Panel Discussion: The Amazon and bioeconomy – Reconciling economic development and conservation

Panel
Written By Fabio Issao

Given its abundance and variety of natural resources – accounting for about 20 per cent of the world’s known species – Brazil has an extraordinary potential to become a world leader in the bioeconomy, creating a vibrant innovation environment, preserving the natural ecosystem and boosting local communities. What would the transition to the bioeconomy look like for the Amazon, and what new high-value products and services could be created using this model? How can technology -including AI, satellites, the cloud – be enablers of this transition? What is required in terms of policies, infrastructure and investment to make it happen?

Speakers

Fabio Issao
Currently focused on Branding and Information Design, Fabio Issao helps individuals and organizations to improve their visions, purposes and businesses strategies through design-oriented methodologies. In the last 12 years, Fabio co-founded 3 design studios (LUME, Flag and Camisa10). After that, he served as the Strategic Design Director at Mandalah, a global conscious innovation consultancy, for 5 years, where he helped global and local brands to implement design as a changing-driver for all its projects. Since July 2014 he's been working on different projects, all of them based on creating social good and purposeful products and services.
http://www.fabioissao.com
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