Proceedings of the 6th World Congress
on New Technologies (NewTech'20)
August 19 - 21, 2020 | Prague, Czech Republic
Virtual Conference
The keynote information for the 6th World Congress on New Technologies (NewTech'20) is as follows:
Dr. Umberto Berardi
Ryerson University, Canada
ICERT'20 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Charles Lee
The University of Newcastle, Singapore
ICEPR'20 Keynote Speaker
Dr. John R. Schramski
University of Georgia, USA
ICERT'20 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Xudong Wang
University of Wisconsin, USA
ICNFA'20 Keynote Speaker
ICERT'20 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Umberto Berardi
Ryerson University, Canada
ICERT'20 Keynote
Dr. Berardi is a Professor at Ryerson University, in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), where he directs the BeTOP Center, a Building Science lab group of researchers. His main research interests are related to the study of building systems that incorporate new materials for improved performance. Dr. Berardi has a current body of funded research comprising over $1.5 M in sponsored research. Dr. Berardi has an extensive publication record, including 100 peer-reviewed journals, 100 international conference papers, and five books. His publications have received over 6000 citations in Google Scholar (h-index of 35). He serves on the editorial board of many journals dealing with energy and new materials, including Energy and Buildings, Sustainable Cities and Society, Building Simulations.
Topic of Keynote:
Impact of Climate Change on Building Heating and Cooling Energy Demand
ICEPR'20 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Charles Lee
The University of Newcastle, Singapore
ICEPR'20 Keynote
Dr. Charles Lee is a Program Convenor and Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle (Australia) Singapore. He has more than 25 years’ experience in environmental research, education and consulting in North America, and Asia-Pacific countries. His experience encompasses consulting at one of the top environmental consulting firms in the San Francisco Bay Area (California) USA, R&D at the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*Star, Singapore), and academic teaching and research at the University of Newcastle (Australia). Previously at A*STAR (Singapore) he has a patent on photocatalytic degradation of halogenated compounds. His research areas include remediation of contaminated sites, ecological rehabilitation of degraded land, uptake of metals by hyperaccumulator plants, and environmental sustainability of industries to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recently, he is actively collaborating on: the use of a hyperaccumulator plant (Sedum alfredii) to remove heavy metals in contaminated agricultural sites in Southern China; conservation of the proboscis monkey (Nasalis lavartus) in their natural mangrove habitat in South Kalimantan; restoration of damaged peatlands in Sumatra, Indonesia; and benchmarking sustainable development of key global industries.
Topic of Keynote:
Ecological Restoration of Degraded Peatlands in Indonesia: Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals
ICERT'20 Keynote Speaker
Dr. John R. Schramski
University of Georgia, USA
ICERT'20 Keynote
John Schramski is a mechanical engineer and ecologist with 28 years of experience in industry and academia focusing on mechanical design and thermodynamic modeling. He currently leads the University of Georgia’s Energy Systems Modeling program where his funded research includes theoretical ecology, complex systems analysis, and the thermodynamics and energetics of the natural biosphere, civilization, and industry. He completed his BSME at the University of Florida in 1989, his MSME at the University of Cincinnati in 1993 in conjunction with General Electric’s Advanced Courses in Engineering, and his PhD in Ecology at the University of Georgia in 2006. He teaches undergraduate and graduate engineering thermodynamics and biosphere energetics.
Topic of Keynote:
Energy, the Great Acceleration, and the Future of Technology.
ICNFA'20 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Xudong Wang
University of Wisconsin, USA
ICNFA'20 Keynote
Prof. Xudong Wang is the Grainger Institute for Engineering Professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Wisconsin – Madison, and the Energy & Sustainability thrust Leader at the Grainger Institute for Engineering. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Dr. Wang received his PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2005. His current research interests include studying the growth mechanisms and developing assembly techniques of oxide nanostructures; developing advanced nanomaterials and nanodevices for mechanical energy harvesting from human activities for biomedical applications; and understanding the coupling effect between piezoelectric polarization and semiconductor functionalities. He has won number of prestigious national and international awards, including PECASE, NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award, Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society, and Young Innovators Under 35 Award (TR35) from MIT Technology Review. He has published more than 130 papers on peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, etc. His current h-index is 68.
Topic of Keynote:
Flexible Nanogenerators for Self-Powered Wearable and Implantable Electrostimulation Devices