Founder, Engineers without Borders
Professor, University of Colorado
Global Engagement for a Small Planet
Biography
Dr. Amadei is a Distinguished Professor and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Amadei is the Founding Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities. He is also the Founding President of Engineers Without Borders - USA and the co-founder of the Engineers Without Borders-International network. Among other distinctions, Dr. Amadei is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Construction. He is also an elected Senior Ashoka Fellow. Dr. Amadei holds seven honorary doctoral degrees (UMass Lowell; Carroll College; Clarkson; Drexel; Worcester Polytechnic Institute; the Technion in Israel; and SUNY-ESF). In 2013 and 2014, Dr. Amadei served as a Science Envoy to Pakistan and Nepal for the US Department of State. Dr. Amadei holds a commercial pilot license (multi-engine land, instrument).
Chief, United Nations Academic Impact, United Nations
Sustainability and the United Nations: the Role of the Academic Community
Biography
Mr Ramu Damodaran is Deputy Director for Partnership and Public Engagement in the United Nations Department of Public Information’s Outreach Division and is chief of the United Nations Academic Impact initiative, which aligns institutions of higher learning and research with the objectives of the United Nations and the States and peoples who constitute it. He is also the current secretary of the United Nations Committee on Information. His earlier posts with the Organization have included the Departments of Peacekeeping and Special Political Questions, as well as the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. Mr Damodaran has been a member of the Indian Foreign Service, where he was promoted to the rank of Ambassador, and where he served as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister of India as well as in the diplomatic missions in Moscow and to the United Nations, and in a range of national governmental ministries.
Professor, Seoul National University, Korea
Director, JW LEE Center for Global Medicine
Title: Transformative Technologies & Global Health: A Systems Approach
Transformative Technologies & Global Health: A Systems Approach
Biography
Professor, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Director, JW LEE Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University
Member, National Academy of Medicine of Korea
Chairman, The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Dr. Kim is a thoracic and cardiovascular surgery professor at Seoul National University College of Medicine, as well as the chairman of the Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is also the director of Seoul National University's JW LEE Center for Global Medicine, which focus on global health research, education, and social contribution and operates with devotion to the international community in accordance with the late Dr. Jong-wook Lee's (1945-2006) motto, "Do What You Think Is Right." He is also an active member of the National Academy of Medicine of Korea. His areas of interest in research include global health, global surgery, appropriate technology, health systems research, and implementation research.
Prof. Yong-Soo Kim
Professor, Hanyang University, Korea
President Scientist and Engineers without Borders
Title: Challenges for Affordable and Clean Energy for Developing Countries
Applicability of additive manufacturing process to appropriate and sustainable technologies
Biography
Prof. Dong-Gyu Ahn received his B.S. degree in Dept. of Production & Mechanical Engineering from Pusan National University, Korea, in 1992. He then received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from KAIST in 1994 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chosun University in Gwang-Ju, Korea. Also, he was in charge of senior editor of IJPEM-GT (International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology), editorial board of IJPEM, editor of JKSPE, vice editor of Transactions of KSME, chairman of additive manufacturing division of KSPE (Korean Society of Precision Engineering), chairman of 3D Printing Users’ Forum, chairman of manufacturing and design division of KSME (Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers), and editor-in-chief of JKSMPE. He served as boards of KSPE and KSME, chairman of ICMDT2017 (International Conference on Machine, Design and Tribology 2017) and expert committee of financial decentralization of presidential committee on autonomy and decentralization. His research interests are development & application of 3D printing process, rapid manufacturing, lightweight sandwich plate, molds & die, and finite element analysis.
Dr. Mathias Brockmann
Doctor, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Title: Sustainable Productivity by Digital Shadows
President, Jadam and Natural Pesticide Institute, Korea
Title: Revolutionary Change-Ultra-Low-Cost Organic Farming by JADAM
Biography
President of JADAM was born in Hwaseong, Korea in 1965. He graduated Suweon High School and studied chemistry in Aju University. He got his Master's in horticulture from Chungnam National University.
He served in the special forces unit 706 and upon completion of military service, went to Asan to start farming. He established JADAM (meaning "People that resemble nature") in 1991, and opened website www.JADAM.kr He established "Natural Pesticide Institute" to do research on environment-friendly method of pest maangement. Having also gathered knowledge from many organic farmers on the fields, he founded the system of Ultra-Low Cost (ULC) Agriculture.
