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Which market-ready innovations should policy and decision-makers keep an eye on? What changes are needed to accelerate their deployment at scale? How can we strengthen cross-sectoral collaboration to address social and economic challenges related to the SDGs?<\/p>\n
Take part in our thematic and deep dive sessions. Enter into the discussion with experts and discover business opportunities for scalable technological solutions.<\/p>\n Eager to learn from champions of change sharing their story and presenting real-life examples of market-ready solutions for the SDGs? Especially as they demonstrate innovative approaches, laws, regulations and funding mechanisms for upscaling their deployment?<\/p>\n Join the plenary sessions and get inspired by world-renowned keynote speakers and thought leaders on sustainable development.<\/p>\n Which market-ready innovations should policy and decision-makers keep an eye on? What changes are needed to accelerate their deployment at scale? How can we strengthen cross-sectoral collaboration to address social and economic challenges related to the SDGs?<\/p>\n Take part in our thematic and deep dive sessions. Enter into the discussion with experts and discover business opportunities for scalable technological solutions.<\/p>\n Achieving the SDGs by 2030 demands for business-unusual approaches. We urgently need to accelerate the wide-scale deployment of breakthrough market-ready technological solutions.<\/p>\n All of us must therefore seize every opportunity to exchange groundbreaking ideas, best practices and lessons learned. Pick the action event that best fits your needs and engage with relevant stakeholders to underpin the concrete implementation of market-ready technological solutions.<\/p>\n\t\n Interested in joining a debate on the hurdles and technical solutions for specific sustainable development challenges? Join one of our workshops where experts from industry, government institutions, and research centres review the progress expected in future. Discover likely developments enabling breakthrough innovations.<\/p>\n Do you want to showcase your track record in technological innovation for the SDGs? Would you like to initiate cross-border contacts, create international business opportunities and build commercial, technological or research partnerships? Then you should join the online matchmaking event organised by the Enterprise Europe Network.<\/p>\n How do you capture new opportunities to contribute to a sustainable world? Are you having a hard time to connect with the right people? At the G-STIC conference, you can connect with an international audience of entrepreneurs, researchers, innovation experts, technology suppliers, investors, captains of industry and policymakers.<\/p>\n Interested in joining a debate on the hurdles and technical solutions for specific sustainable development challenges? Join one of our workshops where experts from industry, government institutions, and research centres review the progress expected in future. Discover likely developments enabling breakthrough innovations.<\/p>\n Do you want to showcase your track record in technological innovation for the SDGs? Would you like to initiate cross-border contacts, create international business opportunities and build commercial, technological or research partnerships? Then you should join the online matchmaking event organised by the Enterprise Europe Network.<\/p>\n How do you capture new opportunities to contribute to a sustainable world? Are you having a hard time to connect with the right people? At the G-STIC conference, you can connect with an international audience of entrepreneurs, researchers, innovation experts, technology suppliers, investors, captains of industry and policymakers.<\/p>\n The G-STIC conference is hosted jointly by VITO<\/strong> (the prime research and technology organization on cleantech and sustainable development in Belgium) and 7 other not-for-profit independent technology research institutes: ACTS<\/strong> (African Centre for Technology Studies, Kenya), FIOCRUZ<\/strong> (Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil), GIEC<\/strong> (Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, China), GIST<\/strong> (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea), IITD<\/strong> (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India), NACETEM<\/strong> (National Centre for Technology Management, Nigeria) and TERI<\/strong> (The Energy and Resources Institute, India).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t A range of activities to spearhead market-ready technological solutions for the SDGs A range of activities to spearhead market-ready technological solutions for the SDGs Facilitating transformative changes needed to achieve the SDGs Inspirational sessions on market-ready technological solutions The need for transformative changes is clear if we want to achieve the SDGs by 2030. Technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13662,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Thematic](\"https:\/\/www.gstic.org\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/thematic-200-20200325.png\")
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\n CHECK ALL SESSIONS ><\/a>\n\t\n Thematic & deep dive sessions<\/h2>\n \t
\n Check the themes ><\/a>\n\t\t\n\tEngaging with technology for the SDGs<\/h2>\n
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Workshops<\/h2>\n \t
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