Noemi De Santis

How an app can change people recycling habits

Noemi De Santis is the co-founder of Junker: an app that scans product labels and tells you where to throw them away, helping you to sort your waste easily, quickly and above all without mistakes.

Robert Gierke

Transform your business purpose into a more sustainable and greener one

Rob Gierke and Purenessity: a consulting company that helps the process of building brands or their transition to a greener purpose. In the role of judge, there is the youngest generation: they expect companies absolute transparency and to make a significant contribution towards achieving a greater ethical goal.

Thorsten Harstall

How apply ethics to a sustainable business innovation

The question "How to apply ethics to sustainable business innovation?" was the starting point for Thorsten Harstall, who gave us a presentation on how ethics can be applied to different types of business strategies both for start-ups and established companies, and some useful tips on how to start a journey towards sustainable ethics.

Filippo Zibordi

Environmental organization - How to get fundings

Filippo Zibordi talks about Environmental Grants, a platform that supports professionals of environmental management and conservation to navigate the funding process.

Katerina Dimova

Sustainable building case study: the use of rice for architecture

Katerina Dimova is Architect and Project Manager in Ricehouse, a startup born in Italy, that tackles the impact of the construction industry by creating new sustainable building materials from rice wastes.

Noemi Castelletta

The sustainability report in a nutshell

Although being compulsory only for certain business typologies, sustainability reporting is becoming more and more widespread among companies as a means to inform their stakeholders about their environmental impact and CSR activities. Indeed, a sustainability implementation report allows consumers to learn more about brands and companies’ behaviours, communicating a business’ transparency, honesty, and responsibility. Find out what sustainability reporting is and why is it important for any kind of company.

Fabian Takacs

Circular Economy: the 4 steps to build a circular product offering

Fabian Takacs examines the concept of circular economy, with a focus on business model innovation for Small and medium enterprises. Follow these 4 steps to designing a circular business model leading to a circular product offering: Close, Improve, Monetise, and Excite the loop.

Serena Rebecca Moro

Fashion and sustainability: awareness and challenges among Italian fashion businesses

The pandemic and the alarming climate change triggered the re-evaluation of companies’ priorities, leaving increasing space for sustainability. This Report focuses on fashion industry challenges with regards to the sustainability transition process, aiming at helping companies – which have already reached a considerable level of awareness – to understand how to preserve their competitiveness.

Dario Grünenfelder

Rethink the textile industry from the roots

Dario Gruenenfelder, founder of Muntagnard, focus on fashion supply chain transparency and talks about how business success and sustainability do not need to contradict each other: generating more value by reusing and recycling in the textile industry.

Maryna Grytsenko

What is Corporate Social Responsibility today?

Individuals’ daily behaviours have an environmental impact, whose negative consequences are often only visible in the long-term, when it is too late. Even the smallest individual action leaves a footprint. If positive or negative, it is up to us. Of course, this is true for business as well. That’s why companies are increasingly including Corporate Social Responsibility within their business agenda, often as the result of consumers asking for brands and companies’ greater involvement in societal and environmental issues.

Ryan Edwards

The ecosystem approach in Agri-food innovation.

Ryan Edwards, co-founder of Naked Innovations, operates in the sector of Agri-food sustainability, supporting startups and their collaboration across the food industry.

Patricia Matzdorf

Circular Economy strategies to address the 9 planetary boundaries

Patricia Matzdorf is a Partnership and Project Manager in Innovation & Socio-Economic Change at WWF, Switzerland, where they support all of those who are trying to find solutions for the planet, helping them to increase their impact and their visibility.