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Opening plenary

Friday, 24 April 2026, 09:00 a.m.
Room: Lecture theatre A1
Language: English/German (with live translation into English)

Time Title Presenter
09:00 a.m. Welcome Jan Steiger | Passivhaus Institut
09:05 a.m. Greetings: City of Essen Simone Raskob
09:15 a.m. Greetings: Co-managing director of NRW Energy4Climate Dr. Katharina Schubert
09:25 a.m. Greetings: German energy consultants network DEN Hermann Dannecker
09:35 a.m. The building stock as our responsibility: Combining climate protection, affordability, and resilience Paula Brandmeyer | Deutsche Umwelthilfe (Environmental Action Germany)
10:00 a.m. Prof. Dr. Sigrid Stagl | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
10:25 a.m. Q&A Jan Steiger | Passivhaus Institut
10:35 a.m. Energy-efficient retrofits with EnerPHit Jan Steiger & Laszlo Lepp | Passivhaus Institut
10:50 a.m. Greetings: Head of the Department "Climate Protection, Climate-Neutral Economic Transformation,Regional Planning" at the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection & Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Michael Theben

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