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ISC and its partners organised the 9th edition of the Science Summit around the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) on 12-29 September 2023.
The role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be the central theme of the Summit. The objective is to develop and launch science collaborations to demonstrate global science mechanisms and activities to support the attainment of the UN SDGs, Agenda 2030 and Local2030. The meeting will also prepare input for the United Nations Summit of the Future, which will take place during UNGA79 beginning on 12 September 2024.
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Tuesday, September 12 • 9:00am - 12:00pm
[VIRTUAL] Science Summit Opening Plenary - Digital Science for the SDGs and the UN Summit of the Future (120901)

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The role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be the central theme of the Summit. The objective is to develop and launch science collaborations to demonstrate global science mechanisms and activities to support the attainment of the UN SDGs, Agenda 2030 and Local2030. The meeting will also prepare input for the United Nations Summit of the Future, which will take place during UNGA79 beginning on 12 September 2024.

Opening Session
09h00
Declan Kirrane, Chair, Science Summit UNGA78
Triona McCormack, Co-Chair, Science Summit UNGA78
Pilar Gomez, Co-Chair, Science Summit UNGA78
09h10
Seema Kumar, CEO, Cure, USA
09h15
Magdalena Skipper, Editor-In-Chief, Nature
09h20
Iqbal Choudhary, Coordinator General, Standing Committee on Scientific & Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH), Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
09h25
Dr Fulufhelo Nelwamondo, CEO, National Science Foundation, South Africa
09h30
Tom Arnold, Chair, EU Commission’s High-Level Expert Group to Assess the Need for an International Platform for Food Systems Science (IPFSS)
09h35
Irene Norstedt Director, People Directorate, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission, Belgium (Keynote)
09h50
Pamela Ruiz, Chief Business Development Officer, Inteleos, USA
09h55
Denis Naughton, Chairperson Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Working Group on Science &
Technology, Ireland
10h00
Lidia Borrel Damian, Secretary General, Science Europe, Belgium
10h05
Petra Jantzer Global Life Sciences Lead & Senior Managing Director, Accenture, USA
10h10
Brian O’Connor, Chairman, ECHAlliance, UK
10h15
Batjargal Zamba, Chief Science Advisor, IRIMHE MET/NAMEM, Mongolia
10h20
Intisar Soghayroun, Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO), Sudan
10h25
Michael Makanga, Executive Director European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), South Africa
10h30
Anna Stewart-Ibarra, Executive Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Uruguay
10h35
Litha Magingxa, CEO, Agricultural Research Council, South Africa.
10h40
Nishka Sharma, Youth Mentorship Program
10h45
Suzanne L Dickson, European Brian Council
10h50
Tomas John, Landcent
10h00
Break
11h00 - Panel Discussion:
Seema Kumar, CEO, Cure, USA (Moderator)
Bernardo Mariano Junior, Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO), United Nations
Magdalena Skipper, Editor-In-Chief, Nature
Alejandro Adem, Chair, Governing Board of the Global Research Council (GRC), Canada
1200 End



The Summit will examine what enabling policy, regulatory and financial environments are needed to implement and sustain the science mechanisms required to support genuinely global scientific collaborations across continents, nations and themes. Scientific discovery through the analysis of massive data sets is at hand. This data-enabled approach to science, research and development will be necessary if the SDGs are to be achieved.
The Science Summit will begin with a Digital Science Plenary on 12-13 September 2023.
SSUNGA78 builds on the successful Science Summit at UNGA77, which brought together over 1600 speakers from all continents in more than 400 sessions.

The Science Summit at UNGA78 will bring together thought leaders, scientists, technologists, innovators, policymakers, decision-makers, regulators, financiers, philanthropists, journalists and editors, and community leaders to increase health science and citizen collaborations across a broad spectrum of themes ICT, nutrition, agriculture and the environment.

The Opening Plenary will be hosted by The Cure on Park Avenue.

Speakers
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Pilar

ISC Intelligence, Co-Chair Science Summit
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Thomas John

Chief Strategy Officer, Landcent Europe B.V.
After working for several years an information architect and product manager, TJ co-founded Seventh, a go-to-market consultancy to help a burgeoning breed of social entrepreneurs scale at speed, through enabling access to funding and markets. The firm was listed as one of the top... Read More →
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Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

CEO, National Research Foundation (NRF)
Prof Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is the CEO of the National Research Foundation of South Africa.He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, with specialisation in Computational Intelligence from the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts... Read More →
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Irene Norstedt

Director, People Directorate, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Irene Norstedt works at the European Commission, where she is the Director responsible for the People Directorate within the DG for Research and Innovation.The People Directorate works towards developing a healthy, safe, more equal, free, open and fair society where the voice of the... Read More →
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Tom Arnold

Board Member of GFN and Former Irish Special Envoy for Food Systems
Tom Arnold’s currently serves as a board member of the Global FoodBanking Network (GFN); member, Global Panel for Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (GLOPAN); board member, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN); member, Malabo Montpellier Panel; member, Sight and... Read More →
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Suzanne Dickson

President, European Brain Council
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Triona McCormack

