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CEO @H2UB - Building the European Open Innovation Platform for Hydrogen Start-ups and Corporates

  𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗬𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 📈 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴  ✨ What an event! What a sensational crowd! What a pool of experience and knowledge! The second edition of the H2UB #HYDROVERSE 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 was an overwhelming experience. Almost 600 people attended our sessions, the exhibition and networking areas and celebrated with us. The Colosseum Theatre in #Essen was once again the perfect venue, and this year we made it to the main stage!! ▶️Let me point out a few outstanding things: ▶️𝗕𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿! - As H2UB and HYDROVERSE grow, so does the CONVENTION. We have doubled in size: more start-ups on stage, a very large exhibition area, more speakers, more guests. ▶️𝗨𝗽-𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴! - Our on-stage programme has been designed to show the progression of hydrogen start-ups from early-stage founders, to growing and scaling companies, to those that have made it into partnerships with established companies. ▶️𝗚𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿! - Thanks to our excellent keynote speakers and high-level panellists, we were able to explore many topics in depth. ▶️𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹! - H2UB is a European project. Its aim is to support European start-ups. The international guests at the HYDROVERSE CONVENTION showed that the interest in our work and the start-ups we gathered was even more international: with guests from Japan, the USA, the MENA region and from all parts of Europe, the event proved that defossilization, decarbonisation and climate protection are truly global issues. ▶️𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿! - Many partners are with us on our journey to support start-ups as a key driver of the hydrogen economy. Together with our shareholders RAG-Stiftung, OGE, TÜV SÜD, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. , members and supporting partners, we once again prove our slogan "𝙃𝙮𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠". Thank you to each and every one of you who supported us, organised, contributed, engaged, travelled long distances, entertained, shared and celebrated with us! And here is the long list of those to whom I would like to extend my most sincere thanks (in order of appearance): Minister President of NRW Hendrik Wüst Gillord Pisas Michael Liebreich Juergen Groenner Thomas Hüwener Guillaume Lesueur Jorgo Chatzimarkakis Dr. Christoph Noeres Dr. Sopna Sury Christian Olshausen Luc Graré Marko Virkebau Martin Skov Skjøth-Rasmussen Trevor Best Philip Kessler Dr. Niklas Friederichsen Anke Hosse-Doblinger and of course 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲!! ▶️ Congrats to the winner of the "HYDROVERSE AWARD 2024": Stargate Hydrogen 🏆 ▶️ Special kudos to Gillord Pisas, our fabulous host 🙇♂️ Exhibition partners this year: JETRO - Japan External Trade Organization EWG - Essener Wirtschaftsförderung NRW.BANK Hydrogen Metropole Ruhr Zukunft Gas Zaz Ventures - 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Last but not least thanks to the Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Industrie, Klimaschutz und Energie des Landes NRW for enabling this!

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Thank you, Uwe! We are thrilled to have been part of such a successful HYDROVERSE CONVENTION 2024. The event highlighted Essen's role as the energy capital of Europe and brought together nearly 600 participants from around the world. Congratulations to all the startups and special thanks to everyone who made this possible! Together we are moving the hydrogen economy forward. 🌍💧 

Hasnae Chami-Boudrika

Project Manager Diversification et Innovation - UM6P France

2mo

Wow 🤩 Congratulations Uwe Kerkmann and H2UB ✨️

Robin Ibing

Senior Event & Project Manager at Europe's leading Open Innovation Platform for the whole hydrogen value chain

2mo

Perfect summary of the whole day 😊 so proud of us all for making this possible!

Tina Stojanovic Marolt

Managing Director, EU H2 Week & Events Director, Hydrogen Europe

2mo

Congrats to you and your whole team. It looks AMAZING!!

Dr. Nils Liesebach

Head of Innovation @oge, Co-Founder of @evety and @H2UB, Innovator of H2Connect and HySchool, Investor

2mo

What a great team! 😍

Julian Wessing

Inspiring and coaching Startups @ BRYCK

2mo

It was an incredible day, well done! The #hydroverse is really expanding at rapid speed, I am more than grateful to accompany you along this wonderful ride!

Carolin Nickel

Senior Event & Project Managerin bei H2UB®

2mo

Your post summarises everything perfectly, Uwe. 😎 I am so proud for what we have achieved. The HYDROVERSE CONVENTION was truly incredible and left me a little speechless. Speechless, without a voice, tired and exhausted, but happy and proud. 😌 Now it's time to recharge our batteries and then get ready for HYDROVERSE CONVENTION 2025! 🎉 🎤

Marina Scheider

Senior Communications & PR-Managerin bei H2UB | MBA Communication & Leadership

2mo

It was a blast! 🔥 especially proud of the international crowd we gathered in Essen!

Tobias Grün

Building an Ecosystem of Wizards and Prophets

2mo

In just under two years to the top of the h2-ladder! Well done, really looking forward to next years edition

Marko Virkebau

CEO @ Stargate Hydrogen, we provide next-generation alkaline electrolysers

2mo

Congratulations on such a successful event!

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