We are glad to present our expert speakers on the topic of data and clean tech during the Clean Tech Delta atelier: Clean Tech Data! Read their interesting stories below.
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Keynote speakers
Speaker: Fred van Beuningen, Director of Clean Tech Delta – Industry 4.o
Educated in the Netherlands, Business at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and at Business school Insead in Fontainebleau, France, Fred had worked as general manager, Chief Executive Officer and Board member for international industrial companies and as an entrepreneur. Prior to his executive roles he started his career with Royal Dutch Shell in marketing and trading positions. His industry experience ranges from oil, chemicals and industrial gas to packaging, logistics and shipping. He also successfully managed some business turn around situations. His experience is highly international with emphasis on Europe and emerging economies. He assisted in updating the sustainability strategy of a Dow Jones Sustainability Index leader and served as director innovation and strategic marketing of this global coatings and chemicals company. Fred serves on the investment advisory council of an international clean tech fund and on the Dutch ministerial bio renewable and business platform. His entrepreneurial activities are in health promotion and distributed energy and more recent in clean tech where smart and bio based materials, as well as industrial biotechnology are in his focus.
More recent Fred also started to act in public private roles to promote economic transition and the introduction of clean technologies. His expertise is in sustainability as business driver and innovation, as well as scaling up ventures. His interests are, among others, the role of business leadership for a more sustainable world, executive vitality and next level innovation practices. Fred is Board member of the Young President’s Organisation (YPO) Sustainability network, member of the European Leadership Platform and mentor and Board member of several technology ventures. He also is a Board member of the Erasmus University Center of Future Energy. His broad network allows him to connect with technology institutes, venture and growth investors and technology research companies, as well as corporate venture funds. Recently he was appointed to a strategy group working on a Roadmap Next Economy with TIR, the consultancy of Jeremy and co founded the Impact Media House to use modern media technology for social purposes. Fred is Managing partner of the Chrysalix RoboValley Industry 4.0, Robotics and AI Venture Capital fund and builds a global braintrust around these emerging technologies and solutions that will disrupt a variety of industries and lead to next level productivity and sustainability.
Speaker: Jessica Hernández Castro Barreto, Research Associate – Sensors and IoT at Lux Research on the IoT Business Landscape.
Jessica Hernández is a Research Associate for the Sensors and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) practices based in Amsterdam. Jessica is originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, where she received a BSc. in Electronics Engineering at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente – ITESO). Jessica worked as a full time BIOS Engineer at Intel Corporation’s Guadalajara Design Center (GDC) campus.
Jessica holds a MSc. in Sustainable Energy Technology from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where she specialized in solar photovoltaic systems. Her thesis involved the optimization of the design of rooftop solar photovoltaic systems including parameters such as geographical location, weather forecast, as well as the inclination and orientation of the roof where the system is mounted. During her studies at Delft, Jessica joined Siemens Building Technologies to work on a project where she engineered the generation, distribution, and management of electricity for a net Zero Energy hotel to be built in the harbor of the city of Rotterdam.
ABOUT LUX RESEARCH
Science-driven innovation is a cross-cutting key to success in today’s business environment. In an increasingly crowded competitive landscape, decision makers need critical advice about markets, technologies, and strategy – both to position existing business for growth and to launch new businesses wisely. Emerging technology fields are fertile hunting grounds for new business opportunities, and corporate executives, investors, policymakers, and entrepreneurs across many industries look to these areas to drive growth.
Whether it is cleantech or conventional oil and gas, advanced aerospace or consumer packaged goods, electronics or agriculture, the industries Lux resarch serve are highly dependent on innovative materials, processes, and strategies to lower costs, increase revenues, defeat competitors, and serve customers.
However, emerging technology markets are also uniquely challenging to understand and to take advantage of – Lux Research analysts are specialists in understanding and assessing these complex and rapidly-changing fields.
See Lux Research’s track record in Measuring and Quantifying Success in Innovation.
Speaker: Rene Savelsberg, SET Ventures on: “Clean Tech, what is it?
Rene Savelsberg is co-founder, CEO and Managing Director of SET Ventures since 2007. He is responsible for the strategy and overall operations of the SET Funds. His focus is on companies in the areas of smart grid, energy efficiency, transportation and infrastructure. He currently serves on the Board of MicroShade and Sonnenbatterie and is observer on the Board of General Fusion. He also served on the Board of Epyon (which was acquired by ABB in June 2011) and he was Observer at AlertMe (acquired by Britsh Gas in 2015).
As of 1995 Rene was instrumental in establishing and expanding the Philips Multimedia Center California, with the focus on incubating new business initiatives from within Philips and cementing relationships between Philips Divisions and (emerging) technology leaders in Silicon Valley USA.
Between 1997 and 2004 Rene led the Philips Corporate Venturing activities, initially in Silicon Valley and later expanding into Europe and Israel, managing investments in over 40 companies.
In September 2006 Rene joined the Philips Consumer Electronics in the capacity of Vice President, New Business Development, focusing on new value spaces for this division of Philips Electronics N.V.
Prior to (re)joining Philips Rene worked during 5 years in the San Francisco office of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency, the economic development agency of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Rene Savelsberg holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from the Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
ABOUT SET VENTURES
SET Ventures manages venture capital funds targeting the Energy Sector. SET Ventures invests in European early growth-stage companies that can impact the future of the energy markets worldwide. SET Ventures invests up to €6M per portfolio company and we have proven to be able to pick the future winners in the sector by value chain investing and finding the highest growth opportunities.
3 main pillars are:
Energy Use
Novel smart energy monitoring and control of stationary and mobile energy efficiency technologies (e.g. smart cities, industrial processes, smart buildings, optimal energy use and EVs)
Distribution and Storage
Innovative energy storage related business models to build the smart energy grid of the future (e.g. power infrastructure, demand response solutions, and advanced storage solutions)
Generation
Ground-breaking new business models utilising new technologies and connectivity, enabling smarteconomical renewable energy generation (e.g. distributed generation, generation optimisation, solar, wind and CHP)
Smart Energy
At SET Ventures while the scope is energy related companies, the investment Priority is Smart Energy.
SET Ventures defines the crossover between ICT and Energy as “Smart Energy”: new innovative start-ups and business models involving intelligent software and/or services, combined with or without hardware components, impacting the future of energy.
Speaker: Dr. Jan van Dalen, Leader of the Erasmus Centre for Data science and Business Analytics speaking on “A world in transition: the emergence of e-enabled sharing concepts”
ABOUT ERASMUS CENTRE FOR DATA SCIENCE AND BUSINESS ANALYTICS
The Erasmus Center for Data Science and Business Analytics supports organizations in turning data into business solutions. The center
- offers knowledge and analytical skills to identify business opportunities in public and private data;
- develops methodologies to analyze and visualize data;
- helps organizations to exploit data-based insights and to develop and optimize business propositions based on data analytics;
- helps in data governance: integrate data solutions in the organization and manage data security.
The center helps companies to extract business value from their data. It also presents a platform for knowledge exchange, access to expertise, student interns, and offers research-based solutions and innovations.
The center distinguishes itself from other data science initiatives by its explicit focus on businesses. Organizing the information technology is an important skill, but turning data into business requires many additional skills. The center not only has the technical knowledge, but also in-depth knowledge of various business domains.
Corporates
The following corporates will present the digital innovation strategy of the companies they work for.
ABOUT THYSSENKRUPP
Click here to see a video of the IoT innovation of Thyssenkrup
