--- title: "Symposium on cross-sector sustainable innovation" description: "Symposium on cross-sector sustainable innovation | Arden" canonical: "https://ads.pr1.ops.ads.arden-prod01.arden.ac.uk/berlin/knowledge-base/news-and-events/sustainable-innovation-symposium" published: 2022-09-15 updated: 2022-10-06 author: "Arden University" --- # Symposium on cross-sector sustainable innovation #### Research Symposium **Date**: Tuesday 11 October 2022 **Time**: 13:00 – 17:00 CET (12:00 – 16:00 GMT) **Venue**: Arden University Berlin Campus Dessauer Str. 3-5 10963 Berlin **About the symposium** The Symposium on cross-sector sustainable innovation is the first in the series of Arden's initiatives for linking academia with the industry and fostering sustainable practices. This Symposium will bring various stakeholders from the industry and academia to provide a platform for the discourse to bring in innovative ideas for sustainable transformation in the areas relating to financing, business model, social mobility and migration, project management, and sustainable reporting. [Register to attend the Symposium here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-cross-sector-sustainable-innovation-tickets-418979066667) **Schedule** **13.00 - 13.30** **CET** (12.00 – 12.30 GMT) *Arden Reception Ground Floor* Arrival and Refreshments **13:30 – 13:40 CET** (12:30 – 12:40 GMT), *Audimax* Welcome Note Dr. Tobias Kliem (Head of Campus) [Zoom link](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-cross-sector-sustainable-innovation-tickets-418979066667) *Meeting ID: 975 1881 9178* *Passcode: 760583* **13:40 – 14:30 CET** (12:40 – 13:30 GMT), *Audimax* Keynote Dr. Phungmayo Horam (Academic Lead) [Zoom link](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-cross-sector-sustainable-innovation-tickets-418979066667) *Meeting ID: 975 1881 9178* *Passcode: 760583* **14:30 – 15:30 CET** (13:30 – 14:30 GMT) Track 1: Sustainable Business Innovation **Track lead:** Dr. Sara Ramzani **Speakers:** - Prof. Dr. Berthold Kuhn – Freie Universität Berlin, Sustainability and Global Megatrends - Prof. Dimitrios Zikos, HTW – Application of Game theory - Prof. Valliappan Raju, Dr. Sara Ravan Ramzani, Dr. Alison Watson – Sustainable reporting - Dr. Behrooz Gharleghi – Green finance *Audimax* [Zoom link](https://arden-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97518819178?pwd=U3FVUzNyK1htTDg1MW85VDBHcSsrdz09%20) *Meeting ID: 975 1881 9178* *Passcode: 760583* Track 2: Business Sustainability **Track Lead:** Dr. Shoaib Abdul Basit **Speakers:** - Ellen Stenslie, Sustainable financing - Dr. Rachel John Robinson, Arden University, Business sustainable solution: KMS automation - Tobias Stähler, Arden University, Reflecting on collaboration using an ego-project approach - Dr Elham Shirvani, Arden University, The Pedagogical Problems of Iranian Children between 8-12 Years of Age as considering sustainability education from the Viewpoint of pragmatist *Room 3.22* [Zoom link](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-cross-sector-sustainable-innovation-tickets-418979066667) *Meeting ID: 994 3140 2175* *Passcode: 747663* Track 3: Migration Health in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) **Track Lead:** Dr. Jinan Abi Jumaa **Speakers:** - Dr. Henna Riemenschneider, Technische Universität Dresden - Dr. Elliot Brown, Arden University - Dr. Saria Almarzook, Arden University - Dr. Jinan Abi Jumaa, Arden University *Room 3.65* [Zoom link](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-cross-sector-sustainable-innovation-tickets-418979066667) *Meeting ID: 976 2624 1975* *Passcode: 125089* Track 4: Role of sustainability in engineering and project management Powered by PMI Germany (Arden University partner), STEM Faculty - Arden University, and AcentasPM - Arden University Centre for Applied Science in Project Management **Track Lead:** Dr. Victor Vargas **Speakers:** - Dr. Victor Vargas – Arden University – School of Engineering (Moderator) - Dr. Saim Memon – Arden University – School of Engineering - Dr. Ourania Papasozomenou – Arden University - Dr. Salma Halioui - Dr. Andreas Berning – PMI Germany *Room 5.21* [Zoom link](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-cross-sector-sustainable-innovation-tickets-418979066667) *Meeting ID: 915 1308 0732* *Passcode: 504522* **15:30 – 15:45 CET** (14:30 – 14:45 GMT), *Arden Reception Ground Floor* **Break** Track 5 Empowering Innovation by Knowledge Exchange **15:45 – 16:45 CET** (14:45 – 15:45 GMT), *Audimax* **Track Lead:** Dr. Phungmayo Horam **Speakers:** - Ruth Greenhalgh, Interim Manager of IUK’s Knowledge Exchange Centre - EUR ING Prof. Georgina Harris, Dean of STEM, Arden University [Zoom link](https://arden-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91847476198?pwd=WENrUkVYeGN6aVFrUWlrZ21oTCtKZz09) *Meeting ID: 975 1881 9178* *Passcode: 760583* [Meet the speakers](https://arden.ac.uk/research-symposium-speakers) #### Business Forum Following the symposium, Arden Berlin will host “The Future of Sustainability and ESG in the Corporate World Forum”. In the last years, Sustainability and ESG have not only become a high level compliance topic for EU based companies, banks and investors, but also an important pillar of the strategy of every company, organisation and academic institution. This forum will provide insight view on the latest trends on Sustainability and ESG through experts from senior industry and academic. The event will be held in the Audiomax requested from 17:30 – 19:30 hrs. and it won’t be broadcast on Zoom. To attend in person, please register at the separate Eventbrite here: [Register for the business forum here](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-sustainability-and-esg-in-the-corporate-world-tickets-399439894477?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete) All times below are CET **FORUM AGENDA** **17.30 – 17.40** : Welcome Remarks: Tobias Kliem, Campus Director, Arden University Berlin & Wolfgang Korek, Director Business Unit, Energy Technology & Smart City, Berlin Partner **17.40 – 18:00** : Introductory Remarks: Yannis Salavopoulos, Managing Director, CAPITALS Circle Group & University Lecturer **18:00 – 19.00**: Panel Discussion with Impulse Speeches & Moderation *Panellists:* - Sebastian Fairhurst, Head Public Policy (Comms, Public Policy, Responsible Banking), Santander AG - Phungmayo Horam, Programme Lead, Arden University, Int. Study Center, University Berlin - Lena-Katharina Bödecker, COO, Clean Ocean Coatings - Karolina Attspodina, Co-Founder & CEO, WeDoSolar GmbH **19.00 - 19.30** : Q&A - Sum-up & Key Takeaways **19.30 - 20.30** : Reception - Networking [Meet the speakers](https://arden.ac.uk/business-forum-speakers) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "headline": "Symposium on cross-sector sustainable innovation", "description": "Symposium on cross-sector sustainable innovation | Arden", "datePublished": "2022-09-15T15:59:46+01:00", "dateModified": "2022-10-06T17:07:43+01:00", "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Arden University" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://ads.pr1.ops.ads.arden-prod01.arden.ac.uk/berlin/knowledge-base/news-and-events/sustainable-innovation-symposium" } ```