n this well-explained talk, Geraldine Hamilton shows how her lab creates organs and body parts on a chip, simple structures with all the pieces essential to testing new medications — even custom cures for one specific person.
Why doesn’t the government just get out of the way and let the private sector — the “real revolutionaries” — innovate? It’s rhetoric you hear everywhere, and Mariana Mazzucato wants to dispel it.
How do economies, and individuals, thrive? It's largely a matter of values and motivations, in the view of Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps. At this private Milken Institute event, presented in partnership with RAND Corporation, the renowned economist will offer a sweeping argument about what makes nations prosper and why those sources of affluence are in jeopardy.
Speakers:
Joe Cerrell, Director, Europe and Middle East, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Ryan Kavanaugh, Founder and CEO, Relativity Media
Nanxi Liu, CEO, Enplug, Inc.; Founder, Nanoly Bioscience
Geoff McGrath, Managing Director, McLaren Applied Technologies
Saad Mohseni, Chairman and CEO, Moby Group
Improvements in health that have given us longer, more productive lives are also responsible for as much as half of the world economy's expansion over the last two centuries. This panel will explore innovations in public health, research and medical care that are improving our productivity and economic outlook as well as our vitality.
Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs explains why sharing the vision for the company, rather than a detailed strategic plan, is the best way to go about being an innovative company.