Event Type : Conference

Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, this year the P2PFISY Conference will take place online. The University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies will host an online workshop on peer-to-peer (P2P) financial systems in order to bring together policymakers, regulators and academics interested in P2P financial systems to share their experiences, research and policy analyses.

The focus for this year is going to be on emerging technologies and financial infrastructure, in particular how financial technologies can be used as innovative tools to address challenges that global pandemics pose to the economy.

Authorities, academics and practitioners will have the opportunity to better understand this phenomenon and to identify possible future developments and dynamics that will ensure an innovative, integrated and developed global financial landscape.

The Bioprocessing Conference is a FREE to attend online conference being held on December 3rd. The event will run live online from 10am to 4pm (BST). The sessions will also be available for download by participants following the event.

Join 600+ industry experts from the biopharma & biotech sector who will attend this online conference to keep up to date with the latest innovations, best practice, and new technology solutions available in the marketplace

Over 15 leading speakers involved in the development & manufacturing of biopharmaceutical & biotech products & technology will participate in a full day’s schedule of keynote talks & panels on the topics shaping the sector.

Why Attend

Listen to over 15 expert talks and panel debates on the latest industry issues facing the biopharma & biotech sector. Avail of the excellent networking opportunities with peers throughout the day

Join our Q&A with industry thought leaders

Key Topics Include

Research & Innovation
AI & Machine Learning
Automation & Robotics
Process Chromatography
Process Control/PAT
Process Development
Bioinformatics
Lean & Continuous Improvement
Quality Management
Sustainability
IoT & Industry 4.0
Patient Focus,
Brexit & Covid 19 Market Impact
Market Trends
QA/QC
Separation and Purification
Single-Use Systems
Supply Chain
Gene Therapy
Vaccines
Product Commercialization
Biosimilars
Analytical Methods
BioBusiness
Cell Culture/Fermentation
Continuous Processing
Drug Delivery
Fill/Finish
Formulation
Nano-Biotechnology
Bio-Drug Discovery
Call for Speakers

The Saint Anselm College Center for Ethics in Business and Governance, in cooperation with the Department of Finance—University of Vienna and the University of St Andrews Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance, will be holding an online conference on Friday December 4, 2020 on the theme, “The Ethics of Business, Trade, and Global Governance.” The plenary speaker will be Douglas Irwin, the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College.

International trade policies and disputes have dominated domestic and international politics. From the continued negotiations in the EU and the UK over Brexit to US-China tariff battles, the questions and debates over international trade and capital flows will not be going away, particularly in the midst, and in the aftermath, of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these trade discussions highlight the economic benefits and costs of individual trade deals or policies without examining the diverse ethical, economic, social and political ramifications of globalization and trade for global actors as well as for local communities and businesses. What is needed now is a more comprehensive, interdisciplinary discussion of the complexities of international commerce.

The goal of this one-day conference is to bring together ethicists, economists, political scientists, international relations scholars, policy experts, and business leaders to examine not only the political and economic impact of globalization but also how international trade and investment can be conducted more ethically.

The Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) is the world’s largest and most inclusive FinTech event that brings together heads of state, financial and technology leaders, FinTech founders, policy makers, investors and multilateral agencies. Last year, the week-long event brought together over 60,000 attendees from 140 countries.

This year, SFF returns on 7-11 December with a unique hybrid format combining a 24-hour online event platform and over 30 physical events in FinTech hubs around the world. In December, SFF will unite the global FinTech community to discuss key global challenges, with a focus on post-pandemic recovery.

Third in the annual China and Higher Education Conference series #ChinaHE20

The China and Higher Education annual conference series at the Manchester Institute of Education (The University of Manchester) brings together international experts on a wide range of topics related to higher education in China and China’s role in the international higher education sector. The Call for Papers for this 2020 conference builds on our previous events in 2018 (focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative) and 2019 (focusing on knowledge diplomacy).

