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Ökopódium EU (Budapest)
24 October 2017 - 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The 4th Industrial Revolution: Opportunities for Green Transformation in the World of Employment
As part of our ongoing transnational project on questions around green transformation and a post-growth society, we are hosting a workshop in Budapest to discuss new technologies and other ‘change-makers’, such as climate disruption, and how they contribute to an ongoing social-ecological transformation and the 4th industrial revolution fueled by disruptive technologies such as digitalisation or robotisation.
Programme
17:00-17:15: Welcome
17:15-18:00: Green transformation – freedom and security in uncertain times
Dirk HOLEMANS director, Oikos Research Center, Belgium
18:00-18:30: What makes the 4th Industrial Revolution different from the previous ones? What are the major dangers and the biggest opportunities?
KIS Miklós, journalist
18:30-19:00: Humans or profit comes first? How do politics and politicians help?
SCHMUCK Erzsébet, Member of the Hungarian Parliament, Politics Can Be Different
19:00 – 19:20: break, buffet
19:20 – 20:20: Forum with the speakers
20:20 – 20:30: Closing Remarks
Dirk Holemans director, Oikos Research Center, Belgium
Registration and information
The event will be provide simultaneous English-Hungarian interpretation throughout the programme.
It is free of charge, but subject to prior registration. For more information, please visit the Ökopolisz website.
