Science experts from around the globe will gather in Korea to attend a special committee and to share their thoughts on the path the world is taking to further develop science and technology.

The OECD Ministerial Meeting Daejeon 2015: World Science & Technology Forum, scheduled for Oct. 19 to 23 at venues across Daejeon, will have three sections: the OECD Ministerial Meeting Daejeon, the World Science & Technology Forum and the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy.

During the five-day run, ministers and vice ministers from OECD and ASEAN member states, including the U.S., Germany and Spain, as well as chief executive officers from some of the world’s leading businesses, and Nobel Prize winners from 66 countries, will share their ideas on how to formulate policies related to science and technology over the next 10 years.

The OECD ministerial meeting will allow the world’s ministers and vice ministers involved with science and technology to discuss ways to realize effective scientific and technological innovation and how to increase innovation in science and technology in a manner so that global challenges and issues can be dealt with effectively.

The World Science & Technology Forum will host approximately 50 experts, including U.S. futurologist Jeremy Rifikin and Reimund Neugebauer, the German president of the Fraunhofer Society, the largest research organization in Europe. They will exchange their ideas about the subject of “Science & Technology and Future Changes.”

David Millder, NASA's chief technologist, will give a presentation on “Sci-fi Films Become Reality: Exploring Space Resources,” too.

“This is the first time in its history that this conference will not take place in Paris, home of the OECD, but take place here in Korea,” said First Vice Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning Lee Seok-jun. “The event will be a crucial chance to come up with ideas on how to handle global issues by means of scientific technologies.”

“You will be able to hear stories from the world’s Nobel Prize winners and also from young entrepreneurs who have developed breakthrough items, such as custom-made shoes made using a 3-D printer that best-fit the wearer’s feet,” the minister continued. “You will soon find that such scientific innovation shakes up basic elements of our life, and also you will realize that not only companies, but individuals, too, will bring that innovation to us.”

By Sohn JiAe
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning
jiae5853@korea.kr