Speakers

Meet the experts at the BIOPOLYMER Congress

Bettina Dempewolf

Bettina Dempewolf

Head of Communications | Plastics Europe Germany

  • About the speaker

    Since July 1, 2023, Bettina Dempewolf has been the Head of Communications at Plastics Europe Germany. Before that, she led the conference department and was responsible for the member network at SKZ – Das Kunststoff-Zentrum. Prior to her time at SKZ, Dempewolf headed the office of former Bavarian state parliament member Georg Rosenthal from 2014 to 2019. From 2010 to 2014, she was responsible for fundraising in the presidential staff of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and worked for five years as a personal assistant to the President of Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

09:45 - 10:15

Lecture

Current market situation for biopolymers


Prof. Dr. Ramani Narayan

Prof. Dr. Ramani Narayan

Michigan State University and member of the Supervisory Board of Northern Technologies International Corp. 

  • About the speaker

    Vita follows

Lecture time to follow

Lecture

Designing for Biobased and Biodegradable plastics as solution for end-of-life and current plastics persistence as microplastics/microparticles