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Space designer Cecilia Hertz keynote speaker at Urban Agriculture Summit 2013 in Linköping, Sweden

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Space designer Cecilia Hertz keynote speaker at Urban Agriculture Summit 2013 in Linköping, Sweden

STOCKHOLM (January 28, 2013) - The Urban Agriculture Summit in Linköping, Sweden, January 29-31, gathers experts, industry representatives and academia from all over the world to discuss transformative solutions on how to feed people in the urban era. Several well-know experts within agriculture, vertical farming, food safety and sustainable development will be speaking at the Summit.

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. 

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Umbilical Design was founded in 2001 by industrial designer Cecilia Hertz, and since its inception has worked with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) on design for the space industry. Umbilical Design has also been successful in showing how design, technology and material from the space industry can be transferred to Swedish enterprise and society.Umbilical Design is one of ten European companies that the ESA has designated National Technology Transfer Initiatives (NTTI). Umbilical Design’s assignment from the ESA is to oversee the transfer of technology from the space sector to Swedish industry with the overarching objective to stimulate business opportunities by exploiting the materials knowledge, methods and approaches of the space sector. www.umbilicaldesign.se

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Umbilical Design AB was founded in 2001 by industrial designer Cecilia Hertz, and since its inception has worked with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) on design for the space industry. Umbilical Design has also been successful in showing how design, technology and material from the space industry can be transferred to Swedish enterprise and society. During 15 years Umbilical Design has been appointed as ESA innovation partner. Umbilical Design oversees transfer of technology from the space sector to Swedish industry with the overarching objective to stimulate business opportunities by exploiting the materials knowledge, methods and approaches of the space sector. Our main focus is to commercialize space technologies for a sustainable earth. Umbilical Design is a proud winner of 2016 Red Herring Top 100 Europe. www.umbilicaldesign.se