Chairman of the VinFuture Prize Council Sir Richard Henry Friend presides over the seminar on January 19. (Photo: vtc.vn) In his opening remarks,Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui The Duy said countries around theworld, including Vietnam, are facing common challenges related to climatechange and the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts. Promoting the application ofscience - technology, especially high technologies like big data, AI, and cleanenergy, is an essential solution to those challenges.
At a session on the future ofenergy, participants focused on the limitedness of fossil fuels such as coaland oil, global energy trends in the future, sources of clean energy, and technologies using those energy sources so as to reduce climate change impacts.
They also talked aboutscientific advances, the equality in accessing those advances, theirapplicability, and the energy-related responsibility of the community and eachcitizen.
Regarding the future of AI,scientists shared the view that AI has been developing strongly and extensivelyapplied to various aspects, and that the continually changing world and the fourth Industrial Revolution, particularly AI advances, have been greatlyinfluencing humans.
Speaking at the session onthe future of global health, Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan expressedhis belief that science - technology will be a useful “weapon” in combating theCOVID-19 pandemic and improving human health in the time ahead.
Participants also discussed challengescaused by the pandemic, population ageing, urbanisation, environmentalpollution, and work-related stress to human’s quality of life and longevity,global health trends, and each individual’s role in disease prevention and control.
The first VinFuture Sci-TechWeek, from January 18 to 21, gathered thousands of scientists, policymakers,and entrepreneurs around the globe.
The seminar on January 19 was presided by Chairmanof the VinFuture Prize Council Sir Richard Henry Friend from CambridgeUniversity in the UK. The professor of physics is the laureate of the MillenniumPrize for Technology in 2010 and also one of the most influential physicists inthe world./.
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