G-STIC is not just a series of annual conferences.

G-STIC is also a growing impact-oriented expert community focused on connecting technological innovation to decision making for sustainability.

To ensure G-STIC messages resonate as strongly as possible with policy makers, G-STIC increasingly focuses on real-life challenges that need to be addressed by integrated technological solutions.

G-STIC 2020 will take up a number of specific SDG objectives such as nutritious food, safe water, affordable energy, sustainable housing, healthy lives, appropriate and lifelong education & safe climate for all.

G-STIC 2019 will be geared towards selecting clusters of technologies that can substantively contribute to the achievement of specific SDG targets, and discussing the critical levers of change that are needed to deploy these solutions at scale.

That process will need to be further developed over time and to be complemented with pilot or full-scale applications in the field. That will chart the way to a repository of market-ready technological solutions for consideration by policy and decision makers in the public and private sectors when developing STI roadmaps for the SDGs or new business opportunities.