FLOGEN AWARD RECIPIENTS ACHIEVE FURTHER RECOGNITION444
Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade, Usiminas, Brazil, Served as General Coordinator of ABM Week in 2023, 2024, and 2025
Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade, Vice-President of Strategic Affairs, Usiminas, Brazil, served as general coordinator of ABM Week in its 7th, 8th, and 9th editions, in 2023, 2024, and 2025, respectively, leading the work of the main technical-scientific and business week for the metallurgy, materials, and mining industry in Latin America.
Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade was honoured by FLOGEN with the 2024 Shechtman International Leadership Award at the Gala ceremony of FLOGEN's 2024 Sustainability through Science and Technology / Sustainability through Science and Technology / Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit (SIPS 2024) in Crete, Greece, in October 2024, a ceremony presided by Dr. Florian Kongoli, SIPS President.
Video of Award Ceremony:
FLOGEN SIPS 2024 Awards: Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade, Vice-President of Strategic Affairs, Usiminas, Brazil
Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade was also honored with the symposium bearing his name: Leite International Symposium (10th Intl. Symp. on Advanced Sustainable Iron & Steel Making) at the same FLOGEN’s SIPS 2024 event.
Following the footsteps of other FLOGEN award recipients who have subsequently achieved further recognition, Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade served as general coordinator of ABM Week in its 7th, 8th, and 9th editions, in 2023, 2024, and 2025, respectively, leading the work of the main technical-scientific and business week for the metallurgy, materials, and mining industry in Latin America. We wish similar future successes for all FLOGEN Award winners that were honoured during SIPS in previous years as documented in the pages of this web site.
ABOUT:
FLOGEN Sustainability through Science and Technology / Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit (SIPS), is a yearly event that is deeply science-focused and technology & engineering-oriented. It has been organized since 2003 by the not-for- profit corporation. FLOGEN Stars Outreach (www.flogen.org), which is dedicated to achieving sustainability through science and technology. It incorporates summit plenary lectures from well-known speakers that address the link between scientific, technology and engineering domains in the pursuit of sustainable development, as well as specific science, technology and engineering symposia that feature technical presentations with the same goals in mind.
Based on the FLOGEN Sustainability Framework (https://flogen.org/pdf/sips16_524FS.pdf), following a long and rich tradition, the summit covers 3 sustainability pillars: (1) Science, Technology & Industry, (2) Governance & Management and (3) Education & Civil Society.
It attracts the participation of numerous Nobel laureates and many Distinguished Guests. It features in average about 50 scientific and technology symposia covering various distinguished fields. Academics, Engineers, Managers, Directors, CEOs, Medical Doctors, Lawyers, Economists and Politicians are in attendance.
