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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 + Havenstad
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.
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.
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.
Article (in Dutch) "Vastgoed bij uitstek geschikt voor impact investing" (Bouwinvest.nl, 1/5/2023)
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.
In this talk, she tells about how UseSpace works, how their efforts are linked with the SDG's, ESG and CSRD, and the collaboration with the municipality of Amsterdam.
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.
This talk is about Stakeholders and Processes in Urban Land Development.
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)
In this talk, he tells more about the field of ESG rating agencies and how NEC Initiative contributes.
Katya Letnovsky is vice-president and co-founder of Habidatum. In this talk, she tells about spatio-temporal analysis.
Henk van Raan is the Chief Innovation Officer of the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam Zuidoost. Together with Oriane Wiser he tells about their road to being net positive and a sustainable future.
Wesley Ankrah is Social Value Director at Savills UK: advocacy and leadership in social value with a focus on the real estate sector. In this talk he tells about the concept of social value and why it is so important in the real estate sector, and about four pillars of people interacting in development. Lastly, he shares two cases in London: Gaia's Garden and the Migration Museum.
Smita Jain is manager impact data science and 'Inclusive Growth Score' Global Product Owner at the Center for Inclusive Growth - Mastercards' filantropic and social impact hub. In this talk, she tells about the Inclusive Growth Score (IGS) and the journey they took towards creating this tool and how it fits in the ESG-space.
Alexei Novikov asks Smita two questions at the end of her presentation.
Alexei Novikov is the co-founder and president of Habidatum, a company organised around big data platforms, helping urban governments and investors make decisions with regards to urban planning, development, and real estate investment.
The goal of this presentation is to find answers to questions like; what is social agenda as economic capital? What are the concepts we are talking about?
"Tjeerd J. Haccou was educated as an architect at the TU-Delft and SCI-Arc, Los Angeles. He is a founding partner of space&matter; a progressive design office that seeks to expand the reach and responsibilities of its architectural practice.
By designing new business models, taking pro-active lead in developments and introducing online technologies into real estate, space&matter realized a number of unconventional projects, ranging from an off-grid creative incubator in refurbished houseboats (DeCeuvel) to an online platform to kickstart the transformation of vacant real estate (CrowdBuilding)."
In this talk, he tells about the development of De Ceuvel, Schoonschip, Sample Noord (Kavel19) in the Buiksloterham, in which they collaborated with Verdedig Noord, and the Community Land Trust Network. Find the recording and some interesting links below.
Rob Elsinga is the National Technology Officer for Microsoft in the Netherlands. In that role, he looks at emerging technologies and the impact on society. In this presentation, he shares how Microsoft looked at their ESG challenges and responsibility, and how they think outcome and impact can be measured.
Jaromil is an expert in technologies like blockchain, financial- and technology systems and worked as an applied cryptographer, designing systems that are end-to-end encrypted.
In his talk he tells about DAOs: Distributed Autonomous Organizations and how technology can be a part of the ESG-HUB.
Irene Schucht works for the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB). Her story is about ESG Banking and IBB’s sustainability work. She also tells about the finance perspective and the Social bond framework.
Prof. Dr. Jan Kehrberg is partner at GSK Stockmann and professor at the Technical University of Berlin.
Katya Letunovsky is co-founder and VP at Habidatum. Her keynote is about urban data and analysis as an asset for ESG monitoring.
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."
Michel Scholte is the co-founder of the Impact Institute. Impact Institute offers data, software, (online) education and advice on impact measurement and management.
Mara Overbeck is the founder of UrbanVolution, which consults leading private sector real estate firms in holistic development and manage projects from 20.000 to 280.000 sqm, prioritizing sustainable and innovative solutions with social impact.