Bioeconomy Innovation Forum supported by world class R&D
Bioeconomy Innovation Forum, organized by Adforum and Nordisk Papperstidning & Biobusiness, are pleased to announce that the two leading R&D centers in the forest industry, Innventia and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, have joined the event as conference partners.
– There is an increasing number of companies in various industries having a strong interest in sustainable biobased solutions, says Marcus Bergström, CEO Adforum and continues; taking the whole forest industry and also the pulp and paper exhibitions into consideration, it is essential that we also invite people from other industries to be part of the event. The forest industry companies should meet their existing and new customers, not only their own employees as has been the case at previous events.
– As forerunners of the forest industry we consider Bioeconomy Innovation Forum as a great platform for discussion about existing and future biobased products, says Birgitta Sundblad, President of Innventia. Innventia and VTT will work as conference partners for the event. Both parties will be part of a conference committee together with the organizers of the event. The committee will select the most interesting and suitable speakers for the different focus areas.
The conference will be organized in direct connection to the event area but in a separate conference room in order to secure the quality of the conference. Company and product presentations will be concentrated to another stage in the exhibition area in order to make a clear difference between the official conference program and direct product presentations.
The new event will be designed in order to highlight networking between different industry groups. In order to optimize the networking, the participants will be presented in networking islands and pod stations. Other features will be matchmaking, social events and company visits.
In 2016 the International Pulp & Paper Week and Bioeconomy Innovation Forum will take place at Stockholmsmässan, May 24-26th. The interest for the event has been great and a large number of companies has already signed up for the two different events.
– This is a great opportunity also for the foreign organizations to highlight their competence in a Scandinavian setting, says Kari Larjava, Executive Vice President of VTT Ltd.