{"id":8368,"date":"2024-05-08T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klak.is\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2024-05-08T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T15:33:15","slug":"promkvodlar-ringdi-present-solutions-that-fight-against-climate-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/frumkvodlar-hringidu-kynntu-lausnir-sem-sporna-gegn-loftslagsvanni\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurs presented solutions that combat climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

The investor's day of the business accelerator Hringi\u00f0u at KLAK - Icelandic Startups was celebrated recently, while the president of the city council, \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds L\u00f3a \u00de\u00f3rhallsd\u00f3ttir gave a powerful speech to up to 90 guests; many of the country's main investors together with other influential people from the business world, where the importance of innovation was emphasized. The start-up companies Arctic Fibers, Circula, EKK\u00d3, Fl\u00f6ff \u2013 textile processing, \u00cd dyv\u00farum, Reklotek, R\u00d3, SeaGrowth, Visttorg attracted the undivided attention of visitors for their presentations and a clear vision of what problems related to environmental issues the companies intend to solve.

"Innovation is part of Reykjav\u00edk's identity. As a city and a society, we face a multitude of challenges that require new solutions. We want to support good ideas that will become the companies and solutions of tomorrow. There is no question that the Hringi\u00f0u accelerator is a great addition to the innovation ecosystem in the city," says \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds L\u00f3a \u00de\u00f3rhallsd\u00f3ttir, president of the city council.

\u00c1sta S\u00f3llilja Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, managing director of KLAK \u2013 Icelandic Startups, spoke about the uniqueness of Hringi\u00f0a when she opened the investor day. "Hringi\u00f0a is about innovation that has a positive effect on the environment and society and the so-called circular economy. The companies that participated in Hringi\u00f0a this year are all resisting the old linear economy in one way or another. But it is not only out of duty to the environment and nature, but also because there is a valuable opportunity to participate in and shape the revolution that is upon us, when the whole old economy is transformed and the circular economy takes over.''

Freyr Eyj\u00f3lfsson, project manager of education and presentations at Sorpa, was the presenter of the event, but he has long been an active advocate of sustainability. Jenn\u00fd Ruth Hrafnsd\u00f3ttir from Crowberry Capital and Andri Hei\u00f0ari Kristinsson from Frumtak Ventures took a seat on a panel and asked the entrepreneurs what they thought.

Hringi\u00f0a's sponsors are the City of Reykjav\u00edk, the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate, Orkuveitan, Faxafl\u00f3hafnir, Terra, \u00d6lger\u00f0in and Samtok industriens. Hringi\u00f0a's partners are Rann\u00eds, Brei\u00f0 vej\u00f0urf\u00e9lag, Evris, Sj\u00e1varklassinn, Gr\u00e6nvangur, Orkuklassinn, Hugverkastofa, F6S and Hringr\u00e1sarklasinn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fj\u00e1rfestadagur vi\u00f0skiptahra\u00f0alsins Hringi\u00f0u hj\u00e1 KLAK – Icelandic Startups var haldinn h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0legur \u00e1 d\u00f6gunum en forseti borgarstj\u00f3rnar, \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds L\u00f3a \u00de\u00f3rhallsd\u00f3ttir h\u00e9lt kr\u00f6ftugt erindi fyrir h\u00e1tt \u00ed 90 gesti; marga af helstu fj\u00e1rfestum landsins \u00e1samt \u00f6\u00f0ru \u00e1hrifar\u00edku f\u00f3lki \u00far vi\u00f0skiptaheiminum \u00fear sem \u00e1hersla var l\u00f6g\u00f0 \u00e1 mikilv\u00e6gi n\u00fdsk\u00f6punar. Sprotafyrirt\u00e6kin Arctic Fibers, Circula, EKK\u00d3, Fl\u00f6ff – text\u00edlvinnsla, \u00cd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":8369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_project":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1049,305,678,1054,1075,143,1020,197,1048,679,54,973,567,1050,160,50,95,727,998,104,1076,96,1077,194,1052,250,196,94,117,1056,1074],"project":[],"birta":[],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hringida","tag-arctic-fibers","tag-asta-sollilja-gudmundsdottir","tag-breid-throunarfelag","tag-circula","tag-ekko-2","tag-evris","tag-f6s","tag-faxafloahafnir","tag-floff-textilvinnsla","tag-graenvangur","tag-hringida","tag-hringrasarklasinn","tag-hugverkastofa","tag-i-djupum","tag-klak-icelandic-startups-2","tag-olgerdin","tag-orku-og-loftslagsraduneytid","tag-orkuklasinn","tag-orkuveitan","tag-rannis","tag-reklotek","tag-reykjavikurborg","tag-ro-2","tag-samtok-idnadarins","tag-seagrowth","tag-sjavarklasinn","tag-terra-2","tag-umhverfis","tag-vidskiptahradallinn","tag-visttorg","tag-thordis-loa-thorhallsdottir"],"acf":{"tengd_verkefni":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"birta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/birta?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}