He wrote "JADAM Organic Farming: the Way to Ultra-Low Cost Agriculture." This book is a masterpiece that well collects and organizes the knowledge of JADAM method.
JADAM is a group of organic farmers that was established in 1991 by Youngsang Cho. JADAM’s activities are based on its website www.JADAM.kr and has nearly 75,000 members as of March 2020.
The objective of JADAM is to bring farming back to the farmers; to restore the farmers’ sovereignty in technology; spread an ultra-low cost method of farming; and ultimately open a new world where farmers, consumers and mother nature are in harmony.
High cost and difficult method of organic farming cannot spread far and wide; it will only cause more trouble for farmers and agriculture.
JADAM came up with a unique solution of “ultra-low cost” method of farming as an answer to the future of agriculture. Based on the technical aims of SESE (Simple, Easy, Scientific, Effective), JADAM established a complete system of farming after decades of trials.
As agro-corporations gain more control over the knowledge and technology of farming, farming becomes more and more expensive. This is a common problem faced by the farmers of the world as a whole. This is the reason why agriculture is collapsing everywhere. JADAM’s ultra-low cost farming method will liberate agriculture from the corporations and bring hope for the farmers.
Prof. Christoph Hermann
Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST
Professor, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Title: Green batteries through Computational Life Cycle Engineering
Prof. Jun-Seok Hwang
Professor, Seoul Naitonal University, Korea
Title: SNU-ASTU EDCF Project Vision 2025 for UN SDG Contribution
Can Artificial Intelligence Close the Education Gap?
Biography
Hye-won Jeon is a reporter for the weekly magazine Sisa-IN who covers workers and the workplace. She has focused on how the technology of predicting customer orders with artificial intelligence and the technology of recommending the best route to taxi drivers is changing labor. In October 2020, she wrote a cover story on the subject of 'Can Artificial Intelligence close the education gap?'. She covered domestic and international cases where technology is involved in the education gap.
Having worked as a reporter for SisaIN since 2013, she has been part of the 17th Amnesty International Press Awards-winning team in 2014 for an investigation of claims for damages for workers' strikes. She also has been a part of the 49th Korean Journalist Award-winning team in 2018 for obtaining and reporting the handbook of the former presidential secretary.
Professor, GIST
UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee Director, Korea
Title: Main activities of UNFCCC Technology Mechanism for facilitating the development and transfer of climate technology
Professor, GIST
UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee Director, Korea
Main activities of UNFCCC Technology Mechanism for facilitating the development and transfer of climate technology
Biography
Since September 2004, Suil Kang has been working in the International Environmental Research Institute(IERI), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology(GIST), Republic of Korea and is currently working as a Chief Supervisor. In the IERI, Suil has conducted many activities including R&D in the biotransformation of environmental pollutants and analysis and monitoring of pharmaceuticals in the water, operation of capacity building programs such as international internship, funding for researchers in developing countries and training workshops, and policy works on Climate Change. Suil was on secondment to the Climate Technology Cooperation Team in Ministry of Science and ICT(MSIT) as an expert advisor and Green Technology Center(GTCK) as a Director of International Strategy Division from July 2016 to December 2019. Suil have been serving as a Technology Executive Committee(TEC) member under the UNFCCC since 2018. Suil holds a Ph.D. in Agriculture at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea and major field was Agricultural Chemistry, especially Biotechnology and Biochemistry.
Professor Sami Kara is a researcher and a lecturer in the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW. He is also the founder and academic-in-charge of the Sustainable Manufacturing & Life Cycle Engineering Research Group at UNSW (LCE@UNSW). In addition, Professor Kara, together with Prof Christoph Herrmann, is the joint-director of the Joint German-Australian Research Group (JGARG) "Sustainable Manufacturing and Life Cycle Management".
Professor Kara is an engineer with a PhD in manufacturing. He has a professional background of 30 years in industry, research and tertiary education, including several engineering and management positions in manufacturing companies in Australia and around the world. In 2000 he joined UNSW and since then has successfully completed s number of projects, mainly industry-driven, in the area of Reuse and Recycling of products, Energy and Eco-efficiency of product and processes, Life Cycle Assessment and Costing, with various applications such as nanotechnologies, composite materials and aircraft components.
