Agenda
| THE MORNING SESSION | |
|---|---|
| Welcome address | Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., Faculty Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative & the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University |
| Keynote on the power of data in government | Minister Salima Monorma Bah, Ministry of Communications, Technology and Innovation, Sierra Leone |
| Ecosystem overview | Danil Mikhailov, Ph.D., Executive Director, data.org |
| Insights from leading academics driving data and AI for social impact curriculum | Moderator: David C. Parkes, Ph.D., John A. Paulson Dean George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University Zulma M. Cucunubá, MD, MSc, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Amy Yeboah Quarkume, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies for the Master’s Program in Applied Data Science, Howard University Samuel V. Scarpino, Ph.D., Director of AI + Life Sciences, Northeastern University |
| Impact in a Minute Session | Symone Campbell, Ph.D. Race & Tech Postdoctoral Fellow, Howard University |
| Fireside chat on accelerating data and AI research to impact | Moderator: Elizabeth Langdon-Gray, Executive Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University Esther Rolf, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Satchit Balsari, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University |
| Panel of social impact organizations on the frontier of implementing data and AI | Moderator: İlkay Altıntaş, Ph.D., Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center Alicia R. Karspeck, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, CWorthy Suhani Jalota, Founder, Myna Mahila Foundation Daniel Newton Obaka, Ph.D., President and Co-Founder, Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association (GIEVA) |
| Keynote on AWS generative AI innovation for climate risk | Nelson González, Global Head, Impact Computing, AWS |
| THE AFTERNOON SESSION | |
|---|---|
| Data for social impact leaders on driving cross-sector collaboration | Moderator: Danielle Getsinger, CEO, Community Lattice Danil Mikhailov, Ph.D., Executive Director, data.org Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., Faculty Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative & the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University Nelson González, Global Head, Impact Computing, AWS |
| Impact in a Minute Session | Daniel Grzenda, Ph.D. Student, The University of Chicago |
| Expert panel on open data and privacy preservation | Moderator: Uyi Stewart, Ph.D., Chief Data and Technology Officer, data.org Mercè Crosas, Ph.D., Director, Computational Socials Sciences, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and President, CODATA Bree McEwan, Ph.D, Associate Director, Data Sciences Institute, University of Toronto Stefaan G. Verhulst, Ph.D., Co-Founder, Governance Laboratory (GovLab) |
| Fireside chat spotlighting data for social impact skills to application | Moderator: Shanna Crumley, Director, Impact Data Science, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth Victor Odumuyiwa, Ph.D., Director of NITDA IT Hub, University of Lagos |
| Impact in a Minute Session | Sophie Woodward, Ph.D. Student in Biostatistics, Harvard University |
| Leaders driving capacity through experiential learning | Moderator: Perry Hewitt, Chief Marketing and Product Officer, data.org Linet Kwamboka, Senior Program Manager, Data4Now, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) Partha Pratim Das, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Center for Data Science and Analytics, Ashoka University David Uminsky, Ph.D., Executive Director, Data Science Institute, The University of Chicago |
| Closing Remarks | Danil Mikhailov, Ph.D., Executive Director, data.org Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., Faculty Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative & the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University |
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