Challenges of our Era Summit
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The inaugural Challenges of our Era Summit included contributions from NASA, USAID and The Gates Foundation, tackling a range of big societal, global challenges which require additional impetus and creativity to enable innovative solutions.
This event pulled together global leaders and thinkers in diverse fields to identify innovation shortages where multi-disciplinary approaches and new innovations could be encouraged to solve global problems
Challenge Prizes can stimulate huge entrepreneurial activity and invention to solve problems which have been identified as requiring additional stimulus and inter-disciplinary problem solving;
This summit aimed to mix the people with the ideas, drive and vision to influence our world.
Additionally, plenary sessions, discussions and panels collated global leaders in innovation, entrepreneurship, technology and science - including entrepreneur Naveen Jain, who explored the potential for using technology to inspire young people with musician and innovator will.i.am.