Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering | Let’s Talk Symposium | SKF

Let’s Talk is a series of talks that gathers inspiring thinkers to discuss topics like Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering. Engineers will play a major role in reaching the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals set out in 2015. How? What can you do as a product developer, as a maintenance engineer, in your daily work to contribute? Experts say transformative and integrative solutions are needed to achieve the UN’s sustainable development targets in the next 15 years. A systemic approach and open innovation involving government, academia and the private sector, like industry, will be the key. Want to learn more? Watch the video. Here are the different topics covered:

• Industrial Ecology status & challenges
• Industry’s role in reaching goals
• Challenging existing business models
• The circular economy
• How can engineers contribute
• An integrated approach for the future