Adrian is a Fellow of the Institute of Refrigeration and is a good All rounder with a broad based experience in engineering and 33 years Retail Facility Management service provision. Particular expertise in refrigeration development and applied building service requirements, plus a recognized capability with CAFM systems (Verisae/Concept). Specialized in Refrigeration development and Building Services incorporating systemic controls, but has ability in more widespread disciplines including building structures and fabric problem areas. Currently in a lead role within the Co-Op Property Engineering & Standards team to assist in developing best practice and specification adherence in a recently revised, highly motivated and dynamic team structure.

Eng. Alessandro Farina Is one of the “Application Managers” for Castel. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he has a 22 years background in Research and development, project management, testing planners and creator, High-level trainer, and problem-solving. Technical contact person for the North and South America market and Canada, and key technician manager for the relationship with OEM systems builders.

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from the University of Padua with a Master in Refrigeration. He joined Arneg Italy in November 2003, initially working in refrigeration system design and then becoming Product and Project manager of several Refrigeration Projects in different locations around the world, mainly focused on CO2 and energy-saving applications.

Training as electrical engineer at the professional university of Bienne (CH). Professional practice: 2 years development engineer at Schindler Ebikon, 6 years design engineer and 4 years Facility Management engineer at Swisscom. Since 2000, i am the Facility Manager engineer and technical manager of Migros Ticino.

Andreas Meier has several years of experience in management functions within the refrigeration sector. He has been a member of TEKO’s management since August 2015. He was previously President of Sales D / A / CH at GEA Refrigeration Technologies, based in Berlin – Germany, and before that he was the Head of Marketing and Product Management at GEA Küba GmbH. He also worked in Zug – Switzerland, as Sales & Marketing Manager at a Japanese manufacturer for industrial refrigeration.

Armin Hafner is the professor for Refrigeration Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU in Trondheim Norway. He is also the president of The Norwegian Society of Refrigeration. During the past decades his research and development is focusing on refrigeration and heat pumping systems with natural working fluids.

Benjamin has close to 12 years in the commercial refrigeration industry, working almost with #NatRef only. He worked with natural refrigerants, from R290 / R600a by AHT Cooling Systems to CO2 from Sanden, and Panasonic until today. He is currently the Cold Chain Key-Account Manager for Panasonic and does not believe in other refrigerants, but #NatRef!

Since 2010 Bente Tranholm Schwarz has been deputy Head of Unit in the Directorate General for Climate Action in the European Commission. She is in charge of policy development and implementation of the EU regulations preventing emissions from fluorinated greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances. These polices must also safeguard that the EU remains compliant with the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer. Before 2010 she worked in the Commission’s Directorate General for Competition, in the Danish Ministry of Business and Industry and in the Danish Permanent Representation to the European Union where her main focus was policies fostering competitiveness and competition. She holds two Master degrees in economics.

Bjarne has worked with industrial energy saving and energy efficiency for 32 years. First, 16 years at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) as a research scientist, and last 16 years as founder of Hybrid Energy making industrial high temperature heat pumps supplying up to 105°C with the natural refrigerant water and ammonia. Most projects are implemented in the food industry in Norway, Denmark, and France substituting fossil fuel-fired heaters.

Since 2005 Björn Kern has been the head of the technical application department. His first project was a mobile transcritical R744 unit in 2008. Since 2012 he has been working on Konvekta R744 HP Generation 1 for Electrical busses. From 2015 till now, Björn has been supporting the transformation of Konvekta R744 HP Gen 1 to Gen 2 and the introduction in different customer applications.

Carolina Koronen is Programme Manager at the Environmental Coalition on Standards (ECOS) where she is responsible for standardization work on refrigerants, as well as energy and material efficiency of cooling appliances and household appliances. Carolina joined ECOS in March 2021 and has a background in academia where she conducted research on smart energy systems at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and previously Lund University. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental and Energy Systems Engineering from Lund University, Sweden.

Clare Perry is the Climate Campaign Leader at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). With more than 20 years working on global environmental issues, Clare is responsible for the strategic development and implementation of EIA´s climate campaign, which seeks to reduce emissions of climate super-pollutants, including ozone depleting substances, hydrofluorocarbons and methane. Clare has advocated ambitious environmental policies at multiple international fora (Montreal Protocol, UNFCCC, CITES, International Whaling Commission), including the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and the EU F-Gas Regulation. Clare graduated from the University of Southampton in 1993 with a BSc in biology and subsequently gained a Masters degree in coastal zone management.

