Founder & COO, Beyond A Strategy, Inc.

Leading Your Company to the Next Level: Managing & Leveraging Complexity, Creativity and Innovation [pdf / 2,1MB]

                Partner, Early Bird Venture Capital

Cleantech Ventures: A Maturing Asset Class [pdf / 116 KB]

Later Stage Ventures I
Moderator: Volker Krauth, forseo GmbH

01  Graphene and Ionic Liquid Based Ultracapacitors for Energy Storage
      Dr Dileep Agnihotri, Graphene Energy, Austin TX, USA

02  Solar air collector - most efficient heating system for buildings worldwide
      Jochen Klingler, EnerSearch GmbH, Waiblingen

03  Smart Natural Ventilation of Buildings [pdf / 1,1 MB]
       Peter Voit, Transsolar Inc., New York, USA

04  An inexpensive solar water heating system for small households
      Christiane Schütze, Helianth Systems Ltd., London, UK

05  Thermal  storage with paraffin technology [pdf / 140 KB]
       Rüdiger Meyer, VIAK Gmbh Dept. REVOSOL, Kirchlinteln

06  Hydrogen Technology - Cost-efficient products for Market Entry [pdf / 1 MB]
       Uwe Küter, h-tec Wasserstoff-Energie-Systeme GmbH, Lübeck

Early Stage Ventures
Moderator: Georgine Ludin, Cyberforum e.V.

07  Dynamic Ridesharing Systems - efficient mobility with flinc
      Michael Hübl, flinc - move together, Dieburg

08  Microprocessor controlled, autonomous Solar Charger for all kind of
      recharable batteries
      Heiner Schmeck, CTC GmbH, Böblingen

09  ambeeQ: Recyclable & robust Tablet-PCs
      Malte Binting, ambeeQ Technology UG, Konstanz

10  Wattfox.de provides free personalized recommendations for
      home owners how to best reduce energy cost
      Martin Holzwarth, Wattfox, Freiburg

11  Improved Efficiency and Emission Reduction by Thermal Recuperation in Propulsion Systems [pdf / 800 KB]
        Ewald Küpfer, Innodrive GmbH, Schweinfurt

12  Xanon X1 - Bionic Electric Vehicle [pdf / 1 MB]
        Ulrich Steinlechner, in Gründung, Ludwigshafen

Later Stage Ventures II
Moderator: Volker Krauth, forseo GmbH

13  The Magenn Air Rotor System (MARS) [pdf / 800 KB]
       Anthony Pizarro, Magenn Power, Inc., Ottawa, Canada

14  Making Marine Renewable Energy Mainstream [pdf / 1,3 MB]
       Matthias Haag, Aquamarine Power, Edinburgh, UK

15  Building and Facility Automation with most simplified technology [pdf / 1,3 MB]
       Lars Pramme, Habitron GmbH, Aglasterhausen

16  Electricity Storage in Magnesium Hydride Slurry [pdf / 500 KB]
       Kenneth Brown, Safe Hydrogen, Lexington MA, USA

17  Development & Sales of the latest fuel cell system technology and fuel cell
      based energy solutions
      Bettina Drehmann, FutureE Fuel Cell Solutions GmbH, Nürtingen

Innovation Matching
Moderator: Corinna Thumm, Cyberforum e.V.

18  Motonaut - a new propulsion technique, 20% more efficient
      Philipp Schwarz, Motonautic GbR, Frankfurt am Main

19  H2Hydrid [pdf / 4 MB]
       Dominik Lembke, Bayerische EliteAkademie, Munich

20  Development and application of novel solution-processable
      organic optoelectronic materials
      Dr. Tobias Grab, cynora GmbH, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

21  Optimizing wind turbine performance in low and variable speed winds [pdf / 500 KB]
      Ian Kaplan, Variable Wind Solutions Ltd., Tel-Aviv, Israel

Biotechnology in the Cleantech Sector
Moderator: Dr Wolfgang Künnecke, BIO PRO Baden-Württemberg GmbH

      Introduction: "The innovation potential of biotechnology in the cleantech sector" [pdf / 800 KB]
       Dr Martin Follmann, BIO PRO Baden-Württemberg GmbH

23  Bringing high performance bioplastics to market –
      Challenges and business strategies
      Dr Arnold Schneller, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen

24  Metagenome analysis as a tool for the optimization of biogas plants
      Dr Bernhard Nüßlein, nadicom GmbH, Karlsruhe

25  Development of a CO2 neutral Methanol production system from biomass/biogas and wind or solar energy [pdf / 800 KB]
       Alois Hauk, AEN Autarke Energie GmbH, Leibertingen

26  Industrial production of microalgae biomass
      with flat-panel airlift photobioreactors
      Dr Peter Ripplinger, Subitec GmbH, Stuttgart

bwcon: workshop coach & connect
Moderator: Dr Andreas Findeis, bwcon e.V.

• Dr Patrick Stähler, fluidminds, Zürich, CH
• Olaf Jacobi, Target Partners, Munich

• Dinner Speaker: Christian Couturier, General Director, National Research Council Canada, Institute for Information Technology
• bwcon: award "Best Business Idea"