Dear All,
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), in partnership with University of Nairobi, will host an international conference and workshops on 18-20 November 2019 under the theme “Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Defining a Role for Research Universities”.
The world is being ushered into a new industrial future, which is set to change in a fundamental way, how people live daily. The Fourth Industrial Revolution will be fundamentally different from earlier industrial revolutions in its scope and complexity, as well as its scale. The rate, depth and breadth of the likely transformations promise to be disruptive to all industries everywhere, especially for their production systems, management as well as governance.
The main conference will take place over two days, 18-19 November, followed by several one-day workshops on 20 November 2019, driven by ARUA Centres of Excellence.
There will be 2 plenary and 10 parallel sessions on each day, covering specific relevant thematic areas of interest to ARUA1. The 13 ARUA thematic areas will have slots at the parallel sessions with a view to mapping out expectations of how the Fourth Industrial Revolution will play out in the particular thematic, area and how African universities could prepare for that. Other thematic areas to be discussed will include:
- Education
- Health Care
- Agriculture
- The Built Environment and Transportation
The number of participants is capped at 250. Staff members interested in attending the ARUA conference are encouraged to register at the link below: http://arua.org.za/2019-
