Our high-level conference during the CESAER Annual Meetings in Dresden explored regional visions for global challenges in digital transformation from the three standpoints of technological, societal and political change.
The conference sought to:
Keynote speakers with experience in regional, European and global perspectives addressed the conference:
Max Lu (Vice-Chancellor of University of Surrey), Stefan Bengtsson (President of Chalmers University of Technology) and Mihnea Costoiu (Rector of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest) moderated three break-out sessions.
Rik Van de Walle (President of CESAER) said:
“This conference has been about the future and the role we need to play - as universities, university leaders, and researchers. I would like to recall that the topics of digital transformation tackling global and regional challenges are very high on the agenda of our association, and I conclude after this session that this is rightfully the case.
“It was clear that this conference today was a great success, I want to thank Ursula Staudinger (Rector of TU Dresden), Ronald Tetzlaff (Chief Technology Officer & Internationalisation at TU Dresden) and their colleagues for organising such a great conference. Many thanks also to all the speakers and moderators from today, and thank you to all of our attendees for their active participation.”
A video of the conference will be made available here in due course.
For more information please contact our Deputy Secretary General, Mattias Bjornmalm