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Space designer Cecilia Hertz confirmed keynote speaker at the Urban Agriculture Summit, January 29-31,
One of the keynote speakers is Cecilia Hertz, industrial designer, founder and CEO of Umbilical Design. Cecilia Hertz has a vast experience in interior design for space vehicles and is now specialized in space technology transfer. Solutions developed for space could be applied on tomorrows cities.
Other experts participating in the Summit as keynote speakers are Dr. Dickson Despommier, "the father of vertical farming", Professor Beatrix Alsanius, professor in Horticulture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Alnarp, Professor Oren R. Lyons, Onondaga Nation and Chairman of Plantagon International, Dr. He Jie, from Nanyang Technical University in Singapore, expert on environmental stresses on photosynthesis, Professor Jan Staël von Holstein, Professor at the The College of Design & Innovation (D&I) Tongji University in Shanghai, and Dennis Pamlin, entrepreneur and Director for the Low Carbon Leaders Project under the UN Global Compact and Maria Wetterstrand, former member of the Swedish parliament and leader of the Swedish green party "Miljöpartiet de Gröna", and several more.
For a list of all speakers and the Summit program please see the online invitation here.
Press information
A press briefing will be held just before the opening of the Summit, the 29th of January, at 05:00 PM at the Summit venue Linköping Kongress & Konsert.
Media accreditation
Media interested in covering the Summit are welcome to apply for accreditation here by filling in this online form.
More information
Please contact Carin Balfe Arbman, Press Contact for the Summit, on e-mail or by phone 46-70-633 35 08.
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