Event agenda
Tuesday, 28 April 2026
07:30 - 09:00
Registration
08:00 - 08:45
B2B Meetings - Session 1 | ON-SITE
- Conference Room 3 & 4 & 5 | Booths in Octagon
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
09:00 - 09:15
Welcome
09:15 - 09:30
Opening Plenary Session
A welcome from the hosts of the event, highlighting the international role of the Austrian GreenTech and Construction Industry
1 speaker
09:30 - 10:20
Keynote 1: Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment: State of the Art in Latin America
1 speaker
Keynote 2 : Environmental Technology and Renewable Energy: The Twin Forces Driving Europe’s Circular Future
1 speaker
10:20 - 10:50
"Windows to the World" of Green Building and Green Tech
Join a stream newsflash, analysing and reflecting GreenTech and Green Building trends from Africa, America, Asia and Europe. What are the international challenges and opportunities for the sector?
4 speakers
10:50 - 11:00
Get your Enterprise Europe Networking Guide: What’s coming up next?
11:00 - 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 13:00
Keytopic 1.1: Building for Change: Carbon Reality in Southeast Asia
1 speaker
Keytopic 1.2: From Austria to the World : How Know-How from Austria shapes Global Timber Construction
1 speaker
Keytopic 1.3: Holistic Architecture based on Regrowing Materials
1 speaker
11:30 - 13:00
Keytopic 2.1 Opening: Building a Sustainable and Reciprocal Energy Transition
1 speaker
Keytopic 2.2: Building the Energy Transition: New Energy for Industry, Integrated Heat and Smart Energy Systems in Practice
How can industrial decarbonization move from strategy to implementation? This session brings together key actors from Austria’s innovation ecosystem to showcase innovative solutions at the intersection of energy, industry, and infrastructure.
3 speakers
11:30 - 13:00
Keytopic 3.1: 100% Green Energy for Industry & Grids
3 speakers
Keytopic 3.2: The Building Envelope as a Lever for the Energy Transition – Renvelope, Austria’s Flagship Project in Serial Renovation
1 speaker
Keytopic 3.3: Building Culture in the Existing Building
How you can show the way to green buildings and appreciate the existing building stock and its potential?
1 speaker
11:30 - 13:00
Keytopic 4.1: Open-Source Urban Mining: Treating Existing Buildings as Material Banks
1 speaker
Keytopic 4.2: From Demolition to Material Loop: Deconstruction, Reuse and Recycling in Action
What a 1907 Building in Vienna taught us about the Future of Circular Construction
1 speaker
Keytopic 4.3: From Demolition Waste to Low-Energy Indoor Climate Panels
1 speaker
Keytopic 4.4: Modular Timber Construction: Built in 2 Days. Lasts 100 Years. Leaves Nothing Behind
1 speaker
Keytopic 4.5: Circular Economy Research at the IGCE / BOKU Vienna and the Project Bio-Based Composite Building Blocks "BioBrick"
2 speakers
11:30 - 13:00
B2B Meetings - Session 2 | ON-SITE
- Conference Room 3 & 4 & 5 | Booths in Octagon
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
13:00 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
13:00 - 14:00
FULLY BOOKED | B2B Meetings - Session 1 | VIRTUAL
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
Virtual Session 1 (13:00–14:00) is fully booked. Please use another B2B slot for your meeting.
