We welcome the challenge: How do you start and scale a business with multiple buttom lines?

We focus on how entrepreneurs can be the key to reaching the goals of reducing the co2-emissions and zooming in on how the ecosystem and policy makers can nurture sustainable entrepreneurs. 

The summit - StartUp Planet Copenhagen - will contribute to kick-start the sustainable transformation. A transformation that can benefit the business community in Copenhagen and secure green jobs. The overall goal is “growth in profit - not in CO2”.

At the summit we gather the heavyweights within politics and growth markets, important opinion leaders, established companies, and real-life entrepreneurs to a discussion on how we make Copenhagen a green nordic Silicon Valley.

Josefine Volqvartz will moderate the event and seek out the answers, the possibilities, and the challenges.

About the initiative 

The Entrepreneurial Summit is the first of its kind and is part of the entrepreneurial festival StartUp Planet Copenhagen that celebrates entrepreneurs, and sustainable business models. The main purpose is to support and strengthen entrepreneurship, growth, and ambitious climate goals. StartUp Planet is for entrepreneurs, investors, journalists, and climate enthusiasts in search of complete and informative experiences. 

This initiative is supported by Copenhagen Municipality.

Summit Programme

13.30-14.00 - Opening Ceremony & Registration 

14.00-14.05 - Welcome 

Cecilia Lonning-Skovgaard, The Mayor of Employment and Integration, The City of Copenhagen. 

14.05-14.10  - The Future of Business is Green: The Advantages of Going Green

Peter Kofler, CEO, Entrepreneur and Chairman, Danish Entrepreneurship Association.

14.10-14.20: Sustainability is getting bigger than the internet!

Tommy Ahlers, Serial Entrepreneur and Investor

14.20-15.00: How can Copenhagen's ecosystem be the green beacon of Europe?

Marc Penzel, Founder and President, Startup Genome 

15.00-15.45: Panel Discussion: How do we make Copenhagen the greenest entrepreneurial city in the world?

Peter Kofler, Chairman, Danish Entrepreneurship Association, Jasmina Pless, Head of Entrepreneurship at Danish Chamber of Commerce, Mia Grosen, Founder of Canute and Russell Dalgleish, High-profile influencer and serial entrepreneur.

15.45-16.00: Headliner: The entrepreneurial ways to act on the climate change

Russell Dalgleish, High-profile influencer and connector, as well as a serial entrepreneur. Russell Dalgleish, also known as the “Tall Scottish Guy”, has had a thriving career as not only a serial entrepreneur but an Investor, Strategist, Director and member of the Advisory Board at the Scottish Government’s CivTech® Programme and to the Board of Trade. He brings the experience of overcoming adversities to build a range of successful companies, offers a unique and challenging insight into the world of the private investor and highlights opportunities available to entrepreneurs today.

16.00-16.15: BREAK & REFRESHMENTS 

Look forward to meet some of the most accomplished green founders, and experienced operators on stage. They all have so much concrete advice for the growth-minded and entrepreneurially wired.

16.15-16.30: Meet inspiring Vigga Svensson, Sustainable Fashion Expert, CEO at Continued Fashion. 

Vigga Svensson is an Award winning.serial entrepreneur specialised in innovative business models based on circular economy. Currently creating systemic change in the textile industry with Continued.fashion – the world’s first white label platform for circular retail in the fashion world.

16.30-16.45: Meet the great growth hope of the future Jon Sigvert, CEO Reel

Jon Sigvert, environmental engineer and Co-founder and CEO at Reel. Reel is a fintech startup founded in 2020. In Reel they have developed a software solution that enables small and medium-sized businesses to buy environmentally friendly electricity through legal energy agreements, called Power Purchase Agreements. 

16.45-17.00: Meet Global Impact Entrepreneur Sebastian Nielsen, CEO Slow A/S 

Sebastian Nielsen is the CEO of Slow A/S, who is on a mission to drive sustainability back into the food systems by bringing coffee production back into the forests. Coming from a commercial background, Sebastian is set to bring Slow coffee to the front of the agenda, pushing the much needed combination of improved livelihoods and nature-positive agroforestry with a highly marketable product devoured by billions and billions of people every day - namely coffee. Done right, coffee consumption in organizations can be activated to fuel the regeneration of forests in the tropical belt. 

17.00-17.05: Closing Remarks 

17.05-17.30: A Very Nice Glass of Wine & Networking