We were honored to welcome our prominent guests, Consul for Culture, Press, Education and Polish Community at Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles, Mrs. Małgorzata Cup, Director at San Francisco Mayor’s Office of International Trade and Commerce, Mr. Mark Chandler, Member of the European Parliament, Mrs. Jolanta Emilia Hibner, President of the City of Białystok, Mr. Tadeusz Truskolaski, Chairman of the Białystok City Council, Mr. Włodzimierz Kusak, Rector of the Technical University of Bialystok, Professor Lech Dzienis, delegates from the National Center for Research and Development in Poland – the official Partner of the Symposium.
We were proud to host representatives of over 40 Polish Universities and Research Institutions from Poland, participants of the TOP500 Innovators Program – the 40.7 Group at Stanford University and 40.8 Group at University of California, Berkeley as well as representatives of local companies and organizations.
With the rapidly growing population of the developing countries, and with the rapid shift in the developed countries’ demographics towards growing percentage of older population supported by declining percentage of young population, two major aspects will keep challenging the world in the future: reliable supplies of healthy nutrition and potable water, and medical care when needed for the price affordable to the society. This year Symposium focused on some of the subjects associated with the above challenges: from medical science through advanced materials and technologies. Among the topics discussed by our prominent panelists from Poland and the United States, were:
