TechFor™ Munich

The first TechFor™ event took place in Munich, themed tech for a sustainable future.

Bringing together voices from youth movements, industry, technology leaders, and innovation drivers, our carefully selected and exceptional panel treated listeners to a cutting-edge debate from different perspectives on the all-important issue of sustainability.

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Speakers and moderator

Shashank Samala
Shashank Samala
Shashank Samala
Shashank Samala

CEO, Heirloom

Shashank Samala is CEO at Heirloom, a company with a goal of removing carbon dioxide out of the air at a gigaton scale by 2035 to help reverse climate change. He grew up in southeast India where he saw first-hand impacts of climate change on some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Heirloom uses technology to enhance the natural process of carbon mineralization, to help minerals absorb CO2 from the ambient air in days, rather than years. By combining the best of engineering and nature, Heirloom aims to work as the most cost-effective and scalable Direct Air Capture solution in the world. Shashank was previously Entrepreneur in Residence at Carbon180, a leading climate policy NGO working solely on atmospheric carbon removal, and a founder at Tempo Automation.

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Helen Watts
Helen Watts
Helen Watts
Helen Watts

Senior Director, Student Energy

Helen Watts plays an influential role in empowering young people to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy. As Senior Director of Global Partnerships, Helen manages Student Energy's global fund development and designs youth-inclusive programs for public, private, and non-profit organizations. She developed the 2021 at COP26 released Global Youth Energy Outlook and co-launched Greenpreneurs, which funds youth-led climate enterprises.

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Andrew Green
Andrew Green
Andrew Green
Andrew Green

Partnership and Network
Climate-KIC 

Andrew Green is responsibly leading the community network of EIT Climate-KIC which has 450+ global partners, spanning universities, businesses, cities and NGOs. EIT Climate-KIC is the EU's largest public-private partnership addressing climate change through innovation. It has been predominantly funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and given a formal mandate to be the EU's climate change innovation agency, tasked with helping build European sustainable jobs, growth and competitiveness.

https://www.climate-kic.org/

Andreas Urschitz
Andreas Urschitz
Andreas Urschitz
Andreas Urschitz

Member of the Management Board and CMO
Infineon Technologies

Andreas Urschitz, CMO at Infineon Technologies, has been with the company for 30 years and has always driven technological solutions to shape the decarbonization and digitalization of the world. Infineon's energy efficiency technologies enable energy savings along the electrical conversion chain, from green energy generation to lossless transmission and less consumption. He has always had the firm conviction that technical development should not be an end in itself, but should make life better, protect the future of humanity and even make the world safer and more livable. Andreas grew up on a farm and learned early on how important it is to make sustainable choices.

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Greg Williams
Greg Williams
Greg Williams
Greg Williams

Editor-in-chief
WIRED UK

By meeting world-changing innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs, Greg Williams identifies challenges and opportunities to innovate. As Editor-in-Chief of WIRED UK, Greg is an authority combining storytelling expertise and an in-depth knowledge of technology trends and their impact on business and society. Scanning the horizon for world-changing technologies, ideas and companies, Greg is constantly on the lookout for genuinely transformative trends.

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TechFor™ Munich
This edition of our signature event series TechFor™ took place in Munich – listen to different perspectives on sustainability.
June 19, 2022
15:30 - 17:30 ( CEST )