Four Scholars will be speaking about leading with courage in today's world at this year's Cambridge Festival in March.
Four Gates Cambridge Scholars will be debating how you lead with courage in an age of autocracy, misinformation and lack of trust at this year’s Cambridge Festival in March.
Bookings open today for the event, which will take place on the evening of 19th March.
The speakers are:
Ella McPherson [2004], Associate Professor of the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology, Co-Director of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge and Deputy Head of Cambridge’s School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research is concerned with symbolic struggles surrounding the media in times of transition. One strand of her research is about human rights fact-finding in the digital age. Another is on individual and community resistance to new technologies. In 2020-21 she was Special Adviser to the House of Lords’ Digital and Communications Committee for their Freedom of Expression Online Inquiry. She has also contributed research on technology and human rights practice as well as on the digitally-mediated freedom of assembly to the United Nations.
D’Arcy Williams [2019], CEO of Bite Back, a youth-led activist movement working to achieve a world where all young people have the opportunity to be healthy. D’Arcy is a global child health and food systems expert and a former UNICEF diplomat. He played a key role in shaping and scaling UNICEF’s global strategy to prevent childhood obesity, with a strong focus on transforming food systems and building youth-led advocacy movements.
Cillian Ó Fathaigh [2014], Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University Kraków and co-founder of Pulc, an AI tutor and teacher assistant focused on addressing educational inequality and supporting minority languages. His research focuses on political philosophy, particularly the political impacts of the digital and more recently AI. In January, his research network produced the largest survey to date of (European) academics on the impact of generative AI on higher education.
Dan Greenfield [2005], co-founder and CEO of PetaGene, which provides a solution to the challenge of genomic data storage without affecting the quality of the data. Dan has experience leading teams in Silicon Valley to build groundbreaking new products. He has led efforts for numerous innovations and award-winning software, including winning Best of Show for PetaGene’s advanced genomics compression software PetaSuite at BioIT World in 2016 and again in 2018 for simplifying cloud migration, and in 2019 for security and compliance innovations.
Gates Cambridge Scholars are chosen for their academic brilliance, their commitment to improving the lives of others and their leadership capacity. This year sees the launch of the Scholarship’s Leading with Purpose programme and its successful podcast, now in its third series, is also focusing on different aspects of leadership, including how to lead ethically and how to lead for the long term in a short-term world.
The event will be held at Bill Gates Sr. House from 6-7.30pm on 19th March. Tickets are free, but pre-booking is essential. You can book tickets on our Eventbrite page. More information on the Cambridge Festival page.
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