Recommandeations for Managing a Global Issue, Zurich’, 6-7 July 2006.
(Presentations listed in speaker order)
Opening Session
Welcome Address (Fritz Gutbrodt, Head, Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, Switzerland)
Nanotechnology: Swiss Re’s Perspective and Expectations (Werner Schaad, Head of Product Services, Swiss Re, Switzerland)
A Global Strategy for the Risk Governance of Nanotechnology: An Introduction to the IRGC Project on Nanotechnology (Mihail Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation, US)
Session 1: IRGC’s Risk Governance Recommendations: Proposals for Frame 1 Nanostructures
Adopting Two Frames of Reference: An Introduction to the Risk Governance of Frame 1 Nanostructures (Ortwin Renn, Professor for - Environmental Sociology at the University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Reactions to the IRGC Proposals: Industry Perspective (Nora Laryea, Nanobionet e.V., Germany)
Reactions to the IRGC Proposals: Government Perspective (Elizabeth Surkovic, Risk Management: Nanotechnology and Chemicals and GM Policy, Defra, UK)
Reactions to the IRGC Proposals: NGO Perspective (David Grimshaw, Practical Action, UK)
Reactions to the IRGC Proposals: Research Perspective (Kazuo Katao, Ochanomizu University, Japan)
Session 3: IRGC’s Risk Governance Recommendations: Proposals for Frame 2 Nanostructures
Adopting Two Frames of Reference: An Introduction to the Risk Governance of Frame 2 Nanostructures (Mihail Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation, US)
Reactions to the IRGC Proposals: Industry Perspective (Del Stark, Chief Executive Officer, European Nanotechnology Trade Alliance, UK)
Reactions to the IRGC Proposals: Government Perspective (Oscar Malta, Ministry of Science and Technology and Nanodevices, Brazil)
Reactions to the IRGC Proposals: NGO Perspective (Douglas Parr, Chief Scientist, Greenpeace, UK)
Reactions to the IRGC Proposals: Research Perspective (Jennifer Kuzma, Associate Director and Affiliate, Faculty Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, US)
Session 4: Key Characteristics of Nanotechnology Risk Governance Solutions
Technology Assessment and Management (Peter Hatto, Director of Research, IonBond Ltd and Chair, ISO TC229 on Nanotechnologies, UK)
Concern Assessment and Management (Simone Scholze, Programme Specialist, Ethics of Science and Technology Section, UNESCO, France)
Nanotechnology in Developing Countries (Khiang-Wee Lim, Executive Director, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and Asia Nano Forum, Singapore)
International Economic and Environmental Impacts (Rye Senjen, Friends of the Earth, Australia)
Session 6: Results of the Workshops - A Comparison of Prioritisations for Frame 1
Industry Perspective (Terry Medley, Global Director, Corporate Regulatory Affairs, DuPont Environment and Sustainable Growth Center, US)
Government Perspective (Pontsho Maruping, Acting Chief Director, Frontier Programme, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa)
NGO Perspective (Richard Dension, Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense, US)
Research Perspective (Vicki Colvin, Director, Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University, Department of Chemistry, US)
Session 7: Results of the Workshops - A Comparison of Prioritisations for Frame 2
Research Perspective (Charles Vyvyan Howard, Professor of Bioimaging, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster at Voleraine, UK)
Industry Perspective (Markus Pridoehl, Senior Manager, Research and Development, Degussa Advanced Nanomaterials, Germany)
Government Perspective (Philippe Martin, Directorate-General Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission, Belgium)
NGO Perspective (Christine Peterson, Vice President, Foresight Nanotech Institute, US)
Closing Session: Nanotechnology Risk Governance: From Ideas to Action
Michael Rogers, Former Adviser, Science and Ethics, Group of European Policy Advisers, European Commission, Belgium)
Kazunobu Tanaka, Center for R&D Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan
Celia Merzbacher, Assistant Director for Technology R&D, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, US
Wolfgang Kroeger, Director of the Laboratory for Safety Analysis, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Founding Rector of IRGC
Dinner Speaker
David Berube, Professor of Communication Studies/Film/English & NanoScience and Technology Studies, University of South Carolina, US