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SUMMARY:HPC Inspires Plenary: HPC and AI: Helping to Solve Humanity’s Gran
 d Challenges
DESCRIPTION:HPC Inspires Plenary\nWorkshop Reg Pass, Tutorial Reg Pass, Te
 ch Program Reg Pass, Exhibits Reg Pass, Exhibits - Exhibit Hall Only Reg P
 ass\n\nHPC Inspires Plenary: HPC and AI: Helping to Solve Humanity’s Grand
  Challenges\n\nFraser, Hart, Nyhan\n\nFrom solving the global food securit
 y crisis, to preventing epidemics and understanding the impact of environm
 ental health on our urban centers; high performance computing is revolutio
 nizing how we address and manage global crises.\n\nSimulation and modeling
  along with AI are being applied to some of our most challenging global th
 reats and humanitarian crises. The SC18 plenary session will explore the c
 apacity of HPC to help mitigate human suffering and advance our capacity t
 o protect the most vulnerable, identify methods to produce enough food glo
 bally and ensure the safety of our planet and natural resources.\n\nWe enc
 ourage all HPC experts to join the discussion and be inspired to apply the
 ir expertise to these real world grand challenges:\n\n* Over the next two 
 generations, we face an enormous human security challenge. We must adapt t
 o rapid economic and climate change by creating a food system that provide
 s adequate and appropriate nutrition for 9 billion people in a way that do
 es not compromise the environment.\n\n* Infectious disease poses an ongoin
 g threat to human populations, exacerbated by migration, urbanization and 
 globalization dynamics. Many of the world’s epidemic diseases are known to
  be sensitive to climate. It is critical we have the ability to build accu
 rate disease forecasting models for prevention.\n\n* Urbanization and popu
 lation growth dynamics pose significant challenges to human health and saf
 ety. Analytical models of the interrelationship between transportation, ai
 r quality and other environmental conditions enable us to better understan
 d risk but more importantly advance policies to mitigate impacts on the mo
 st vulnerable populations.\n\nOur panelists include:\n\n* Dr. Evan Fraser,
  Director of Arrell Food Institute and Canada Research Chair in Global Foo
 d Security. He leads a $100M program geared at developing the tools to pro
 mote the “digital agricultural revolution.” This involves work not only wi
 th technologists, but also policy makers, economists, politicians and priv
 ate industry.\n\n* Robert S. Hart, Ph.D., Vice President of Global Good an
 d General Manager of the Institute for Disease Modeling at Intellectual Ve
 ntures.  IDM’s mission is to guide global efforts towards the eradication 
 and control of infectious disease through the use and promotion of quantit
 ative analysis. IDM has grown from a small project focused on malaria erad
 ication to an independent center shaping strategies and building innovativ
 e tools to accelerate the eradication of infectious disease by the global 
 health community.\n\n* Dr. Marguerite Nyhan, Research Scientist at United 
 Nations Global Pulse. Her work is focused on data science for humanitarian
  and sustainable development efforts, particularly in the area of environm
 ental health.
URL:https://sc18.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=hpccp101&sess=sess491
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