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This one-day fly-in-fly-out event will be held from 10am-5pm at the Sheraton Brussels Airport, just across and only 39 steps away from the airport terminal. The venue is easy to reach by plane, train (station under the airport terminal) and car. 

We will start the day with a keynote lecture of Peter Nieuwenhuizen (Founding Partner ECBF), followed by three times two parallel pitch sessions of 90 minutes each. The detailed pitch programme will be released one week prior to the event. Throughout the day, one-on-one matchmaking meetings of 20 minutes each will be ongoing. Those can be scheduled in advance by an online matchmaking system which will be activated latest by July 1st, 2022. The programme leaves sufficient time for intense networking and innovation scouting in the spacious exhibition area.
 

Seize the opportunity and apply for a 6 min. pitch to present your innovative solution or service in front of an exclusive audience of potential partners and investors. We aim at an attendance of about 10 to 15 investors, the first names will be announced by the end of June 2022.

Not to exclude any interesting developments, pitch categories are not defined upon registration but should be relevant for further development of the bioeconomy. We can however already announce that we will include a session focusing on technologies for biowaste conversion, one on microbial proteins, one on new investments and developments in the EU scale-up and demonstration scene and one on emerging conversion technologies for biowaste. Further pitch categories can be technology, feedstock or product related (e.g. biobased chemicals, biobased materials, food & feed ingredients, bio-energy…) but also business related (e.g. access to finance, innovation services...).

Upon registration we will ask you for five KEYWORDS describing your pitch/abstract, as to facilitate grouping pitches in sessions.

Abstracts must be submitted via an email to the address Katrien.Molders@bbeu.org before September 12th, 2022. Please name your abstract for a pitch (only lower case letters) abstract_pitch_first name_last name.

Remarks

• All pitches will last a maximum 7 minutes, we will NOT deviate from this strict timing!
• If your pitch meets the criteria, we grant pitches on a first come, first served basis. Your pitch will be confirmed by September 12th at the latest.
• The exact time slot and pitch room might be subject to change until the final programme will be confirmed on September 16th, 2022.
• When the number of pitches exceeds the number of available pitch slots, a waiting list will be established with the aim to replace confirmed pitches that are cancelled.
• Pitchers can use a PowerPoint presentation in 16:9 format of max. 7 slides (including title slide and acknowledgement slide or slide with contact details). These presentations should be sent at the latest by September 12th, 2022 to Anneleen.De.Vriendt@bbeu.org.  
• Pitchers have to pay the registration fee.

A pitch slot has already been awarded to Avecom (BE), Citribel (BE), EnginZyme (SE), B4Plastics (BE), Borregaard AS (NO), RdA Climate Solutions/HOOP Circular Investors Board (PT), Bodec (NL), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (FI), PIVERT (FR), INN-PRESSME (FI), NovelYeast (BE), B-COS (BE), NoPalm Ingredients (NL), Vienna Textile Lab (AT), AmphiStar (BE), Sophie's BioNutrients (SG), Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BE), Hysytech Srl (IT), University of Naples "Federico II" (Unina) (IT), Cashew Shell BioRefinery (DE), GreenCap Solutions (NO), TripleW (IL), Paleo (BE), Greentech Innovators AS (NO), Holiferm (UK), Avantium Renewable Polymers (NL), proionic GmbH (DE), Lixea ( UK/SE), Greencovery (NL), myBIOS (AT), Those Vegan Cowboys (BE), EV Biotech (NL), Ghent University (BE), Ductor (FI), Nutropy (FR), KU Leuven (BE), UK Biochar Research Centre (UK) DAB.bio (NL), Acies Bio (SI), Irish Bioeconomy Foundation/BioeconomyVentures (IR), Sparkalis (BE), Wageningen University (NL), Tech4Biowaste, DBG Bio Energy (NL), Fraunhofer IGB (DE), Allozymes (SG), Innoven (IT), FUL Foods (NL), Kaffe Bueno (DK), Inbiose (BE), Alberts (BE), Nimavert (BE), Montinutra (FI), Invertapro (NO), Bar.on (BE)

Partake in a unique and exclusive matchmaking event, supported by B2B partnering software and connecting start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs, large enterprises, research organisations, investors, and many other stakeholders who are part of the innovation chain and together shape the biobased economy. All participants will have full control of their own communications and 1-on-1 meetings via a secure login account. The software enables event attendees to pre-arrange business partnering meetings of 20 minutes each arranged around 25 matchmaking tables.

The matchmaking tool will be activated by July 1st at the latest. All registered participants will then receive a login and a password so they can start scheduling their meetings. 

Registered after July 1st? You will receive your access code to the matchmaking tool on the Wednesday following your registration. There will be no access codes sent between July 16th and August 7th due to Summer holidays.

Any questions on the matchmaking can be addressed to Anneleen.De.Vriendt@bbeu.org.

We reserve (max.) 20 booths for large companies, funding agencies, clusters, SME helpdesks & other innovation related organisations to present their activities. A booth is available at a rate of € 550 (excl. VAT). This rate includes one free registration as well as a table, two chairs and electricity upon request. Please contact Anneleen.De.Vriendt@bbeu.org for more information or to book your booth.

 

This joint event aims to attract top notch European innovators, start-ups and spin-offs from the biobased sector to present their solution/product/service concepts aiming to participate in the BioeconomyVentures programme and benefit from its services and connection with corporates and investors. At the same time the event will give the opportunity to corporates to propose challenges that can be solved via a bioeconomy approach, filtering needs according to specific priority areas (problem-solution-expected benefits).

Download the final programme and find out what's in it for you!