Event Type: Science and Technology
Technology as a Tool for Democratization and Empowerment
The world is evolving rapidly. With sweeping shifts in global leadership, advancement of artificial intelligence, population changes, and social media, societal paradigms are quickly transforming. How do we make sense of this moment? What opportunities are there to shape it? What role does technology play? Join the Jackson School’s Social Innovation Initiative as three former Yale World Fellows share the challenges and opportunities they are tackling as they innovate new solutions for Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Speakers include: Belabbes Benkredda, founder of Munathara Initiative, the Arab world’s largest online and television debate forum highlighting voices of youth, women, and marginalized communities; Joshin Raghubar, serial technology and impact venture…
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2024 World Fellow Charlotte Wang will discuss AI for energy and energy policy influence, hosted by the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Wang is an expert in AI data-driven energy management and sustainability, with professional experience in clean energy and smart grid in China, the United States, Germany, and Russia. She is a serial entrepreneur and founded EQuota Energy in 2014. An AI-based data analytics SaaS company, EQuota provides grid management, energy optimization, and carbon management for energy intensive manufacturers and utilities to improve grid stability, reduce energy consumption, and carbon emission. EQuota serves utility groups, steel, chemical, and coal mining in China and Middle East and…
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The Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) Yale Chapter will host 2024 World Fellow Gonzalo Moratorio, head of the Experimental Evolution of Viruses Lab at the Institute Pasteur de Montevideo and Associate Professor at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. He was elected to the UNESCO International Basic Science Program Board in 2021 and is an advocate for basic research to drive innovation in Latin America. He has been recognized by CNN and the BBC and actively contributes to podcasts, webinars, and interviews, and since 2024 has hosted a children’s television show dedicated to science education. Please join a discussion over dinner on how we may be able to best strengthen America’s…
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Nature Conservation and Public Participation: Seventeen Years Practice of a Grassroots Environmental NGO in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
The Yale community is invited to hear from 2022 World Fellow Zhao Zhong, founder and director of Green Camel Bell, as he discusses conservation efforts in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau.
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Ambroise Brenier, 2020 World Fellow, was the Country Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Papua New Guinea from 2016 to 2021. He will talk about the in’s and out’s of working with government and indigenous communities, from tackling illegal logging, to addressing unsustainable uses of marine and forest resources. Ambroise will discuss the particular challenges the conservation community is facing, and opportunities to increase conservation impact, in this spectacular and unique part of the world.
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