Speakers

• Brian Von Herzen Climate Foundation
  

  Brian Von Herzen

  Climate Foundation

  Brian Von Herzen is the founder and executive director of the Climate Foundation, which upholds the vision and the mission to regenerate life in the ocean using Marine Permaculture technology. Brian leads Climate Foundation’s large-scale seaweed mariculture programs to develop sustainable food, feed and fertilizer value chains, provide ecosystem life support, and sustain blue carbon sinks. Brian graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Physics and holds a Ph.D. in planetary science from California Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the prestigious Hertz Fellowship, and has been awarded numerous patents. After two decades developing system solutions for companies such as Intel, Disney, Pixar, Microsoft, HP, and Dolby, Brian launched the Climate Foundation in order to investigate groundbreaking nature-based solutions to the climate and other environmental challenges. Brian leads an international team of scientists, engineers, technicians, social scientists and seaweed farmers. Currently and most importantly, Brian is leading a successful Marine Permaculture seaforestation demonstration project in the Philippines.

• Paul Streifeneder Pleistocene and Permafrost Foundation
  

  Paul Streifeneder

  Pleistocene and Permafrost Foundation

  Paul Streifeneder works as a project manager for the Pleistocene & Permafrost Foundation for almost 1.5 years now. His main responsibilities are marketing strategy, fundraising strategy and managing the certification process. Besides his work at the foundation, he is also studying Business Administration at the University for Applied Science in Munich. He got interested in this field of work through an elective class at university, where the conversations revolved around different problems concerning planetary boundaries, growth in capitalism, and the connection to the climate crisis. He realized that there is a huge potential for a change and sees it as a challenge to tackle in the future.

• Kim Bye Bruun Northern Lights
  

  Kim Bye Bruun

  Northern Lights

  Kim Bye Bruun is seconded to Northern Lights from Shell. He joined Shell as a Graduate External Affairs Advisor in 2006 and has since then held various communications roles for Shell’s Upstream and Downstream businesses in Norway and South Africa, worked as Business Advisor for Shell’s VP Norway and Project Manager for the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, looking after a portfolio of environmental improvement projects. Prior to joining Northern Lights he was part of Shell’s Group Carbon team with responsibility for CCUS policy and advocacy. Before joining Shell, Kim worked as Field Coordinator and Logistician for the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières in Angola, DR Congo, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. He holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Tromsø, Norway, and an MBA from London Business School.

• Benjamin Taylor Red Quadrant
  

  Benjamin Taylor

  Red Quadrant

  Benjamin Taylor, Managing Partner at the public sector consultant, RedQuadrant talks about his formative days using instinct to make improvements as a manager in an advice centre in Shepherd’s Bush, running prototypes in Hillingdon, whether Chief Executives are the best people to manage change, if consultants are evil and much more.

  He has been working in the systems thinking / change / leadership / convening space for over 15 years, and he’s a Fellow and board member of the Cybernetics Society and Advanced Systems Practitioner with SCiO. He teaches and shares about systems | complexity | cybernetics as well as using those approaches in his work at RedQuadrant and the Public Service Transformation Academy (which he leads), and supporting organisations like Coeuraj (www.coeuraj.com)

• Laura Griffiths Red Quadrant
  

  Laura Griffiths

  Red Quadrant

  Laura Griffiths is an Associate Consultant at RedQuadrant Ltd and in that time has fulfilled a broad range of duties related to change and transformation management, consultancy, training and support, and programme development.

  Laura is a dynamic, agile facilitator with a lot of experience of online workshops, who (amongst many other things) has been supporting SCiO (www.systemspractice.org) with the development of a post-graduate level Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship.

• Niklas Kaskeala Compensate
  

  Niklas Kaskeala

  Compensate

  Niklas Kaskeala is Compensate’s Chief Impact Officer. Kaskeala oversees Compensate’s sustainability approach, carbon capture portfolio and advocacy efforts to reform the Voluntary Carbon Market.

  Kaskeala is also the founder of Protect Our Winters Finland, the Finnish affiliate of the international Protect Our Winters movement, and has a long background in several environmental and development NGO’s.

  Kaskeala has more than 15 years of experience in development, sustainability and climate change. Before joining Compensate in the summer of 2019, Kaskeala worked with the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), Save the Children, and the global development expert Fingo.