Solving the Grand Challenges of Humanity

By Prof. Vivek Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School and Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering at Silicon Valley, and author of Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain—and How to Fight Back; The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future;  The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent; and of Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology

 

Introduction: Shri M. Hari Menon, Director, India Office, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

 

Prof. Wadhwa will speak about how tomorrow’s general intelligence and superintelligence, enabled by advancing technologies, are making it possible to solve the grand challenges of humanity – including energy, education, food, health, shelter, and clean water

 

(Collaboration: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, India Office)