Past events

The first congress in June 2007 brought together nearly 40 expert presenters and 450 participants around eight conferences over two days.  

 Almost 90 speakers and 500 participants attended nine conferences at the second congress in June 2008.

Keynote speaker: Didier Leroy, President Toyota Motor Manufacturing France (now President Toyota Motor Europe)

 The number of participants rose to 750 for the 2009 congress.The nine conferences presented 70 speakers.

The inaugural conference took a truly European dimension, with national experts from Germany and the UK presenting the development of eco-technologies in their countries and the DG Environment Europe providing the European perspective. 

 950 participants attended the 4th congress in 2010. Again, 70 experts shared their experience over nine conferences. The inaugural conference went global, with speakers from Quebec and Brazil joining experts from the UK and Luxembourg.  

 The fifth annual eco-technologies congress was held over three days rather than two, to enable a more in depth analysis of the different themes. Almost 900 participants attended 13 conferences.   

Keynote speakers: Valérie Rabault, economist and co-author of the book “the Glorious Thirties are coming”; Beatriz YORDI, Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation (EACI) and Jean-Claude ANDREINI, Strategic Comity for Eco Industries