What started out in Berlin in 2018 has become a global phenomenon, as the Greentech Festival takes its message of sustainability around the world. The brainchild of former Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg and engineers Marco Voigt and Sven Krüger, the Greentech Festival brings together people, companies, innovators and decision makers from a range of backgrounds and disciplines to showcase new technologies and discuss new ways of creating a more efficient and sustainable future for tomorrow.

In addition to exhibitions, seminars and guest speakers, the Greentech Awards also recognise the efforts of individuals and organisations around the world actively working to make a genuine difference.

As a founding partner, Audi has been an integral part of the Festival, the shared view of a more environmentally friendly future core to the philosophy of Audi and what the Greentech Festival stands for.

After expanding its reach to London for the first time last year, the Greentech Festival continues to grow and take its message and platform global with the first Greentech Festival taking part in The Big Apple over the weekend.

Once again in New York the Festival brought together a diverse group of participants all with a shared goal of finding better, more efficient and cleaner ways of doing things, from personal mobility to work environments to recycling and manufacturing.

Audi gave insights to current challenges regarding climate change and decarbonisation, showcasing new initiatives within the brand like the windscreen glass recycling pilot project which takes irreparable windscreens which are usually turned into insulation material and recycling it to produce glass for use in new windshields. Other topics at the Greentech Festival included the possibilities of recycling batteries, environmental philanthropy and Mission:Zero, Audi’s program and roadmap to sustainable production and logistics.

One of the brand’s local initiates which was showcased at the Festival sees Audi of America and Redwood Materials working together to create a supply chain to recycle Audi electric vehicle batteries in the United States. As part of a larger partnership with Volkswagen Group of America, the new EV battery recycling collaboration will be facilitated by VWGoA’s nationwide network of approximately 1000 dealers, starting with the Audi and Volkswagen brands.

Other exhibitors in New York included a startup looking at producing electric aircraft, as well as electric mobility options for personal mobility in urban environments. 

In October (13th), the Greentech Festival will continue its global expansion when it again travels to London for its second time in the UK capital, before making its debut in Asia with the Greentech Festival in Singapore from November 17th.