Bio Inspire & Green Leap Challenge Awards

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Event

Bio Inspire & Green Leap Challenge Awards

10. dec. 2025 kl. 13.00-19.00

Axelborg Hall, Vesterbrogade 4, 1620 København

Join us as we celebrate green innovation and biosolutions!

Take part in the Bio Inspire & Green Leap Challenge Awards at Axelborgsalen on December 10.

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.

Know a company that deserves recognition? Nominate them here for the Bio Inspire Award or the Green Leap Challenge.

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, Food & Bio Cluster Denmark, and the Alliance for Biosolutions. Food & Bio Cluster Denmark is the national innovation cluster for the food and bioresource sector. The cluster connects companies, researchers, and entrepreneurs to accelerate sustainable development and drive innovation within food, agriculture, and biotechnology.

Submit your nomination via the link: Open Call Bio Inspire Award 2025

13.00 - 13.40

Arrival, Networking, Partnership Stands & Light Snacks

13.00 - 13.40
13.40 - 13.45

Welcome & Introduction to opening keynote speaker

13.40 - 13.45

Ulrich Bang

Vicedirektør

Dansk Erhverv
13.45 - 14.00

Opening Keynote Speech - Why Startups matter?

13.45 - 14.00

Christina Egelund

minister for Higher Education and Science

Moderates
14.00 - 14.15

Introduction to the afternoon and next keynote

14.00 - 14.15

Claus Gunge Ellegaard Mortensen

Head of Business Acceleration

Food & Bio Cluster

Anne Lerche

Head of Biosolutions

Danish Chamber of Commerce
14.15 - 14.45

From DTU spin-out to gigaton carbon removal by 2040 - The MASH Makes story and future

14.15 - 14.45

Jakob Andersen

CEO & Co-founder

MASH Makes
14.45 - 15.15

Welcome to the Green Leap Challenge 2025

14.45 - 15.15

Claus Gunge Ellegaard Mortensen

Head of Business Acceleration

Food & Bio Cluster
15.15 - 15.45

Networking break incl. visit to partners stand

15.15 - 15.45
15.45 - 16.30

Green Leap Challenge 2025 – continued

15.45 - 16.30

Claus Gunge Ellegaard Mortensen

Head of Business Acceleration

Food & Bio Cluster
16.30 - 17.00

Bio Inspire Award 2025 - Alliance for Biosolutions & Dansk Erhverv

16.30 - 17.00

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.

17.00 - 17.45

Henrik Busch-Larsen

Alliance for Biosolutions

Sara Sande

Managing Director, Partner

EIFO

Rune Theill

CEO & Co-founder

Rockstart

Edvard Bergiton Iversen

Head of AgriFoodTech

T:lab

Sofie Findling Andersen

Underdirektør

Dansk Erhverv

Jens Nielsen

CEO

BioInnovation Institute
17.45 - 18.00

Green Leap Challenge – And the Winners Are…

17.45 - 18.00
18.00 - 19.00

Light dinner, bubbles, DJ and network

18.00 - 19.00