Practical information
Transport by bus is provided by our organization throughout the event (hotel, )
Only the transport to our inaugural reception on 18 November and after the reception on 20 November are covered by the participants.
Monday afternoon 18 November 2019
| WELCOMING PARTICIPANTS At city Hall of Brussels | ||
| START PLENARY SESSION | SPEECHES Federal minister of the environment or of the economy Mayor Of Brussels | |
 | SPECIALIST Toon Wassenberg describes himself as a « change maker”. His organization “Futurehead” helps companies and organisations to develop their sustainable and circular projects. | |
| WALKING DINNER | ||
| Transport of the participants to the different cities |
Tuesday 19 November 2019
Thematic tours around circular economy
Transport is provided by our organization throughout the day. Participants will be transported from their hotel to the thematic tour and reception and finally back to their hotel.
Reception in each city
Wednesday 20 November : In Heysel
| Transport of the participants from their hotel to Brussels Expo | ||
| WELCOME PARTICIPANTS | ||
| START PLENARY SESSION |  | High level political speech by Marie Christine Marghem, Federal minister of the environment. |
 | Introduction by Hans Bruyninckx – EEA Hans Bruyninckx is the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency. He will present the new report of his agency “Paving the way for a circular economy” and highlight the barriers and the challenges we face in building a more circular economy. | |
| HIGH LEVEL PANEL Our speakers will present their vision of the circular economy and how their sector and organization tackle those challenges. This panel will also aim to bring solution to those barriers. | ||
 | Tom Duhoux is the founder of HNST JEANS, a SME that use 50% of recycled denim in their clothes in order to reduce the pollution of the fashion industry. Their aim is to become the world’s most sustainable jeans. | |
 | Piotr Barczak is a senior policy officer within the European Environmental bureau. The EEB is a bureau that represent the European citizen and stand for environmental justice, sustainable development and participatory democracy. | |
 | Crist’l Joris is the president and CEO of ETAP Lighting, a European company created in 1949 in Antwerp. Their product are energy-efficient and constantly decrease the use of electricity, water and gas. | |
 | Frederic Chomé is a multi-entrepreneur as CEO of Factor-X, Cofounder of Usitoo and of the KAYA coalition. FACTOR-X is an independent company providing innovative sustainability consultancy services to both private and public sectors since 2007. USITOO onverts in use endless categories of unused objects that sleep in our cabinets and has established an innovative rental business model with an online catalogue objects to be booked and delivered nearby the user place, based on a Zero Waste approach. The KAYA coalition was created in May 2019 with the willingness to regroup all companies eager to move fast-forward towards ambitious climate goals and regulation. It regroups more than 170 companies mostly active in French speaking Belgium. | |
 | Wim Careel, advisor ABVV Metaal | |
| Paola Migliorini, European Commission, Head of Unit B1 sustainable Production, Products and consumption. Resource Efficiency European Strategy | ||
 | Presentation of the program of the next Hotspot organizer: Catalonia Secretary General for the Environment and Sustainability of the Catalan Government, Ms Marta Subirà i Roca | |
| CLOSING SPEECH | ||
| NETWORKING LUNCH |
