The Royal Swedish Academy organises a series of three seminars on the theme “The inevitable transition to the electric society”. As a common theme for large parts of Sweden’s energy and technology transformation, electricity appears as a general basis, both for energy production, energy storage, distribution and as fuel. The purpose of the planned seminars is to shed light on the various technologies and options for action that are available in the creation of the future energy system. Both technical, economic, environmental and social science aspects will be addressed, from a Swedish as well as an international perspective.
Each theme is divided into three sub-areas, and will be addressed at three different seminar occasions.
- Fossil-free electricity production, 18 May. Watch the seminar here>
- Energy storage, 8 June. Watch the seminar here>
- Energy efficiency, 7 September. Registration on this webpage.
We plan to record and live-stream the seminars for those who cannot attend in person. You can watch it on our startpage, on www.kva.se
7 September: Energy efficiency
Programme
09:00
Welcome remarks
Lars Samuelson, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
09:05
Power- and RF-electronics
Umesh Mishra, UC Santa Barbara, USA
09:40
Q/A with the speaker
09:50
Coffee break
10:20
Human-centric LED-lighting
Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University, UK10:55Q/A with the speaker
11:05
Electrification of transports
Lars Stenqvist, Executive Vice President Volvo Group Trucks Technology, CTO Volvo Group, Sweden
11:40
Q/A with the speaker
11:50
Closing of the symposium followed by lunch
The symposium is organised by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, with financial support from The Wenner-Gren Foundations and The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF).
The event is free of charge and open to the public but registration is required for all participants. Please state eventual food preferences or allergies in the registration form.
For the safety of all attendees, we expect that all participants in the symposium are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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