22 April 2024
Panel Discussion. Entrepreneurship, Startups and Innovations for Energy Transition.
within the framework of the annual scientific conference "Actual Problems of Management and Marketing"
Dates: April 18, 2024
10.00-11.00 Kyiv time
09.00-10.00 CET
Online on ZOOM
working language is English
10:00 (5 min) Welcome, everyone, to our panel discussion on Entrepreneurship and innovations for energy transition. We are having this conversation as a part of the EU-funded project WEnnovate and the host of our meeting is the annual scientific conference "Actual Problems of Management and Marketing." of the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. Thank you, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy for giving us this stage! I'd like to inform our audience that today's panel discussion will be recorded for future reference and dissemination. The recording will be available on the partners’ webpages.
My name is Olga Voropai, project coordinator and innovation expert at the Kyiv Academic University. Together with my Colleague, Natalia Harashchenko, project manager of the WEnnovate project, we will lead you through this, hopefully very insightful discussion.
(2 min) Natalia, could you please introduce our guests to the WEnnovate project.
Nataliia:
The project is dedicated to revolutionizing the energy sector through innovations. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: transition towards a green, sustainable, and locally powered energy system for Europe. It means leveraging digital and deep tech advancements to ensure efficient renewable energy distribution, making it fair, self-sufficient, affordable, and universally accessible. It also means fostering the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the strategic objectives of the New European Innovation Agenda, strengthening the pathways towards Clean Energy for All Europeans and boosting Local Energy Communities and Energy Sharing.
The project involves studying the views, approaches and estimates by different stakeholders - government, business, scientists and civil society representatives - to clear out the subject matter from their perspectives and boost better understanding for policymaking.
WEnnovate includes the following partners: Design Terminal, G-Force, Sustainable Scale-up Foundation, Unify.energy, Kyiv Academic University, Ukrainian Startup Fund, and the Province of Utrecht. Together, as the outcome, we are crafting long-term action plans to elevate our energy systems through innovation.
https://wennovate.designterminal.org/
We have an esteemed group of panelists here today to delve into some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing us in innovation ecosystems development for energy transition ..
Without further ado, let's introduce our panelists.
Olga introduces panelists
(5 min) Could you please briefly introduce yourself?
Tamer Abu-Alam profesor of the The Arctic University of Norway, project coordinator of a number of EU-funded projects - CLoudErathi Inspiring the Minds, Boosttalent, Seedplus which are all aimed at increasing universities’ capacity in nurturing entrepreneurial talents for deep tech and sustainable innovations
Milena Komar, Director of Kyiv School of Energy Policy DIXI group,
Yuliya Galustyan is an adviser to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine on issues of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men, preventing and countering gender-based violence.
Stanislav Ignatev, Chairman of the Ukrainian Renewable Energy Association Council,
Nadiia Vasylieva, Founder of The Digital Transformation Institute of Ukraine,
Arash Aazami, founder of the dutch company Unify.Energy and his colleague Synergy Hackathon,
Max Goijarts, who both work to connect multiple participant of the energy sector to empower fair and inclusive local energy communities and build their energy independence.
Each panelist will have 2 minutes to share their insights on the questions we have in mind. Dear panelists, if you are willing to respond to a certain question, please raise your hands. After all questions are asked and the panelists have spoken we'll open the floor to the questions from our guests. Please write your questions in the chat during the discussion, and panelists and everyone, please, feel free to give the answers in the chat. Let's make the most of this hour to explore the important issues of innovations in the energy sector.
"Energy efficiency and energy storage solutions are key to the future energy transition. We need to ensure technological diversification of the energy sector and focus on finding synergies."
We invite you to continue the discussion on the role of entrepreneurship, startups and innovation in the energy transition in a special edition of Empirio. Articles are accepted until June 10, 2024.
We also invite you to fill out the contact form and join the next events of the WEnnovate project, whose team is working on developing an action plan to strengthen the innovation ecosystem in the energy sector and ensure a double green and digital transition in the energy sector.
