Bio Inspire & Green Leap Challenge Awards

Join us as we celebrate green innovation and biosolutions! Take part in the Bio Inspire & Green Leap Challenge Awards at Axelborgsalen.

NOTE: The event is free of charge for members of The Alliance for Biosolutions, Dansk Erhverv and Food & Bio Cluster Denmark.

The event brings together startups, investors, corporates, and key players from Denmark’s biosolutions and green innovation ecosystem.

We’ll celebrate the year’s most promising ideas and initiatives with the presentation of both the Green Leap Challenge Awards and the Bio Inspire Award. 

The afternoon offers inspiring talks, startup pitches, networking, and a celebration of the most groundbreaking solutions. 

The event concludes with snacks, bubbles, a DJ, and plenty of opportunities to connect and network. 

Agenda

13.00 - 13.40 Arrival, Networking, Partnership Stands & Light Snacks

13.40 - 13.45 Welcome & Introduction to opening keynote speaker by SVP at the Danish Chamber of Commerce, Ulrich Bang

13.45 - 14.00 Opening Keynote Speech - Why Startups matter? By Minister for Higher Education and Science, Christina Egelund (Moderaterne) and Q&A

14.00 - 14.15 Introduction to the afternoon and next keynote by Anne Lerche, Managing Director at Alliance for Biosolutions & Claus Mortensen, Head of Business Development & Internationalization at Food & Bio Cluster Denmark 

14.15 - 14.45 From DTU spin-out to gigaton carbon removal by 2040 - The MASH Makes story and future by Jakob Andersen, CEO & Co-founder, MASH Makes

14.45 - 15.15 Welcome to the Green Leap Challenge 2025 by Claus Gunge Ellegaard Mortensen, Head of Business Development & Internationalization, Food & Bio Cluster Denmark

15.15 - 15.45 Networking break incl. visit to partners stand

15.45 - 16.30 Green Leap Challenge 2025 – continued by Claus Mortensen, Head of Business Development & Internationalization in Food & Bio Cluster Denmark

16.30 – 17.00 Bio Inspire Award 2025 - Alliance for Biosolutions & Dansk Erhverv by Henrik Busch-Larsen, Alliance for Biosolutions

17.00 - 17.45 The Situation Room: State of play in the Danish AgriFood & Biosolutions ecosystem - a perspective on future financing and resilience Fireside chat moderated by Sofie Findling Andersen, Dansk Erhverv

Panel

• Henrik Busch-Larsen, Alliance for Biosolutions
• Sara Sande, Managing Director, Partner, EIFO
• Rune Theill, CEO & Co-founder, Rockstart
• Edvard Bergiton Iversen, Projectleader, AgriTech Nordic
• Jens Nielsen, CEO, BioInnovation Institute

 17.45 - 18.00 Green Leap Challenge 2025 – And the Winners Are…

18.00-19:00 Light dinner, bubbles, DJ and network

The event is aimed at startups, investors, corporates, industry organizations, and other stakeholders working within biosolutions, food innovation, and green technology. 

The Bio Inspire & Green Leap Challenge Awards are hosted in partnership by Dansk Erhverv, the Alliance for Biosolutions and Food & Bio Cluster Denmark, 

Come join us in celebrating the future of green innovation. 

Green Leap Challenge 2025 Empowering Early Agrifood Founders with Moonshot Ideas

At Food & Bio Cluster Denmark, we believe that entrepreneurs are important innovators and sustainable changemakers to our agrifood system. That is why we launch the Green Leap Challenge 2025 - a competition that gives entrepreneurs and researchers a platform to test and pitch their business ideas to experts and potential collaborators.

Read more about Green Leap Challenge here