{"id":835554,"date":"2025-08-25T08:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=835554"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:48:12","slug":"csir-x-g-stic-9th-biennial-conference-celebrate-80-years-of-touching-lives-through-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/835554\/csir-x-g-stic-9th-biennial-conference-celebrate-80-years-of-touching-lives-through-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"CSIR X G-STIC 9TH Biennial Conference: Celebrate 80 Years of Touching lives through Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in celebrating 80 years of transforming lives through innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To mark this milestone, the CSIR will host its 9th Biennial Conference in partnership with the Global Sustainable Technology &amp; Innovation Community (G-STIC), a flagship initiative led by Belgium\u2019s VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking place from 8 to 10 October 2025 in Pretoria, this landmark event will run alongside the 8th G-STIC Conference, which, for the first time, will be hosted on African soil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gsticpretoria.org\/registration?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=August+2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to register and form part of the conversation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the theme \u201cScience, Technology and Innovation for a Sustainable Future\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CSIR and G-STIC conference will shine a spotlight on cutting-edge research and pioneering innovations that contribute to the United Nations&#8217; 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event aims to drive global conversations and actions that advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) laying the foundation for a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will boast a dynamic and diverse gathering of local and international stakeholders including leading scientists, policy makers, industry experts, academics, and the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United by a shared vision: to explore how research, development and innovation (RD&amp;I) can strengthen economies and solve pressing global challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From high-impact discussions to interactive exhibitions, the conference will showcase the power of collaboration in science and technology \u2014 highlighting the need for cross-border partnerships to accelerate progress and unlock scalable solutions that benefit people and the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gsticpretoria.org\/registration?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=August+2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to register and form part of the conversation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-61-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-835559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-61-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-61-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-61-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-61.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in celebrating 80 years of transforming lives through innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":835569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[23412,23413,4859,23415],"class_list":["post-835554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-biennial-conference","tag-conference","tag-csir","tag-g-stick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835887,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835554\/revisions\/835887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}