TRIE Board Member was invited to Speaker and Moderator at Global Forum and Water & Humanity Conference in Muscat, Omã

TRIE board member & Researcher and ISMAT lecturer, Américo Mateus is Guest Speaker and Moderator at the Global Forum and at the Water & Humanity Conference in Muscat, Oman

PhD Américo Mateus, lecturer of the Communication Design Course and co-diretor of then Design for Cirucular Economy Master at ISMAT, was invited to be Speaker and Moderator of the Global Forum think Thank and for the Water & Humanity Conference to be held from 16 on 20 October in Muscat, Oman.

GLOBAL FORUM - Shaping the Future

For over 30 years, the Global Forum/Shaping the Future is an annual, international, high-profile, non-profit think-tank. It is dedicated to the main technological, economic, social, societal, political and ethical issues and challenges that imply the evolution of our digital society. Professor Américo Mateus participates in the thematic panel - Industry & University Dialogue: Setting the stage for the Innovative Training and Skills Development workshop together with:

• Aasia Saail Khan, Director, Lahore Chamber of Commerce, Pakistan
• Américo Mateus, Director, Center for Transdisciplinary Research for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems (TRIE(ISMAT), Portugal
• Michael Stankosky, professor, author, scholar, lecturer and editor emeritus, George Washington University, USA
• Pierre De Geest, Geologist and Senior Researcher, DEME Group, Belgium
• Wilfried Hoffman, CEO of Axionomic, co-founder of Ambrac, Netherlands

"WATER AND HUMANITY" conference

"Water and Humanity" is a multi-stakeholder initiative, which has grown out of substantive collaborative projects and novel activities run by a number of different actors, in Oman and internationally. “Water and Humanity” does not represent a single organisation or series of events. It represents an agenda, an ongoing effort and a series of projects aimed to help fuel and sustain cross-border collaboration, which ultimately will be what matters the most for the future of the world we live in. Participants:

• Moderator: Américo Mateus, Director, Center for Transdisciplinary Research for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems (TRIE/ ISMAT), Portugal
• Alireza Bazargan, Professor, University of Tehran, Consultant, UNDP, Iran
• Carl Safi, Senior Project Manager, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• Johan Wikander, President and Founder, Scandinavian Quality Care and Director of International Development, AFRY, Sweden
• Rajamohan Natarajan, Professor, University of Sohar
• Patricia González, Country Manager, H2O Biofouling Solutions, Spain

DESIGN as we see it and how TRIE transdisciplinary research center applies it, is one of the knowledge that can contribute most to the COMMON GOOD and to and for an INNOVATION that is intended to be fair, positive, productive, green and socially oriented for a great good and a better world.