FlashTalks 02021 -- From Crisis To Innovation

When:
Monday, Jan 04, 2021 7:30p -
9:00p

Where:
Online event
Zoom
Cambridge, MA 02134

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Admission:
$5

Categories:
Innovation, Social Good, Tech, Virtual & Streaming

Event website:
https://from-crisis-to-innovation.eventbrite.com

Doors open @ 7:15 pm-- Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers


Tickets are available on Eventbrite: https://from-crisis-to-innovation.eventbrite.com
Presentation starts at 7:30 pm ET


A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with Joe Levine, PhD, Eleanor Murphy, Steve Wardell, and Emilia Javorsky, MD.


By nearly all measures, this past year brought significant disruption and disorientation. From intensified wildfires, Saharan windstorms, and glacial calving to massive job layoffs, a K-shaped recovery, and a booming stock market, to an international health crisis that has riveted our attention and threatened our lives, our liberties and our happiness, this has been a challenging year.


The closer we look at these challenges, the clearer their complex interconnectedness becomes. Everything is related to everything else. Does this suggest there are also greater possibilities for cross-disciplinary collaboration to achieve rapid innovation? **All is not doom and gloom!** In fact, there are many on the front lines of research, education, and development looking at our present problems through an innovative Long Now lens.


Please join us in welcoming four remarkable big-picture thinkers to Long Now Boston’s 3rd Annual Flash Talks. Our guests will share what drives them to influence long term change. We’ll do a deep dive into sector specific trends, the lights they see at the end of the tunnel, and the concepts each is fervently promoting for a better future.


Big Picture Topics We’ll Explore:
•Climate Change/Global Change – What new language is required to talk about these complex interrelated forces?
•Income Inequality – Is it effective to establish long-term plans in a time of crisis?
•Healthcare – Who do research & development trends benefit…Pharma, or patients? Is healthcare a basic human right?


Kim Novick and George Gantz (Board members of Long Now Boston) will facilitate the conversation. As in past years, the goal of our Flash Talks will be to facilitate broader community conversation, so we will be inviting meeting participants to participate directly in the conversations.


Emilia Javorsky, is an MD, entrepreneur, and researcher focused on the invention, development and commercialization of new medical therapies, and is an advocate for the beneficial use of emerging technologies at the Future of Life Institute, and Scientists Against Inhumane Weapons. She cofounded a skin health company, which was acquired in 2020, and is currently involved in early-stage life science ventures.


Joe Levine, is a Biologist and Educator, dedicated to the public understanding of science. He co-authors the most widely used high school biology textbook in the United States, and is recognized internationally for championing evolution and climate change education. His media credits as Science Advisor and Producer include, among others, NPR, NOVA, and the Discovery Channel.


Eleanor Murphy, Director, Philanthropy and Engagement with Acumen, helps diverse stakeholders, at the local level, to develop leaders and scale social enterprises that are tackling some of the world’s toughest problems –from gender inequity to sustainable asset pathways, to clean water. Collaboration and partnership are core to her work (and what makes it fun!).


Steven Wardell, author The Future of Digital Health, and Principal of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm for innovative digital health companies, tracks technology’s disruption on care delivery channels, payers’ roles, patient empowerment, and more. Steve produces events, founded the Boston Chapter of Health 2.0, and is on the Founders Circle of Long Now Boston. See: Twitter.com/StevenWardell.


Zoom doors open at 7:15pm ET -- Come early and chat with other Long Now thinkers – Tickets are available on Eventbrite: https://from-necessity-to-invention.eventbrite.com/


The main event starts at 7:30pm ET


Join the conversation and be part of the solution.


$5 in advance. Students w/ID admitted free.


Audience participation is encouraged.

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