Professor Kara is a member of the Institute of Engineers Australia and a fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP).
Professor Kara's research interests include:
Life Cycle Engineering
Sustainability in Manufacturing, Energy and Resource Efficiency in Manufacturing, End-of-Life Product Collection and Management, Life Cycle Design, Design for disassembly, Design for environment / Eco-design, Logistics and reverse supply chain, Environmental impact assessment, Cleaner production.
Additive Manufacturing (AM)
Design for Additive Manufacturing, Energy and Resource Efficiency in AM, Process Design for AM, Rapid Prototyping, 3D printing, Laser Sintering, Stereolithography.
The Era of ESG Management : Roles and Future Perspectives on Appropriate Technology
Biography
Dr. Hyung-Ju Kim is Director-General at the Green Technology Center (GTC), Korea. He is supervising GTC’s overall research activities which fields are composed of green technology policy and global technology cooperation. His center is working closely with Korean Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), which is the Korean focal point for UNFCCC technology cooperation. In this context, his institute supports public institutions and private sector companies in the green technology field to encourage their collaboration with developing countries on climate mitigation and adaptation. He has been leading the center’s core work on capacity building, climate technology project modelling, as well as identifying developing countries’ technology needs and matching these to Korean expertise, including identifying pathways to finance. Especially he has been conducting technology transfer feasibility study projects for a number of developing countries including Bhutan, Mongolia, Bolivia and Kenya. Such work is strengthened through cooperation with Korean domestic organization, UN and other international organization such as the GCF, CTCN, IDB, UNDP, K-Exim bank and GGGI.
He earned his doctor degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering from the Technical University Berlin in Germany, and served as a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Europe, located in Germany. He also worked as a research fellow at the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan, USA, As well as he leaded energy and sustainability consulting business for Samsung’s affiliated companies as principal consultant at Samsung SDS Co. Ltd. before joining the GTC.
Dr. Kim has published many reports and academic journal papers on sustainability, and has been serving in various advisory roles in diverse ministries of Korean government for R&D directions and strategies in the era of carbon neutrality and global technology cooperation. E-mail hjkim@gtck.re.kr
President Bongrae Lee
President, Hesed Agriculture Trading Co.,Ltd., Kambodia
Title: Building Value Chain of Cambodian Palm Sugar Business
CEO, RISTI(Research Institute of Sustainable Technology and Innovation), Korea
Title: Climate Technology and Green New Deal ODA: CTCN (Cimate Technology Center Network) Technoolgy Needs Assessment and Korean Green New Deal ODA
CEO, RISTI(Research Institute of Sustainable Technology and Innovation), Korea
Climate Technology and Green New Deal ODA: CTCN (Cimate Technology Center Network) Technoolgy Needs Assessment and Korean Green New Deal ODA
Biography
Dr. Woosung Lee is serving as a CEO of Research Institute of international STU Strategy (RiSTI), the research organization focusing on STI (Science, Technology and Innovation) international cooperation. He was the research fellow of Division of Global Innovation Strategy in Office of Multilateral Cooperation Project, STEPI (Science and Technology Policy Institute), which is a government-affiliated policy research institute under the Research Council of Economics, Humanities, Social Sciences in the Prime Minister Office.
He was nominated as a board member of UN ESCAP Scientific Advisory Board in 2016, Co-chair of G20 Innovation Task Force in 2016, STI committee member of KOICA (Korea ODA agency) in 2017, International Development Cooperation Committee expert member of Prime Minister Office in 2016, SDGs expert groups member of Ministry of Environment in 2018, and directors of International Appropriate Technology Scholar Association, International Development Cooperation Scholar Association in 2017. He has participated in number of international organization expert groups such as OECD CSTP/TIP/NESTI group, IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change), APEC PPSTI, Korea-ASEAN STI Committee and UNOSSC (Office of South-South Cooperation) program.
He has been working in the field of STI (Science, Technology and Innovation) policy and tech-economics areas more than 18 years through LG Economic Research institute, SK Economic and Management Research Institute and STEPI. He also had taught in the Graduate School of Management of Technology, Korea University of Technology(KUT). He was a visiting scholar to Asia University in Japan. His specialties are tech-economics, innovation system, STI policy, global ODA development cooperation and climate technology cooperation.
