May 24, 2023
All times cited in U.S. Eastern Daylight Time
The global conversation consisted of three chapters: Let History Be Your Guide, Making Sense of Misinformation, and The Truth Is Out There.
| 9:30 am | Introduction: Digital Exclusive Morning greeting from the NAS Building in Washington, DC. A brief introduction to the day, where we meet some of our speakers. ONLINE EXCLUSIVE. |
Live at Kavli Auditorium - with our on-stage host Kelly Stoetzel
We begin with a look back to better understand both our present and our potential future.
| 10:00 am | Opening Performance written by Smriti Keshari Welcome Remarks Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation |
| Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences | |
| Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director, Nobel Foundation | |
| Fissures and Fractures: Tracing the Fault Lines of Misinformation Rachel Kuo, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
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| How to Make Mindsets Matter Nat Kendall-Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, FrameWorks Institute |
We turn our attention to the current landscape as we dig deeper in order to better understand the issues.
| 11:00 am | Is Seeing Believing? Live performance by illusionist Eric Mead |
| The Misinformation Effect Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine |
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| Sharing Is Caring: What Drives the Spread of Misinformation Gizem Ceylan, Behavioural Scientist, Yale University School of Management and the Yale Center for Customer Insights |
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| Healing Our Troubled Information Ecosystem Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations |
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| Communicating Science in a Post-Truth World A conversation between |
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| Åsa Wikforss, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Stockholm University | |
| Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania, and Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch Break and Live from the Studio: Digital Exclusive Live from the studio at the National Academy of Sciences Building provided an opportunity to meet some of our speakers close up. What has been said so far and where are we going next. |
Live at Kavli Auditorium
| 2:00 pm | Dynamic Dialogues Featuring short talks from |
| Martin Chalfie, Nobel Prize laureate and University Professor, Columbia University | |
| Anita Krishnamurthi, President, Collective for Youth Empowerment in STEM & Society, Afterschool Alliance | |
| Hahrie Han, Professor and Inaugural Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University | |
| Provocateurs: Leslie Brooks, Roger Caruth, DeRay Mckesson, and Sabrina McCormick | |
| I’m Not Afraid, You’re Afraid Tristan Harris, Co-founder of Center for Humane Technology |
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| All Information Is Local: A Panel Discussion Flora Rebello Arduini, Business and International Human Rights Law Expert |
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| Rana Ayyub, Investigative Journalist | |
| Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation | |
| Maia Mazurkiewicz, Co-founder and Head of StratCom, Alliance4Europe | |
| Moderated by Finn Myrstad |
As the day draws to a close, we consider the many reasons to have hope.
| 3:30 pm | The Power of Poetry Jane Hirshfield and David Hassler, Poets for Science |
| A Framework for the Future A conversation between |
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| Sheldon Himelfarb, President and CEO, PeaceTech Lab | |
| Philip Howard, Professor and Director of the Programme on Democracy and Technology, Oxford University | |
| Hope in Action Nicole Tisdale, Principal, Advocacy Blueprints and former Director, The White House National Security Council |
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| Truth, Trust, and Hope: A Panel Discussion Saul Perlmutter, Nobel Prize laureate and Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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| Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize laureate and Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs | |
| Donna Strickland, Nobel Prize laureate and Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo | |
| Moderated by Sudip Parikh, CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science | |
| Closing Keynote Remarks Maria Ressa, Nobel Prize laureate and co-founder and CEO, Rappler |
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| 5:15 pm | Online Exclusive |
| A summary of the day for our digital audience | |