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That's a wrap! – The #STSforum has officially closed. This week has been full of powerful encounters with 🌍leaders in politics, business and academia. The forum started with keynotes by new Prime Minister Shigeru #Ishiba & Chairman Hiroshi #Komiyama. #Switzerland🇨🇭 attended with a high-caliber delegation including President Martin Vetterli, EPFL | President Michael Schaepman, University of Zurich | President André Kudelski, Innosuisse | Director Angelika Kalt, Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF | Director Thomas H. Zurbuchen, ETH Zürich | Space & ETH Zürich | Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, GESDA - Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator | Chairman Christian Lovis, Medical Information Sciences, HUG - Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève | CEO Nicolas Demartines, CHUV | Lausanne university hospital | Vice President & IBM Fellow Alessandro Curioni, IBM Research Zurich | VP Christian Schwarzenegger, University of Zurich | Prof. Cristina Benea-Chelmus, EPFL | Prof. Adrian Perrig, ETH Zürich | Chief Metrology Officer Peter Blattner, METAS | CEO David Pejoski, Adoram Therapeutics | Co-founders Michel Bielecki & Jeyla Sadikova, illumicell AI (Techstars'23) | CEO & Founder Maria Hahn, Nutrix AG | CEO & Co-Founder Matt Curran, Nanoflex Robotics | CEO Poorya Amini, Risklick.
During the STS forum, a new MOU on Joint Research Projects between JSPS and SNSF has been signed by SNSF Director Angelika Kalt and JSPS President Tsuyoshi Sugino.
Super nice was our #Swisstech pitch event at #STSforum where our 5 deeptechs did fantastic pitches and our high-caliber speakers presented strong reasons why to work closer with Switzerland on innovation & research.
Truly special highlights were encounters with Kyoto Governor Nishiwaki, President Masuo Aizawa, President Joichi Ito, President Karin Markides, Dr. Rita Colwell (former Director NSF), Johan Rockström, and many more.
We hope to see a great Swiss delegation next year again!
#STSforum summary: The 21st Annual Meeting of the Science and Technology in Society forum took place in #Kyoto with the participation of nearly 1,400 global leaders in science and technology, policymaking, business, and media from 80+ countries, regions, and international organizations. Main tracks of discussion were in Energy, Earth and Commons, Climate Risks, Life Sciences, Innovative Engineering, Cooperation & Education in S&T & Digital Technologies. Statement >> https://lnkd.in/gKB-SeGP
Background: The 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 #STSforum is a platform for world leaders to gather and discuss opportunities and challenges related to science and technology in society since 2003. More details >> www.stsforum.org
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