His recent publications include “UN South-South Cooperation in STI cooperation(2015-2019)” “Climate Technology Cooperation Demands Survey (2017)”, “Innovative Financing for STI Cooperation (2017)”, “Science Diplomacy Policy and SDGs (2016)”, "Post 2015 SDGs Development Agendas and APEC Innovation Platforms (APEC Research and Technology, 2015)", "Post-2015 SDGs and the role of STI (UNDP seminar, 2015)" and "Korean STI ODA Strategy and Global Technology Sharing Centers (Global South-South Development Expo, 2014).
Prof. Yumi Lee
Professor, Seoul National University
Title: The SNUSR Digital Corps: A New Approach to Volunteering Programs in the Era of COVID-19
CEO, RISTI(Research Institute of Sustainable Technology and Innovation), Korea
Title: Climate Technology and Green New Deal ODA: CTCN (Cimate Technology Center Network) Technoolgy Needs Assessment and Korean Green New Deal ODA
Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Executive-Director, Energy Research Institute at NTU, Singapore
Title: Carbon Neutrality: Challenge&Opportunities for Tropical Megacities
Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Executive-Director, Energy Research Institute at NTU, Singapore
Carbon Neutrality: Challenge&Opportunities for Tropical Megacities
Biography
Professor Subodh Mhaisalkar is the Associate Vice President (Strategy & Partnerships) and Professor in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Subodh is also the Executive Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), a pan-University multidisciplinary research institute for innovative energy solutions. Prior to joining NTU in 2001, Subodh has over 10 years of research and engineering experience in the microelectronics industry where he held senior managerial positions at STATS Singapore, National Semiconductor, and SIMTech.
Prof Subodh’s main areas of research comprise perovskite solar cells, light emitting devices, and printable electronics. Common to all these projects are methods of solution processing of semiconductors, fundamental device physics studies, and device integration. For his work in Organic Thin Film Transistors, Subodh and his team won the IEEE 2008 George E. Smith Award for their work in printable electronics. Subodh is also the recipient of Ohio State University’s Professional Achievement Award 2012, the Nanyang Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2012, and Singapore National Day Award 2014 - The Public Administration Medal (Silver), and the IIT-Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2018.
Major research projects include Competitive Research Program Funding from the National Research Foundation on “Perovskite Optoelectronics;” Polymer & Molecular Electronics with A*STAR, and a DARPA funded program on printed charge storage devices.
As the Executive-Director of the Energy Research Initiative @ NTU (ERI@N), Subodh leads a pan-university effort, coordinating all research activities within the University pertaining to energy and promoting interactions and collaborations between colleges in the area of energy research. In raising $220 M in research funding, ERI@N with a staff-strength of 230 full-time staff and 105 PhD students has set up 62 Industry partnership projects, including joint-laboratories (on NTU Campus) with global industry leaders BMW, Johnson Matthey, Vestas, Gamesa, Rolls-Royce, and Bosch.
Prof Subodh has graduated 35 Masters and PhD students and is currently supervising a group of 11 PhD students and research fellows.
Subodh has published more than 400 research papers and has active collaborations with UC Berkeley, CEA/CNRS France, IIT-Bombay, NUS, and local research institutes. Subodh received his Bachelors’ degree from IIT-Bombay and his MS/Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University.
Prof. Karoli Njau
CEO, BIOCON(BioConversion Technologies Africa Co.Ltd)
Professor, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania
Title: Safe Water Access in Tanzania and Local Mitigation Approaches
Dr. Jonghyun Park
Executive Director, SK Chemical, Korea
Title: Sustainable Packaging Solutions: Technology on Plastic Recycle
Chromogenic materials for smart applications in energy saving
Biography
Dr Aline Rougier graduated as a solid state chemist and material scientist in 1995 from the University of Bordeaux. After two post-doctoral fellowships at General Motors (Warren Michigna) and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley California), she was hired as CNRS researcher in 1998. Her research activity in the field of inorganic materials for energy storage and energy conversion applications has been mainly focused on oxides and thin films looking at the relationship between the materials structure, composition, morphology and their properties. Her main topic concerns more specifically the study and optimization of electrochromic materials as powders or thin films, from deep investigation of their optical and electrochemical properties to their integration in devices for applications in the visible and the infrared regions. Since 2011, she is the editor in charge of papers for the international scientific journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, expert in “optical and electrical properties”.
