Eco Innovation and Job Creation Business Breakfast

8th November

Eco energy saving light bulbs on grass background

Eco innovation has the capacity to create new business opportunities, jobs, and economic growth across Northern Ireland. Join representatives from business and academia, as well as the public and third sectors, for a business breakfast on ‘Eco Innovation and Job Creation’. In addition to a short presentation from a leading business within this domain, the event will feature a panel discussion and networking opportunities.

Queen’s Management School 

Facilitator:
Julie McCandless, Queen’s Management School 

Panel:  
Kerry Curran, Acting Director Strategy and Policy, InterTrade
Kat Maguire, Lean Start-Up Programme Manager, Queen’s University Belfast
Elaine Smyth, Head of Innovation Community, Catalyst
Laura Steele, Senior Lecturer and Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability Champion at Queen’s Management School 

Business Keynote:
Will Ennett, Head of Sustainability TalkTalk

Eco Innovation and Job Creation Business Breakfast

8th November

8:30am - 10am | Queen’s Management School, Riddel Hall

Carol Lemmens - Arup

Carol is Arup’s Global Advisory Services Portfolio leader and interim Europe Property Business leader.

He was instrumental in developing Arup’s position paper to define the circular economy in the context of the built environment and developing Arup’s work as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s (EMF) knowledge partner for the built environment. He continues to work to raise the awareness of the circular economy approach from general first principles to practice by identifying the many challenges, enablers and opportunities available to Arup and others in making the circular economy a reality. Carol regularly contributes to Circular Economy and thought pieces, presentations and interviews globally. Most notably, Carol was invited to give a key note address to the United Nations General Assembly at their Circular Economy event, in October 2018.