BIN@NOVO MESTO 2025 (10 – 11 November)

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BIN@NOVO MESTO 2025 ‘The Future of Jobs: What Do Sustainability, Resilience, and AI Have to Do with It?’

10 – 11 November 
At Hotel Šport, Otočec, Slovenia   

We are thrilled to announce next BIN@ annual event that shall be organised and funded by Faculty of Information Studies in Novo Mesto (FIS), a public Higher Education Institution from the Southeast region of Slovenia, and by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of Slovenia.

This event also counts with the support of the national science month initiative of Slovenia and Knowledge Transfer Slovenia (KTS). The organisation of BIN@NOVO MESTO is additionally supported by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in Portugal and is organised under the auspices of BIN@ – Business & Innovation Network.

You can already consult the event programme and speakers here below, please consider, however, that both sections are still subject to slight adjustments/updates.

The participation in the event is free-of-charge, but requires a prior registration.

PROGRAMME (*subject to changes/updates)

10 NOVEMBER

09:00  Welcome Session

• Welcome Speech by the Dean of FIS – Matej Makarovič
• Speech by the Mayor of Novo Mesto – Gregor Macedoni
• Speech by the Representative of the Ministry of Higher Education of Slovenia (*tbc)
• Speech by the Dean of FEUP – Rui Calçada

Keynotes

• 9:30 What Do Sustainability, Resilience, and AI Have to do with the Future of Jobs – Violeta Bulc, Ecocivilisation
• 10:10 Future of Jobs and Work in Slovenia – Miro Smrekar, ZDS

10:50 Coffee Break

• 11:10 Shaping the Next Generation of Manufacturing Professionals – Gil Gonçalves, FEUP
• 11:50 Navigating the AI Revolution – Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP
• 12:30 Q&A and Discussion

12:45  Lunch Break

• 14:00  Panel discussion: New Skills for Future Jobs (*session info to be updated)
  
• 15:30  Panel discussion: TechTransfer Best Practices: from Academia to Society

Moderator: Pedro Coelho, FEUP
Panel:
Collaborative Labs – João Nunes, CECOLAB
Academic Spinoffs – Wilson Caldeira, FEUP
Industry Innovation Support – Kaido Kokk, TTK UAS

19:30  Gala Dinner (*by invitation only)

11 NOVEMBER

• 9:00 Action Tank 1: Competences & Skills for Green and Smart Societies (*session info to be updated)

10:30 Coffee Break

• 11:00  Action Tank 2: Education Systems for the Future of Jobs
  Moderator: Gil Gonçalves, FEUP
  Panel:
  Teresa Restivo, FEUP / IGIP
  Katarina Rojko, FIS
  Nuša Erman, FIS

12:30  Lunch Break

• 15:00  Action Tank 3: Rudolfovo visit – debate with guests ‘AI and the Future of Jobs’ (*session info to be updated)

17:00 Closing Session