD
14:30 – 15:00 CET
Keynote
Suzanne Simard (Author and Professor of Forest Ecology)
15:00 – 15:15 CET
Welcome & introduction
Elena Schmidt (Executive Director, RSB)
15:30 – 16:45 CET
Horizon Europe: Advancing sustainability in diverse projects
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation – tackling climate change and helping to achieve the SDGs. In this session, we review the challenges and opportunities from RSB’s multi-project contribution, and look at the importance of building partnerships of knowledge-exchange within the EU.
16:45 – 17:45 CET
Power to PtX : Building towards sustainable scale
Power-to-X (PtX: power-to-liquid, power-to-gas, power-to-ammonia) technology holds promise as a renewable, non-biogenic approach to producing fuels. In this session, sponsored by Sasol, we’ll build on the progress that the RSB membership platform has made in guiding discussions on PtX, and collaborate on future plans of the platform.
18:00 – 19:00 CET
Full circle for plastics: The biomaterial revival
Plastics play a central role in our lives, but the switch to sustainable alternatives to fossil-based feedstocks is imperative. In this session, sponsored by Neste, we learn about the value of bioplastics, how to overcome the barriers to building the biomaterial industry, and discuss how to accelerate the shift away from virgin fossil material.
Wednesday, 31st November 2022 – SCALE
14:30 – 15:00 CET
Keynote
To be announced soon…
15:00 – 15:15 CET
Welcome & introduction
Elena Schmidt (Executive Director, RSB)
15:30 – 16:45 CET
Critical mass: What an Impact Alliance looks like in practice
RSB seeks to form Impact Alliances of diverse global stakeholders to bring about systematic and meaningful change. In this session, we reflect on the RSB Endorsement Framework and what is needed to scale such an alliance, and look at some examples of what this could look like in the bioeconomy and what opportunities can be leveraged.
16:45 – 17:45 CET
Scaling impact: The sustainable future of Brazil’s aerospace industry
The aviation industry has committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and Brazil is well-positioned to lead the expansion of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production. In this session, sponsored by Boeing, we’ll discuss Brazil’s potential, and showcase how RSB and Boeing’s partnership in the region offers a model that can be replicated globally.
18:00 – 19:00 CET
Book and claim: Where to next?
‘Book and claim’ is a chain of custody model that can support the scaling of sustainable fuels and reduce the climate impact of hard-to-abate sectors. In this session, sponsored by World Energy, we will showcase the learnings from RSB’s Book & Claim System pilots in the aviation sector, and understand how they can be applied to the shipping sector.
Thursday, 1st December 2022
13:00 – 19:00 CET
Formal Assembly of Delegates
Members only
As the excitement of the RSB Annual Conference draws closer, sponsorship opportunities have now become available to organisations wishing to partner with RSB and support an event that is focused on developing collaborations, projects, tools and roadmaps for positive impacts.
We are offering a simplified partnership approach, to reflect the new virtual format:
• Full Event Sponsorship
Our full event sponsors provide material support to ensure success of the conference and are acknowledged as headline sponsors, with significant promotion in the run up to and during the event, and significant visibility/branding on the platform.
6 sponsors sought | €13,500
• Session Sponsorship
Our session sponsors provide support to specific sessions of the Annual Conference. You can select a session most appropriate to your area of interest and receive recognition on all marketing related to that session.
8 sponsors sought | €7,500
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