İstanbul Technical University (ITU) Rector Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal attended the WAITRO Global Summit held in Nanjing, China, from November 13-15, hosted by the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI).

The summit, themed "From Innovation to Impact - Strategies for Sustainable Solutions," focused on how innovations can be transformed into tangible results and thus overcome global challenges. The WAITRO Global Summit aimed to fully reveal the great potential of innovation in addressing global issues such as climate change, inequality, and other challenges in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The summit served as an important platform for ensuring that innovations do not remain just ideas but are transformed into practical and sustainable solutions in real life. Throughout the summit, impact-focused strategies such as how to leverage the "digital revolution" to enable green transformation and how to protect indigenous technologies while opening them to global markets were discussed. Click here for details.