The China and Higher Education 2020 conference (#ChinaHE20) focuses on the theme of uncertain futures, both in terms of China’s outward and inward internationalisation. In particular, we consider the following substantive questions:

• What role does China play in the current disruptive forces shaping the global higher education sector?
• What is the role or impact of uncertainty in regards to China and higher education?
• What do we know about the future of China and higher education? What remains unknown?
• What gaps remain in the research on China and higher education?

Keynote speakers
We are pleased to share the following confirmed keynote sessions

• Dr Jelena Brankovic, Bielefeld University and Melina Aarnikoivu, University of Jyvaskyla. Leading an academic writing workshop for Early Career Researchers entitled “Everybody struggles with writing”
• Professor Jenny Lee, University of Arizona. Speaking about: US-China Power and Global Science.
• Professor Ka Ho Mok, Lingnan University, Speaking about: The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching, Learning and Well-being: Student Perspectives
• Professor Wenqin Shen, Peking University. Speaking about: International academic mobility: Academic careers in China and the challenges ahead.
• Professor Johanna Waters, University College London. Session title: Transnationalising Higher Education in Hong Kong: a new paradigm for (im)mobilities in HE.

Its AI at WARP speed at the worlds largest virtual conference on AI.

WARP AI Summit is all about AI at WARP Speed. The name comes from the futuristic WARP Drive concept, that can theoretically break the universal speed barrier and propell humans at 9.99 times the speed of light.

We at BlobCity are seeing AI evolve at WARP speed. Recommendation engines are at their best, speech recognition by Siri, Alexa and Google has become accurate, and we are seeing machines getting smarter by the day. So what’s next?

This conference will give you the front row seats to watch this universal phenomena of Artificial Intelligence unfold. WARP AI 1.0 strives to give every participant a fabulous perspective of the current state of AI, what’s coming next and where it can take them.

Inviting data science professionals, researchers, analysts, corporates, startups to join the conference and witness the future of AI from some cutting edge talks from our invited speakers.

“The abandoned towers in the distance are like the coral of an ancient reef- bleached and colourless, devoid of life. There still is life, however. Birds chirp; sparrows, they must be…Do they notice that quietness, the absence of motors? If so, are they happier?” (Atwood, 2009, pg. 3).

The outbreak of COVID-19 has wrought spatial, socioeconomic and political upheavals of a severity and scale often only imagined in eco-dystopian fiction works such as Margaret Atwood’s increasingly prescient MaddAddam trilogy (2003-2013). The pandemic has laid bare existing structural inequalities within global capitalist systems. While multitudes face the economic hardships of a looming global recession, the planet’s wealthy elite have found refuge in their exclusive ‘utopias’ of private medical and security staff, escape mansions and luxury doomsday bunkers. Moreover, the pandemic serves as an augur of further socio-ecological perturbations to come should global capitalism’s relentless exploitation of species and ecosystems continue unabated. Perhaps most importantly, pandemics bring to light the intricate and inextricable entanglements between humans and myriad Earth others, and the realization that we are far from the only actors with the agency to engender world-shattering transformations.

Such times of widespread upheaval render the perennial utopian (and dystopian) imaginary especially valuable. While utopias offer imaginative projections of better worlds and ways of being, dystopias extrapolate from the deficient ‘present’ and offer projections of potentially nightmarish futures. Yet the critique, imagination and desire for the ‘better’ inherent within both are essential for building beyond the current ‘eco-dystopian’ era of pandemics, extinctions and ecological collapse. Pandemics and the spectre of eco-apocalypse don’t signal the end of all worlds or times but merely of the world as presently constituted; there is always the vital question of what comes after. Thus, we are thrilled to present this interdisciplinary conference for exploring literary, film, cultural and ethico-political representations of ‘living in the end times’. For instance, how do pandemics impact upon hope and utopian imaginaries? How do we co-construct more ethical and liveable worlds after ‘the end’, and what might these worlds look like?