Collin Bootsveld has a background in Chemical Process Engineering and experience on the introduction of natural refrigerants within Colruyt Groups’ supermarkets in Belgium. Refrigeration and air conditioning also formed a large part of his work for the Dutch research organization TNO. He has developed his career around energy conservation in the process industry, the built environment, greenhouses, and the retail sector. He works as an independent short-term expert on the introduction of sustainable technology, such as cooling, heat pumps and air-conditioning with natural refrigerants or electrical and hydrogen powered transport.

David Behringer studied Environmental Sciences and Organismic Biology in Bielefeld and Marburg and received his PhD in Molecular Ecology from the University of Marburg in 2017. Since 2017, he works as a project manager at the environmental consultancy firm Öko-Recherche in Frankfurt/Main. His work is focused on ozone-depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases in the context of environmental policy with a national and international scope

As director of the Technical Department BeLux David Schalenbourg is since September 2015 in charge of realizing Delhaize’s ambitions to reduce its CO2 footprint by building towards a sustainable ‘brick’ network. Graduated as an architect in Brussels, with Master in Urban Planning obtained in Paris and with an international track record in a variety of sustainable building projects (residential, office, retail, islands, …)

Davide Bargero gathered about thirty years’ experience in the world of commercial and professional refrigeration for Food&Beverage, supporting main European and LATAM customers in the sector. Thanks to his commercial and project management skills, he is responsible for the development of the F&B product marketing for Epta, facing new challenges in a fast-evolving market while taking into account environmental impact of products.

Diana studied Chemistry at the University in Leipzig, Germany and a PhD in Chemistry 2013 (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) Since 2016, she has worked as a scientist and policy advisor at the German Environment Agency (UBA), Section III 1.4 Substance-related Product Issues. Her work is focused on fluorinated greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances. Her team evaluates and proposes policies and measures for reduction of F-gas emissions.

Dominik finished his Master studies at University of Vienna in chemical and process engineering and after that was working at the University of Stuttgart on a project for an autark standby cooling system of Truck driver’s cabins. He later worked for a big OEM in the refrigeration field, responsible for developing a new system for transport refrigeration of long-haul trailers.   After the project he co-founded PBX (formerly PRODUCTBLOKS) with the aim to develop transport refrigeration systems with hydrocarbon refrigerants. The developed product for light commercial vehicles achieved certification by the end of 2020 and is now commercially available as the first of its kind.

Eoin is a highly regarded thought leader with a long and distinguished career in the Refrigeration Industry for the last 30+ years. The holder of a 1st class honours degree in engineering he combines this with a wealth of experience to make a difference in refrigeration thinking and design. Eoin joined Novum in 2007. He’s been working on pioneering the development of Propane refrigeration systems since 2008. This has culminated in the development of the LEAP® technology, a breakthrough Cassette refrigeration system for Novum display cabinets.

Gaël Grenat has an extensive experience in product management, marketing and business development in the industrial control and automation sector. After having been appointed as Sales Leader at ABB in Shanghai, China for 2 years and afterwards Head of Product Management at TE Connectivity, he occupies currently the position of Marketing and Product Management Director for Refrigeration Systems at CARRIER Commercial Refrigeration, based in Aubagne, France. He completed a Master’s degree in International Business at SKEMA Business School and a Bachelor’s degree at Stirling University, Scotland.

After obtaining his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2002, Giacomo Pisano worked for one year as a Project Manager for General Electric’s Oil & Gas division, where the core business is turbomachinery applied to the oil \\u0026 gas industry. He joined DORIN in 2003 in the R&D department, taking responsibility of the CO2 compressor development and being in charge of the product’s technical qualification. Giacomo Pisano then took over several application engineering roles and is currently responsible for the CO2 compressors’ business development. In the meantime he joined several ASERCOM working groups and was the Chairman for the association’s CO2 working group for many years.

