Who should attend?

Potential attendees cover a wide spectrum of backgrounds and orientations:

• R&D, Innovation and Technology policy makers at regional, national and supranational levels;
• Research and Technology managers in business, academia, government and international organizations;
• Researchers active on specific, in-depth investigations relevant to the conference theme and topics;
• Social scientists and economists involved with various aspects of technological change and their implications for societies and economies;
• Technical experts in high-knowledge intensive areas, where progress pathways could be policy- and strategy-sensitive (ICT, bio, nano, cognitive, and their convergence);
• Persons involved in real-life sustainability-oriented initiatives and experiments;
• Representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations concerned with issues that will be addressed by the keynote speakers and/or paper presentations
• Experts and practitioners in Strategic Intelligence of Technology fields (foresight, assessment, evaluation, forecasting, etc.); and
• PhD-level and Graduate students with thesis topics related to the conference theme and topics
  After this Announcement and Call for Papers, you will find more information that will help you to decide and plan your participation.