Please join us for our Annual Cambridge Symposium, the Mittal Institute’s flagship event. This year’s symposium will convene scholars, practitioners and the public to explore the future of South Asia regarding Science and Technology – The Future of South Asia. The event is free and open to the public.
9:00-9:45am EST | Three perspectives on AI in South Asia
Moderator:
Tarun Khanna, Faculty Director, LMSAI; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
Speakers:
Milind Tambe, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University; Principal Scientist and Director of AI for Social Good, Google Research
Manish Gupta, Director, Google Research India
Balaraman Ravindran, Head of the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), Indian Institute of Technology Madras
9:45-11:00am EST | Genetics and Medicine
Moderator:
David Reich, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Speakers:
Vijay Chandru, Visiting Scientist, Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Priya Moorjani, Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California
11:00-11:15am EST | Break
11:15am-12:00pm EST | Inside the “HUM SAB EK – We Are One” Exhibition
Moderator:
Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jyoti Macwan, Secretary-General, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
Harvard Graduate Students Hiteshree Das, MDes ’25, Kartikeya Bhatotia, MPP ’24, Robert McCarthy, BA ’23, and Deepak Ramola, EdM ’23
12:00-1:00pm EST | Lunch and guided tour of the“HUM SAB EK – We Are One” Exhibition
1:00-2:15pm EST | Understanding Climate Change in South Asia
Moderator:
Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Harvard University
Speakers:
Ahmed Shaikh, Assistant Professor, Critical Care Institute, Mount Sinai, New York
Natalie Ayers, Research Affiliate and Data Science Intern at CrisisReady; Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University
Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2:15-3:15pm EST | The Role of Empathy in Global Health and Social Medicine: A Fireside Chat
Vikram Patel, Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Bharat Vatwani, Co-founder, Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation, and recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award 2018
3:15-3:30pm EST | Honoring Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:30-5:00pm EST | Annual Harish C. Mahindra Lecture: Lessons from the Pandemic for Science and Global Health
Speaker:
Soumya Swaminathan, Former Chief Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)
Moderator:
Megan Murray, Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health and Director of Research, Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
5:00pm EST | Reception with tea
