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From Davos, Edie Lush spoke with girls who are learning to code in the Kakuma Refugee Camp with #iamtheCODE . The girls discuss their hopes and dreams and give a message to the World Leaders at Davos.
Jean Francois Royer is the CEO of Rising Sud, an agency leading development and innovation in the Provence and Côte d'Azur areas of France. He is in Davos to promote the region and its companies. In his interview with Edie Lush, he describes the region as one of the strongest in the world for research and development, particularly in the realm of Artificial Intelligence.
Who is going to be leading us in this decade of action? Kate Robertson, Founder of One Young World, tells Edie Lush that there are a lot of young people at Davos ready to take up the challenge. Yet she still feels there are barriers to be broken down as a lot of young people are still patronised by older leaders. It is not just enough to have young people on the panel: the world needs scale and speed.
Davos 2020: Georgie Benardete, the Founder and CEO of Align17, explains to Edie Lush that she is representing companies that have both a profit motive and a purpose one. She argues that these types of institutions are crucial to the 2030 agenda.
ANALYTICS EDIT VIDEO In Davos, Huw Van Steenis, the Chair of Sustainable Finance at UBS, spoke to Edie Lush of Hub Culture about the importance of having good data for SDGs. Huw explains that data is foundational; without it your can't risk manage, mobilise capital or hold people to account. He discusses the need to transition to a lower carbon economy, and that $100 trillion of capital could be required to make this happen. Data will enable us to see if we are on track.
Will AI steal your job? David Shrier, the MD of Visionary Future, tells Hub Culture's Edie Lush about how AI will impact on the future of work. We're at a transition point, and in financial services as many as six million people could lose their jobs in the next seven years. However new technologies can helps assist people in their jobs, rather than replace them.
At Davos 2020, Sara Moss and Alexandra Trower of Esteé Lauder talk to Hub Culture's Edie Lush about female leadership at their company. Esteé Lauder was founded by a woman, and since then women have continually played an important role in senior management positions.
At Davos 2020, Morag Watson, Chief Digital Innovation Officer, BP explains to Hub Culture's Executive Editor Edie Lush, what her job entails. She outlines how she looks at emerging non commercialised technologies, like Quantum Computing and Bio Computing, and assesses what impact they might have on BP's current business, its future business and the world in which we live in.
In Davos 2020, Marcus Vetter, director of the documentary THE FORUM, talks to Hub Culture's Edie Lush about challenges he faced and the inspiration behind the creation of his film about the World Economic Forum. The Film is screening this week in Davos, and will be released around the world this year. Find out more at: http://dasforum-derfilm.de
Why is financial inclusion important and how should companies work to enable it? In Davos, Louise Pentland of PayPal shares her vision with Hub Culture's Edie Lush. Louise underlines that PayPal's key goal is to democratise financial services and says that both customers and employees need to have access to the digital economy.
At Davos 2020, Hub Culture's Edie Lush interviews Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO and President of GLAAD. #GLAAD is an organisation that works through entertainment, news, and digital media to share stories from the LGBTQ community that accelerate acceptance. Sarah Kate highlights some of the ongoing issues that LGBTQ individuals face - for example they can be fired in half of the US states simply for their sexual preference. "People thought that marriage equality was the finish line," says Sarah Kate. "That was a milestone but there is still a lot of work to be done."
There are 40.3 million people estimated to be in modern slavery. What can we do to stop this? Dr James Cockayne, Director of the UNU Centre for Policy Research, says that in order to hit SDG targets we need to remove 10,000 people per day from slavery. In his interview with Edie Lush, Dr Cockayne talks about scaling, systemic responses and how we need to be ambitious.
At Davos 2020, Jim Alkove, Chief Trust Officer of Salesforce, explains to Hub Culture's Executive Editor Edie Lush how cyber crime is now a $5.2 trillion threat to the world's economy. James informs us that a lot of the crime could be stopped by an uptake in basic security hygiene such as software updates and implementing multi-factor authentication for users.
Charlotte Crosswell, CEO of Innovate Finance, chats with Hub Culture's Executive Editor Edie Lush about changes in the financial world. They discuss financial inclusion, the role of technology and innovation, topics which were notably absent last time Charlotte was at Davos in 2010. Charlotte says she is excited by the way the banks are now committed to digital economy and are looking to work with partners, startups and governments to make this happen.
At Davos 2020, Caroline Casey spoke to Edie Lush about how social media and younger people have helped give a voice to people with disabilities. Caroline is Founder and Creator at the Valuable 500, a global movement putting disability on the business leadership agenda. Over 240 companies have now signed up to the programme to give disabled employees a voice on company boards.
Conversation about Purpose Driven Investing w/ Jeremy Coller of College Capital & Stan Stalnaker of Hub Culture, shot via Facebook Live.
At Davos 2020 Victoria Alonsoperez, Founder of CHIPSAFER, tells Hub Culture's Edie Lush about the way that space inspired her to take up a career in technology. Also how her company uses satellites to help farmers to track their animals to prevent theft.
This is the Golden Decade! That's the view of Lucian Tarnowski, Founding Curator at Civana. In his 11th interview with Edie Lush, he explains how language shapes our identity and how it is essential to start to share positive views about our future. "If a person hears an idea three times or more, it sticks."
How can we fight climate change and transition to a clean economy? At Davos 2020, Jules Kortenhorst, CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, tells Hub Culture's Edie Lush that climate change is now the single most important crisis facing humanity. The good news is that humanity is waking up to the fact that this is the biggest issue that we have to address. Jules adds that we already have the tools to address the problem and outlines how we need to rapidly shift to a sustainable energy future.
At Davos 2020 Kerry Kennedy, President of RFK Human Rights Foundation, talks to Hub Culture's Edie Lush about the work her foundation does in suing governments on human rights issues. Proudly, they have never lost a case! She also explains how they work on human rights education and specifically how they seek to keep the investment community aware of key human rights issues.
"This is the epidemic of the twenty first century!" At Davos 2020 George Vradenburg, Chair and Co-Founder of UsAgainstAlzheimers explains to Edie Lush of Hub Culture that half a billion people will be affected by Alzheimers by the middle of the century. But there is optimism. George says we also have the tools to determine the risks for Alzheimers much earlier than ever before and that we need to focus on monitoring brain health for all ages.