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Jennifer L. Schenker
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| AI, climate change and U.S. President Donald Trump took center stage in Davos at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting January 20-24. Close to 3,000 global leaders from government, business and civil society gathered under the theme “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age” to discuss five priorities: re-imagining growth; industries in the intelligent age; investing in people; safeguarding the planet and rebuilding trust.
The Innovator's Editor-in-Chief moderated three panels on the annual meeting's program, including one on data sharing in a fragmented world (pictured here) with Clara Chappaz, France's Minister Delegate fir Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology, Alexander Wang, CEO and Founder of Scale AI, Yutaka Sasaki, CEO of NTT Data Group and Oyvind Eriksen, CEO of Aker.
Use the link below to access the key takeaways article on Monday January 27. |
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Who: Henry Markram, a distinguished professor of neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (EPFL) co-founded the scientific publisher Frontiers, with his wife, neuroscientist Kamila Markram, to accelerate collaboration and increase the quality of science across all academia through open science. They also created the Frontiers Foundation to bring actionable science to policy, industry and the public through the Frontiers Planet Prize. Markram, a speaker at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, is a leading figure in brain simulation. He is the founder of the Blue Brain Project, which created detailed digital replicas of the brain, and founder of the Human Brain Project, a major EU initiative to advance understanding of the human brain.
Topic: The power of open science and how business can leverage it.
Quote: "Business is the key player in taking scientific insight and scaling this into products that benefit society, but it can be difficult to know which approach to invest in. When there is academic consensus and government policy support the route forward is clearer. Our advice to business is to invest in consensus science, such as the actionable solutions that have been deeply vetted through the selection process of the Frontiers Planet Prize."
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| Immunai, which specializes in mapping the immune system, is helping hospitals, research centers and large pharma companies such as AstraZeneca and Teva optimize clinical trials in immunology and immuno-oncology.
It is one of 120 unicorns – young tech companies with valuations of one billion or more – and Tech Pioneers invited by the World Economic Forum to its annual meeting in Davos January 20-24.
Founded in 2018, Immunai uses single-cell multiomics, a technique to understand the genomic and proteomic makeup of cells at their cellular level, together with machine learning to discover and improve the development of novel therapeutics by decoding the immune system and how it is being affected by therapeutics.
“Most biotech companies focus on drug discovery by optimizing clinical trial design and drug development. Our mission is to make drug development effective and financially viable,” says Co-founder and CEO Noam Solomon. |
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Amount of money Stargate, a high-profile artificial intelligence infrastructure project, is pledging to spend on AI infrastructure. The venture, which was trumpeted by U.S. President Donald Trump this week in a remote address to attendees of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, is being backed by OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle. It aims to create 100,000 jobs and position the U.S. to lead in the global AI race.
Compute is, in fact, slated to become “the foundation of next-generation economic growth and influence, shaping economic developments, as well as the future of sovereign power and international influence,” according to a recent report from the Tony Blair Institute For Global Change. It notes that compute infrastructure – and the difference in its availability from country to country – risks becoming the basis of a new digital divide.
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The Innovator's Editor-in-Chief Will Be Moderating At The Following Events: - XYZ, February 13-14, Paris, France
- 4YFN, March 3-6, Barcelona, Spain
- Sparks Innovation Summit, March 28, Tel Aviv, Israel
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