Join the G-STIC Conference during the World Expo in Dubai

17 - 19 January 2022

Free participation - Online and in Dubai

GET INSPIRED BY WORLD-RENOWNED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Accelerating breakthrough technological innovations for the SDGs

H.E. António Guterres

United Nations
Secretary-General

H.E. Reem Al Hashimi (TBC)

United Arab Emirates
Minister of State for International Cooperation

H.E. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)
Managing Director & CEO

H.E. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi

United Arab Emirates
Minister of State for Foreign Trade

H.E. Zakia Khattabi

Minister of Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and Green Deal
Federal Government of Belgium

H.E. Ole Johan Sandvær

Norway
Commissioner General

Leymah Gbowee

2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; African peace activist; Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa Founder and President

Kehkashan Basu

Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation, UN Human Rights Champion

Hans Bruyninckx

European Environment Agency
Executive Director

Helen Clark

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Former administrator UNDP

Dirk Fransaer

VITO
Managing Director

Chad Frishmann

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Senior Director Research and Technology

Paulo Gadelha

Fiocruz
Former President, Coordinator Strategy for 2030 Agenda

Steven J. Hoffmann

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Scientific Director IPPH

Alexandre Lyambabaje

Vice Chancellor of University of Rwanda; former Executive Secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa

Mariana Mazzucato

Professor Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London, Director & Founder, UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose

Maria Neira

WHO
Director of Environmental Health

Jeffrey Sachs

SDSN
President

H.E. Tinne Van der Straeten

Belgium
Federal Minister of Energy

H.E. António Guterres

United Nations
Secretary-General

H.E. Reem Al Hashimi (TBC)

United Arab Emirates
Minister of State for International Cooperation

H.E. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)
Managing Director & CEO

H.E. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi

United Arab Emirates
Minister of State for Foreign Trade

H.E. Zakia Khattabi

Minister of Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and Green Deal
Federal Government of Belgium

H.E. Ole Johan Sandvær

Norway
Commissioner General

Leymah Gbowee

2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; African peace activist; Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa Founder and President

Kehkashan Basu

Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation, UN Human Rights Champion

Shaping a post-pandemic world

Real-life examples of technological solutions for the SDGs

The World Expo in Dubai started in October 2021 and focuses on knowledge and technologies that are crucial to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It is an accelerator and testing ground for breakthrough technological solutions that the world needs to shape a post-pandemic world and create a better future for all.

The G-STIC Conference in Dubai consists of two parts. The first part of the G-STIC Conference took place on the occasion of the 76^th United Nations Day and G-STIC’s 5^th anniversary from 24 – 27 October 2021. Relive the first part >

Don’t miss the second part of the G-STIC Conference from 17 – 19 January 2022 during the Global Goals Week. Unable to travel to Dubai? All sessions will be live-streamed from Dubai and can be followed online.

The G-STIC conference is one of the world’s largest conferences and key meeting places where technological solutions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals are discussed. It’s the place to be if you want to be inspired by world-renowned keynote speakers and top experts on sustainable development. Last year we welcomed 3,700 entrepreneurs, researchers, innovation experts, captains of industry, investors and policymakers from 140 countries.

SOLVE QUESTIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY

Being the catalyst for change by discovering new technological insights

ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR 9 SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

Conference themes focused on breakthrough innovations

Climate

Education

Energy

Health

Oceans

Water

Circular Economy

ICT

Entrepreneurship

Organised by 8 international co-hosts

Meet our partners from Brazil, China, India, Nigeria, South Africa and South Korea

The G-STIC conference is hosted jointly by VITO (the prime research and technology organization on cleantech and sustainable development in Belgium) and 7 other not-for-profit independent technology research institutes: CSIR (The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa), FIOCRUZ (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil), GIEC (Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, China), GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea), NACETEM (National Centre for Technology Management, Nigeria), TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute, India) and SDSN (the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network).