9:00 AM  : Launching Europe’s Deep Tech Factory

Jean-Eric Paquet, Director-General Research and Innovation at European CommissionAntoine Gourévitch – Managing Director at Boston Consulting GroupModerated by Arnaud de la Tour, CEO and Co-founder at Hello Tomorrow

9:30 AM  : Opening remarks

9:35 AM  : Breaking boundaries : Our Earth and its limits

Owen Gaffney, Global sustainability strategist at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

10:05 AM  : Will yeast and microbes soon power our lives?

Jens Nielsen, Professor at Chalmers and CEO of BioInnovation Institute 

10:50 AM  : As easy as Pi – Bridging the gap between Maths and Society

Sylvie Benzoni, Director of Institut Henri PoincaréIsabelle Loc, Head of Real Assets at BNP ParibasModerated by Sarah Pedroza, COO at Hello Tomorrow 

11:20 AM  : Inequality: regaining control of our future

1:30 PM  : Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? – The use of synthetic media

Mariarosaria Taddeo, Senior Researcher Fellow at Oxford Internet Institute. Sam Gregory, Director at WITNESS.Henry Ajder, Advisor on Deepfakes. Moderated by

Tom Whipple, Science Editor at The Times

2:00 PM  : Quantum cryptography demystified

Elham Kashefi, Research Director at CNRS 

2:45 PM  : Turning Pollution into Products

Michael Köpke, VP of Synthetic Biology at Lanzatech 

3:15 PM  : Securing our food systems with programmable molecules

Vishaal Bhuyan, CEO at Aanika Biosciences

3:45 PM  : Geopolitics of Deep Tech – 2020 Insights

Arnaud de la Tour, CEO and Co-founder at Hello Tomorrow 

4:15 PM  : The big Pint of Science / Hello Tomorrow Quiz

Elodie Chabrol, International Director at Pint of Science 

5:00 PM  : Global Challenge Grand Winner announcement

The 6th edition of the annual Hello Tomorrow Global Startup Challenge saw over 5000 applications from 128 countries, with 90 startups selected as finalists to pitch their cutting-edge solutions during the Global Summit.

From aeronautics to environment, 14 categories will announce one winner, and the ceremony will close with the announcement of the overall Grand Winner, to be awarded a €100,000 prize by our Worldwide Partner BNP Paribas.