International Inventor’s Day Convention

Date: 3^rd of February 2008

Venue: Grand Diamond Ballroom (MPACT Muang Thong Thani)

Program (Drawn up by National Research Council Thailand)

09.30 - 10.20

Speakers:

Bunyaratvej, Ahnond (NRCT Secretary General – Thailand)

Thai high level persons

Paguio, Rowena (Delegate of World Intellectual Property Organization –WIPO)

SHIN Kyoung-ho (Assistant Manager, Invention Promotion and Commercialization Team of KIPA, Korea)

10:20 – 10:30 Break

IFIA Conference:

Invention Promotion and Global Sustainability

(Examples from five continents)

Venue: MEETING ROOM 2 (the same floor) (MPACT Muang Thong Thani)

Program (Drawn up by András Vedres, IFIA President)

10:30. – 10:40 Opening address

Vedres, András (President of the International Federation of Inventor’s Associations)

10.40 – 11.00 Keynote lecture

“Invention and Innovation Promotion” by VASS, Ilona (Vice President, National Office for Research and Technology in Hungary)

11.00 – 13.00 Lectures - country by country

Australia by BOROS, Béla (President of South-pacific Innovation Transfer Society, Sydney)

Iran by MOUSAKHANI, Morteza (President, Qazvin Islamic Azad University )

Nigeria by MOMODU, Joel Shaka (President, Nigerian Association of Inventors)

Philippines by MALANG L. Virgilio (President, Association of Inventors in Philippines)

13:00 – 14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 16.30 Lectures - country by country

Romania by PLESA, Octavian (President, Inventors Association Romania)

Russia by FOKIN, Vladimir (Director General, F&F Consulting, Russia)

Serbia by Djujić, Ivana (Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia)

USA by HESS, Deb (Executive Director, Minnesota Inventors Congress, US)

Closing remarks by Vedres, András (President of the International Federation of Inventor’s Associations)