OPENING REMARKS

9:00 – 9:30

Artificial Intelligence for Positive Change

09:30 – 10:30

From Urban Computing through Optimization of Healthcare, Sustainable Economic Growth Policies or Public Welfare, to Wildlife Security, this panel will immerse into the recent advances in AI and expose their impact on societal change.

Fintech & Blockchain: Hype or Real Promise of Inclusion

10:30 – 11:30

Blockchain technology is now billed as the magic potion that can cure all current societal and financial ailments. Whether it’s set to curb global warming, eradicate hunger and poverty or bring financial inclusion to all those left behind, no problem is so insoluble that it can’t be overcome by the blockchain. This panel will try to separate the wheat from the chaff and review experiences that demonstrate the validity of such assertions.

Technology and Life Extension: Longer Life for a Better World?

11:30 – 12:30

The instinct to survive and beat natural selection is probably the strongest of all human instincts. Long secluded in the realm of fantasy, utopia, and even quackery, new technological developments and scientific approaches to ageing seem to be the promise of an era of a dream come true. Hence, the question now is not IF science and technology can beat time but WHEN will they be able to. The real question remains to know whether longer lives for some make for a better world for all.

High Level Networking Lunch*

*Required SIGEF VIP Executive or SIGEF Executive Delegate tickets or Private Nominative Invitation

12:30 – 13:30

SDGs: Opening New Roads for Sustainability

13:30 – 14:30

Do all roads lead to sustainability? Sooner or later, humanity will have to admit the necessity to think and design its future in terms of measurable sustainability, as well as to end the confusion between the means (economic growth) and ends (human development), or risk turning sustainability into an empty word. As the meaning of “development” is changing, new standardized social and environmental indicators of wealth and progress need to be adopted, taking into account the costs and benefits of a potentially improved quality of life for all.

Sustainable Lifestyles: Exclusive & Social Conscious, an Oxymoron?

14:30 – 15:30

How to make luxury, cosmetic, fashion and leisure rhyme with sustainability and inclusion? While the social and environmental issues have been weighing heavy on the traditional definition of luxury as the producer of inessential and preposterously expensive items, the lifestyle industry has been trying to adapt and go beyond greenwashing plans to adopt genuine ecologic strategies and promote a concept of Fashion & Lifestyle for Good.

COFFEE BREAK

15:30 – 15:45

Sport4Good: Sharing After Cheering

15:45 – 16:30

Sport4Good: Sharing After Cheering About 3 billion people globally watch sport games and competitions on any given weekend, and close to 4 billion during special events such as the Olympics! That puts sport far ahead of any other human activity, including politics or the arts. Social development through sport makes sense; education through sport even more so: Plato was an eminent athlete; Socrates and Aristotle provided their teachings in gymnasia. Ancient Greece put Olympian values on an equal footing as philosophy, politics or mathematics. Nowadays however, in most cases, attention is basically restricted to so-called “underprivileged urban areas”.

Renewable and Future Energy

16:30 – 17:15

While the reality of finite sources of energy is now definitely beyond doubt, the question remains to see if the seemingly infinite human ingenuity is capable of keeping all technology options open to produce and implement new clean, stable, scalable and cost-effective sources of energy…

Smart Technology, Mobility and Smart Cities

17:15 – 18:00

WA mindset for efficiency, mobility, inclusivity and liveability within an ecofriendly mindframe is the challenge so-called smart cities have to face and overcome. Getting there implies to leverage non-partisan political strategies, along with businesses and citizens at large will, to join creative forces and pave new paths towards reinvinting city life and citizenship.

CLOSING REMARKS

18:00 – 18:15

SIGEF2019 Closing Dinner*

*Required SIGEF VIP Executive or Private Nominative Invitation

20:30

SIGEF2019 Closing party*

*Required SIGEF VIP Executive or Private Nominative Invitation

22:30