Staying Human – Webcast from WEF/Davos

IGI Executive Director Jennifer Doudna – in attendance this week at the 2016 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland – will be a featured panelist in a live webcast discussion session entitled Staying Human on Saturday, January 23, at 5:45-6:45 AM Pacific.

The panel will discuss how we can ensure that our humanity and humanness are not lost as emerging technologies open up new prospects for enhancing health and productivity.

This special session will be moderated by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum. Dr. Doudna will be joined by these panel speakers: Justine Cassel, Associate Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; Angela Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield; Hank Greely, Professor of Law at Stanford University; and Amira Yahyaoui, Founder and Chair of Al Bawsala.

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