COVID-19 Summit

A clear look at medical science

• Understanding the virus that causes COVID-19 and how to prevent its spread
  Dr Siouxsie Wiles; Microbiologist, Auckland, NZ
  
  
• The path to develop a vaccine
  Prof David Murdoch; dean, Otago University, Christchurch, NZ

Activists and innovators around the world respond to the outbreak

• Crisis lessons from Japan's 3/11 Fukushima disaster
  Azby Brown, lead researcher, Safecast, a citizen science monitoring movement, Tokyo, Japan
  
  
• How gaming technology can organize collaborative action
  Daniel Goldman, game and simulation developer, Tokyo Japan
  
  
• Designing the physical environment to stop the spread of infectious diseases
  David Saladik, health facility architect working in Asia and Africa, Kigali Rwanda
  
  
• Estonia comes together in country-wide COVID-19 hackathon
  Sten-Kristian Saluveer, multimedia producer, Tallinn Estonia
  
  
• Food systems in the context of COVID-19
  Sara Roversi, Founder Future Food Network, Leader in Field of Food Sustainability
  
  
• Resilience in organizations
  Guy-Philippe Goldstein, management consultant, Paris France
  
  
• The disastrous consequences of information disorder erupting around COVID-19: 
  AI is preying upon our unconscious cognitive biases
  De Kai, AI professor, Google AI ethics council member

Collaborative action around the planet

• Open source frontline medicine
  Bart de Witte, founder digital health academy, Berlin, Germany
  
  
• Quarantine anxiety: coping with the stress of isolation
  Mazda Adli, chair, Fliedner Klinik Berlin Centre for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Berlin, Germany

People taking action together

• Reducing stress: an online meditation
  Jason Xu, mindfulness meditation coach, Beijing, China
  
  
• Treating the mental side effects of the pandemic
  Yilan, co-founder Neureality, a mental health media platform Beijing, China
  
  
• Raising money is easy, spending money is hard
  Anna Chen, 9th grade student, 15 years old, Shanghai, China
  
  
• Mask stickers: fighting discrimination through humor
  Moss X Team, Chinese students at Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
  
  
• Engineering education at a distance
  Anand Padmanabhan, Global Chief Information & Technology Officer, Whittle School & Studios, Washington, DC, USA
  Dr. Richard Kuder, Lower and Middle School Division Head, Whittle School & Studios Shenzhen Campus, New York, USA
  
  
• Studying in isolation
  Viola Ni, High school student, 17 years old, Shanghai, China

Understanding the choices from many perspectives: three roundtable discussions

• Separating fact from myth in a fast-moving pandemic
• Debating the tradeoffs between autonomy and safety
• Acting to cushion the global shock

Expert panelists:

• Dr. Duncan Rozario, medical director of the Oakville Virtual Care Program, Oakville, Canada
  
  
• Steve Joordens, professor of psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Julia Hanigsberg, CEO of Holland Bloorview Hospital, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Amanda Munday, founder of The Workaround, a parent-friendly co-working space, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Zabeen Hirji, executive advisor, Future of Work, Deloitte, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Karen Pastakia, lead human capital practice, Deloitte, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Ryan Merkley, chief of staff of Wikimedia, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Peter Faist, CEO of Staffy, a restaurant hiring app, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• James Partridge, director of credit analytics, Moody's Analytics, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Harry Moseley, CIO of Zoom Video Communications, New York, USA
  
  
• Janelle Hinds, founder, Helping Hands, an app to connect students with volunteer organizations, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Jon Shell, managing director, Social Capital Partners, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Kevin Johnson, CEO, MediaCom Canada, Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Aneil Gokhale, director of philanthropy, Toronto Foundation
  
  
  

A time to think beyond the unexpected

• The psychology of uncertainty
  Dr. Rashna E David, psychologist and education consultant, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
  
  
• Leveraging exponential technologies for minimizing medical disasters
  Prashant Mehta, global chief delivery officer, Dentsu Aegis Network, Gurugram, Haryana, India
  
  
• Mining cyberspace in times of crisis
  Akhilesh Tuteja, global co-leader cybersecurity, KPMG, Delhi NCR, India
  
  
• Shock and awe for the travel industry
  Anil Parashar, CEO at InterGlobe Technology Quotient, Gurugram, Haryana, India

How to strengthen our products, schools, hospitals and society

• Making distance learning work
  Atish Gonsalves - global innovation director, Humanitarian Leadership Academy, London, UK
  
