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Welcome to the Science Summit at UNGA76, a major contribution to advancing Science for the UN SDGs. Online from 14- September - 5 October 2021.
ISC will organise the second edition of the UNGA76 Science Summit around the 76th United Nations General Assembly (SSUNGA76) in September 2021. The objective of the virtual meeting will be to raise awareness of the role and contribution of science to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It will demonstrate initiatives that provide models for global science mechanisms and activities in support of the SDGs, particularly in science infrastructure and capacity building. Science is and will enable sustainable economic, environmental, and societal development. Science is more than a funding prioritisation exercise: science is impacting all areas of policy-making and is playing a more critical role in how policy objectives are achieved and the consequent benefit to people everywhere, including responses to global challenges.
Engagement with policy leadership is more important than ever: UNGA76 is a unique forum for science to demonstrate how policy and political leadership can benefit from innovation. Central to this is the role of nonstate actors and the multilateral fora, which increasingly determine how priorities are set. Science needs to be part of this dialogue and inform outputs through thought leadership, evidence, insights, analysis, and innovation.

Registration is available here.
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K Ananth Krishnan

Tata Consultancy Services
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Ananth directs Research, Innovation and Co-Innovation in TCS. Under his leadership, TCS has created significant range of new products and services with a wide IP portfolio. Ananth has architected an agile model for innovation at scale, across the entire organization. He has been a member of the TCS Corporate leadership since 1999 and has led several strategic initiatives.

Ananth has served on several Governing Councils of Academia, Industry Advisory boards, and Government and Alumni committees.

He was elected a Fellow at the Indian Academy of Engineering (INAE) in recognition of his contributions towards engineering in 2013. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Delhi in 2009. He has been listed in Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders (2007), and in Infoworld’s Top 25 CTOs (2007).

Ananth is an M. Tech. in Computer Science and an M. Sc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

My Speakers Sessions

Tuesday, September 28
 

3:00pm CEST

(REF DT28) SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. Digital Transformation for Health for the SDGsDeclan Kirrane • Mei Lin Fung • Ogan Gurel • Marleen Temmerman • Rigveda Kadam • Intisar Soghayroun • Regina Nthenya • Martin Curley • George Crooks • K Ananth Krishnan • Bob Wachter • Jeffrey Braithwaite • Henrik Matthies • David DeAngelis • Francesca Colombo • Anne Quaadgras • Teresa Graham • Darin Wilson • Teisberg, Elizabeth