1. Sustain 2017
Creating technology for a sustainable society!

2. The Sustain Conference
The mission: To facilitate the creation of better technical and scientific solutions for a sustainable society.
The vision: To be the yearly meeting place for technological R&D for solutions to society’s sustainability challenges
Host: The yearly recurring Sustain conference is hosted by DTU

3. The Previous Sustain Conferences
Date
Participants 
 Abstracts
for posters and talks
Sessions and workshops
Notes 
Dec. 
230 
130
Abstracts 2014 9 
 Plenary focus on main societal challenges
Dec.  
340 
210
Abstracts 2015 18
Plenary focus on sustainability in a European and global perspective.
Nov.
240
Abstracts 2016
14 
Plenary focus on creating sustainable business cases. Joint event with The Danish Academy for the Technical Sciences,

4. Sustainability…
 …meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future
Our Common Future Report / UN
Almost all nations supports the 17 UN Sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the period
The17 SDGs can be considered a global roadmap for directed development and innovation to fulfill a series of unmet needs from worlds population
In many ways this requires a revolution in terms of creating technologies that are indeed sustainable.
Sustain is a yearly event to help this development

5. UNSDGs related Sustain sessions 2016
Session F
Session H, F
Session L, S
E, C, R
Session G
Session G, S
Session X
K, L,S
K, M,P,U
L, S
A, F
B, F, R, D
Sustain itself

6. Technology oriented UNSDGs where Sustain is mainly active

7. The environmental aspect of Sustainability… Much attention is on climate, but this is only a small part of the stressed planetary boundaries that are being pushed into uncertain consequences. Future solutions must address far more than just climate and CO2 equivalents!
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
Science, Feb

8. is causing the main part of your environmental impact
Our view of Sustainability is evolving What’s your current environmental ‘footprint’…
Given the complex origin of your environmental impact today, with food production a major influence;
…and the likely increasing importance of the other aspects than ‘climate’ with Biodiversity, N and P scarcity coming up as severely stressed boundaries;
…add to this that 80% of the world population is projected to be living in cities now being built at unprecedented pace;
…and the impact of an aging population with the unavoidable demographic change requiring a far more efficient healthcare system to maintain wellbeing;
>> The required changes to society will be pervasive in both our technology and life style!
Services, restaurants, leisure, insurance
Food and Drink
is causing the main part of your environmental impact
Shopping: clothes, shoes, electronics etc etc
Transport in
car, plane,
and cargo
Housing:
energy, furniture, maintenance…

9. What do you get at the Sustain conference
Inspiration
Update on newest knowledge
Expand your network
Foster new ideas
Find project partners
Help on fundraising
Discuss your work with your peers
Creating technology for a sustainable society