2020 Industrial Hemp – from the world to Skåne

Join us – A virtual conference from Sweden.

We will hear about the thriving market of industrial hemp in the world as well as its potential for the Swedish countryside, agriculture, the construction-and textile industry in particular.

The conference is co-produced by Swedish Hemp Industries, Innovationscenter för Landsbygden and Sustainable Business Hub.

Date: December 3rd 2020

Time: 8:45AM – 15:00PM CET

Online streaming: Streaming link will be provided after registration

Fee: We are proud to be able to offer you this amazing event free of charge.

Our conference begins with a view of the world via leading players from the USA, the EU and Denmark. Then we deep-dive and focus on the potential of Swedish hemp industry in the building-and textile industries.

The event is held in English til ca 10:30 AM CET and in Swedish after that.

Welcome!

The registration for this event is closed. For inquiries please contact info@svenskhampaindustri.se

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DIGITAL ATTENDANTS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

08:45

CONFERENCE START

HOUR LIVE STREAM

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Geoff Whaling

Chairman American National Hemp Association, President of Collective Growth

Francesco Mirizzi

Senior Policy Advisor – EIHA – European Industrial Hemp Association

Bodil Engberg Pallesen

Specialist Danish Technological Institute

Clara Norell

CEO Nordiska Hampa kompaniet, Owner Swedish Hemp Industries

Helena Kurki

Director Innovationscenter för Landsbygden

Marie Elfving

Chairwoman Industrial Hemp Association Sweden

Sven-Erik Svensson

Lecturer at the Department of Biosystems & Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

TBA

PROGRAM

8:45 – 9:00 Check in online – get engaged in the chat

9:00 – 9:10 Live from the studio in Skåne, Sweden

Opening Remarks: Moderator, Helena Kurki, Director Innovationscenter för Landsbygden

Welcome to Skåne: Magnus Weberg, Municipal Board Chairman Sjöbo

9.10 – 10:30 International session, in English

Opening keynote-speaker:

Geoff Whaling, Chairman American National Hemp Association, Co-Founder & President of Collective Growth Corporation

EU keynote speaker:

Francesco Mirizzi, Senior Policy Advisor – EIHA – EIHA – European Industrial Hemp Association

Danish keynote-speaker:

Bodil Engberg Pallesen, Senior Advisor & Specialist at Danish Technological Institute , Project Manager Hemp4Tex

10:10 – 10:20 Q&A – get engaged in the chat

10:20 – 10:30 Fika – take the opportunity to network in chat

10.30 – 15.00 Swedish Session

10:30 – 11:00 Swedish keynote Speaker

Clara Norell, Founder Shi – Swedish Hemp Industries & Co-Founder & CEO Nohak – Nordiska Hampa Kompaniet presents her current mission on behalf of SLU Holding AB ”Decortication of Industrial Hemp – in Sweden”

11:00 – 12:00 BUILDING INDUSTRY- panel including breakout-sessions

Peter Holmdahl, Co-Founder House of Hemp

Andreas Holmgren, LFM30 & Head of Sustainability, Byggnadsfirman Otto Magnusson AB

Lars Persson, Business Developer at Sustainable Business Hub Scandinavia AB

Paulien Strandberg de Bruijn, Researcher at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund

Remi Loren, Co-Founder & Msc in Strategic Marketing & BBA Administration Ekolution AB

12:10 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 13:45 TEXTILE INDUSTRY-panel including breakout-sessions

Cecilia Tall, Secretary General TEKO, of TEKO, Sweden’s Textile & Fashion Company, one of the members of the Government’s collaboration program for business climate change.

Linda Nydén, Coordinator SCIENCE PARK BORÅS / SMART TEXTILES

Ernesto Prosperi, Co-Founder Malmö Industries

Sonia Nybom, Co-Founder/CEO GOS4U

Git Skoglund, Hemp TextileLab, textile researcher, freelance writer & exhibition producer. Has since the 1990s researched Cannabis / Hemp in both historical and contemporary production. Consultant in the international team BioAgronomics Group

13:45 – 14:00 Break

14:00 – 14:30 Closing Remarks – get engaged in the chat

14:30 – 14:45 Passing the torch – Next step

Swedish Keynote Speaker: Mari Elfving, Ordförande Industrihampaföreningen i Sverige

14:45 – 15:00 Thank you for today – opening up the floor – get engaged in the chat

The partners behind the event:

Innovationscenter för Landsbygden, Sustainable Business Hub and Swedish Hemp Industries

PROGRAM

Opening remarks: Moderator: Helena Kurki, Director Innovationscenter för Landsbygden

kl. 09:15 – 11:30 English session

Prime Keynote Speaker:

Geoff Whaling, Chair NHA – National Hemp Association USA & President Collective Growth Corporation

European keynote speakers

Francesco Mirizzi, Senior Policy Advisor – EIHA – EIHA – European Industrial Hemp Association

