6th Lecture and Discussion under the
IIC/OPEN HEALTH SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM SERIES

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Doug Engelbart (1925 – 2013), engineer and inventor was an early computer and Internet pioneer best known for his work on founding the field of human-computer interaction, which resulted in the creation of the computer mouse and the development of hypertext, network computers the precursors to graphical user interfaces. 

LEAD SPEAKER: Dr. Jim Spohrer, computer scientist, Director, Cognitive OpenTech for IBM Research - Almaden and directs the Center for Open-Source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT).

DISCUSSANTS: Christina Engelbart, daughter of Doug Engelbart, and co-founder and Executive Director of Doug Engelbart Institute; Daniel Araya, Senior Partner, the World Legal Summit and Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); and Mei Lin Fung, Co-founder of People-Centered Internet (PCI) and Vice-Chair, Internet Inclusion, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). 

CHAIR: Dr. Nandini Kannan, Executive Director, Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF)

Time: 7:00am — 8:30am (PDT)/ 7:30pm — 9:00pm (IST)

Open Health Systems Colloquium is a collaboration between the Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL) and the India International Centre (IIC). Its goal is to bring together leading thinkers to present and discuss life science issues in an effort to provoke innovative, holistic, and ultimately paradigm shifting approaches to life sciences. By making the latest developments in biomedical sciences accessible in the public domain, the goal is to stimulate debate and deliberation across disciplines.