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Global Grand Challenges Summit
Video footage from the event
Tuesday 12 March 2013
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Welcome by Chair
Professor Dame Ann Dowling and welcome addresses
Plenary address
Dr Craig Venter
Sustainability session
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Allard Castelein, Professor
Angela Belcher, Professor John Loughead, Professor
Calestous Juma
Health presentations and discussion
Dr Robert Langer, Dr Frances Arnold, Professor Qimin
Zhan, Professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Professor
Ara Darzi
Education presentation and discussion
Keynote presentation - John L Hennessy, Panel
discussion
Ministerial address
Rt. Hon. David Willetts MP
UK
and US short film competition
Winners presentation by Will.i.am and Professor
Charles Elachi
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Enriching life session
Professor Neil Gershenfeld, Alexandra Daisy
Ginsberg, Professor Helen Storey, Dr Eric Brown
Technology and growth session
Dr Mike Lynch, Dr Regina Dugan, Professor Andy
Hopper, Dr Margaret Ann Craig, Andrew Simms, Dr
Yingtao Li
Presentation from the Microsoft Research Connection Grand Challenges Student Day
Introduced by Professor Tony Hey
Resilience session
Jo da Silva, Professor Robert Mair, Professor
Jianyun Zhang, Bran Ferren, Dr Paul Golby
Plenary address
Bill Gates
Next
steps session
Led by a panel of rising stars in engineering and
intersecting fields
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