Webinar - Food-Energy-Water: The road to sustainability

Webinar - Food-Energy-Water: The road to sustainability

A webinar was held in connection with the hackathon Hacking Norðurland 2021. The main topic of the webinar was the Food-Energy-Water nexus (FEW). A diverse list of interesting speakers discuss different sides of the FEW nexus. Most errands are in Icelandic but two very interesting errands are in English

The list of speakers and topic can be found here below.

• Sesselja Ingibjörg Barðdal Reynisdóttir - General manager of Eimur starts the webinar
• Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir - Minister of Tourism, Industry and Innovation, addresses guests
• Sigurður Markússon - Innovation manager at Landsvirkjun: Sustainable food production
• Elín Margot - designer og Arnar Ómarsson - artist: Expanding Fiction (in English)
• Esteban Baeza Romero - scientsit at Wagenigen University and Research in the Netherlands og Hörn Halldórudóttir Heiðarsdóttir - General manager of Earth 2.0: Niðurstöður rannsóknar um möguleika Íslands til stórsóknar í ylrækt The results of a study on Iceland's potential for a major expansion in growing crops in greenhouses (in English)
• Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir - General manager at Alor: Energy storage for green energy
• Fida Abu Libdeh - Entrepreneur and owner of Mýsilica : Nýting náttúruauðlindar til verðmætasköpunar við Mývatn, orka-vatn-hugvit Utilization of natural resources for value creation around Lake Mývatn, Energy-Water-Ingenuity