Dr. Rias J. van Wyk, keynote speaker at the Forum on S&T Vision for the future in South Korea.

Dr Rias van Wyk is the director of Technoscan® Centre Minnesota, USA, and serves as President of the Management of Technology Accreditation Board (MOTAB). His consulting specialty is capturing technology-based innovation opportunities. He is a former Director of the Master of Science in the Management of Technology Program (MS-MOT), University of Minnesota. He has qualifications from three universities, including a master's degree from Harvard focusing on science, technology and public policy. He is the author of Technology: A Unifying Code, and the editor of Technoscan® Newsbriefs.

In 2005 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award in the Management of Technology from the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT). In 2009 he served on the Jury of the Sustainability Innovation Award of the Globe Forum in Sweden. In 2010 he was a keynote speaker at the launch of the Korean technology foresight report: Science and Technology Vision for the Future: Towards the year 2040. In 2011 the Technology Leadership Institute (TLI), College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, implemented an academic award, the Rias van Wyk Foresight Award in his honor. For 2011-2012 he was included in the Approved Speakers List of the CFA Institute, a global association of investment professionals. In 2012 he was appointed Professor Extraordinaire in the Graduate School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.