SustainableSolutionsMatch
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10.00-11.00 | Smart waste collection: Using IoT and AI for waste management optimization
Challenge owner:
- Ecoembes (Spain): Non-profit corporation that supervises the waste recycling put in the yellow and blue bins. They are seeking innovative and efficient solutions that support the development of new waste management models.
Solutions providers:
- Candam Technologies (Spain): Develops devices integrating IoT and AI to be installed in waste bins to recognize packaging materials in real time, improving waste collection and packaging recovery.
- SONAH (Germany): Supports sustainable city development by creating a digital twin of recycling centres to reduce operating costs and increase customer satisfaction.
Book a meeting with CEO and Co-founder Thomas Grimm. - REBIN (Belgium): Provides a platform that offers a possibility to optimize routes, uses of bins and a host of other possibilities by using sensors that can be applied to any kind of waste recipient.
Book a meeting with CEO Kyanu Delrue. - SLOC (Austria): Provides a platform and smart IoT devices to optimize waste collection processes, individual applications also use AI elements for forecasting and intelligent planning.
Book a meeting with CEO Alec Essati. - SENSOR ID (Italy): Develops innovative systems using IoT and RFID technologies that enable the digital transformation of waste collection by tracking, monitoring, and optimizing operational processes.
Book a meeting with Alfredo Salvatore. - NANDO - RELEARN (Italy): Develops an AI system that optimizes waste collection by analysing bin filling levels and waste volumes directly from collection trucks.
Book a meeting with expert in AI solution for waste collection Giovanni Lucifora.
11.30-12.30 | Decarbonizing industry with low-carbon materials
- Carboganic (Belgium): Develops functional biocarbon that can be used as renewable additive for conventional plastics and bioplastics.
Book a meeting with managing director Bart Tambuyser. - D-CRBN (Belgium): Develops a plasma-based CO₂ recycling technology for industrial applications.
Book a meeting with CEO Gill Scheltjens. - Lavoisier Composites (France): Uses industrial by-products from aeronautics to manufacture materials with a unique aesthetic and structural strength, designed for the luxury sector or cutting-edge industries such as electronics and mobility.
Book a meeting with CEO Esteban Villalon. - CO2BioClean (Germany): Has developed an innovative process that uses industrial CO2 emissions to produce biodegradable and compostable polymers through fermentation.
Book a meeting with COO Josef Glaß. - traceless (Germany): Has developed a new kind of biodegradable material able to replace plastics in applications that are hard to recycle, like single-use items, packaging, paper coatings or adhesives.
Book a meeting with senior sustainability manager Andreas Genest. - CCS42 (Germany): Enables decentralised decarbonisation of industry, construction and agriculture by replacing fossil heat with renewable process heat, biochar-based alternatives.
Book a meeting with Co-founder and co-CEO Arne Knöchel. - Hydrophis (United Kingdom): Transforms ocean minerals and CO₂ into sustainable metal powder using a low-energy chemical precipitation process producing high-purity metal carbonates and hydroxides for industrial use.
Book a meeting with founder Glenn Leighton. - Clariter (Israel): Produces green, sustainable petrochemicals such as oils, waxes and solvents upcycled from plastic waste, reducing carbon use and waste.
14.30-15.30 | Powering the future: circular solutions for energy storage
- Batconnect (France): Develops smart, eco-designed lithium batteries that replace lead-acid systems and improve energy efficiency.
Book a meeting with R&D Project Manager Youness Lami. - Be.Me (Italy): Provides bio-based, circular materials for sustainable energy storage system manufacturing.
Book a meeting with research scientist Paolo Stufano. - Cowa Thermal Solutions (Switzerland): Offers compact thermal energy storage solutions for heating transitions.
Book a meeting with co-CEO Simon Maranda. - Ecolyte (Austria): Develops sustainable, bio-based electrolytes and components for organic redox-flow batteries.
Book a meeting with CEO Stefan Spirk. - Geyser Batteries (Finland): Provides high-power, water-based energy storage solutions with proprietary engineering and manufacturing.
Book a meeting with CEO Andrey Shigaev. - reLi Energy (Germany): Uses advanced analytics to optimize battery operations, extend life, and boost energy storage profitability.
Book a meeting with CEO Laura Laringe. - Solenco Power (Belgium): Specializes in hydrogen-based renewable energy storage systems for decarbonization.