13:00 - 14:00
B2B Meetings - Session 3 | ON-SITE
- Conference Room 3 & 4 & 5 | Booths in Octagon
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
14:00 - 15:30
Keytopic 1.1: BauMinator 3D Concrete Printing Reduces Construction Material Use by 40% While Keeping Individuality for Architects and Planners
2 speakers
Keytopic 1.2: From Experiment to Application: Reallabor for Sustainable Construction Materials with a Focus on Low-Carbon Concrete
1 speaker
Keytopic 1.3: Joys and Sorrows of Modular Construction
1 speaker
Keytopic 1.4: From Resource Constraints to Material Strategy
Timber Construction in Central Asia
1 speaker
Keytopic 1.5: Closing the Loop: Mineral Construction Waste as a Key Resource for Sustainable Construction
Mineral Construction Waste as Circular Resource
1 speaker
14:00 - 15:30
Keytopic 2.1: Beyond Green – Urban Strategy for Human Survival
1 speaker
Keytopic 2.2: International Project Business – Financing, Consortium Partnerships & Successful Implementation
5 speakers
14:00 - 15:30
Keytopic 3.1: Sustainability Drives Resilient Growth
1 speaker
Keytopic 3.2: AI-powered Optimization for Smarter Buildings
1 speaker
Keytopic 3.3: Heat Transition in Action
4 speakers
14:00 - 15:30
Keytopic 4.1: Build Back Better: Applying Circular Economy Principles to Ukraine’s Reconstruction
3 speakers
Keytopic 4.2: Closed Loops for Plastics, Metals & Batteries
6 speakers
14:00 - 14:30
B2B Meetings - After Lunch Session | ON-SITE
- Conference Room 3 & 4 & 5 | Booths in Octagon
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
14:30 - 15:30
B2B Meetings - Session 2 | VIRTUAL
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
14:30 - 15:30
B2B Meetings - Session 4 | ON-SITE
- Conference Room 3 & 4 & 5 | Booths in Octagon
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
15:30 - 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
15:30 - 16:00
B2B Meetings - Coffee Session | ON-SITE
- Conference Room 3 & 4 & 5 | Booths in Octagon
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
16:00 - 17:00
Keytopic 1: Biobased, Circular & Digital Sources
4 speakers
16:00 - 17:00
Keytopic 2.1: Limited-Profit Housing in Austria: Aligning Affordability with the Green Transition
1 speaker
Keytopic 2.2: Project Financing from the Bank's Perspective
1 speaker
Keytopic 2.3: Rebuilding Ukraine: Current Needs, Projects, Financing Options, and Prospects in Ukraine's Housing Sector
4 speakers
16:00 - 17:00
Keytopic 3: Bioenergy: An Austrian Export Success Story
4 speakers
16:00 - 17:00
Keytopic 4: Rethinking Water: Circular, Digital and Decentralized Solutions for the Built Environment
4 speakers
16:00 - 17:00
B2B Meetings - Session 3 | VIRTUAL
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
16:00 - 17:00
B2B Meetings - Session 5 | ON-SITE
- Conference Room 3 & 4 & 5 | Booths in Octagon
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
17:00 - 19:00
SOFT CLOSING
Light refreshments and informal networking to close the event day
17:00 - 17:45
B2B Meetings - After Panels Session | ON-SITE
- Conference Room 3 & 4 & 5 | Booths in Octagon
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots
18:00 - 20:30
Evening Enquete & Networking Dinner
Conclusion of the conference.
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
08:00 - 12:45
TOUR 2 - Integrated Renewable Energy Systems (HALF DAY EXCURSION)
Sign-ups available from 8 Apr 2026, 12:00 to 25 Apr 2026, 12:00
08:00 - 13:30
TOUR 1 - Biomass & Circular Bioenergy Systems (HALF DAY EXCURSION)
Sign-ups available from 8 Apr 2026, 12:00 to 27 Apr 2026, 12:00
08:10 - 13:30
TOUR 4 - Innovative Construction & Sustainable Urban Development (HALF DAY EXCURSION)
Sign-ups available from 8 Apr 2026, 12:00 to 27 Apr 2026, 12:00
08:30 - 13:45
TOUR 3 - Waste Water Treatment and Waste to Energy (HALF DAY EXCURSION)
Sign-ups available from 8 Apr 2026, 12:00 to 27 Apr 2026, 12:00
08:30 - 14:00
TOUR 5 - Circular Materials & Public Building Renovation and Modernization (HALF DAY EXCURSION)
Sign-ups available from 8 Apr 2026, 12:00 to 27 Apr 2026, 12:00
08:40 - 14:00
TOUR 6 - Brownfields and Adaptive Re-use
Sign-ups available from 8 Apr 2026, 12:00 to 25 Apr 2026, 12:00
Thursday, 30 April 2026
08:00 - 16:00
B2B Meetings - all day | VIRTUAL
Meeting duration:15 minutes time slots