FRANCE _ TBA

Bodil Engberg Pallesen, Specialist Danish Technological Institute , presenting her work and newly awared 14 million DK hemp textile innovation project: Hemp4Tex

Mari Elfving, Chair ISHF – Industrihampaföreningen i Sverige

TBA Researcher Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Swedish session:

kl. 11:30 – 12:00 Decortication & Innovation o industrial hemp in Sweden

Clara Norell, Co-Founder/CEO Nohak – Nordiska Hampa Kompaniet & Founder SHI – Svensk Hampaindustri presenting the work she has been doing during 2020 in collaboration with SLU Holding AB

kl. 12 – 13 Lunch

kl. 13 – 14

BUILDING INDUSTRY- panel including breakout-sessions

Peter Holmdahl, Co-Founder House of Hemp

Andreas Holmgren, LFM30 & Head of Sustainability, Byggnadsfirman Otto Magnusson AB

Lars Persson, Business Developer at Sustainable Business Hub Scandinavia AB

Paulien Strandberg de Bruijn, Researcher at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund

kl. 14 – 15 TEXTILE INDUSTRY-panel including breakout-sessions

Cecilia Tall, Secretary General TEKO, of TEKO, Sweden’s Textile & Fashion Company, one of the members of the Government’s collaboration program for business climate change.

Linda Nydén, Coordinator SCIENCE PARK BORÅS / SMART TEXTILES

Ernesto Prosperi, Co-Founder Malmö Industries,

Sonia Nybom, Co-Founder/CEO GOS4U

15:00 – 15:15 Fika/Break

15:15 – 15:30 Next step

Closing Remarks by Moderator and handing over the torch to Swedish Industrial Hemp Association.

15:30 Thank you & Good Bye

Please note that we carefully follow all recommendations from the Swedish Public Health Agency, which may affect the program. We reserve the right to make time changes.

RSVP latest by 27 November – registration form belowWelcome!

We look forward to having you all on board on this amazing day!

Warm regards,

Co-production team Swedish Hemp Industries. Innovationscenter för Landsbygden Sustainable Business Hub

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2021 INDUSTRIAL HEMP
FOR A BIOBASED & FOSSIL FREE FUTURE

INDUSTRIAL HEMP
FOR A BIOBASED & FOSSIL FREE FUTURE

We warmly welcome you to join us online for a day filled with opportunities to expand both your knowledge and network around industrial hemp. An agricultural- and industrial crop producing highly nutritious food as well as sustainable carbon neutral and biobased materials, while improving the soil and absorbing up to 20 tonnes CO2/hectar.

We present a line-up of global leaders, researchers and lighthouse projects from the billion dollar industry that hemp is. You will also get to hear from Swedish hemp entrepreneurs, researchers and non profit organisations. To showcase the potential for the Swedish countryside, agriculture, food, construction-and textile industry in particular.

Our intention is to put Skåne, Sweden on the thriving global hemp market. With the ambition to inspire for new bio-based and fossil free market segments, which will also contribute to new research, innovation and transform industries.

SHI – Swedish Hemp Industries in proud collaboration with IHFS – Industrial Hemp Association Sweden , HoH – House of Hemp Sweden and EIHA – European Industrial Hemp Association invites you to our 2nd annual online industrial hemp conference, live from Sweden. Here we lay the foundation for listening to and learning from each other, paving a path towards a better world, where the innovation of today can be the leading factor of tomorrow.

Date: May 5th 2021

Time: 9AM – 5PM CET

Where: online – streaming link will be provided after registration.

Fee: The event is free of charge

Language: English

RSVP: Latest by May 1st

Register today by clicking: here!

Welcome – we look forward to having you on board!

We set the intention of the conference with this beautiful short film produced by Johanna Hansen: Hemp Love!

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DIGITAL ATTENDANTS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

HOUR LIVE STREAM

SESSIONS + Q&A

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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Steve De Angelo

A lifelong activist, author, educator, investor, and entrepreneur who goes under the nickname: ”The Father of the Legal Industry”

Kimberly Kovacs

CEO, The Arcview GroupFirst Board of Director Chairwoman of a broker-dealer that specializes in hemp & cannabis. Co-founded Global Hemp Day and worked with the U.S. Government to raise grant capital for the Clean Air Act.