Prof. Kyo Suh
Professor, Seoul National University, Korea
Title: Embracing the future convergence and resilience of innovative agricultural technology
Prof. Kyoung Su Yi
Professor, Seoul National University, Korea
Title: Autonomous car smart mobility service : beyond pilot project
Title: Appropriate Technology & Disruptive Innovation for the Common Goods
Biography
Seongbae Lim, Ph.D., is a Professor of Information Systems at St. Mary’s University and Research Associate for the Center for Blockchain Technologies at the University College London, United Kingdom. He also served as a chairman of department finance and quantitative management. Dr. Lim specializes in IT-driven innovation strategy, blockchain technology, and e-commerce strategy. His prior teaching experience includes the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and State University of New York at Geneseo. His recently published books include ‘Innovation 5.0,’ ‘Living Innovation: from Value Creation to the Greater Good,’ ‘Meta Innovation,’ and ‘Blockchain for Smart Governance.’ He has published 100 plus research papers and has done over 200 lectures and keynote speeches for world-renowned institutes such as the United Nations, University of California at Berkeley, Beijing University, Complutense University of Madrid, and Wells Fargo Bank. Dr. Lim has also served as an editorial board member of Service Business: International Journal. He is a director of operations for the Pan-Pacific Business Association, director of King Sejong Institute, the chairman of the education committee of National Unification Advisory Council of the Republic of Korea, and secretary-general for Global Forum for Building School Bullying Prevention Systems.
Title: #Revier2030 – How BioEconomy and Digitalization lead to a new resilient and agil economy
Biography
Thomas Gries, born in Cologne, Germany, in 1964, studied at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He holds a diploma degree in mechanical engineering and economics and a doctorate in mechanical engineering.
From 1995 to 2001, he worked at Lurgi Zimmer AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, at the Department of Technologies for Fibres&Textiles in leading positions.
From 2001 onwards, he is Director of the Institut für Textiltechnik (ITA) of RWTH Aachen University. The honoris causa Professorship of Lomonossow University, Moscow, is the most distinguished scientific award of Russia given for his achievement of 3D-tailored composite reinforcements. 2019 he was Distinguished Visiting Researcher at Seoul National University dedicated to 4D-Textiles.
The ITA was established in 1934 and is one of the world’s leading research establishments. Its fields of research consist in man-made fibre technology, staple fibre processing, fabric production, technical textiles & composites, medical textiles & biomaterials as well as in smart textiles & joining technologies.
Today Thomas Gries is the though-leader in the 3D&4D-textiles. He made ITA the leading institution in digitalization and biotransformation of the textile sector.
Budget: 15 million €, 95 % project based
Staff: 110 scientists, 65 technicians and administration staff, > 200 graduate researchers
Publications: more than 1.400
Education: Director of programms: (inter-) national courses “Textile engineering” (B.Sc.,M.Sc.,Dr.-Ing.)
150 supervised Ph.D.,
Thomas Gries presently is
• Member of National Academy of Technological Science and Engineering acatech
• Member of the Working Group “Industrial Artificial Intelligence” of the National Plattform Industrie4.0
• Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science
• Member of the scientific advisory committee of the “Zukunftsinitiative Textile NRW (ZiTex)” and other insitutions
• Evaluator DFG (German Research Foundation) as well as of other national and international project funding organisations
• Member of editorial board of several highly ranked scientific journals and conferences
Prof. Ceol Woo Park
Professor, Korea Polytechnic University, Korea
Title: : MERIT Industry and Smart Factory
Director Byung-Gul Cho
Director, Gyeonggi Banwolsihwa Smart Green Industrial Complex, Korea
Title: : Gyeonggi Banwol-Sihwa Smart Green Indistrial Complex
Director Song Jae Hun
Director, Major Policy Managing Division, Seongdong-gu District Office, Korea
Title: : Seongdong-gu, Smart Inclusive City
Director Min-won Park
: Director, Gyeongnam Changwon Smart Green Industrial Complex, Korea
Title: : Indroduction and discussion of the Smart Indistrial Complex project in Changwon
