CIRCULAR 2035
Green energy. Circular industry. Resilient communities.
Welcome to CIRCULAR 2035, Aabenraa's annual top leader conference, rooted in a simple but powerful proposition: The green energy transition is not only an emissions reduction quest, but a generator of entirely new industrial ecosystems, reviving rural economies and building infrastructure for long-term societal resilience.
Join us on 8 October 2026 at historical Folkehjem in Aabenraa, the location of south Jutland's reunification, and now the center of ambitious, broad-scale green transition - and the emerging Danish-German cross-border hydrogen economy.
At the heart of the conference programme is a concrete working example: Aabenraa Circular. A green, sector-coupled and circular industry symbiosis, and a principle to drive both growth and green transition, anchored by what will be Denmark's largest transformer station, and the already operational Power-to-X facility in Kassø - the world's largest.
CIRCULAR 2035 is the annual conference that will showcase its solutions as a model for European energy independence, resilience and competitiveness in new industries, stress-test its solutions and derived value chains, and unite ambitious investors and stakeholders in a forward-looking forum - from hydrogen and Power-to-X, to circular food and materials producers.
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Programme
09:30 - 10:00 I Registration
10:00 - 10:25 I Welcome address and opening keynote
With Jan Riber Jakobsen (Mayor of Aabenraa Municipality) and Hanne Klintøe (Head of PtX Development).
10:25 - 11:30 I Building the Danish-German hydrogen economy
With Rikke Beckmann Danielsen (Deloitte), Nicola Knight (Worley), Steve Kelly (1PointFive International), Knud-Erik Andersen (European Energy), and André Steinau (GP Joule).
11:30 - 11:45 I Break
11:45 - 12:40 I Circular utilities: closing the loop in practice
With Jakob Bjerregaard (Arwos Technical Water), Dominique Helaine (Suez International), Ditte Lundgaard Jakobsen (Aabenraa Municipality), Hazel Reardon (NIRAS) and Christian Døring (Veolia / Krüger).
12:40 - 13:30 I Lunch & networking
13:30 - 14:20 I The derived economy: the heat is on!
With Mikkel A. Thomassen (Smith Innovation), Simon Lander (Selected Group), Kim Møller-Rasmussen (Aabenraa District Heating), Martin Brander (Danfoss), Simon Lauritzen (Nordic Shrimp) and Gramitherm.
14:20 - 15:10 I Building a grid for scale and energy security
With Kim Willerslev (Energinet), Karsten Plauborg (Plexar), Lars Riis (Siemens Energy), Henrik Hansen (Danish Data Center Industry) and Green Power Denmark.
15:10 - 16:00 I From blueprint to reality: who does what next?
With Joschka Knuth (Land Schleswig-Holstein), Andreas Wenzel (German-Danish Chamber of Commerce), Hege Økland (Hy2Gen Nordic), Jørgen Mads Clausen (Danfoss) and Patrick Gjelstrup Rosenquist (EIFO).
16:00 - 16:05 I Close & invitation to reception
16:05 - 17:00 I Networking reception
About CIRCULAR 2035:
CIRCULAR 2035 is an annual conference for hydrogen, Power-to-X and derived industry development, held in Aabenraa, Denmark, on Denmark's border with German. Aabenraa is fast becoming a living lab for the green transition, and an emerging hub, demonstrating a new model for green energy deployment - from power and e-fuels production to derived industries and circular utilities.
Its principles for upcycling waste streams and connecting symbiotic industry facilities enables a sector-coupled, circular green industry cluster across its southern Denmark cross-border region. Each October, the conference will gather the pioneers: From engineers to policymakers, investors to innovators, and pioneering public organisations planning and building the infrastructure, the industries, and the regulatory frameworks that make a truly circular industrial economy possible.
Featured speakers
CIRCULAR 2035 is a high-level gathering of 200 senior decision-makers at the forefront of the green industry transition. The audience spans CEOs, executive directors and heads of strategy from hydrogen and Power-to-X developers, grid operators, circular utilities, food tech and bio-based materials companies, infrastructure investors and EU funding bodies, alongside senior representatives from Danish and German regional and national government.
Keynote speakers and panellists are drawn from the same level - this is not a conference of observers, but of the people actively building, funding and regulating the transition
Registration
- 08. okt. 2026
- 09:00 -17:00
- Folkehjem, Haderslevvej 7, 6200 Aabenraa
- Free