Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
The Report of the U.N. Brundtland Commission, Our Common Future, 1987
"Then I say the Earth belongs to each generation during its course, fully and in its right no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its existence"
Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Buckminster Fuller, philosopher, futurist and global thinker (1895 - 1983)
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Opening session
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Awards ceremony
Invited lecture: Prof. Sylvie Lorente Hierarchical Flow Systems for Energy Storage
Panel: Renewable Island Energy Systems: Challenges and Opportunities - From Feasible Scenarios to Implementable Pathways
Moderator: Prof. Pedro Cabrera
Prof. Neven Duić
Prof. Daniele Groppi
Prof. Henning Meschede
Mr. Gonzalo Piernavieja Izquierdo
Invited lecture: Prof. Angele Reinders Design-driven approaches towards the sustainable energy transition
Panel: Research Under Constraints: Enabling Global Collaboration for Sustainable Innovations
Moderator: Prof. John Kabuba
Dr. Fadia AlHaj Hussien
Dr. Cristina Dominguez
Prof. Duleeka Sandamali Gunarathne
Dr. Ghafi Kondi Akara
Invited lecture: Prof. Henning Meschede Electrifying Industry: From Efficiency First to Flexibility-by-Design – Pathways, Potentials and Bottlenecks
Panel: The Energy Transition Paradox: Data Centres as Extensive Energy Consumers and the Backbone of Digitalization, Electrification, and Smart Energy Systems
Moderator: Prof. Goran Krajačić
Prof. Umberto Berardi
Prof. Ursula Eicker
Prof. Henrik Lund
Prof. Moon Keun Kim
Dr. Ghafi Kondi Akara
Invited lecture: Dr. Francisca Segura Manzano Synergies between renewable energy and hydrogen technology. Industrial decarbonisation through microgrids
Closing Ceremony
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