CO2 PACMAN Business Forum
COoperation and CO-designing PArtnership for CliMAte Neutrality
25th – 26th June 2025
Las Naves – Valencia (Spain)
AGENDA
| DAY 1 — 25th June 2025 | LANGUAGE: Spanish (with translation) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Registration of the participants and Welcome |
| 16:30 – 17:10 |
Opening session. Institutional welcome
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| 17:10 – 17:45 |
Roundtable: Boost your company’s impact and raise finance Round table between 2 leading impact investment funds (sustainability, environmental, social, etc.) in Spain and the public investment fund for sustainable development. Orfeo Balboa, (Partner & Investment Manager in First Drop) |
| 18:00 – 18:45 |
How not to do greenwashing to be a real impact startup María Cruz-Conde, Head of Impact Analysis and Measurement at Global Social Impact Investments (SGIIC) |
| 18:45 – 19:30 | Networking |
| DAY 2 — 26th June 2025 | LANGUAGE: English |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Open Coffee |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration and welcome |
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
OI: How Open Innovation Attracted the Best Solutions Carmen Renovell (CEEI Valencia – project partner CO2 PACMAN) |
| 10:00 – 11:00 |
BRAC CHALLENGES (Komunalno društvo GRAD d.o.o. and Michelli Tomić doo) CHALLENGE: Route planner for identification of vessels and containers for waste on the island of Brač Challenger: (Komunalno društvo GRAD d.o.o. and Michelli Tomić doo) online CHALLENGE: Applicative solution for monitoring and reducing drinking water losses from the water supply system Challenger: Petar Anibalović (Vodovod Brač d.o.o.) CHALLENGE: FireSafeEV – increasing knowledge and safety for electric vehicle fires Challenger: Nikola Martinić-Dragan (Firebrigade – Supetar) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Short networking break |
| 11:30 – 13:30 |
CHALLENGE: Substitution of peat (non-renewable) with other organic materials to enhance the circular economy Challenger: (Intermunicipal Solid Waste Management Company) online CHALLENGE: Smart small-scale organic waste treatment system for medium and large hotels Challenger: (Rethymno Hoteliers Association) online CHALLENGE: Designing for Sustainable mobility – Smart data collection system for modal split analysis Challenger: (Rethymno Municipality in collaboration with the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Lab of the Technical University of Crete) online CHALLENGE: Sustainable Events: A Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality for the Island of Elba Challenger: Claudio Della Lucia (CER ELBA – Renewable Energy Community Elba island) CHALLENGE: Agroecology in the vineyard: vineyard-forest alternation Challenger: Antonio Arrighi (Arrighi Farm) CHALLENGE: Sun, Sea & Hydrogen Challenger: Acqua dell’Elba – Società Benefit |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Hands-on workshop: collaboration on challenge solutions |
| 15:30 – 16:00 |
INFIRE: The financial and economic evaluation toolbox for funding and how to use it INFIRE offers an innovative financial and economic evaluation toolbox to support public authorities in planning and funding climate adaptation and carbon neutrality projects across the Euro-MED region. This session will present practical tools and strategies to mobilize public and private capital, enhance strategic planning, and enable impactful, finance-ready climate solutions. Dimitris Kokosioulis |
| 16:00 – 16:45 |
Roundtable with challengers Petar Anibalović (Vodovod Brač d.o.o.) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Top-rated OI results |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | Technological innovations for decarbonization |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Closing and conclusions |
