Prof. Netland joins the World Economic Forum's Global Future Councils for 2025-2026
The Network of Global Future Councils is a prominent, invitation-only interdisciplinary platform that unites around 700 top experts from business, academia, civil society, and government across 34 specialized councils. Together, they drive innovative thinking to help build a more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable future. GFC members participate in two-year terms.
Prof. Netland continues as a Council Member in the Forum's Global Future Council on external page Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains for the 2025-2026 term. Since 2017, Netland has been involved with the GFCs as a Fellow or Member. Among many other things, our group has contributed to:
- Curating the World Economic Strategic Knowledge Map on Advanced Manufacturing, external page Details
- Contributed to numerous White Papers, external page Details
- Attending several of the Annual Meetings of Global Future Councils, Dubai, UAE
- Serving on the Expert Panel of the Global Lighthouse Network, external page Details
- Contributed several articles to the World Economic Forum Agenda:
- external page Augmented intelligence: How explainable AI is changing manufacturing jobs for the better. Oct 17. 2023
- external page A better answer to the ventilator shortage as the pandemic rages on. April 3. 2020.
- external page People, not technology, shape the future of manufacturing. Nov 1.2018.
- external page The future of competitiveness is open. Jan 11. 2018.
- Hosting Jasmina Müller as Hoffmann Fellow of Sustainable Production Networks
- Supporting many project initiatives on topics related to advanced manufacturing
Prof. Netland and the Chair of Production and Operations Management look forward to continuing to shape a better world in cooperation with the World Economic Forum