Director of Research, Director of Research at University College Dublin, Ireland and Member of the Taskforce on Rural Africa and the oversight
Triona is a co-Chair of the Science Summit and leads the team at University College Dublin (UCD) responsible for research strategy, management and operations. She also currently co-chairs the UCD strategic theme on Creating a Sustainable Global Society.Prior to joining UCD, Triona... Read More →
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Anna Stewart-Ibarra

Executive Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
Dr. Anna Stewart-Ibarra is the Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). In this role, she supports IAI member states in their efforts to achieve the full and open exchange of scientific information relevant to global change for a sustainable... Read More →
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Nishka Sharma

Founder / CEO, Youth Mentorship Project
Nishka Sharma is a rising high school junior at Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward, California and dual-enrollment student at DeAnza College. Her interests lie in computer science, artificial intelligence/natural language processing, application development, and STEM education.Nishka... Read More →
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Pamela Ruiz

Chief Business Development Officer, Inteleos
Pamela Ruiz has over 20 years of comprehensive global experience in leadership, strategy, business development and global expansion. Pamela’s focus and passion is to create sustainable infrastructure and ecosystems to ensure equity, access, and agency. An avid learner, listener... Read More →
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Alejandro Adem

President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
As a highly accomplished researcher in the field of mathematics and a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, Professor Adem has significant leadership experience in the Canadian research and innovation ecosystem. Before joining NSERC, he was CEO and Scientific Director... Read More →
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declan kirrane

Chairman, Science Summit UNGA78
Declan Kirrane is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, the chairman and managing director of the science Summit at the United Nations General assembly, and co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF). He has over 25 years of experience as a global senior... Read More →
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Michael Makanga

Executive Director, European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnerships - Association
Dr Michael Makanga, MD PhD FRCP: EDCTP Executive Director.Dr Makanga is a clinician-scientist with 28 years of professional experience of working on health and poverty-related infectious diseases in Africa. This includes 24 years of work experience on medical product development and... Read More →
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Intisar Soghayroun

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, Sudan
Professor Intisar  Soghayroun, professor of Archaeology, University of Khartoum 1991-2022, Sudan. Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research from 2019 to October 2021. My particular interest in my field includeTheoretical archaeology, Medieval civilization, heritage management... Read More →
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Magdalena Skipper

Editor-in-Chief, Nature, Springer/Nature
Dr Magdalena Skipper is Editor in Chief of Nature and Chief Editorial Advisor for the Nature portfolio.A geneticist by training, she holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has considerable editorial and publishing experience, having worked as Chief Editor of Nature... Read More →
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Brian O'Connor

Chair, ECHAlliance
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Brian developed his career as a consultant, manager and investor. He has worked in the UK, the US and Hong Kong and has significant experience as a company director in various industries.He has acted as a Corporate Recovery Advisor to companies with... Read More →
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Iqbal Choudhary

Coordinator General, Standing Committee on Scientific & Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH), Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
1PROF. DR. MUHAMMAD IQBAL CHOUDHARYMustafa (PBUH) Prize Laureate, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Tamgha-i-ImtiazBRIEF CITATION Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary is the Director and Professor of Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry at the International Center for Chemical and Biological... Read More →
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Litha Magingxa

President and CEO, Agricultural research technologies for climate resilience
Dr. Magingxa is the President and CEO of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) of South Africa.  He is tasked with the redirection, revisioning and repositioning of the ARC, working with the Council and management team.  He previously served the ARC as Group Executive: Agri-Economics... Read More →
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Lidia Borrell-Damián

Secretary General, Science Europe
Lidia Borrell-Damián is the Secretary General of Science Europe, the association representing major public organisations that fund and perform excellent, ground-breaking research in Europe. She holds overall responsibility for the strategy and functioning of the organisation. Prior to this she worked for the European University Association (E... Read More →
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Denis Naughton

Chairperson, Inter-Parliamentary Union Working Group on Science & Technology
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Carlos Américo Pacheco

CEO, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Electronic Engineering (ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, 1979), Master (1988) and PhD (1996) in Economics (UNICAMP) and Pos-doc in Economics (Columbia University, 2005).Carlos Pacheco is professor of economics at the UNICAMP.Carlos Pacheco was Deputy Minister of Science... Read More →
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Bernardo Mariano Junior

Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO), United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 1 June 2021 the appointment of Bernardo Mariano Joaquim Junior of Mozambique as Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO), Assistant Secretary-General, Office of Information and Communications Technology at United Nations... Read More →
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Seema Kumar

CEO, The Cure
Seema Kumar joined Cure Experience in 2022 as the Chief Executive Officer.Prior to Cure, Ms. Kumar spent nearly 20 years at Johnson & Johnson in senior leadership roles, including most recently as the Global Head, Office of Innovation, Global Health and Scientific Engagement, and served on J&J’s Innovation Strategy... Read More →
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Petra Jantzer

Global Life Sciences Lead & Senior Managing Director, Accenture
Petra Jantzer is Senior Managing Director at Accenture and CEO of European Pharmaceuticals and Med Tech Business. In her role, she supports large Life Science companies in bringing innovative medicines to patients and achieving better health outcomes.Petra has more than 20 years of... Read More →

Convenors
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declan kirrane

Chairman, Science Summit UNGA78
Declan Kirrane is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, the chairman and managing director of the science Summit at the United Nations General assembly, and co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF). He has over 25 years of experience as a global senior... Read More →


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