Soundbite with Kathy Peach

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About the speaker

Kathy Peach is the Director and co-founder of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design at Nesta, which explores how human and machine intelligence can be combined to develop innovative solutions to social challenges. She leads the Centre’s partnerships with the UN Development Programme and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and its grants programme.

Her Nesta publications include: The Collective Intelligence Design Playbook; Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Development; Collective Crisis Intelligence for Frontline Humanitarian Response; Our Futures; and Participatory AI for Humanitarian Innovation.

Before Nesta, she held leadership roles at a range of non-profits, including Bond, Healthwatch England, Scope and VSO. She was a trustee of the Mines Advisory Group from 2013–19. She is currently an expert adviser to the World Economic Forum on Technology and Society.

About this event series

Political turning points, 2024-2025: Causes, consequences, solutions

2024 and 2025 are crucial years for global politics, with a number of highly anticipated elections (in India, the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere). These elections are coming at a time ofcoinciding with major armed conflicts (especially in Ukraine and Gaza), as well as rising levels of income inequality (globally and nationally), deflated living standards that still have not recovered to pre-Covid levels, crumbling healthcare systems, and fierce culture wars that are tearing up the fabric of our societies.

The sense of uncertainty and volatility is overwhelming and there is no way to predict what world we will live in two years from now. How can we understand thisthe causes and consequences of this overwhelming uncertainty and volatility? and what are the different components that define its causes and consequences? What is being done to mitigate for its effects and address the different challenges that emerge in it?

This series of Director’s Seminars and Soundbites will approach the question of uncertainty by exploring the complex range of practices and processes that define it today as a condition that is closely interlinked with economic, cultural, and environmental challenges.

Soundbites are a platform for professionals and entrepreneurs who are leading in their field. Speakers are innovators and inspiring actors working in new and traditional sectors, outside of academia. The Soundbite gives the audience an insight into how their organisation contributes to sustainable and inclusive prosperity.

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