WCSM-2023

Conference Report

The Cluster Meeting of Gala Technology 2023, which was held in Catalonia Barcelona Plaza, Barcelona, Spain during July 22-24, 2023, achieved a consummation. This cluster meeting consisted of 3 parallel conferences together, which were The 6th Annual World Congress of Smart Materials-2023, The 14thAnnual World Cancer Congress, The 11th Annual World Congress of Nano Science & Technology. GalaTech-2023 was hosted by World High Technology Society, operated by BIT Group. This annual conference brought together around 200 specialists from 24 countries and regions.

The Opening Ceremony & Keynote Forum took place on morning of July 22nd. Plenary speeches: Dr. Jing H. Wang, Professor, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA, Dr. Vincent G. Harris, William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, Dr. Florian Kongoli, CEO, FLOGEN Technologies Inc., USA, Dr. Janusz Lipkowski, Professor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland, Dr. James Wang, Director, the eVTOL Research & Innovation Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Dr. Vehary Sakanyan, Professor, Nantes University, ProtNeteomix, France. Dr. Jana Hawley (Dean & Professor, University of North Texas, USA) as moderators of the Opening Ceremony and Keynote Forum expressed great gratitude to the presence of all delegates, speakers and participants and particularly wished all the guests a memorable stay in Barcelona on behalf of the organizing committee.

Over the 3 days, around 200 participants attending the panels online and onsite. This reflected a true world level engagement, and the conference aimed to set new standards for what can be achieved with the physical approach. In each of the subject sessions, participants discussed challenges, approaches and action points.

Before, during and after the conference, we received warm support and valuable suggestions from the delegates on how to better plan and organize the next conference. Depending on the warmly support and good suggestions, we are confident in organizing Galatech-2024 which would be better. We are looking forward to your continuing support and participation in our meeting next June in Budapest, Hungary.

Highlights

● Designing 40+ Sessions of Scientific Forums, Symposia, Roundtables, Dialogs, Workshops, and Panel Discussion Covering Top Trends and Advances in Smart Materials
● Inviting Worldwide Distinguished Professors, Scientists, and Decision Makers for the Grand Thought Collision from 40+ Countries
● Shooting for 300+ Oral Presentations and Hot Paper Briefing in Whole Spectrum of Breakthroughs in Smart Materials from both Industry and Academia
● Bring in up to 500 Distinguished Participants All Together in Fields of Smart Materials
● Gathering 20+ Exhibitors in Cutting-Edge Technologies and Novel products
● Scheduling 4+ Sessions of Business & Career Development, and Talent Search
● Multi-Zones of Poster Show and Exhibitions of New Finding, New IP, New Tech and New Products
● 2-3 Interactive Social Events to Enhance the Professional Network, Matchmaking and Communication

Keynote Speakers

	*Dr. James Wang,* Professor and Director, eVTOL Research & Innovation Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore		*Dr. Vincent G. Harris,* William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
	*Dr. Florian Kongoli,* CEO, FLOGEN Technologies Inc., USA		*Dr. Janusz Lipkowski,* Professor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland

Renowned Speakers

	*Dr. Ingo Mählmann,* Vice President Sales & Marketing, Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG, Germany		*Dr. Uwe Beck,* Head, Division 6.7 “Surface Modification and Measurement Techniques”, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Testing and Research, Germany
	*Dr. François Jeanjean,* Economist, Orange, France		*Dr. Wim Soppe,* Senior Scientist, TNO – Solliance, the Netherlands
	*Mr. Daniel Coughlin,* Vice President of Composites Market Development, American Composites Manufacturers Association, USA		*Dr. Parameswar Hari,* Professor, University of Tulsa, USA
	*Dr. Dimitrios Kotzias,* Former Senior Official of the European Commission, Head of Unit, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, Italy		*Mr. Jesus Marcos,* Director of Space, Security & Defense, TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Spain
	*Dr. Reza Sadeghi,* Chief Scientific Officer, BIOVIA brand at Dassault Systems, USA		*Dr. Sergey Nikitenko,* Research Director, CNRS; Laboratory Head, Marcoule Institute for Separation Chemistry, France
	*Ms. Sarah Howard,* Director, kMatrix Data Services Ltd., UK		*Dr. Kurt Manigatter,* CEO, ELMET GmbH, Austria
	*Dr. Jack Jia-Sheng Huang,* Senior R&D Scientist, Source Photonics, USA		*Mrs. Maria Wennman,* R&D Director, OrganoClick AB, Sweden
	*Dr. Paolo Milia,* Professor, University of Perugia, Italy		*Dr. Virginia A. Lang,* Chief Scientist, Medical Device Human Factors, HirLan, Inc., USA

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Hosting Organizations

World High Technology Society

BIT Congress Inc.

BIT Convention Inc.

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I enjoyed the conference and city of Rome. The conference involves wide variety of topics with many especially companies. It was exciting to me. I hope WCSM-2022 will be successful one.

---- Dr. Masaaki Niwa, Japan

Thank you for the wonderful conference which you and your team had organized in Osaka Japan. The talks were of really high quality and the opportunity to network amongst the participants was very beneficial.

----Dr. Brando Okolo, Germany

Thank you very much for having given me the chance to attend the high quality conference. Frankly, your organization is quite good which is above the level of most international conferences which I have attended so far. One suggestion is that in the future, it is better not to include most activities on Saturday and Sunday since the western men think the weekends belongs to personal free time.

-- Dr. Bao-Yu Zong, Singapore

It was a beautiful conference, very well organized and managed! I really have only words of appreciation! It was a very distinguished group of personalities and I am most honored to have been selected to be a part of. Thanks to you, I also had the extraordinary opportunity to visit Japan!

----Dr. Ana Maria Dabija, Romania

It was a real pleasure for me to participate in WCSM. It was my first visit to Japan, and I was very impressed by this country. Congress was organized very well. Thank you. I look forward to attending your future meeting in Rome.

----Dr. Sergey Nikitenko, France

Thank you for your kind email. It was a pleasure to be invited to your congress and really a great honour attend it with so such learned scientists. Actually I don't think you need my suggestions because everything went well. I am so happy you had chosen Italy for the next congress.

Italy

I really enjoyed very much this conference and all of the interesting topics included in the program. Thank you for the expert organisation of the event.

---Dr. Rita Skoda-Földes, Hungary

I would like to thank you again for the excellent conference. Everything was organized exceptionally well. Thank you.

I look forward to attending your future conferences. Please keep me posted.

---Dr. Reza Abbaschian, USA

I would like to thank you for your kind email. In my humble opinion, the conference was very organized. The only suggestion I would provide is that the speakers to have a portable microphone. That will help projecting their voice all the time even if they are explaining things on the screen.

--- Dr. Adel Alhalawani, Canada

We enjoyed the BKK conference very much. It was one of the most well-organized conferences which we had attended. This year the poster session was improved compared with that in the Singapore conference. Although we found some very interseting posters, we could not contact and discuss with the authors.

--- Dr. Hitoshi Kunoh, Japan

It was a pleasure attending to Smart Materials 2016, to visit Singapore and to be with my family. I really enjoyed it.

Regarding the congress, I enjoyed it very much, in special the session of my communication, and I learnt a lot. I only have to point the strong air conditioning. The room temperature was too low. Once I had to go outside to become warm! But it seems that is usual in Singapore.

--- Dr. Sofia Capelo, Portugal