On Day Two, science, technology, Innovation and healthcare are the key themes, opening with Andrew Yang, Founder, Venture for America, who reveals the risk of technological displacement in the Age of Automation and the effect of new technologies that are erasing millions of jobs.
Jonathan Taplin, Director Emeritus at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab explores how Facebook, Google and Amazon cornered culture and as such, undermined democracy. As more Americans receive their news and other forms of entertainment from a small group of companies, is democracy threatened?
On the theme of technology, Michal Kosinski, Assistant Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business shares key lessons from studying humans through their digital footprints and the implications on privacy.
Tuesday concludes with a conversation with Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia Prime Minister-in-Waiting.
Other renowned thought leaders on Tuesday include:
- Dale Bredesen, Founding President, Buck Institute who examines her findings on the first survivors of Alzheimer’s disease and what this means for both healthcare and longevity
- Thomas Wright, Director of the Centre on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, will look at the unravelling of the post-Cold War international order and what comes next John Coates, Research Fellow in Neuroscience and Finance, University of Cambridge explores “the hour between dog and wolf” and the effect of risk taking on our bodies, our minds and ourselves
- Zakary Dychtwald, Founder & CEO, Young China Group, reveals what’s next for China’s 400 million millennials and how they feel about China’s shifting role in the world
- Robert Reoch & Hannah Van Den Bergh, Partners, Equilibrium Risk Advisory Group, explore the risk equilibrium and the benefits of utilizing FinTech Innovation for a Low-Carbon Economy
- Matthew Nyman, Head of MasterCard Fusion Center, tackles data privacy and cyber security as discusses how a networks to disrupt other networks.