Innovate the green industry with us at Kekkilä-BVB’s a two-day virtual festival – Grow22
Grow22 – one of the horticulture and growing industry’s milestone events will bring together key stakeholders from across the horticulture, gardening and landscaping industry to discuss advancing the green agenda.
Run by the European leader in horticulture, Kekkilä-BVB, Grow22 will unite sustainability enthusiasts to push progress in the horticultural world during a two-day festival taking place online between 1 and 2 March 2022.
“Nowadays, sustainability has become a seemingly unavoidable buzzword. Grow22 will bring the focus back to real, impactful actions and host meaningful conversations about advancing the green future for our industry” says Juha Mäkinen, CEO of Kekkilä-BVB.
Agenda
The festival will ignite inspiring conversations on the challenges, demands and innovation that drive the development of sustainability in the horticulture and growing industry. Several keynote speeches, sessions, and panel discussions on specially selected themes such as alternative packaging materials, safe food production and e-commerce will offer room for these thoughts. Sessions will be in English with local webinars available in Finnish, Swedish and German.
- Day 1 (Tuesday 1 March) will focus on the role of growing media as the foundation of safe green food and its impact on daily lives and businesses.
- Day 2 (Wednesday 2 March) will further shed light on the broad ecosystem and explore the best steps and milestones to take us towards a circular and a fully digitalised economy.
Hear from unique speakers such as
– Rik Vera, Author & Business philosopher. Discussing the evolving food production ecosystem economy.
– Chris Blok, a prominent Researcher of horticulture at Wageningen University & Research.
– Gerard Sikes, CEO of Sikes Champignons, a modern self sufficient mushroom farm.
– Dr Jarkko Leivo, Technology Director of Brightplus, a start-up redefining functional biomaterial innovations.
– Cate Trotter, Head of Trends, Insider Trends. Providing an overview of the transformation of retail trends.
– William Neale, Circular Economy Adviser, European Commission DG ENVI.
– Alexander Boedijn, Researcher at wageninge Uniersity & Research specialising in greenhouse horticulture in the circular economy