TBB.Connect – EIT InnoEnergy’s digital version of the flagship event The Business Booster, took place online from 4-5 November.
Throughout the two days, 1,200 experts from around the world tuned in to take part in 2,100 B2B meetings; view 150 exhibitors, broken down into market segment; watch 120 pitches spanning the entire energy value chain; and hear from guest speakers including Nobel Prize winners, industry experts, policy makers, investors and academics.
The Global Call
The Global Call is an annual competition inviting sustainable energy start-ups from around the world to compete for a grand prize of €100,000. The five finalists, Graphenix Development Inc, Spottitt Ltd, SOLshare, SABELLA, and Volytica Diagnostics GmbH pitched to a jury in the opening session of TBB.Connect, with the winner, SOLshare, being announced shortly after.
SOLshare is a platform provider for reliable, sustainable and affordable electricity access to low-income people in rural Bangladeshi areas. We are delighted to welcome SOLshare, and all the other finalists into the EIT InnoEnergy ecosystem.
Photo Contest
The Photo Contest, an annual highlight of The Business Booster, saw 37 excellent photographers from 16 countries and 4 continents submit 83 photographs on the themes of “technologies and products that represent new sustainable energy” and “people participating in sustainable energy economy”. The result is another series of beautiful, interesting, creative pictures that give us an insight into the sustainable energy developments everywhere in the world. View the entire collection here:
Just incase you were not able to attend TBB.Connect to find out the winners, here is the recap:
1st prize: Alison Wright, USA with her photo: “Young boy does his homework while using a Brightlife solar powered light in Uganda”
2nd prize: Sergio Izquierdo, Guatemala with his photo: “Energy matters”
3rd prize: Bernard II Recirdo, Philippines with his photo: “Clean Energy for Life”
4th prize: Stephan Fürnrohr, Germany with his photo: “Dam-Day”
