Presentation
HPC Inspires Plenary: HPC and AI: Helping to Solve Humanity’s Grand Challenges
Event Type
HPC Inspires Plenary
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TimeMonday, November 12th5:30pm - 6:45pm
LocationExhibit Hall B
DescriptionFrom solving the global food security crisis, to preventing epidemics and understanding the impact of environmental health on our urban centers; high performance computing is revolutionizing how we address and manage global crises.
Simulation and modeling along with AI are being applied to some of our most challenging global threats and humanitarian crises. The SC18 plenary session will explore the capacity of HPC to help mitigate human suffering and advance our capacity to protect the most vulnerable, identify methods to produce enough food globally and ensure the safety of our planet and natural resources.
We encourage all HPC experts to join the discussion and be inspired to apply their expertise to these real world grand challenges:
* Over the next two generations, we face an enormous human security challenge. We must adapt to rapid economic and climate change by creating a food system that provides adequate and appropriate nutrition for 9 billion people in a way that does not compromise the environment.
* Infectious disease poses an ongoing 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 accurate disease forecasting models for prevention.
* Urbanization and population growth dynamics pose significant challenges to human health and safety. Analytical models of the interrelationship between transportation, air quality and other environmental conditions enable us to better understand risk but more importantly advance policies to mitigate impacts on the most vulnerable populations.
Our panelists include:
* Dr. Evan Fraser, Director of Arrell Food Institute and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security. He leads a $100M program geared at developing the tools to promote the “digital agricultural revolution.” This involves work not only with technologists, but also policy makers, economists, politicians and private industry.
* Robert S. Hart, Ph.D., Vice President of Global Good and General Manager of the Institute for Disease Modeling at Intellectual Ventures. IDM’s mission is to guide global efforts towards the eradication and control of infectious disease through the use and promotion of quantitative analysis. IDM has grown from a small project focused on malaria eradication to an independent center shaping strategies and building innovative tools to accelerate the eradication of infectious disease by the global health community.
* 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 environmental health.
Simulation and modeling along with AI are being applied to some of our most challenging global threats and humanitarian crises. The SC18 plenary session will explore the capacity of HPC to help mitigate human suffering and advance our capacity to protect the most vulnerable, identify methods to produce enough food globally and ensure the safety of our planet and natural resources.
We encourage all HPC experts to join the discussion and be inspired to apply their expertise to these real world grand challenges:
* Over the next two generations, we face an enormous human security challenge. We must adapt to rapid economic and climate change by creating a food system that provides adequate and appropriate nutrition for 9 billion people in a way that does not compromise the environment.
* Infectious disease poses an ongoing 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 accurate disease forecasting models for prevention.
* Urbanization and population growth dynamics pose significant challenges to human health and safety. Analytical models of the interrelationship between transportation, air quality and other environmental conditions enable us to better understand risk but more importantly advance policies to mitigate impacts on the most vulnerable populations.
Our panelists include:
* Dr. Evan Fraser, Director of Arrell Food Institute and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security. He leads a $100M program geared at developing the tools to promote the “digital agricultural revolution.” This involves work not only with technologists, but also policy makers, economists, politicians and private industry.
* Robert S. Hart, Ph.D., Vice President of Global Good and General Manager of the Institute for Disease Modeling at Intellectual Ventures. IDM’s mission is to guide global efforts towards the eradication and control of infectious disease through the use and promotion of quantitative analysis. IDM has grown from a small project focused on malaria eradication to an independent center shaping strategies and building innovative tools to accelerate the eradication of infectious disease by the global health community.
* 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 environmental health.
Panelists
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