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ABOUT THE 2021 EDITION
PEOPLE . PROSPERITY . PEACE . PLANET
These are the four P’s that will focus on our next Q-Day, which will seek to address how we can use technology to overcome our challenges.
The guidelines for sustainability until 2030 were created six years ago by the United Nations. Since then, business fabric and the public sector have used the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide their operations.
However, recent times have put barriers in the path that was being taken. The pandemic has set us back, and its damaging effects have blurred us from the goals. Therefore, it is time to reflect, understand what we can do in this new normal to mitigate the Planet’s pains, support those who need us, and find solutions.
From this side, from those who have been building technology for more than 30 years, we believe that software has a tremendous potential to create fairer societies and to progress towards a cleaner planet. But without people’s ingenuity, goodwill, and understanding of the issues, technology becomes meaningless. The problem is thus not a lack of technology but how we use it.
Yet, technological skills coupled with appropriate infrastructure can create skilled jobs and equip individuals with the tools that generate jobs and contribute to the quality of life of their peers. Thus, economic and social prosperity is driven by the excellent use and creation of technology.
Like everything that has tremendous potential for good, technology can also be used for evil, as recent months have shown worldwide. Consequently, peace is an unavoidable topic when we talk about the SDGs. It is essential to discuss the mechanisms that help us reach a level of stability in areas where the value of human life seems to be disregarded by belligerent forces.
Finally, it is also fundamental that we reflect on the damage – often unnecessary – that we have caused to our home, Planet Earth. Let us look at technology as a facilitator of objectives. Let us use artificial intelligence and other highly complex tools favoring a Home that bears as much fruit for our children as it has for us.
Painel 1: PROSPERITY
What can we do to ensure that all human beings enjoy a prosperous and fulfilled life and that technological, social, and economic progress happens in harmony with Nature?
This will be the central theme of this panel, which will focus on how technology, mainly digital technology, can support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals directly related to Prosperity.
By 2030, we want to reach a plateau where all human beings live in a region where economic growth and quality of life are the fruit of sustainable progress. We want to increase economic growth per capita and achieve higher productivity levels in economies through diversification, technological modernization and innovation while creating a skilled workforce for jobs that grow existing organizations or start new businesses that revitalize and diversify the economies of developing countries. All of this in a sustainable way that fosters long-term economic and social development.
What do we need to do to ensure that all human beings have access to the primary conditions for a prosperous life?
Sustainable Development Goals associated with this panel:
SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth
SDG 9: Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
SDG 10: Reduced inequalities
SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities
SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production
PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PANEL
- Teresa Ponce de Leão (moderator)
- João Paulo Carvalho
- Maria João Carioca
- Ricardo Castanheira
Panel 2: PLANET
What can we do to protect the Planet from the growing degradation of the last decades? First, to reverse the harmful effects caused, we must make consumption and production sustainable and the sustainable management of natural resources common practice and act quickly on climate change. Only in this way can we protect the quality of life and access to natural assets of this and future generations.
By 2030, we want to ensure, for all, the availability and sustainable management of drinking water and sanitation and ensure access to reliable, sustainable, and modern energy sources. Today, we must take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, conserve the lives of the oceans and seas, and protect all life on earth.
How can we reverse climate change and its effects on the Planet through digital technology? This will be the central theme of the Planet panel, whose five embedded sustainable development goals will be the conversation starter.
Sustainable Development Goals associated with this panel:
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13: Climate action
SDG 14: Life below water
SDG 15: Life on land
PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PANEL
- Pedro Henrique Miranda (moderator)
- Francisco Ferreira
- João Wengorovius Meneses
- Luís Neves
- Natan Jacquemin
CO-INNOVATION AWARDS
Co-Innovation awards are part of the Q-Day Conference since 2012. This distinction intends to recognize the contribution of customers and partners in the development and innovation of information systems. The results obtained by Quidgest and its partners are only possible thanks to the knowledge and skills of those who use and manage them every day.
INNOVATION FOR THE SDGs
Innovation is a transversal theme to all panels at this event, so Q-Day has a particular discussion centered on this topic. It will feature guests from various countries and specialties and will be moderated by Isabel Caetano, one of the most excellent national experts in this field.
This panel will be conducted entirely in English and will have a hybrid format: face-to-face and online.
PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PANEL
Isabel Caetano (moderator) / Aernoudt Bottemanne / Belen Suárez / Stephanie Robertson / Jurij Kobal
Panel 3: PEOPLE
People
What can we do as members of various communities (regional, national, business, and organizational) to end hunger and poverty – in all its forms and dimensions – and ensure that all human beings can reach their full potential concerning dignity and equality and in a healthy environment?
By 2030, we want to reach a level where no one is below the poverty line or going hungry. But, at the same time, we want to ensure that everyone has access to quality education and is rewarded equally, regardless of gender, religion, or ethnicity.
Technology, especially the ecosystem that comes with it, is part of the answer. Developing digital skills creates opportunities for skilled employment in modern organizations, which provide financial stability and improve citizens’ services.
Sustainable Development Goals associated with this panel:
SDG 1: No Poverty
SDG 2: Zero Hunger
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4: Quality Education
SDG 5: Gender Equality
PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PANEL
- Hugo Ribeiro (moderator)
- Paula Panarra
- Lia Vasconcelos
- Carla Tavares
- Sara Inácio
Panel 4: PEACE AND PARTNERSHIPS
What can we do to foster Peace and create societies where justice and inclusion reign and fear and violence have no place? Without Peace, we can’t work on the Prosperity, Planet, and People fronts.
By 2030 we want to promote peaceful and solidary societies, such as providing access to justice for all and building effective, responsible, and inclusive institutions at all levels. It is necessary to support the most disadvantaged or conflict areas and create means for local development to create social stability.
This is not a fight that countries or organizations should carry out alone. To fight a war, we need to promote partnerships between governments and organizations with different specialties. Partnerships are also central to all the panels – we must join forces to strengthen the means of implementing the UN’s goals.
We can do this by using the technological expertise developed in prosperous countries: promoting the development, transfer, dissemination, and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing nations so that growth can be sustainable.
Sustainable Development Goals associated with this panel:
SDG 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PANEL
- António Amorim (moderator)
- Mário Parra da Silva
- Marta Mariz
- Bruno Neto
- Helena Valente
Q-DAY 2021 – BE PART OF THE FUTURE
If people, technology, innovation, and organizational and planetary sustainability are topics of the utmost relevance to you, this is another must-attend Q-Day
SCHEDULE
08h30 | Reception and Registration
09h00 | Opening session
09h30 | Panel 1 – PROSPERITY
10h30 | Break
11h00 | Panel 2 – PLANET
12h00 | Co-Innovation Awards
13h00 | Lunch break
14h30 | Innovation and SDG for Prosperity
15h15 | Panel 3 – PEOPLE
16h15 | Break
16h30 | Panel 4 – PEACE and PARTNERSHIPS
17h45 | Closing session
*HOW TO GET THERE
By car: Parking of Campo Pequeno (www.campopequeno.com)
By bus: Campo Pequeno/Avenida de Berna: 756 | Campo Pequeno/Avenida da República: 727, 736, 738, 744, 749, 754 e 783 | Praça de Londres: 722 e 767 | Avenida de Roma: 735 e 767
By subway: Yellow line, Campo Pequeno stop
COVID 19 – SAFETY AND HYGIENE MEASURES
Participants will have to present at Culturgest entrance a negative test (performed, at most, 48 hours in advance) or an updated digital vaccination certificate.
In addition to this, the recommended hygiene measures should be adopted, including a mask and regular hand disinfection.
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