On April 22, the Ingria Business Incubator held needs identification & service piloting pitch session for "green" startups. Go Global: Green Startups", organized as part of the Baltic Circular Economy forum and the Twin Campus project.

The session experts were:

• Nikolai Pitirimov - Chairman of the St. Petersburg Cluster of Clean Technologies for the Urban Environment 
• Artyom Volovikov - CEO of the engineering company ARSKA TECHNOLOGIES
• Andrey Korzhakov - Expert in the field of business operational efficiency 
• Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya - Project consultant at BI " Ingria" and FashionTech expert
• Nikolay Artemenko - CEO of Vortex Connections, resident of Ingria 
• Laura Häkkinen - Project manager of *Ship startup-festival
• Henrik Dombovari - Startup specialist of *Ship startup-festival
• Igor Dyukov - Researcher of LUT-University
• Jari Hadelberg - Startup and SME expert in XAMK
• Miksei LtdNiittuaho-Nastolin - Startup and small business development expert in Marjo Mikkeli Development.

The pitch session was attended by 5 projects: Touch - a manufacturer of charging stations for electric vehicles (Resident of Ingria); 99Recycle - a project that creates clothes and accessories from recycled materials (Resident of Ingria); Smart sreda - outdoor furniture made from recycled plastic; MgBot - a smart eco-greenhouse; Proecopen - recycled stationery. The winners of the pitch session received valuable gifts from partners.