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SusTech 2025 features two plenary panels

• Is Sustainability Socialism? – organized by the IEEE SSIT
• Sustainability Standards – organized by IEEE SA

 

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Is Sustainability Socialism? Panel

April 22, 11:00 am – Noon

Organized by IEEE SSIT

Sustainable socialism has four aspects: political, economic, cultural, and environmental. Sustainable Technologies invariably have Liberalism as the Undercurrent. Can sustainability be achieved by individuals and organizations acting on their own or

Moderator: Prasanta Gosh

Panelists:

• Moderator: Prasanta K. Ghosh, SSIT
• Ashok Das CEO Sunmoksha, IEEE Foundation Smart Village partner
• Brett Sanders UC Irvine Civil Engineering professor, flood control and climate change, UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation
• Richard Matthew UC Irvine Social Ecology professor, climate change and social crises

 

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Sustainability Standards Panel

April 23, 3:30 – 4:30 pm

Organized by IEEE-SA

Moderator: Maike Luiken

Panelist topics:

• Standards Initiatives in Support of Sustainability
• Sustainable Maritime – Sustainable ships/ports
• The Energy/Water Nexus
• Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)