Speakers

Claudio Ledda

Claudio Ledda

Director of Research & Innovation and Board Member, Livegreen, Italy

https://livegreen.bio/

Livegreen is an Italian biotech company highly specialized on green technologies and microalgae cultivation that focuses its activity on plant engineering, production, research & development, and commercialization of microalgae, especially Spirulina (Arhtrospira platensis). The company is based and operative in Sardinia, one of the less contamined regions in Italy and one of the most suitable for innovative agricultural productions. The efforts of the company are mainly directed to enhance the opportunities that come from microalgae, in terms of both nutritional content and sustainability. Livegreen has implemented a sustainable biorefinery process for the recovery of nitrogen from agricultural by-products and the enhancement of the individual components of Spirulina. The achievement is an industrial scale biorefinery for sustainable Spirulina organic production and the exploitation of added value compounds.