Opening
Recording
Keynote speech
9:10
UTC+1 – 9:30
Speakers

Salina Abraham
Regional Manager – GLF Africa Hub Global Landscapes Forum, CIFOR-ICRAF
Salina Abraham is an Eritrean-American environmentalist and advocate for community-led action on sustainable landscapes. She is currently the Regional Hub Manager for the Global Landscapes Forum Africa Hub, a Youth4Climate Ambassador at the World Bank and a public policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School. She serves on the Advisory Council to the World Economic Forum’s Trillion Tree platform and the UN FAO’s Forest and Farm Facility. Salina’s academic work explores the impact of corporate social responsibility programs on Eritrea’s rural development, as well as the role of female leadership in economics and finance sectors across Africa. She is the former President of the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA) and coordinator of the Youth in Landscapes Initiative.
Recording
Public speaking: how to prepare for it?
9:30
UTC+1 – 11:00
13:30
UTC+1 – 15:00
Most of us know the feeling of anxious anticipation before delivering a speech or presentation. “Will I be judged harshly?” “Will people be bored?” “What if I make a mistake?” “What am I even doing up here?” Even the most seasoned presenters are not always free from pesky stomach knots. What you’ll learn in this session won’t banish your public speaking anxiety completely, but it will give you tools that will elevate your speeches and presentations, give you more confidence, and most importantly engage and persuade your audience!
Speakers

Carla Brown
Siegwerk
Carla Brown started her career in corporate law, before finding a passion in topics relating to environmental issues and sustainable development. Specializing in sustainability communications, she has worked in numerous industries, including as International Programme Manager for the Forest Stewardship Council. She holds undergraduate degrees in law and sustainable development, and a Master’s degree in Sustainable Development. Originally from South Africa, she now resides in Germany and is still adjusting to the cold winters.
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Digitalization in the forest sector
9:30
UTC+1 – 11:00
13:30
UTC+1 – 15:00
Our world is changing, forestry is transforming as well. Digital applications and technologies have an impact on current and future tasks and activities as well as skills and abilities of people working in forestry and the transfer of knowledge. The session „Digitalization in the forest sector“ illuminates with 4 short contributions this topic from different perspectives with best practices for facing the challenge of implementation in the forest and timber supply chain.
- Digitalization needs infrastructure – Competence Center Forest and Timber 4.0, Frank Heinze, Project manager
- Information about the current status of digitalization in europe – Rosewood network, Danijela Šarić Bartolović,
Head of Department for Programmes and Projects, CEKOM - Digital assistance for future CTL – operations – Forest Value Research
Project AVATAR (Advanced Virtual Aptitude and Training Application in Real Time), Florian Hartsch, Researcher, University Göttingen - Digitalization in the forest and timber supply chain as a business chance for young companies – Treeva company powered by Stihl Bertil Stapel, Sales manager
Speakers

Thilo Wagner
Wald und Holz NRW
Thilo Wagner works as a forest director for the government of Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is the principal of the Forest Education Centre and lectures at the University of Cologne about Forest Engineering. Additionally, he is the representative of the State Northrhine-westphalia in the technical committee for forest machinery at KWF (Association for Forestry Work and Forestry Technology).

Bertil Stapel
Sales Manager at treeva GmbH
– M. Sc. Forest Science and Ecology – since 2013 with Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG – STIHL Marketing Research and Marketing Strategy – STIHL Product Management Chainsaws and Saw Chains – 2019 till today Change to subsidiary company treeva GmbH (Sales Manager)

Frank Heinze
Coordinator “Competence Center Forest and Timber 4.0” at RIF Institute for Research and Transfer eV
Frank Heinze, born in 1968, is coordinator of the “Competence Center Forest and Timber 4.0” (“Kompetenzzentrum Wald und Holz 4.0”) at RIF Institute for Research and Transfer e.V. He studied electrical engineering at the Paderborn University, Germany and at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA, and business administration at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany, and holds degrees in engineering and business administration. For more than 20 years he has been working in research, training, and software development in the fields of engineering, simulation systems and virtual reality, especially for the manufacturing industry and the forestry sector. Before he joined RIF in 2005, he was working at the Institute for Robotics Research at the TU Dortmund University.
Picture Copyright: Andreas Böhm, RIF

