{"id":18431,"date":"2017-06-30T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T09:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaston.net\/2017\/06\/gpd-2017-celebrating-25-years\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T10:21:41","slug":"gpd-2017-celebrating-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaston.net\/fi\/gpd-2017-celebrating-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"GPD 2017 \u2013 Celebrating 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where we\u2019ve come from; where we\u2019re heading<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Opening Ceremony of the 25-year-old Glass Performance Days conference <\/a>(GPD) that took place in Tampere\u2019s T\u00e4htiAreena on June 28 was filled with music, fireworks and high-energy presentations to support the spirit that makes GPD so unique. Combining tradition with a look into the future, an impressive line-up of speakers viewed the glass industry from multiple angles. Each speaker\u2019s eye-opening presentation compared the last 25 years with where we\u2019re headed in the next 25 years. More than 650 international specialists, newcomers, mentors and investors gathered to kick off the world\u2019s number one glass industry event.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Glaston-organised GPD celebrated its silver anniversary with a theme of \u201cAll Eyes on Glass\u201d in the same year that Finland is celebrating its 100th<\/sup> anniversary. Over the years, the event has become known to the entire glass industry as a place to introduce new technology, distribute information, meet, share and network to move the glass industry ahead. Since the first event in 1992, GPD has had over 1,000 international speakers, 14,000 delegates, 3,000 presentations and 10,000 pages of technical papers.<\/p>\n

Keynote speaker Esko Aho<\/strong>, former Prime Minister of Finland, urged for the need of a step change in the glass industry. He compared the similarities of transformational change in government and business, highlighting the need for contextual and conceptual balance. He used Nokia as an example of a business that created its own transformational success story by predicting the future ahead of everyone else. As a good case for government, Aho mentioned China. No one would have believed that the future-oriented concept chosen in 1978 would allow China to be the key challenger to the US today. He concluded saying: \u201cA person is young as long as he or she has more dreams than memories,\u201d and encouraged all businesses to look to the future to enjoy success.<\/p>\n

According to the father of GPD, Jorma Vitkala,<\/strong> Chairman of the Organizing Committee, two new programs were introduced this year to drive the industry forward. The Step-Change Program supports collaboration with startups to trigger faster development of the industry through new technologies. The Mentor and Ambassador Program, or the \u201cOld Foxes Club\u201d, aims to pass knowledge to the next generation to ensure talent for sustainable growth.<\/p>\n

Arto Mets\u00e4nen<\/strong>, CEO and President of Glaston, challenged the audience by asking if we want to be part of the big transformation. There are millions of ideas out there in the glass industry \u2013 but how can we choose the ones that make our lives better and are commercially viable? We must all work together to reach this goal. We must be willing to take risks.<\/p>\n

James Carpenter<\/strong>, Founder of James Carpenter Design Associates Inc., gave a summary of landmark buildings built with glass over the last 25 years. His presentation entitled \u201cLight in the Public Realm\u201d showed how the building\u2019s glass skin can become a part of our lives, capturing and reflecting the environment. \u201cThere are so many opportunities to use digital information in buildings to enable a much richer experience for us all to enjoy,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n

As the \u201cdessert of the Opening Ceremony\u201d, as he dubbed it himself, Michael Robinsson,<\/strong> CEO and Design Director, ED Design srl., looked at glass from another perspective: adding augmented reality. He discussed how ultra-thin glass curtain walls can be used for cars, even when steering wheels and gasoline will be prohibited. \u201cCars can become sexy again because they will have intelligent glass, not normal glass,\u201d he underlines. And the same technology can be applied in homes or airplanes to shape our surrounding reality using digital technology. \u201cEven though this may seem to be an ambitious goal, we can sell multiple times more glass than what we\u2019re selling today by moving this direction,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

Other fascinating speakers included Bernard Sava\u00ebte<\/strong>, Founder of BJS Diff\u00e9rences, who gave his own \u201cOld Fox\u201d view of the past 25 years with numerous expectations for macro trends, glass products and new markets for the next 25 years. Jingong Pan<\/strong> of CBMC Research Institute in China also presented some of the remarkable achievements they have been working on, especially when it comes to energy savings and emissions reduction using glass.<\/p>\n

As a special surprise, the first-ever Jorma Vitkala Award was given to none other than \u2013 Jorma Vitkala. Guests from all over the world sent in video messages filled with gratitude to the man who started this all and had the energy to keep innovating GPD to become the premier event in the glass industry a quarter of a century later.<\/p>\n

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