  
• Designing products for the post COVID-19 world
  Aga Szóstek – experience designer, Warsaw, Poland
  
  
• How will we travel when the borders reopen?
  Dan Noll & Audrey Scott - travel bloggers and sustainable travel strategists, Berlin, Germany
  
  
• How COVID-19 will challenge democracy
  Robert Mołdach - CEO, Institute of Health and Democracy, Warsaw, Poland
  
  
• Finance in the epicenter of the epidemic
  Luca Mannucci – managing partner, Sella Venture Partners, Milan, Italy
  
  
• Public health systems as a reflection of our economic priorities
  Agnieszka Gaczkowska – medical director, Sundose, Warsaw, Poland
  
  
• What’s after what’s next
  Kacper Nosarzewski - managing partner, 4CF, Warsaw, Poland
  

[ * This session will be in French * ]


Confronting the social, political and economic maladies exacerbated by the pandemic

• Update on the status of the pandemic
  Arnaud Fontanet, professor at the Pasteur Institute and the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
  
  
• What lessons can we learn for our health system?
  Frédéric Bizard, founder, the Health Institute, Paris, France
  
  
• Can we govern globally?
  David Djaïz, author of “Slow Democracy” (2019), Paris, France
  
  
• Debating Stigma: Responding to “The Chinese Virus”
  Julie Hamaïde, founder Koi Magazine, Paris, France
  Linh-Lan Dao, journalist on “True or Fake” program on Franceinfo, Paris, France
  
  
• Comparing crisis management in Asia, Europe and the United States
  Simeng Wang, permanent research fellow at The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France
  
  
• How to handle the economic crisis after the health crisis?
  Agnès Pannier-Runacher, state secretary for economy and finance, French Ministry for the Economy and Finance, Paris, France

How to make your own change

• Monitoring epidemics through crowdsourcing and mobile devices (in Brazilian Portuguese)
  Onicio Leal Neto, CEO, Epitrack, Zurich, Switzerland
  
  
• The war we didn't prepare for
  Alex Lightman, CEO, Praxis Digital, Santa Monica, California, U.S.
  
  
• 360º Health overview in the context of pandemics (in Brazilian Portuguese)
  Vera Cordeiro, founder, Associação Saúde Criança, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sights and sounds from Silicon Savannah

• Reshape the world as we know it
  Victoria Rubadiri, Journalist, Citizen TV Kenya
  
  
• Bridging the digital divide to flatten the African curve
  Nivi Sharma, Chief Operating Officer, BRCK, Nairobi, Kenya
  
  
• Twitter and WhatsApp accelerating info and misinfo on Covid-19
  Mark Kaigwa, founder, Nendo, Nairobi, Kenya
  
  
• The intersection of culture, politics and women
  Muthoni Drummer Queen, Rapper, Nairobi, Kenya

[ * This session with be in Portuguese * ]


How to respond to the coronavirus today while building tools to monitor its spread

• How to identify a viral infection: advances in diagnosis
  Dr. Celso Granato, head of Virology at Grupo Fleury, São Paulo, Brazil
  
  
• World Health Organization’s response to COVID-19
  Jamil Chade, journalist, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• Managing the economic impact of the Pandemic
  Joaquim Levy, former Minister of Finance of Brazil, Oxford, UK
  
  
• Genetic analysis of the COVID-19 virus
  Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, researcher University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Accelerating discoveries to prevent, diagnose and treat the COVID-19 virus

• Coronavirus 101: Divya Chander M.D., chair neuroscience, Singularity University, Palo Alto, CA, United States
  
  
• Innovation in the time of COVID-19: the state of play: Daniel Kraft M.D., Chair for Medicine, Singularity Univ., Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine, San Francisco, USA
  
  
• Clinical Ward Update: Brennan Spiegel MD- Editor in Chief Amerian Journal Gastroenterology
  
  
• Prospects for a COVID-19 Vaccine: Margaret Liu M.D., past president, International Society for Vaccines, San Francisco, USA
  
  
• Drug Development: Arnab Chatterjee, PhD Scripps Research
  
  
• What past medical victories tells us about the path forward: Larry Brilliant M.D., chairman, Ending Pandemics, San Francisco, USA
  
  
• XPrize - Catalyzing Innovation & Collaboration: Anousheh Ansari, CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation & Ravjeev Ronanki, Senior Vice President & Chief Digital Officer Anthem
  
  
• Exponential Challenges & Solutions: Peter Diamandis, Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation and Anousheh Ansari, CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation