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Program Research Conference - 1/11/2023
Here you find the program with all contributors and their timeslots.
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Berci Florian & Florian Wupperfeld | Opening and introduction
The second ESG Research Conference is opened by Berci Florian (City of Amsterdam) and Florian Wupperfeld (Leading Culture Destinations).
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Caroline Nevejan | Recap of exploration ESG for Cities so far
Caroline Nevejan is the Chief Science Officer (CSO) of the City of Amsterdam, and professor by special appointment with the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. She leads the ESG research trajectory.
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Renaud Vercouter | The role of a rating agency in the ESG economy
Renaud Vercouter works for the NEC Initiative. "The Net Environmental Contribution (NEC) rates economic activities in regards with their environmental impacts on a scale from -100% to +100%, enabling economic actors to identify contributors, activities contributing to the ecological transition, with transition opportunities, and destructors, activities damaging the environment, exposed to transition risks." (nec-initiative.com)
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Mark Butt (GSK Stockmann) - Stakeholders and Processes in Urban Land Development
Mark Butt is lawyer and partner at GSK Stockmann. In his work he focusses on Real estate project development, in particular building regulation approvals; Assistance with public building approvals procedures; Advising local governments on urban development projects.
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Maged Elsamny (AMS Institute) - RED & BLUE: Real Estate Development and Building in Low Urban Environments
Maged Elsamny is the Amsterdam Region Living Lab Coördinator for the RED&BLUE program (Real Estate Development and Building in Low Urban Environments). This program brings together scientists and practitioners to co-develop an integrated climate governance strategy for the Dutch delta and beyond. The Red&Blue consortium represents over 50 academic, public and private organizations with a large diversity of relevant expertise.
In this talk, Maged shares insights on how this network of partners works together on anwering questions like "What can be done to reduce the impact of climate change on real estate development in the city? And what is the responsibility of each type of partners to mitigate this impact?" He shows three case studies in Amsterdam: 1. Watergraafsmeer + Amstel III; 2. Schinkelkwartier; 3. Sloterdijk + HavenstadQuestions from and conversation with the audience
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Mare Santema (UseSpace) - Mix, match and maximise building use for social impact
Mare Santema is founding partner of UseSpace, a platform that matches available (office) spaces in the city with social impact projects that are looking for a place.
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Maya Savelkoul (Bouwinvest) - Social impact as capital in urban land development and transformation
Maya Savelkoul is Director Dutch Impact Investments at Bouwinvest. Maya led the establishment of the ‘Dutch Social Impact Real Estate Partnership´ on behalf of pension funds ABP and bpfBOUW. The partnership is aiming to realise and preserve affordable rental homes.
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Article (in Dutch) "Vastgoed bij uitstek geschikt voor impact investing" (Bouwinvest.nl, 1/5/2023)
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Thomas Osdoba (NetZeroCities) - The ecosystem of NetZeroCities: Cities innovating together on becoming NetZero.
Thomas Osdoba is the program director of NetZeroCities. NetZeroCities is building the foundation infrastructure and supporting Europe's Mission of 100 Climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030. This 'moonshot' initiative is aimed at using systems innovation to help cities accelerate their efforts to decarbonise and build equitable, inclusive communities that will be climate resilient.
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Elisabeth Torras-Gómez (University of Barcelona) - Assessing the social impact of Dialogic Literary Gatherings
Elisabeth Torras-Gómez is a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has participated in H2020 projects (ALLINTERACT, REFUGE-ED and Real-UP), as well as R+D+i (Memo4Love, Rom21 and #FriendsMatter). She is editor of RIMCIS (Q1, Scopus) and board member of RN29 – Social Theory of the European Sociological Association (ESA). Her lines of research encompass social impact, gender studies and quality education. She has published in flagship journals for the social sciences, such as "International Journal of Qualitative Methods", "Language and Education" or "Frontiers in Psychology". She is also Director of Corporate Development at Social Impact SL, a social enterprise aimed at guiding companies, governments and organizations in measuring and improving their social impact through interventions based on scientific evidence.
In this talk she tells about assessing the social impact of Dialogic Literary Gatherings.Links
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- , Dialogic literary gatherings: A systematic review of evidence to overcome social and educational inequalities. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2023.100534
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Peter van Besselaar, Ramon Flecha & Alfred Radauer (2018) Monitoring the impact of EU Framework Programmes.
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Alex Romaniuc (Interreg) - Cross-boarder innovation in the Meuse-Rhine region
Alex Romaniuc works at the Interreg Meuse-Rhine programme. This program (co-funded by the European Union) funds projects cooperation across borders between organisations and people addressing common needs in five regions in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Henk van Raan & Kelly Ruigrok | ESG Strategy & monitoring: impact of the Johan Cruijff Arena
Henk van Raan (Chief Innovation Officer, Johan Cruijff Arena) & Kelly Ruigrok (Founder & CEO Global Sustainable Enterprise System & Data For Good) worked together to measure the impact of the Johan Cruijff Arena. In this talk, they tell more about how they did that.
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Ilonka de Beer (Green Hub) - Democratic value & Inner development goals at the Green Hub in Amsterdam Zuidoost
Ilonka de Beer works as a Program Manager and Sustainability Professional for the Green Hub. "The Green Hub is a place for active residents in the heart of Gaasperdam. It is a sustainable learning and doing community that opens its doors wide to anyone who wants to think, or participate. In these communities, sustainable frontrunners, social quartermasters and vocational trainers will make informal learning possible together. The Hub is the base for services that contribute to a sustainable social society." (groenehub.org)
In this talk, she tells about Democratic Value and Inner Development Goals and how that helps in building resilient cities and to strengthen Community Wealth. -
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Katya Letunovsky (Habidatum) - Apollo: a new technology tool that measures social impact and growth
Katya Letunovsky is co-founder of Habidatum. In this talk she tells about their tool Apollo.
About Habidatum: "We collect and analyze location data on people and businesses moving around real estate properties in our in-house built platform. Based on this, we offer financial institutions and real estate portfolio owners actionable metrics and reports to define where to invest, how to reshape portfolio, how to mitigate location-driven risks and adapt to the market trends arising from economic shocks like pandemics and regulations like ESG. Our long-term strategic mission is to build an index based on the location metrics we develop, and bring location to capital markets." -
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Marco Frikkee (KPMG) - Advanced ESG strategy, impact and reporting at KPMG
Marco Frikkee is Partner Sustainability Reporting at KPMG Netherlands. KPMG Sustainability supports clients on ESG strategy, Climate Risk and Decarbonization, Sustainable Finance and ESG Reporting and Assurance. Marco's focus areas are: CSRD and EU Taxonomy reporting, ESG integration and Climate Risk in the financial sector and Sustainability Assurance.
In this talk, Marco shares insights on companies' sustainability strategy and the push from reporting regulation. KMPG as an accountancy firm will play a role in the ESG landscape. Sustainability is becoming more and more prominent on the agenda of the companies they work with. He also shows a simplified overview of the CSRD regulations. -
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Silvia Oostwegel (MAEX) - Social handprint and impact analysis of initiatives in Amsterdam
Silvia Oostwegel is the founder of MAEX/Social Handprint. MAEX Amsterdam provides insight into the value and needs of social initiatives from the city and encourages companies, governments and funds to contribute to these initiatives.
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Matthew Gardiner | DAOs, blockchain and social tokens through the lens of governance of digital infrastructures
Matthew Gardiner is the founder of A1 AI. He works on frontier tech territory with leaders around the globe in AI, web3, DeFi quantum, nanotech, FTSE100 companies, financial institutions, regulators and policymakers. Environment, green finance and inclusion have always sat at the core of his practice.
In this talk he elaborates on DAOs (Distributed Autonomous Organizations), blockchain and social tokens through the lens of governance of digital infrastructures, and how it can be valuable for ESG. -
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Mark Crooijmans (City of Amsterdam) - Closing remarks
Mark Crooijmans is the Chief Information Officer, City of Amsterdam. He closes the ESG Research conference #2 with some reflections and closing remarks.