Showcase 2030

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WHEN: 29 OCTOBER 2024, 9:00 - 17:00WHERE: SWISSTECH CONVENTION CENTER, LAUSANNEREGISTRATION LINK: SHOWCASE2030.CHShowcase 2030 is E4S’ sustainable innovation summit that gathers the academic community, businesses, start-ups, investors, large organizations, NGOs, policy-makers and civil society, to engage in an action-driven platform and find solutions to our century’s most urgent challenges.With Showcase 2030, our ambition is to :Encourage new cross-sectoral collaborations and build a learning culture that includes all the voices around the table.Leverage science, technology, and business as enablers to develop solutions to accelerate the transitionShowcase the diversity, dynamism, and strength of the sustainable innovation ecosystem in SwitzerlandTHE CHALLENGEOur world faces urgent challenges that demand a profound understanding of the constraints on our systems. Amidst a climate crisis and growing resource needs, the impact of humanity on the environment is at a breaking point.Technology and innovation can help us break the code for our survival: but what kind of technology and innovation are needed to help us live within planetary boundaries? While tech advancements are crucial, their reliance on physical resources necessitates a conscious evaluation of their impacts. We must make informed choices to build sustainable systems.Block 1: Defining Sufficiency in Innovation: This block focuses on the concept of sobriety in the context of technology and innovation for different stakeholders.Block 2: From Concept to Action: Implementing Sufficiency: What are the solutions for putting sufficiency into action? How can we rethink our business models, technologies and lifestyles?Block 3: Establishing new narratives of well-being and prosperity: This block explores the evolution towards regenerative and circular economic models, emphasizing the need to rethink existing systems. WHAT TO EXPECTBe inspired by the keynote speeches of sustainability and innovation expertsBe engaged in the confrontation of ideas during thematic roundtables /workshopsBe amazed by an interactive exhibition of solutions

Event Metadata

• Event Name: Showcase 2030
• Date: 9/12/2024 12:22:56 PM
• Administrators:
  • Federica Poletti

Event Description

WHEN: 29 OCTOBER 2024, 9:00 - 17:00

WHERE: SWISSTECH CONVENTION CENTER, LAUSANNE

REGISTRATION LINK: SHOWCASE2030.CH

Showcase 2030 is E4S’ sustainable innovation summit that gathers the academic community, businesses, start-ups, investors, large organizations, NGOs, policy-makers and civil society, to engage in an action-driven platform and find solutions to our century’s most urgent challenges.

With Showcase 2030, our ambition is to :

• Encourage new cross-sectoral collaborations and build a learning culture that includes all the voices around the table.
• Leverage science, technology, and business as enablers to develop solutions to accelerate the transition

Showcase the diversity, dynamism, and strength of the sustainable innovation ecosystem in Switzerland

THE CHALLENGE

Our world faces urgent challenges that demand a profound understanding of the constraints on our systems. Amidst a climate crisis and growing resource needs, the impact of humanity on the environment is at a breaking point.

Technology and innovation can help us break the code for our survival: but what kind of technology and innovation are needed to help us live within planetary boundaries? While tech advancements are crucial, their reliance on physical resources necessitates a conscious evaluation of their impacts. We must make informed choices to build sustainable systems.

Block 1: Defining Sufficiency in Innovation: This block focuses on the concept of sobriety in the context of technology and innovation for different stakeholders.

Block 2: From Concept to Action: Implementing Sufficiency: What are the solutions for putting sufficiency into action? How can we rethink our business models, technologies and lifestyles?

Block 3: Establishing new narratives of well-being and prosperity: This block explores the evolution towards regenerative and circular economic models, emphasizing the need to rethink existing systems.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Be inspired by the keynote speeches of sustainability and innovation experts
• Be engaged in the confrontation of ideas during thematic roundtables /workshops
• Be amazed by an interactive exhibition of solutions