World Engineering Day 2026 itinerary

Registration and welcome coffee

WFEO Finance Committee Meeting

Coffee break

WFEO Executive Board Meeting

Lunch break / bilateral meetings

WFEO Executive Council Meeting (part 1)

Coffee break

WFEO Executive Council Meeting (part 2)

Welcome reception and networking (aligned with Iftar time – hosted by Governor of Jakarta in Jakarta City Hall).

Registration

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

Coffee break and networking

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”, known as the “Godfather of AI”.

Video message by Dr Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector of UNU

High-level and Ministerial Roundtable moderated by: Heru Dewanto, PII past President

• Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development
• Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, Minister of Industry
• Rosan Roeslani, Minister of Investment and Downstreaming and CEO of Danantara
• Dody Hanggodo, Minister for Public Works

WFEO Hackathon – winners announcement and awards, presented by Marlene Kanga, WFEO past President

Lunch break / bilateral meetings

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”, Shaofeng Hu, Director of the Division of Science Policy and Basic Sciences, UNESCO

High-level Roundtable moderated by: Mustafa Shehu, WFEO past President

• Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Economy
• Meutya Hafid, Minister of Communication and Information Technology
• Charlie Than, Union Minister for Ministry of Industry of Myanmar
• Anindya Bakrie, Chairman of Indonesia Chamber of Commerce (KADIN)
• Diana Kusumastuti, Vice Minister of Public Works

Coffee break and networking

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: Yoslan Nur, Head of Engineering and Innovation Programme, UNESCO

• Refilwe Buthelezi, President of the Federation of African Engineering Organizations
• Prof. Gong Ke, WFEO past President, former President of Nankai University Tianjin, China
• Younss Ait Mou, Senior Software Engineer, College of Science and Engineering Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
• Ari Herrera, immediate past President of the Pan-American Federation of Engineering Societies (UPADI)

Official gala dinner

Introductory session on the third UNESCO Global Engineering Report Project

Keynote presentation: “From Knowledge to Impact: Mobilizing the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development through Smart Engineering”, Yoslan Nur, Head of Engineering and Innovation Programme, UNESCO

Moderated by KN Gunalan, WFEO President-Elect

• Nahla Al-Qassimi, Chair of WFEO Task Force on the third UNESCO Global Engineering Report
• Triono Junoasmono, Expert Staff of Ministry of Public Works
• Prof. Philippe Blanc, Head of the Energy and Processes Department, MINES Paris – PSL
• Yau Chau Fong, Managing Director, Duriane Professionals Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

Coffee break and networking

Panel 1: “Smart Engineering for Sustainable Infrastructure”

Moderated by: Ania Lopez, WFEO Executive Vice-President

• Prof. Muhammed Ali Berawi, Director of the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Development
• Geng Yong, Chair of WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Engineering and Environment
• Ignacio Gonzalez-Castelao, Chair of WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Water
• Marie-Line Vaiani, Chair of WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Energy
• Martin Manuhwa, Chair of WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Engineering Capacity Building
• Davide Stronati, Chair of WFEO Working Group on Climate Change

Lunch break and showcase presentations

2nd Steering Committee Meeting for WFEO Engineering Capacity Building for Africa Programme (ECBAP), chaired by Prof. Gong Ke, WFEO past President, former President of Nankai University Tianjin, China

Workshop on Benchmarking Engineering Capacity and Capability Globally, presented and moderated by Dawn Bonfield, Commonwealth Engineers Council (CEC)

Presentation on the new programme under PSL: The International Bachelor of Environmentally Engaged Engineering (I-EB3), by Prof. Philippe Blanc, Head of the Energy and Processes Department, MINES Paris – PSL

Panel 2: “Integrated Innovative Digital-Green Systems for Economic Growth, Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Management”

Moderated by: Teguh Haryono, Secretary General, PII

• Prof. Meyliana Widjaja, Vice Chancellor Global Employability and Entrepreneurship Binus University
• Prof. Hammam Riza, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Research Center at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)
• Federico Ferrario, Chair of WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Disaster Risk Management
• Norlida Buniyamin, Chair of WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Engineering for Innovative Technologies
• Raoul Jacquand, VP Strategic Alliances and External Affairs, Alcatel Submarine Networks

Coffee break

Panel 3: “Digitalization for Productivity and Sustainable Growth”

Moderator: Dandung Sri Hernito, PII

• Marlène Kanga, WFEO past President
• Enyonam Fafa Kpekpena, Chair of WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Women in Engineering
• Paul Soegianto, Chief of Group Digital Strategy, PT Astra International, Tbk
• Chris Barrett, Executive Vice President Manufacturing, Quality and ESG, Accell Group
• Garima Bhatia, Chair of WFEO Working Group on System Engineering
• Wael Abdulmajeed, Chair of WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Information and Communication

Closing ceremony and cultural performance