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Global Connect 2015
You are invited to Global Connect 2015, a pre-conference convening of scientists, educators, inventors, and entrepreneurs from around the world who are coming to Open 2015 to share and learn innovation strategies for large-scale impact in developing economies. The event taking place on Thursday, 3/19, one day before the conference begins.
The primary purpose of Global Connect is to network, share ideas and be inspired!
A conversation with Ann Mei Chang
We are proud to announce that Ann Mei Chang will be the keynote speaker at Global Connect 2015. Ms. Chang, a former Google executive and innovation leader for Mercy Corps and the US State Department, is the Executive Director of USAID’s Global Development Lab where she is marshaling the discovery and scaling-up of breakthrough innovations to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Honored as one of 125 Women of Impact in 2013 by Newsweek/Daily Beast, Ms. Chang previously spent eight years as senior engineering director at Google, where she led worldwide engineering for the company’s mobile applications and services, delivering over $1 billion in annualized revenues.
Wendy Taylor, Director of the Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact at USAID, will facilitate the conversation. The Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact applies innovative, business-minded approaches to accelerate the development, introduction and scale-up of priority global health innovations. Joining the Administration in 2010, Ms. Taylor established and built the center, spearheaded the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge for Development–a $50 million multi-donor partnership that calls on the brightest minds across the globe to identify groundbreaking new solutions for pregnant women and newborns around the time of birth–and created multiple public-private partnerships.
To register
Log in and click “REGISTER NOW” for Global Connect 2015 under “Events & Resources”. The cost is $99. The event will run from 4-9 pm on 3/19. It will take place at the conference hotel (Marriott Marquis) followed by dinner at Cuba Libre Restaurant, within walking distance from the Marriott.
