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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.

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Kartik Kulkarni

Oracle Corporation
Manager Special Projects, Database Engine
Senior Member and immediate past chair of the IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee, Kartik Kulkarni is the manager of special projects with the Database Engine Team at Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, CA, USA. He received the 2021 IEEE Theodore W. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award “for contributions to the technical fields of transactions and in-memory databases, as well as for enabling young professionals working on technologies for sustainable development" at the 2021 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit (IEEE VIC Summit) and Honors Ceremony, May 2021.

My Speakers Sessions

Thursday, September 30
 

6:00pm CEST

(REF PC30) People Centered Internet and the SDGsJoy Malala • Mei Lin Fung • Kartik Kulkarni • Riccardo Bassiri • Kennan Salinero • Anna Krupnik • Jeannette Stewart • Jacob Taylor • John Wharton • Cyndi Coon • Diego Molano Vega