Engineering words into action in Kiev, on June 15th

Jens Martin Skibsted

Designer and design thinker whose work has been collected by SFMOMA, MoMA, The Danish Museum of Art & Design and Le CNAP.

He introduced a new path to urban sustainability by making bicycles that compete with combustion cars. Skibsted is the creator of the bike company Biomega, the African design magazine Ogojiii, and design studio KiBiSi, which he co-founded with Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and product designer Lars Holme Larsen. He consults out of Skibsted Ideation. A Young Global Leader alumnus, he was Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Design & Innovation and is now a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Cities and Urbanization. He serves as the Vice-Chair of D2i – Design to innovate and is currently also a Board Member of the Bitten and Mads Clausen (Danfoss) Foundation, and the Danish Design Centre. Skibsted has co-authored design strategy books and serves as an ad hoc expert blogger for the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and the Huffington Post.

He graduated from the film school ESEC in Paris, from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Project Management, and from Copenhagen University where he studied Philosophy and Cross Media Communication.

Anette S. Galskjøt

CEO International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP)

Anette joined the IFHP in 2015. The last two years Anette has led the transformation of the 104-year-old organization to be relevant for the 21st century, which has resulted in a new strong focus on social cities. She has a Danish law degree and an LLM from Kings College, London and is currently enrolled at the London School of Economics (Exec. MSc, Cities), a degree she expects to finalize in February 2018. Anette has been working with leadership, stakeholder relations, consulting and project management for more than 20 years in a.o. investment banking, IT and international trade. Anette is a member of the strategic advisory board of OvaCure, board member of Skovsnogen and member of the strategic advisory board of the Future of Urban Development and Services Initiative under the World Economic Forum.

John Dulac

Energy Analyst in the Directorate of Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks at the International Energy Agency.

He leads the energy technology and policy analysis in the buildings sector, contributing to IEA efforts to better understand the implications for an energy-efficient, low-carbon economy.

Lars Tveen

President, Danfoss Heating Segment

Lars Tveen is the President of the Heating Segment at Danfoss – a global leader in energy efficient technology and solutions.

Danfoss Heating offers heating and cooling solutions for generating, distributing and adjusting heat by providing an efficient green infrastructure which contributes to achieving optimum indoor comfort and energy savings in residential and commercial buildings all over the world.

Mads Warming

Global Lead, Water & Wastewater, Danfoss Drives

Mr Warming has been Global Strategy Business manager for Danfoss’ previous Instrumentation and Flow business unit as well as CEO for Danfoss Analytical. Received an Innovation award at WEFTEC as well as Danfoss got an innovation award from CAMBICA, UK for the energy neutrality concept

During the global work with the Water & Wastewater Industry for more than 25 years a lot of theoretical and practical experience has been gained. Board member of Danish Environmental Technology Association

Paul Voss

Director General Euroheat & Power

Paul Voss has been active in the EU energy policy debate for 12 years and has been the Managing Director of Euroheat & Power since late 2013. Prior to this, he was Head of Public Affairs at Danfoss District Energy, a global leader in the field of efficient technology for heating and cooling networks.

Together with his team of extremely talented and award winning colleagues at Euroheat, Paul spends his working days telling stories, drinking coffee and arguing (1) that there can be no real energy transition without a fundamental change in the way we heat our buildings and (2) that district heating and cooling, when it’s done properly, has a massive role to play in achieving this, particularly in cities.

Outside of work, Paul’s a keen long-distance runner, an enthusiastic drinker of irritatingly trendy micro-brewery beers and (he hopes) an adequate husband, Dad and dog owner. He’s originally from the UK but grew up mostly in Canada and settled in Belgium after stints in France, Guatemala and South Korea.