There is no doubt that 2020 is off to a bad start. We are facing the biggest pandemic that has hit humanity in the past 100 years. COVID-19 continues and will continue to impact all aspects of our lives from our own personal wellbeing and finances to global economic and geostrategic relationships for the foreseeable future.

Join us in this Nextopic, as we explore the novel coronavirus through the multiple lenses of medicine, psychology, business, history, technology, and social media. For 1 full day, we will highlight numerous thought leaders and heroes fighting on the frontlines as they discuss critical information, innovations, implications and important trends to be aware of in such a state of global crisis. Whether it is analyzing the disruption of healthcare systems and economies, understanding the psychology behind toilet paper hoarding, discussing how Fitbits can be used to predict an outbreak or going on a mission to create a universal vaccine, we will provide you with a comprehensive outlook on how together we will overcome this and potentially all future pandemics.

Nextopic: Future of Pandemics will take place on May 2nd, 2020 at 9 AM Pacific Time and will be completely free of charge for anyone wanting to join. We are looking forward to having you with us!

📷Dr. Syra Madad
Senior Director | NYC Health + Hospitals
Netflix | "Pandemic: How To Prevent an Outbreak"

Dr. Peter Kolchinsky
Managing Partner | RA Capital Management
City Journal | "Ending Covid"

📷Dr. Mauro Guillén
Professor of International Management | The Wharton School
CNBC | "Wharton offers online class on business impact of coronavirus”

Dr. Jennifer Radin
Epidemiologist | Digital Medicine Division, Scripps Research Translational Institute
Reuters | “Health warning: How Fitbits can help predict flu outbreaks”

📷Dr. Jacob Glanville
Co-Founder & CEO | Distributed Bio
Netflix | "Pandemic: How To Prevent an Outbreak"

Sarah Ives
Director of Contract Research | Distributed Bio
Netflix | "Pandemic: How To Prevent an Outbreak"

Dr. Nükhet Varlık
Associate Professor of History | Rutgers University
CNN | "What historians hear when Trump calls coronavirus 'Chinese' and ‘foreign'"

📷Dr. Steven Taylor
Author | The Psychology of Pandemics
Discover | "Why Coronavirus Is Turning People Into Hoarders”

Dr. Khudejah Ali
Assistant Professor | LUMS
Time | "How Social Media Is Shaping Our Fears of — and Response to — the Coronavirus"

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Dr. Adnan Hussain
Emergency Department Chair & Interim CMO COVID-19 | AMITA Health Joliet
Adnan Hussain MD Twitter | Heroes on the Frontline

📷Julia Peng
Co-Founder & CEO | VivaVax
Halcyon Incubator | Cohort 7 Kickoff - VivaVax

📷Dr. Nazli Senyuva
Founder | The Millenial Bump
EkoTurk TV | "Latest on the Fight Against COVID-19 in the US”

📷Phil Lelyveld
Program Manager | Entertainment Technology Center, USC
ETC | Immersive Media Panel

OPENING
09:00am – 09:15am     Welcome and Kickoff - Kaan Pinar & Eren Aksu
09:15am – 09:47am     COVID-19: A Microcosm of American Healthcare, With All Its Strengths and Weaknesses - Dr. Peter Kolchinsky

ANALYZING AN EPIDEMIC (SUB-SESSION)
09:47am – 10:04am     The Psychology of Pandemics - Dr. Steven Taylor
10:04am – 10:21am     Why the History of Past Pandemics Matters Now - Dr. Nükhet Varlık
10:21am – 10:38am     Pandemic Impacts, Short and Long Term - Dr. Mauro Guillén
10:38am – 10:43am     Ideation Session
10:43am – 11:30am     Regroup Panel (Moderated by Phil Lelyveld)

CONTAINING A PANDEMIC (SUB-SESSION)
11:30am – 11:47am     Harnessing Wearable Data to Improve Real-Time Viral Illness Detection - Dr. Jennifer Radin
11:47am – 12:04pm     Containing a Pandemic Talk 2 - Dr. Khudejah Ali
12:04pm – 12:21pm     COVID-19 Experiences From the Frontlines - Dr. Adnan Hussain
12:21pm – 12:25pm     Ideation Session
12:25pm – 1:10pm       Regroup Panel (Moderated by Dr. Nazli Senyuva)

ERADICATING A DISEASE (SUB-SESSION)
1:10pm – 1:27pm         The Quest to Create a Universal Flu Vaccine - Sarah Ives
1:27pm – 1:44pm         The Hunt for COVID-19 Therapeutic Antibodies - Dr. Jacob Glanville
1:44pm – 2:01pm         Surface Transmission & Infection Prevention of COVID-19 - Julia Peng
2:01pm – 2:05pm         Ideation Session
2:05pm – 2:50pm         Regroup Panel (Moderated by Dr. Nazli Senyuva)

CLOSING
2:50pm – 3:22pm        Hospital Biopreparedness & Response - Dr. Syra Madad
3:22pm – 3:30pm        Closing and Farewell - Kaan Pinar & Eren Aksu

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