Wood U Believe It? - A Sustainable Future Beyond Fossils
The popular FBI-DAY (Forest-based Industries) will once again bring together current and future experts in the forest industry in Lappeenranta on January 16, 2025. The responsibility for organizing the event varies each year, and this year, LUT Universitys' Chemical Engineering Guild is responsible for the practicalities in the event. The venue is the Lappeenranta Hall (Lappeenranta-sali).
Programme of the day:
Chair of the day: Journalist and producer Vesa Winberg
12.30 Welcome words
Donika Morina, Project Manager, Finnish Forest Products Engineers’ Association
12.40 Batteries powered by trees: Case Lignode
Otto Kivi, Business Development Manager, Battery materials, Stora Enso
13.05 KEYNOTE
Leaving fossils behind
Paula Lehtomäki, CEO, Finnish Forest Industries Federation
13.30 Project examples on going beyond fossils in practice
How to run an investment project on new technology: Case AISTI
Jarno Peltonen, Vice President, Biomass Processing, Elomatic
Antti Fredrikson, COO, AISTI
Commercializing new circular solutions: Case Nordic Bioproducts Group
Kalle Riihinen, COO, Nordic Bioproducts Group
14.20 Coffee and networking
15.30 KEYNOTE
Misconceptions and innovations in wood-based technologies (virtual presentation)
Jamie Hyneman, Inventor and CEO, M5 Industries, Professor of Practice, LUT University
15.55 Fireside discussion: Innovations and AI shaping forest industry – what next?
Sanna Valkonen, Senior Manager, UPM R&D and Technology
Ville Leminen, Professor, LUT University
Jarmo Tiilikka, Consultant, Honeywell
Eelis Zeiler, Student, LUT University
16.30 Exhibition and networking
18.00 Buffet dinner
20.30 After party
The program is in English and the event is free of charge. Join us for a productive career day full of networking!
Registration for the event has ended.
Keynote speakers:
Jamie Hyneman,
Inventor and CEO, M5 Industries, Professor of Practice, LUT University
Paula Lehtomäki,
CEO, Finnish Forest Industries Federation
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