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25. April 2021IMPACT CONNECT
with Wasser 3.0 IMPACT CONNECT is a digital matchmaking event for companies, startups and investors under the umbrella of the Impact Festival. With around 50 partners and many startups from the Impact Festival network, IMPACT CONNECT is one of the largest B2B matchmaking events for sustainability in Germany. The event's motto is "SDG17 - Partnerships for the Goals" and includes many opportunities for inspiration and interaction with three keynotes, matchmaking and speed dating.
We can be found as an exhibitor in the resource efficiency section. Here, solutions for saving energy, CO2, water and waste in all its forms are being presented.
Through our detect | remove | reuse strategy with ECO³ guarantee we deliver direct impacts: Our solutions
Through our detect | remove | reuse strategy with ECO³ guarantee we deliver direct impacts: Our solutions
- save water, energy and costs,
- avoid waste and
- improve water quality.
The aha moment behind the Impact Festival
The idea for the
Thus, the two have set themselves the goal of creating a platform that connects technological solutions from innovators such as green startups with companies and investors in order to jointly drive the sustainable transformation and achievement of the SDGs.
The idea for the
Impact Festival as a platform for sustainable technologies
and innovations came to the initiators Fabian Demuth and Moritz Schwarz during a stay in Asia. This made them aware of the enormous effects of climate change, which are already becoming visible today, especially in emerging countries.Thus, the two have set themselves the goal of creating a platform that connects technological solutions from innovators such as green startups with companies and investors in order to jointly drive the sustainable transformation and achievement of the SDGs.

We can only agree with their perspective when they say that
- they see us (as a Western nation), through globalization and extreme increase in the outsourcing of production of goods to the Global South, in the duty to take a leading role in the fight against the climate crisis.
- to be able to deal with the issue of sustainability at all is a privilege of which we should be aware.
- appropriate framework conditions set by politics, as well as the perspective of the younger generation and science must go together with economic and technological innovations.