Francesco Mirizzi

Senior Policy Advisor EIHA – European Industrial Hemp Association

Maren Krings

Documentary Photographer of soon to be released Hemp Book

Martin Erlandsson

Adjunct Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Research Team Leader, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

Elsa Fahlén

Innovation Leader, Hoppet Göteborgs stad
Lokalförvaltningen

Laurent Mouly

Architech & Engineer, LM Ingénieur

Paulien Strandberg-de Bruijn

PhD, Division Building Materials, Lund University

Rick Trojan III

President of the Hemp Industries Association

Bodil Engberg Pallesen

Specialist Danish Technological Institute

Simon Nilsson

Structural Engineer H22 and Co-owner of CM Byggkonsult

Marie Elfving

Chairwoman Industrial Hemp Association Sweden

Liga Appelgren

Founder Hampalöv, Hampaförmedling

Peter Holmdahl

Co-Founder House of Hemp Sweden

Helena Kurki

Director Innovationscenter för Landsbygden

Helena Wellberg

Board Member IHSF – Industrial Hemp Association Sweden

Henning Eliasson

CEO, Koljern Nordic AB

Remi Loren

Co-Founder & Msc in Strategic Marketing & BBA Administration, Ekolution AB

Maria Brorsson

Buying Director Fashion Industry & Textile Hemp Enthusiast

Alexander Landborn

Head of Sustainability, LINK Arkitektur

Kerstin Eriksson

Innovation Leader. Sweden Food Arena

Michiel Scheffer

Programme Manager Sustainable Textiles,Wageningen University & Research

Mandi Lynn Kerr

CEO & Founder, GHA – Global Hemp Association

Clara Norell

Owner Swedish Hemp Industries Moderator

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PROGRAM

INDUSTRIAL HEMP – FOR A BIOBASED & FOSSIL FREE FUTURE

Morning Programme

08:45 Drop In for studio audience

09:00 Introduction of the day

Moderator: Clara Norell, SHI – Swedish Hemp Industries.

Setting the intention: Watch this beautiful short film produced by Johanna Hansen: Hemp Love!

09:15 – 11:00 Global Outlook Session with Q&A

Opening Remarks:

Steve De Angelo, – a lifelong activist, author, educator, investor, and entrepreneur who goes under the nickname: ”The Father of the Legal Industry”.

Prime Keynote Speaker:

Kim Kovacs, CEO The Arcview Group

Keynote Speakers

Francesco Mirizzi, Senior Policy Advisor, EIHA – European Industrial Hemp Association

Maren Krings, Documentary Photographer. Since 2016 Maren Krings has documented the worldwide rediscovery of industrial hemp, photographing more than 200 projects, interviewing more than 80 industry-experts and travelling 26 countries – which is soon to be released as a book about hemp‘s potential to mitigate the ecological crisis. The book will be printed on hemp paper. To become a supporter of the book and get your logo in the book, please read the sponsor opportunities here!

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11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:15 – 11:30 Sweden Food Arena, Kerstin Erikssson, Innovation Leader, Sweden Food Arena

11:30 – 12:30 Textile Session with Q&A

This session is still a work in progress – all speakers TBA.

Speakers:

Bodil Engberg Pallesen, Specialist Teknologisk Institut

Helena Wellberg, IHFS – Industrial Hemp Association Sweden

12:30 – 13:00 Lunch

Afternoon Programme

13:00 – 15:30 Nature is high-tech: Building session with Q&A

This session is a follow up, on demand, of last year´s Nature is High Tech-event. Join us for a virtual deep dive where we visit a building course in Sweden, arranged by House of Hemp Sweden and L‘Ecole Nationale du Chanvre

Keynote Speakers:

Elsa Fahlén, Innovation Leader, Hoppet – Lokalförvaltningen, Göteborgs stad.

Alexander Landborn, Head of Sustainability, LINK Arkitektur

Martin Erlandsson, Adjunct Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Research Team Leader, IVL – Swedish Environmental Research Institute

Laurent Mouly, Architech & Engineer, LM Ingénieur

Simon Nilsson, Structural Engineer H22 and Co-owner of CM Byggkonsult

Remi Loren, Co-Founder & Msc in Strategic Marketing & BBA Administration, Ekolution AB

Henning Eliasson, Koljern Nordic AB

Peter Holmdahl, Co-Founder House of Hemp Sweden

Michael Andersén, Building Constructor & Founder Byggnadshantverk

Paulien Strandberg-de Bruijn, PhD Division Building Materials, Lund University

15:30 – 15:45 Break

15:45 – 16:45 Collaboration Session with Q&A

This session will talk about different member-related collaboration platforms around hemp, bio-based and fossil-free industries and how we can work together to drive change.

Speakers:

Rick Trojan III, Advisor to the National Hemp Association, a Board member of the Industrial Hemp Research Foundation, and recently the Board member of Vote Hemp

Mari Elfving, Chair IHFS – Industrial Hemp Association Sweden and Founder Dalarö Hampa & Miljö AB

Liga Appelgren, Founder Hampalöv and Hampaförmedlingen

Helena Kurki, Director Innovationcenter

16:45 – 17:00 Closing Remarks Q&A with Moderator Clara Norell, Audience and the co-producing team: Peter Holmdahl, Mari Elfving and Helena Wellbergh

17:00 End of Event

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Hemp is the answer to many of the societal challenges experienced by countries in different ways and levels. If every country would cultivate hemp and have a process-and supply chain around it – I believe we could change the world.

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Clara Norell
CEO Svensk Hampaindustri