Don’t miss our final SirkØkHelse workshop, to gain insights on how you can design and develop your health tech products and supply chains in a sustainable and circular way!

This event will also be a great opportunity to hear about how to unlock different opportunities for public and private funding, by transitioning to sustainable practices.

Representatives from manufacturers, health technology procurers, and public funding advisors, and the banking sector, will join us to share their experiences in the topics above. Register below to participate!

Event agenda 

08:30  Coffee and mingle

08:45  Welcome – Kari Anne Dehli, Senior Project Manager, Norway Health Tech; Mariann Donnum, Business Advisor, Aleap

08:50  Presentations on circular product development, manufacturing, procurement and support

• Circular Plastic Solutions for the Medtech industry – Siri Stabel Olsen, Business Director Healthcare, Norner
• The circular hospital: What suppliers should keep in mind when developing their solutions to support this mission and what environmental criteria come into play in public procurement – Pia Trulsen, Head of Sustainability, Sykehusinnkjøp 

09:40  Brainstorming session with the audience – Sykehusinnkjøp circular challenge

10:30  Networking break

10:50  Presentations on unlocking public and private financing with sustainable health tech solutions, and considerations on the health tech financing landscape

• Public funding opportunities and grants for sustainable health startups and scaleups – Per Olve Tobiassen, Competence broker Technology, Green transition, Sustainability
• Investor insights for sustainable health startups and scaleups – Hanne Mette D. Kristensen, CEO, The Life Science Cluster
• Credit and ESG considerations from Danske Bank when considering to grant credits to a healthcare company – Vibeke Vier Simensen, Head of Healthcare, Danske Bank
• ESG in a wider perspective: effect on value chains, decision making and how geopolitics plays a part in this – Eirik Melle, Senior Analyst, Danske Bank

12:00  End of event and mingling

*The event will be held in Norwegian and is free of charge.

Background

This workshop is the last in a series of 3 workshops, constituting our SirkØkHelse competence building program. Each workshop is designed with its own content, so that you can easily follow every workshop, even if you missed the previous one. The purpose of this program is to strengthen the circular economy and sustainability competence for the healthcare industry in the Viken region and beyond. The SirkØkHelse project is a collaboration between Norway Health Tech, Aleap, and the Norwegian Centre of Circular Economy (NCCE).