Graham joined J & E Hall in 2010 managing the Company’s special packages department and is now Director of Process Systems & Marine. Supplying bespoke refrigeration solutions and chillers to the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Industrial applications both Internationally and in the UK.

Hassan Abbou has been working with the TEKO team as the “Technical Sales Manager France” since November 2018. He is specialised in the design, planning, installation and maintenance of refrigeration and air conditioning systems, and has experience in commercial and industrial refrigeration for more than 10 years. Thanks to his previous employment with installation companies and manufacturers of compressors and multicompressor systems, Hassan Abbou understands the demands of the French market, customer requirements and the features of refrigeration applications with CO2.

With a post-graduate degree in journalism from Rhodes University in South Africa and 10 years of experience relating to the HVAC&R industry, Ilana joined ATMOsphere (formerly shecco) in 2019. Co-founder of ATMOsphere, she also heads up the Market Intelligence team, focusing on market research, policy analysis, media, and specialized campaigns – all with the aim to accelerate the global transition to clean cooling and natural refrigerant solutions.

Dipl.-Ing. Joachim Schadt held a managerial position at a large retail company for the construction / technology sector for more than ten years and was responsible for the conversion of refrigeration technology to natural refrigerants. In 2010 he set up his own company Secon GmbH, which today is one of the leading providers of liquid coolers with flammable refrigerants.

Kenneth is a Product Manager for Heat Pumps solutions at GEA. This role involves the development of industrial heat pumps application and training of GEA’s global sales team. He has acquired a broad knowledge of industrial ammonia heat pump applications through many installations with capacities from 200 kW to 40,000 kW. With applications stretching from Dairies, Food processing, Combined heat and power, and ground source heat pumps. With the continued development of the market, he has also been involved in the exploration of new Heat Pump technologies with CO2 and hydrocarbons.

Kim Andre Lovas has an MSc in Mechanics and Process Technology from NMBU and is working as an Energy specialist at TINE. Is presently working in several research projects related to heat pump technology, energy efficiency and waste heat utilization, and are actively working on turning research into real-world applicable technology.

Educated as mechanical engineer at DTU back in 1995 later in 2003 further educated in Engineering Business Administration (bachelor). Started as engineer at Danish Technological Institute in 1995 and worked as general manager for the refrigeration department from 2001. Started own company, Advansor, in 2006, which was the fastest growing start-up in DK in the years 2008-2011. Sold the company to the Dover Industries in 2011 and stayed as CEO for Advansor until 2018. Took a year in 2018/2019 crossing the Atlantic Ocean with my family and a 8-month cruise in Caribbean before returning to Denmark in the summer 2019. Now working with start-ups and advisory business focusing on sustainable businesses within environment and energy sector. CO-founded Fenagy during the summer 2020 with the ambition to create a professional OEM in the field of industrial refrigeration and electrical heap pumps based on CO2 as refrigerant. The majority of Fenagy was acquired by Beijer Ref in 2021.

Lars Bluhm has more than 15 years’ experience within the refrigeration industry focusing on commercial refrigeration especially food retail applications. Lars is working as Regional Sales Manager D A CH Region at Advansor. Advansor designs and produce the world’s best sustainable CO2 climate solutions.

Born in Italy, Luca obtained a specialist degree in energy engineering (ingegneria energetica) at Politecnico of Milan in 2011. He’s been working in E. Biaggini SA in Switzerland since 2013 and is project manager in the field of commercial and industrial refrigeration systems with transcritical CO2 technology. Luca speaks Italian, English and German and closely collaborates with many Swiss, European and Chinese companies. He has been a Board Member of E. Biaggini SA since January 2023.

Lukas Beier started his apprenticeship at TEKO as a mechatronics technician for refrigeration in 2013. After successfully graduating, he worked in the TEKO production as a mechanic for a short period before beginning his studies as Bachelor of Science – specialized in refrigeration technology. For more than two years, Lukas Beier has been a member of our research and development department.

Founder of ATMOsphere a global, independent market accelerator with a mission to clean-up cooling. Marc Chasserot has 20 years of experience in the HVAC&R sector. His focus throughout those years has been with Natural Refrigerant based technologies used in Refrigeration, Heat Pumps and Air Conditioning applications. He has founded several industry platforms, namely; www.R744.com, www.hydrocarbons21.com, ammonia21.com, and Accelerate Magazine. Published numerous reports for industry and policy-makers, chaired over 70 ATMOsphere conferences worldwide. Marc has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and America. He holds several degrees in Economics, Marketing and Politics.

