<Inspiring Ideas Webinar Series> The Future of Additive Manufacturing – Grand Challenges 14

17 May 2024 04.00 PM - 05.30 PM Alumni, Current Students, Industry/Academic Partners, Prospective Students, Public

Inspiring Ideas Webinar Series

The monthly thematic seminars aim to cover the different aspects of Additive Manufacturing (AM), drawing insights from global academic and industry thought-leaders to generate discussion and action on the advancement of AM technology and its integration into the emerging suite of Industry 4.0 digital technologies.


The Future of Manufacturing – Grand Challenges

What does it take for AM to move beyond? This webinar will continue to explore the grand challenges of AM as a sunrise industry and its potential for growth. There will be two talks followed by a panel discussion. The panel discussion will be moderated by Prof Paulo Bartolo, SC3DP Executive Director.

Talks & Speakers

Title: Decarbonisation and Sustainability in Manufacturing

Dr Kara is a professor of sustainable manufacturing and life cycle engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney Australia (www.lceresearch.unsw.edu.au). He has a professional background of more than 30 years in industry, research, and tertiary education, including several engineering and management positions in manufacturing companies in Australia and around the world. His research interest is in developing technology solutions with a life cycle view by using circular economy strategies to decarbonize and reduce environmental impact of manufacturing industry while helping them create value. He has authored more than 300 peer reviewed scientific publications. 
 
He is regularly invited as a Subject Matter Expert to review Australian and international government proposals in decarbonization of the manufacturing industry and environmental sustainability. He also works as an advisor for various international organizations in providing strategic directions to decarbonize their organizations towards achieving their net-zero targets.  Professor Kara is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP), Royal society of New South Wales, UNSW Scientia Education Academy, International Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET), and German National Academy of Science and Engineering (ACATECH).


Title: Circular Economy Transition: WHY, WHAT and HOW

Dr LIU Lerwen is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship (Practice) at NTU Entrepreneurship Academy (NTUpreneur). She focuses on impact driven entrepreneurship education and practices. She supports emerging technology driven innovation and global entrepreneurship ecosystem building towards digital and green social and economic transformation.

Dr LIU has over 25 years of global business development experience supporting research commercialization & impact and nurturing start-ups. She is a resource person and technical consultant for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations agencies in the field of circular economy, sustainability, emerging technologies, and technopreneurship. She specializes on strategic development, assessment, and emerging technologies (including nanotechnology, solar PV, industry 4.0, etc), with applications in all sectors. 

She is the founding director of STEAM Platform, focusing on youth empowerment with convergent STEM knowledge, strategic communication skills, entrepreneurship for SDGs2030, Circular Economy, and Industry 4.0. Dr Liu obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Her academic research areas cover semiconductor transports and nanostructure studies, and later on, entrepreneurship ecosystem and circular economy studies.

She is an author and co-editor of the 1st Textbook, “An Introduction to Circular Economy” published by Springer Nature in Dec. 2020 (ISBN: 978-981-15-8509-8, at link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-8510-4). This book was awarded the Springer Nature’s China Development Award in 2021.  She is the editor of “Emerging Nanotechnology Power: Nanotechnology R& D and Business Trends In The Asia Pacific Rim, published by World Scientific in 2009. She is the editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Circular Economy Global Leadership to be published by Springer Nature with the 1st handbook to be launched.

 

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