Invitation to Graphene+2018: The 4th Industrial Revolution conference
Monday October 8, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Melbourne
Scientists, academia, advanced manufacturers and global start-up incubator leaders address: How Australia can spearhead the technology, and foster the start-up culture, that will drive the next generation of interconnectedness through the Internet of Things using graphene as the enabler of change.
Speakers include —
Government:
- Daniel Mulino MLC, Parliamentary Secretary for Treasury and Finance, Victoria
Startup incubation:
- Omer Gozen, VP, New Materials & Packaging, Plug and Play (USA)
Academia:
- Professor Linda Kristjanson AO, Vice Chancellor, Swinburne University
- Professor Bronwyn Fox, Director, Manufacturing Futures Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
- Professor David Officer, Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Research
Business:
- Chris Gilbey OAM, CEO Imagine IM; Chair, Australian Graphene Industry Association
- Ray Gibbs, CEO, Haydale Limited
- Brendan Swifte, CEO, Geofabrics
- Elina Ollila, CEO, UX-Fit (USA)
- Dominic Rohrmus, Senior Engineer, Siemens AG (Germany)
- Professor Peter Middendorf, Director Arena2036 (Germany)
- Volkmar Doericht, R&D for Digitalization and Automation, Siemens (Germany)
Issues to be discussed include —
- Graphene: Solving big problems
- Designing Materials: Doing more with less
- From startup to billion dollar markets
- Invention, research and IP
- Making Australian manufacturing globally relevant
For the complete agenda, please visit: grapheneindustry.org.au/conference/schedule
As the investment centre of gravity related to space shifts towards leading economies in the Indo-Pacific, we must think together about shared opportunities, challenges and risks around the ‘Zone Above’.
In collaboration with The University of Western Australia (UWA), the Perth USAsia Centre is convening the 2018 In The Zone Conference, the latest in a series founded to provide a strategic forum for Indo-Pacific policymakers, advocates, business and academic leaders to grapple with issues of shared regional concern. This year’s In the Zone will focus on capability, security and expansion into space and is titled The Zone Above: The Indo-Pacific Era in Space.
Please note a tax invoice will be emailed to attendees in the month prior.
Visit the conference website for a full list of speakers and more information.
The Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) will convene the second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) in Hyderabad, India from 10-14 October 2022.
Hosted by the Government of India through its Ministry of Science and Technology, the convening of the UNWGIC arises out of the mandate from the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to the Committee of Experts to convene global forums to promote comprehensive dialogue on global geospatial information management with all relevant governments, international organisations and stakeholders.
With an overarching theme ‘Geo-Enabling the Global Village: No one should be left behind,’ the second UNWGIC will reflect the importance of integrated geospatial information to support sustainable development and the wellbeing of society, address environmental and climate challenges, embrace digital transformation and technological development, and catalyse vibrant economies.
The congress addresses the development and strengthening of integrated geospatial information management, its capacities and capabilities, and demonstrates the importance of international cooperation and coordination for building a human data and geography community, against the three pillars of sustainable development, for a shared future and a better world, leaving no one behind within an inclusive and equitable global society.
The UNWGIC will feature a high-level, plenary, special and parallel sessions. While the actual second UNWGIC program covers three days (11 – 13 October), the overall event will be a weeklong (10 – 14 October), and will include global and regional meetings, workshops and learning events, expert meetings and side events, including the eleventh plenary meeting of the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Asia and the Pacific (UN-GGIM-AP), as well as the annual meeting of the UN-GGIM Expanded Bureau.