Marco Solimeo studied at Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy) where he earned his M.Sc. degree in Energy Engineering in 2014, including a brief period as researcher at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). Fresh graduate, he started his career in Epta R&D department as thermodynamic engineer, involved in the design and testing of refrigerated self-contained cabinets. He became R&D laboratory manager in 2020, focusing on innovative projects with hydrocarbon refrigerants and certification processes according to international safety standards.

After graduation at the Università degli Studi di Pavia (It) and two years in an electro/mechanical company, fascinated by the refrigeration technologies, he entered in Embraco in 1972 and developed the entire carrier in this company, with different responsibilities in technical-commercial activities (Techn. Support manager, MKT manager, Key account Manager). The collaboration with Nidec GA – Embraco, globally considered a leader in providing sustainable solutions for household and commercial refrigeration, is still continuing as Key Account Sr Advisor, Commercial Refrigeration. In his activities he established technical liaisons between Embraco – OEMs – End Users and institutions in order to individuate in advance the needs and expectations of the market for addressing the company actions on innovative solutions and supporting their implementation on the market. Thanks to these activities, he contributed to the adoption and diffusion of the HCs in the household and commercial refrigeration. Engaged in training activities, he held training on the safety use of flammable refrigerants and system performance optimization. Marino is a member of CEN TC 44 and ISO TC 86 for Commercial and Professional appliances, a member of IIR Safety WG 1 and 2, partner for the EU Real Alternatives blended training, and member of ATF.

Mark Sever has a background in thermodynamics and more than 20 years of experience in refrigeration applications with an emphasis on electronics and monitoring systems. For the last decade, Mark has focused on developing technology that uses CO2 as a refrigerant and on enhancing system performance in food retail applications. Mark greatly enjoys sharing his knowledge in refrigeration applications.

Martin Lazar is involved in the heating branch from the beginning of his professional career. Since 2002 Martin has been the Co-owner and Member of the Board of HKS LAZAR Company. As a Chief of Marketing and Sales Department, he is also involved in R&D projects.

After obtaining his Master degree in Energy Engineering (Padua University, 2015), Matteo Dal Corso joined CAREL working as an Application Manager for food retail refrigeration application. He is currently in charge of the development and deployment of electronic controllers dedicated to centralized supermarket and condensing units by defining marketing strategies, proposing new solutions and supporting the sales network with technical and application consulting.  During the last period he has been focused mainly on the use of DC compressors in CO2 transcritical application.

As the Head of Content for ATMOsphere (formerly shecco), veteran journalist Michael Garry is responsible for the news articles on R744.com, Hydrocarbons21.com and Ammonia21.com. He also contributes to in-depth market reports, and helps to organize ATMO conferences. Starting at ATMOsphere in 2014, he has also served as editor-in-chief of Accelerate America and Accelerate Magazine. Prior to joining ATMOsphere, he led the coverage of sustainability, technology and logistics at Supermarket News for 11 years. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of M.I.T with a degree in political science, he is the author of Game of My Life New York Mets: Memorable Stories of Mets Baseball.

Michael Kauffeld has been working with research and development of refrigeration systems with natural refrigerants and ice slurry for more than 30 years. Since 2002, he has been researching and teaching at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. He also advises public and private institutions on the use of natural refrigerants and ice slurry.

Michael has a strong educational background on business economics and supply chain management. His international experience started with working in the industrial engineering sector for 7 years in Germany and China. Throughout the 6 years in FMCG business, Michael focused mainly on procurement and product lifecycle management for various product groups. Michael is currently based in Salzburg, responsible for the development and procurement of all POS items, globally.

Managing Director at Arctic Circle Ltd. Mike is a dedicated entrepreneur with a decade’s history of managing the success of the operational delivery of the business. Mike is critical to the company’s success in delivering new revolutionary products to market that meet with our mission to pioneering smart innovation that matters. Mike is passionate about investing in the knowledge and expertise of the people around him to ensure the company operates in a sustainable manner, for the employees, community, and industry. Before dedicating himself to Arctic Circle Mike was successful in obtaining a BA(Hons) in Business Enterprise at the University of the West of England, this alongside his exposure to the successful operation of a business when he was young creates a recipe for success.

