7th Internonference "Innovative (Eco-)Technology, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development" IECOTERD)

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ΘΕΜΑ: 7th Internonference "Innovative (Eco-)Technology, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development" IECOTERD)

ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΕΑΣ: Ειρήνη Θυμιατζή-Eirini Thymiatzi <thymiate@xxxxxx>

 

 

 

 

Dear colleagues,   we are kindly inviting you to the Traditionally organized, 7th Internonference "Innovative (Eco-)Technology, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development" IECOTERD) which will be held on 12 October, 2021 online. The early bird registration has ended. Late registration will be closed on July 1, 2021  .
Moreover, we are pleased to announce the keynote speakers:
	Gintaras Vilda Engineer, prophet of manufacturing innovations and international innovation expert of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, Director of the Manufacturing Innovation Valley. Former Deputy Minister of the Economy and Innovation. Worked as director of the Lithuanian Association of Engineering Industry LINPRA, Chairperson of the VšĮ Intechcentras and Coordinator of the Lithuanian Plastics Cluster. Representing Lithuania on the Manufuture Technology Platform of the European Union, the European Factories of the Future Research Association EFFRA, the Europe's technology industries ORGALIM, the Council of European Employers of the Metal, Engineering and Technology-based Industries CEEMET, Gintaras has accumulated extensive experience in international representation. One of the pioneers of the movement Industry 4.0 in Lithuania, Member of the Coordination Working Group of the platform Industry 4.0, with significant experience in the energy sector.
	prof. dr. Žaneta Stasiškienė Director of the Institute of Environmental Engineering under Kaunas University of Technology (KUT). Her experience under UNEP DTIE was transferred to Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Tanzania, Russia and covers areas of sustainability assessment, sustainable innovation and development of environmental project financing schemes, infrastructure activity plans for Spain, Central and Eastern Europe, Southeastern Africa, Asian countries. Zaneta is a leader of the scientific group Smart and sustainable cities at Kaunas University of Technology (since 2015), Chairman and expert for Study programmes accreditation of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (2014); Expert of Lithuanian Research Council (since 2014); EUREKA High-level Technical Expert (since 2014); High-level Technical Expert of the Lithuanian National Accreditation Bureau (since 2010); Project manager of INTERREG EUROPE, Horizon2020.
	Aleksandro Montanha Entrepreneur, researcher, PhD student in Signal Processing at the University of Sevilla (Spain). Developed a series of technologies applied to smart city environments. Finalist for a number of international awards. Visiting lecturer in foreign countries. Current chairperson of the smart cities committee of the Brazilian Internet of Things Association and member of Intel's Internet of Things Council. In 2020, received an honorable mention from the Legislative Assembly of the State of Paraná, for the project aimed to combat Covid-19.
	prof. dr. Keith G. Debbage Keith Debbage is a Joint Professor of Geography and Business at UNC-Greensboro and a Coleman Foundation Entrepreneurship Fellow with research interests in city planning and urban development, the airline industry, entrepreneurship, and tourism. He is the author of over 80 research publications in book chapters, grant and contracted reports and various academic journals and has been quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Gulf News, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Debbage serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Air Transport Management and Tourism Geographies. A native of the United Kingdom, Dr. Debbage received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1988. Some of his recent airline research has been funded by the National Academies of Sciences and his research on aviation carbon emissions has featured in Forbes Magazine.

 

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On behalf of IECOTERD Organisational Committee,

 

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Viktorija Gudauskaitė

Technologijų fakulteto 

Tarptautinės veiklos koordinatorė/

International coordinator at Faculty of Technologies

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