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WASD acts as a meeting platform where participants from all over the world meet each other annually to experience new ideas and cultures, travel and see new places and learn about all of the aspects of world sustainable development together with their future colleagues.

WASD annual conference consists of sessions of Keynote Speakers, General Assembly, Plenary Sessions, Papers Presentation and Excursions (visits and tour) in the organizing country. The objective is to create a fresh knowledge base and provide direction to all participants to effectively deal with future challenges of world sustainable development. 

The conference attracts large number of global experts and scholars in addition to WASD members all over the world. Participants include researchers, policy makers, educators, experts, consultants and most importantly companies focused on the creation and commercialization of technology.

Keynote speakers from our last conferences include:

H. E. Sheikh Nahyan Mubarak Al-Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research (UAE)

H. E. John Chrysostom A. Nsambu, Minister of State for ICT (Uganda)

Dr. El Tayeb Mustafa, Director for Science Policy and Sustainable Development, UNESCO (France)

Professor Mohamed Hassan, Executive Director, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (Italy)

Professor Thomas C. Schelling, 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate Economics (USA)

Ann Pettifor, Director, Advocacy International Ltd (UK)

Clive Hildebrand, President, Australian Institute of International Affairs (Australia)