Nikolaus Skarabela studied eco-energy technology at the FH Upper Austria from 2005 to 2009. Since 2009 he has been working in companies as an expert for the mobility and energy sector. His responsibilities include the development and implementation of new concepts in the mobility and innovation sector, trainings and lectures, and the acquisition and project management of large lighthouse projects like ZERO Logistics.

Olaf Schulze is the Director Energy Management/ Real Estate Sustainability at METRO Properties Holding From 2005 to 2013, he was the Managing Director of Metro Properties Energy Management GmbH. Previously, Schulze worked at Europower Energy GmbH as the Head of Legal and Human Resources and at Geberit Mapress GmbH as the Head of Legal and Insurance.

Olivier Liégeois is Marketing Refrigeration Director for the Retail Sector in Europe at Emerson Commercial and Residential Solutions.  He has a Master’s Degree in Engineering in Thermodynamics from the University of Liège (B) and has been working at Emerson for more than 20 years. He has been involved in New Product Development during all his career, starting from engineering, to project management and now to product management, where he is responsible for the Cold Chain solutions using natural refrigerants.

Peter holds a Honours degree in thermal and mechanical engineering. He has more than 20 years’ experience in Refrigeration Compressor and System Optimization. His background in the compressor industry comes from more than 15 years at Danfoss Compressors and 10 years at Secop. Currently, Peter is global responsible for all Secop technical and customer application support.

Thomas Bartmann, born in 1958, studied mechanical engineering at the renowned RWTH University in Aachen, Germany. He is working in the international HVACR industry since 1986. During that time, he worked for renowned companies such as Carrier, Johnson Controls, Emerson Network Power, and Cofely (today ENGIE). In his positions, leading international sales and business development, he could benefit from his wide technical expertise and great network in the refrigeration industry. Thomas joined Efficient Energy in 2017 as a Member of the Executive Board. He is responsible for the strategic internationalization of the company and heads the departments of Sales, Marketing and Service.

Thomas Frank is a chemical engineer (Dipl. Ing.) and certificated senior project manager (IPMA level B) with demonstrating experience and network in the field of refrigeration. For over 10 years, he has been working in different fields of industrial refrigeration from process cooling for chemical plants to food storage and environmental simulation. In 2019 he founded Refolution, an engineering office that is using deep knowledge of refrigeration and analytic process understanding to develop new processes in different fields to transform the industry to natural refrigeration only with efficient, long lasting and safe for humans and nature technologies. Refolution is well known for inventing and building new solutions with the oil-free air refrigeration machine from Mitrai Intex like the -115°C cold sauna, the vaccines storage container,  the HOF-CryoBlizzard that is a central refrigeration plant for pharmaceutical batch processes like lyophilization and plasma freezing, steel hardening, plastic deburring and a solvent recycling process. 

While achieving his University degrees in Business Administration and Management (with emphasis on Marketing), Vladyslav has been working intensively with MIRAI since 2015. MIRAI specializes in the development and manufacturing of air-cycle refrigeration machines designed for Ultra-low temperature applications. Through the implementation of innovative technologies, MIRAI aims to shift the ultra-cold refrigeration industry in favor of climate protection.

Graduated from Oxford Brookes University and Grenoble Business School, I’ve mostly been working in HVAC international development. After few years as International Sales Director for a major industrial gas heaters manufacturer, in 2005 I joined Seeley International to take part to the development of the very innovative and unique environmental adiabatic air conditioning solutions designed and manufactured by Seeley. With great successes in Middle East like the recent supply for cooling 50.000 tents accommodating the Mecca – Hajj pilgrims; our main focus in Europe is on commercial and industrial buildings where there are substantial energy savings to be done in providing Healthy IAQ and Fresh air.

Lily holds an MBA degree and has worked for more than 20 years in the refrigeration industry with rich experiences in quality, sales, marketing, and business development. Currently she is responsible for the global operative marketing function in Secop, focusing on product portfolio & roadmap, marketing promotion & communication, etc.