NEF Global Gathering 2018

Upcoming

Business

Jun

9:00am - 12:00pm
Kigali, Rwanda

NEF Global Gatherings are exciting biennial global events where the world of science and technology meet on Africa soil to unveil breakthroughs in science, respond to existing challenges and look to the future. In existing forums, the general public was often ignored in the design and outcomes with women and young people were often extremely underrepresented in participation and speaking opportunities.

In this way, the NEF is unique. The inaugural NEF Global Gathering 2016 had 1,258 participants from 79 countries. Over 60% were under 42 years of age and close to 40% were women. A total of 414 institutions represented the science, civil society and policy fields, with academic institutions having the highest representation.

The NEF Global Gathering 2018 will be held in Kigali, Rwanda on 26-28 March 2018 under the patronage of H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda.

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Klaus von Klitzing
Director, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

Romain Murenzi
Executive Director of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

Nelson Torto
Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)

Agnes Binagwaho, MD
Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity

Ousmane Badiane
Director for Africa at the International Food Policy Research Institute

Professor Saskia Sassen | NEF GG 2018 Speakers

Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

07:00am - 09:45am

Coffee and Networking

10:00am - 11:00am

Welcome & Opening Ceremony

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Presidential Panel

Presidential Panel: Laying the Groundwork for Knowledge Led Economies: Policy & Practice

Moderator: Didier Acouetey, President and Founder AfricSearch Group

12:00 pm-12:30 pm

NEF Fellows Award Ceremony & Pictures

NEF Ambassadors Group Photo

12:30 pm - 13:30 pm

NETWORKING LUNCH

LEADER’S LUNCH – By invitation only

13:30 – 14:00

NEF Fellows Spotlight Session 1

14:00-15:00

Special Session: Bridging the Gap for Women in Science and Technology

Moderator: Prof. Éliane Ubalijoro, McGill University

15:00 – 15:30

Networking Break

15:30 – 17:00

Plenary: Driving Innovation through Africa’s Digital Economy

17:00 – 18:00

Special Session: Inspiring the Next Generation

Special Session: Inspiring the Next Generation: A Conversation with Nobel Laureates

18:00 – 19:00

NEF Ministerial Meeting Funding for STEM

NEF Ministerial Meeting

Funding for STEM

19:00-22:30

NEF Head of States & VVIP Dinner

(By invitation only)

08:15 – 09:00

NEF Fellows Spotlight Session 2

09:00 – 10:00

Plenary: Playing Catch Up: Accelerating Africa’s Lab to Market Process

10:00 – 11:00

Networking Break

11:00 – 11:45

NEF Fellows Spotlight Session 3

11:45 – 12:45

Plenary: Africa’s Low Carbon Circular Economy

11:45-13:00

Ci2i Challenge Top 20 Pitching Session

12:45 – 14:00

Networking Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Peek Session: Major Discoveries in Science and Technology (PLENARY)

15:30-16:00

Networking Break

16:00 - 17:00

Parallel Session: Learning to Lead: What Capacities do Scientists of Tomorrow Need?

Opening Remarks: Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President European Research Council
Moderator: Dr. Katrin Rehak-Nitsche, Head of Science, Robert Bosch Stiftung

16:00 - 17:00

Parallel Session: Africa: The New Fintech Frontier

16:00 – 17:00

Parallel Session: Precision Medicine: Changing Lives Through Technology

16:00 – 17:00

Parallel Session: Towards Energy Independence: Fixing Renewable Energy Intermittency

16:00 – 17:30

Ci2i Challenge Top 20 Pitching Session

18:00-22:30

SIDE EVENTS (By-Invitation Only)

SIDE EVENTS

(By-Invitation Only)

9:00 – 10:00

Conversation with Africa’s Brightest Innovators (PLENARY)

10:00 – 10:30

Networking Break

10:30-11:30

Plenary: Feeding the World, Preserving the World

Moderator: Prof. Adam Sneyd, University of Guelph

11:30 - 12:30

Parallel Session: Smart Cities & Smart Systems in Africa: Challenges & Opportunities

Moderator: Phillip Clay, Professor of City Planning and former Chancellor of MIT

11:30 - 12:30

Parallel Session: The Changing Global Map of Science

Moderator: Dr. Ingrid Wuenning Tschol, SVP Robert Bosch Stiftung

11:30 - 12:30

Parallel Session: Trends in Mathematical Sciences and Physics

Moderator: Prof. Amanda Weltman, NEF Fellow and South African Research Chair in Physical Cosmology

11:30 - 12:30

Parallel Session: Changing the Way We Learn: Building Scientific Culture Early On

11:30 - 12:30

Ci2i Top 3 Pitches

Moderated by Seema Kumar, SVP Johnson & Johnson

12:00-13:00

Networking Lunch

13:00 -14:00

Plenary Session: The Future of Health: Preventing & Diagnosing Disease

14:00 – 15:00

Networking Break

15:00 - 16:00

Closing Ceremony

Closing Ceremony
Announcements
Announcement of the NEF Ci2i Winner
The Kigali Declaration
Closing Remarks by Rwanda Education Minister Dr. Papias Musafiri

16:00

Cocktail and End of NEF GG2018

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