Program
Day 2 : Wednesday, 04 March 2026
High-Level Segment, Strategic and Visionary Focus
08:00 – 09:00
Registration
08:00 – 09:00
Opening Ceremony
- Welcome Remarks – President, Institution of Engineers Indonesia (PII)
- UNESCO’s Message Delivered by Ms. Maki Katsuno-Hayashikawa, Director of UNESCO Office in Jakarta
- Opening Address – Er. Dr. Seng Chuan Tan, WFEO President
- Conferment of AFEO Honorary Patron
- Keynote Address – President of the Republic of Indonesia
- Opening WED
- MoU signing ceremony
- Photo Session
Masters of Ceremony:
- Eng. Santhi H. Serad MSc., PII Executive Director
- Eng. Firas Bou Diab, WFEO Executive Vice-President
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break & Networking
11:00 – 12:30
High-Level Panel 1: “From Innovation to Large-Scale Implementation: Engineers Delivering Real-World Impact”
Keynote Presentation: Prof. Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto), 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics: “For Foundational Discoveries and Inventions that Enable Machine Learning with Artificial Neural Networks and Known as the “Godfather of AI.”
High-level and Ministerial Roundtable moderated by : Heru Dewanto, PII Past President
- Salim M. AlMalik. Director General. ICESCO
- Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector of UNU
- Dr. H. Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, M.Sc., M.P.A., M.A., Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development
- Rosan Perkasa Roeslani, B.A., M.B.A., Minister of Investment and Downstreaming and CEO of Danantara
- Ir. Dody Hanggodo, M.PE., Minister for Public Works
12:30 – 13:00
WFEO Hackathon – Winners Announcement & Awards, presented by Marlene Kanga, WFEO Past President
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break / Bilateral Meetings
14:00 – 15:30
High-level Panel 2: ”Smart Engineering for a Sustainable Future”
Keynote Presentation: “From Knowledge to Impact: Mobilizing the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development through Smart Engineering”, Amal Kasry, Chief of Section for Basic Science, Research, Innovation and Engineering, UNESCO.
High-level Roundtable moderated by : Mustafa Shehu, WFEO Past-President
- Dr. (H.C.) Ir. Airlangga Hartarto, M.B.A., M.M.T., IPU., Coordinating Minister for Economy
- Meutya Viada Hafid, S.E., M.A., Minister of Communication and Information Technology
- Prof. Dr. Charlie Than, Union Minister for Ministry of Industry of Myanmar
- Anindya Novyan Bakrie, B.Eng., M.B.A., Chairman of Indonesia Chamber of Commerce (KADIN)
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break & Networking
16:00 – 17:30
High-level Panel 3: “Global Trends on AI for Engineering Applications”
Keynote Presentation: Prof. Brian Yulianto, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Technology of Republic Indonesia and Professor of Nanotechnology at the Bandung Institute of Technology.
High-level Roundtable moderated by : Shaofeng Hu, Director of the Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building, UNESCO
- Africa: [TBA]
- Asia-Pacific: Prof. Gong Ke, WFEO Past President, Former President of Nankai University Tianjin, China, and expert on AI governance and digital transformation.
- Europe: [TBA].
- Arab States: Younss Ait Mou, Senior Software Engineer, College of Science and Engineering Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
- Latin America and the Caribbean: [TBA].
19:00 – 21:00
Official Gala Dinner
