1st Mile invited customers, stakeholders and other friends for an afternoon with exciting new development projects, networking, Gamma beers, champagne, and finger food. About 100 people, all personally invited, made it an unforgettable event for us at 1st Mile. Our mission is to bring innovations to life, and bringing key industry stakeholders together and facilitate networking is a true pleasure for us.
1st Mile is Denmark’s most successful fundraiser in Denmark when it comes to innovation within energy and sustainability. The past two years we have raised more than DKK 300 million from Danish and European funding programs.
See the presentations from the day here. 
Below the pictures is the program for the day. Slides from the day will follow shortly.
Program for the day
The global energy system is in a state of simultaneous stress and transformation. Technological breakthroughs in storage, grid flexibility, low-carbon fuels, digital optimization, and system integration are critical to building an energy system that is not only cleaner, but also more resilient, adaptable, and secure in an increasingly uncertain world.
The role of 1st Mile is to catalyze such technological breakthroughs by securing the needed capital to develop and innovate.
13:00 – The bar opens, hosted by co-founder and CEO of Gamma Brewing Company, Jakob Houmøller
14:00 – What drives a transition? Lessons for the energy transition from the Caravalle and the compass, and the steam engine, by Søren Houmøller, CEO and owner of 1st Mile
14:15 – The energy system today, by Professor Jacob Østergaard, Head of Division, Power and Energy Systems, DTU
14:30 – Who is my ideal client? What strong funding applications look like, by Maria Battistel, Project Manager & Scientific Lead, 1st Mile
14:45 – Pitches – see below.
15:30 – Networking
Pitches
- The entrepreneurial journey of Gamma Brewing Company from hobby project to large microbrewery and bar – Jakob Houmøller, co-founder and CEO of Gamma Brewing Company
- How graphite from the Amitsoq deposit in Greenland will disrupt the global value chain for lithium-ion batteries – Stefan Bernstein, ph.d., CEO at GreenRoc Strategic Materials
- Digging gold in Australia using Danish energy storage technology – Henrik Pranov, CEO of Heliac and Heliac Australia
- Change the fuel, not the engine: How to go from producing one drop to one million ton of biocrude – Anders Kristoffersen, COO, Kvasir Technologies
- How to produce ultra-pure Float Zone silicon for semiconductors for the green energy transition – Sune Bro Dunn, ph.d., CTO, Topsil GlobalWafers
- Preserving privacy while unlocking critical energy data – Lesia Mitridati, Assistant Professor, Department of Wind and Energy Systems
- What everyone else got wrong with small-scale wind turbines – Andreas Oxholm, founder and CEO, KiteX
Learn more:
See the invitation and program for the event.
