2025 PROGRAMME
THE FIRST LUSTRUM
FRIDAY JUNE 20, 2025
GRAND HOTEL HUIS TER DUIN NOORDWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS
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AFTERNOON PROGRAMME
WALK IN: 2PM
END OF PROGRAMME: 5 PM
Annelies Schenk
AFTERNOON MODERATOR
Annelies Schenk Strategy Director at Next Venue and Water Champion, Annelies Schenk has leveraged her passion of building strategies to bring people and markets together. Annelies knows the water world very well through her time managing the Aquatech Global Events, and building Innovation programs for Isle Utilities. She considers it her mission to act and advocate that everyone gives water the value it deserves. Currently Annelies is advisor to KMM and participating in the WEF Investing for Impact Water Working Group.
OPENING
WATER
ACT
Annelies Schenk Strategy Director at Next Venue and Water Champion, Annelies Schenk has leveraged her passion of building strategies to bring people and markets together. Annelies knows the water world very well through her time managing the Aquatech Global Events, and building Innovation programs for Isle Utilities. She considers it her mission to act and advocate that everyone gives water the value it deserves. Currently Annelies is advisor to KMM and participating in the WEF Investing for Impact Water Working Group.
Paul O’Callaghan
OUR BLUE WORLD
Paul O’Callagan CEO and Founder of BlueTech Research, Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed documentary Brave Blue World and co-produced Our Blue World. Paul holds a PhD in Water Innovation from Wageningen University and has recently published a book unveiling the future of water innovation. Paul will guide us through the challenges of ‘Our Blue World’.
L’espoir; hope for the future of water
We invite the entrepreneurs to join the talk show table and together with global water & sustainability leaders Alexander Crowell- Partner at Pure Terra Ventures; David Katz, Founder and CEO at the Plastic Bank and Paul O’Callagan, we will have an engaging and interactive session talking about topics such as what are the greatest water challenges we face in water? What challenges do the innovators face in scaling their company? What is the role of money and investing in water and much more
ALEXANDER CROWELL
DAVID KATZ
PAUL O'CALLAGHAN
speaker: Paula Gonzalez
CEO REDstack BV
At REDstack, we’ve created the ultimate generation of electrodialysis membrane stacks. Our ElectroMembrane Stacks are already making an impact, actively Capturing CARBON 🌿, Recovering NITROGEN 🔄, Reusing WATER 💦, and Removing SALT 🧂. This isn’t a vision for tomorrow—REDstack is the electrodialysis industry standard featuring the world’s best performance stack, driving the change we need to create a sustainable future!
Florian Rohde
CEO InstrAction GMBH
At instrAction, we have developed an innovative absorber platform technology designed for the removal of short- and long-chain PFAS, heavy metals, or precious metals from aqueous or organic fluid streams. Our absorbers are very selective and offer significantly higher productivity and capacity than state-of-the-art technologies, resulting in an efficient, cost-effective, and low-capex solution.
Ruben Brands
SeaO2 is a Dutch Ocean Carbon Removal company, harnessing the vast potential of the oceans with its cost-efficient electrochemical Direct Ocean Capture solution to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at gigaton scale.
Ilvy Njiokiktjien
DUTCH PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE NATION
Ilvy Njiokiktjien is a storyteller travelling the world with her camera. With her recent project called Climate Safe Havens; The Alternative Drift. she visited and portrayed places in the world, owing to their strategic locations proving to be unexpected havens in the face of the relentless onslaught of climate change.
EVENING PROGRAMME 6.30 - 11 PM
AWARD CEREMONY
The Award Ceremony Gala dinner will be accompanied by a thematic dinner inspired by the SDG’s , prepared and served by the fabulous Huis ter Duin team.
SPECIAL
GUEST
MAAIKE SCHOON
HOST & EVENING MODERATOR
Maaike Schoon is journalist and presenter on National TV. She was nominated for the Sonja Barend Award for her intriguing interview with the Russian Ambassador Aleksander Sjoelgin. Maaike wil host you through the evening and lead the panel discussion ‘Countdown to 30’.
The Award Ceremony Gala dinner will be accompanied by a thematic dinner inspired by the SDG’s , prepared and served by the fabulous Huis ter Duin team.
RENE VAN ASS
CHAIRMAN PRIX VOLTAIRE INTERNATIONAL
Opening & Word of Welcome
Countdown to 30
In 5 years time we will reach the point where goals for a sustainable future are supposed to be reached. Which goals will be achieved reach and which seem out of reach. What is necessary to meet the requirements? What should be prioritised?
Our Prix Voltaire International Laureates Peter Bakker, Jennifer Holmgren, David Katz and Paul Polman count the remaining time and will present their views in a short keynote and discuss the status of the SDG’s in a panel discussion.
JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER
MINISTER OF STATE
AWARD CEREMONY
Dutch Minister of State and former Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will grant the Prix Voltaire International to the 5th Laureate. The Laureate will end the official programme by addressing the audience in a ‘thank you speech including a pleading message of sustainable content’.
AWARD CEREMONY
Dutch Minister of State and former Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will grant the Prix Voltaire International to the 5th Laureate. The Laureate will end the official programme by addressing the audience in a ‘thank you speech including a pleading message of sustainable content’.
JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER
MINISTER OF STATE
