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Agenda
Organising committee
- Sam Nilsson, Chairman, Former president of WAAS' European Division.
- Ronnie Andersson, Junior Fellow,WAAS
- Tommy Jonsson, Secretary, BF Project Coordinator
- Per Lindblom, BF Treasurer
Locations
Sunday: Raddison SAS Hotel, Frösundaviks Allé.
Monday: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (the Dalén
room)
Sunday, September 10th, 2000
14:00 Ambassador Anders Wijkman (Chm.BF) opens
the conference and introduces the two vice-presidents:
Ashok Khosla for Sunday and Thomas Rosswall for Monday.
14:10 Carl-Göran Hedén (Exc.Dir.BF): BF:s
aims for the seminar.
14:15 Walter Truett Anderson (President of the World Academy of
Art and Science): "The
Biobased Economy of the Twenty-First Century: Agriculture Expanding
into Health, Energy, Chemicals and Materials"
15:00 Panel l:"Access
to the advances in applied microbiology, a question of entrepreneur-ship".Hans
Forsberg (Former director Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences),
Karl-Erik Eriksson (Prof.em. Swedish Paper and Pulp Research Inst),
Anders Byström (CEO Bedminster), Åke Undén (Principal
Technical Officer, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency), Stefan
Wikholm (Financial analyst: Health care, Food and Chemicals, Handelsbanken),
Tommy Jonsson (President Ekvitec).
16:15 Michael Shaw (Executive Director of Ocean Arks International,
Burlington, VA, USA): "Ecological
Design and Industrial Ecology"
17:00 Coffee Break
17:15 Panel 2: "Access
to Housing - Nature as a Model for Architects and City Planners".
Gunter Pauli (Founder, Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives,
ZERI Foundation), Bengt Warne and Jan Öquist (ecological architects),
Gunnel Dalhammar (Prof. Tech. Microb, Royal Institute of Technology)
and L. Henriz (Diretor JM).
19:30 Dinner at the Old Observatory, followed by after-dinner speech
on "The
Speed of Change" by Sam Nilsson (former Secretary General
of the 1969 Nobel Symposium "The Place of Value in a World
of Facts")
Monday, September 11th, 2000
09:00 Erling Norrby (Permanent Secretary of KVA), Welcome to
the Academy
09:05 Geoffrey Hamer (Prof. Biotechnology, University College,
Dublin, Chairman BF:s Panel of Experts): "Consortia
of Men and of Microbes".
09:50 Lars Edebo (Prof. em. Med. Microbiol. Gothenburg): "Locks
and Keys in Biology"
10:35 Coffee break
11:00 Panel 3: "Access
to the fruits of Bioinformatics". Gunnar von Heijne
(Prof. Deptartment of Biochemistry, Stockholm University), Siv Andersson
(Prof. Linné Bioinform.Center, Uppsala University), Burke
Zimmerman (Spectrum), Ronnie Andersson (BF) and Eng-Leong Foo (Dir.
MIRCEN, Stockholm)
12:30 Working lunch
14:00 Ashok Koshla: "The
Changing World, for the Better and for the Worse"
14:45 Coffee break
15:00: Panel 4: "Access
to Water, Energy and Materials". Chairman Bertil Aronsson
(KVA's International Secr.). General discussion introduced by T.
Rosswall, W.T. Anderson, M. Shaw, L. Henriz, R. Jonsson, L. Edebo
and C. Salén
16:30: Closing
remarks by C.-G.Hedén
Presentation cancelled as the presenter could not attend the seminar:
Edgar J. DaSilva (Director, Life Sciences Section) "Food
and Material Security Through International Co-operation in Biotechnology"
a tribute to Carl-Göran Hedén on the occasion of his
80th Birthday
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