Entrepreneurs Forum moderated by Prof. Dr. Gunter Pauli

Opportunities in the Blue Economy

MATS B. NILSSON
Chairman, Founder of Biomimetic Technology
He is a game changer and inventor of MHE – the world’s first patented organic biodegradable – a truly natural organic and certified product with production sites in Australia and Sweden

HENRY LIANG
President Taiwan Lung Meng Technology
Founded in 1998, LM’s steadfast commitment and sheer perseverance in spite of innumerable setbacks finally culminated in the discovery of a unique papermaking technology – one which supersedes the traditional method of using wood pulp – to produce a truly unique and eco-friendly tree-free paper

BRANDON PITCHER
Co-Owner of Blue Circle Developments
Brandon Pitcher is an award winning developer, change agent, and educator; sharing his passion for social and ecological entrepreneurship, systems thinking, and sustainability for over 15 years. He is the perfect example of the blue economy thinking put into practice.

DR KARLSON "CHARLIE" HARGROVES
Charlie is a Sustainable Development Fellow with the ECIC and specialises in sustainability and economic growth transitions.He co-founded 'The Natural Edge Project' (TNEP).

Working with various teams Charlie has co-authored 5 books (selling over 85,000 copies in 5 languages), developed 2 comprehensive online education programs, 16 book chapters, 11 peer reviewed journal papers, and 27 conference papers. The first book won the Australian Banksia Award for Environmental Leadership, Education and Training in 2005, and the two most recent books were ranked among the 'Top 40 Sustainability Books' in the world in 2010 by the Cambridge Sustainability Leaders Program. Charlie has delivered numerous high level keynote presentations and guest lectures at events and forums around the world, and has co-facilitated numerous seminars and workshops on sustainable development. Charlie is a full member of the Club of Rome, an expert advisor to the United Nations Centre for Regional Development, and a member of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Buildings and Construction Taskgroup on Infrastructure. Charlie has a PhD in Carbon Structural Adjustment and is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, working with Professor Peter Newman.

RAIVIS VAITEKUNS
Co-founder of CoffeePixels
Raivis and his Latvian team revolutionise the coffee industry by turning waste into nutrients and food.

Next Summit 2020
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Why another Summit?
Our current economic model has become unsustainable, it has lost its moral and political legitimacy. In the competitive market economy it has shown a continuous ability to be creative and to increase wealth. In the last decades, there has been a progressive blurring of its link with the global common good and a significant loss of our capacity to regulate it. Economics have been disconnected from
ethics and politics as financial capitalism tends to nurture a speculative race where money creates more money without sufficiently investing in the economy of goods and services useful to mankind. Destruction of the planet and its bio- diversity, growing inequality and poverty, injustice, exclusion and alienation are some of the dysfunctions likely to have significant negative consequences for future generations.