Florian Hartsch
Northrhine-Westfalian State Forest Service in Germany
Florian Hartsch works as a Research Associate for the Northrhine-Westfalian State Forest Service in Germany. He is currently working on his PhD-Thesis, which is about optimization potentials in highly mechanized harvesting systems related to improvements of productivity and cost-efficiency. He holds a Bachelor´s degree in Forest Sciences at the University of Göttingen and a Master´s degree in Forest- and Wood Sciences at the Technical University of Munich. Before his studies, he participated in the German state certified forest worker program

Danijela Šarić Bartolović
Head of Department for Programmes and Projects, Competence Centre Ltd.
Danijela Šarić Bartolović holds a bachelor’s degree in economics – Marketing management of the J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics. Career started as local consultant for Regional operational plan within the establishment of regional development process in VSC. She further enriched her career through experience in real sector and positions as head of economy and administrative sector and expert for controlling executing various activities related to management, finances, administration and human resource sectors. Since 2018 she is working as a project manager in Competence Centre Ltd. in charge of implementation of H2020 projects ROSEWOOD and ROSEWOOD4.0. Currently, she works as Head of Department for programmes and projects. Main responsibilities are preparation and implementation of business strategy, development and improvement of business processes, preparation and implementation of the Company’s legal acts, business plans and reports, preparation and implementation of projects, and organization, management and responsibility for the performance of tasks within Department (finance, general, legal and personnel affairs).
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Designing an Engaging Conference 101
9:30
UTC+1 – 11:00
13:30
UTC+1 – 15:00
Have you ever wondered what goes behind the scenes of a conference? Then this workshop is for you; a workshop designed as a crash course on what it takes to build sessions with an impact. Join to hear from the experts that build the famous Global Landscapes Forum conferences, which bring together speakers from around the world and reach thousands of people annually.
Speakers

Eirini Sakellari
CIFOR
Eirini is an environmentalist from the island of Crete, in the South of Europe. She is currently acting as the Youth Coordinator of the Global Landscapes Forum, where she supports a global youth movement of solidarity and action for ecosystem restoration and climate justice across landscapes. Eirini has an interdisciplinary background with a BSc in Chemistry and an MSc in Environmental Sciences, focusing on policy and diplomacy, from Wageningen University & Research. She is also pursuing a degree in Degrowth Economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Pê Magalhães (Pedro Momag)
ICRAF
Pê Magalhães (Pedro Momag)is a social scientist, development practitioner and an environmental activist from the Brazilian Savannah, the Cerrado ecosystem. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Brasília (UnB) and a master’s degree in Development Management from the Rühr University Bochum (RUB), having focused his studies on agrarian social movements and the financial inclusion of agroecological producers. He is currently the Youth in Landscapes Network Intern for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) and the coordinator of the GLF LAC Project Team.
Recording
Living Library
11:15
UTC+1 – 12:30
16:30
UTC+1 – open end
The Living Library method seeks to promote understanding and dialogue between different people and to fight prejudices and discrimination. When you come to visit the Living Library you pick a book that sounds interesting from a catalog, but instead of a pile of paper you will get to borrow a real person – with a story to tell! You will be able to ask the book whatever questions you have in your mind concerning the topic of the book, but remember to be respectful – do not bend the pages, or spill coffee on them!
Living Libraries are in general about all different sorts of topics. However, in our Workshop, we will limit the topic variety to the “Working Life Section”. So as a book you get to tell about yourself and a topic that is important for you, an event or project you organized, or just giving handy hints for life, e.g. about work-life balance.
Speed Networking
15:15
UTC+1 – 16:15
This session is aimed to give the participants the chance to network with each other and to exchange ideas and experiences with the professionals and participants joining the event. The “Speed Networking” will be held on the meeting platform ‘hopin’ and will allow a random matching of participants for networking as well as general chatting.
Recording
Closing Remarks
16:15
UTC+1 – 16:30
Speakers

Johanna Klapper
Executive Secretary at IFSA
Johanna is a master student of Forest and Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and has been a member of IFSA since 2020.
She is currently part of the IFSA Board as Executive Secretary, after having served as Regional Representative of Northern Europe for the last year. For the Youth Forest Policy Days, she is co-organizing the Workshop Day and has been involvement in the planning from an early stage.
Johanna holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Sciences and is currently working as a trainee at the European Forest Institute (EFI) in Joensuu, Finland, as part of her Master’s Degree. Her interests are in ecosystem modeling, data analysis and web development as well as her voluntary work in IFSA.