COVID-19:
The State & Future of Pandemics

Recorded Sessions

March 16: Introduction to COVID-19 & Current State of Affairs

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Day 1 – Opening Remarks | Adam Hofmann
Everything you need to know about COVID-19, tracking epidemics, and vaccine development strategies | Dr. Divya Chander
Perspectives from Responding to Other Outbreaks including SARS, Monkeypox, and Influenza | Dr. David Bray
 State of the Global Response to COVID-19 | Dr. Daniel Kraft
A practical guide to staying healthy during COVID-19 | Nell Watson
Slowing contagion | Amory B. Lovins
Curing Diseases & DNA | Raymond McCauley
Pandemics and resilient cities | Dr. Robert Muggah
Leadership in the Time of COVID-19 | Elie Losleben
Bold Choices and Rapid Innovation | Julia Cheek

 

March 17: Future Implications and Considerations

Day 2 – Opening Remarks | Adam Hofmann
How crowdsourcing and mobile devices helped to monitor epidemics during the 2014 World Cup and Olympics 2016 | Onicio Leal Neto
Digital Identity in Times of Epidemic | Dr. Mariana Dahan
Food for Earth: unleash the regenerative power of food during and beyond the CoronaV-ERA | Sara Roversi
Emerging Digital technologies for Epidemic management: obstacles, opportunities and outcomes | Dr. Sonny Kohli
How can you use data to monitor your lifestyle (from food to exercise) to boost your body’s resilience against diseases? | Sabine Seymour
Why Authoritarianism is Bad for Public Health | Alex Gladstein
The Future of Safe Living in Self-Reliant Neighborhoods | James Ehrlich
The Future of the Past: The Coronavirus Pandemic and the New Normal | Jamie Metzl
How AI can be leveraged for the increasing threats of future pandemics | Bradley Twynham
Polarizing the positive and negative of pandemics and putting it into action | Lisa Andrews

 

March 18: Business Impact, Leadership, & Strategies for Today

All times are PST

Day 3 – Opening Remarks | Adam Hofmann
Using Virtual Worlds in a Time Of Travel Disruption | Aaron Frank
Five Ways Your Leadership Must Change To Thrive With Disrupted Distributed Teams | Charlene Li
Remote & Distributed Work During Crises | Gary A. Bolles
Crisis Mode Education: How to Make the Most of Learning in a Global Pandemic | Jos Dirkx
Opportunities for more automation and remote delivery of goods and services | Peter Xing
Updates from the field: How governments and organizations are responding | Dr. Eric Rasmussen
Strengthening your company’s resilience against existential threats | Chipp Norcross & Paul D. Roberts
Fake news and media’s role in global emergencies | James Del
How you can take action during times of uncertainty | Christina Gerakiteys
Complexity: How leaders can navigate unpredictable situations | Catherine Brown & Chipp Norcross
Closing Thoughts | Dr. Tiffany Vora

 

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Resources Shared by Presenters and Participants

On Monday, March 16, over 17,000 people came together online to learn about COVID-19, its effects and implications from experts, faculty and practitioners in the field. Below is a compilation of resources suggested by Singularity University, presenters, and participants. We hope you find it useful. Feel free to share. Open to all.
We will be updating this frequently. Check back for updates.

 

About COVID-19 (General)

• About Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – CDC
• Digital.health/covid-19 – Dr. Daniel Kraft (includes numerous resource links)
• Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now – Tomas Pueyo (not an official health organization, but thorough data and analysis)
• Flatten The Curve website
• Maps & Visuals
  • Curated List of Maps and Visuals – University of Minnesota
  • COVID-19 Tracker World Map – Bing
• COVID-19 Resource Center – The Lancet
• A primer on exponential growth – YouTube video by 3blue1brown (Grant Sanderson)
• EarthTime – Robert Muggah
• Seven essential steps for thriving in our new world of social distance – Jamie Metzl
• SAS Corona Virus Daily Report – Analytics + Visual Reporting – SAS

 

Mental Health

• Manage Anxiety & Stress – CDC
• Mental Health Considerations during COVID-19 Outbreak – WHO
• Coronavirus and the Isolation Paradox – NY Times
• The Psychology Of Uncertainty: How To Cope With COVID-19 Anxiety – Forbes

 

Donations

• COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO (Global)
• Red Cross Blood Donation (USA)
• World Food Programme (Global)
• Seattle Foundation Fund (Seattle, WA, USA)
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation COVID-19 Coronavirus Regional Response Fund (Bay Area, USA)

 

Testing

• Gates Foundation (Seattle, WA, USA)
• Stanford (Bay Area, USA)
• Verily (Bay Area, USA)

 

How You Can Get Involved

• Be-novative – multiple COVID-19 related challenges posted
• Waze for COVID-19 app – Dr. Daniel Kraft
• Folding at Home – Stanford; donate your unused computational power to help researchers design new therapies
• MIT Solve – challenge prompt: “How can communities around the world prepare for, detect, and respond to emerging pandemics and health security threats?”
• The University of Washington has created a puzzle game to crowdsource solutions for building a protein that could block the virus from infiltrating human cells
• Online communities are setting up Facebook groups to create open-source medical supplies including an open-source ventilator
• MIT SOLVE has launched the Coronavirus Health Security Challenge
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome and Mastercard set up a $125 million fund for identifying, assessing, developing and scaling up treatments
• Polyplexus Coronavirus Incubator to mitigate spread and impact of pandemic
• NextStrain – recommended by Raymond McCauley; real-time tracking of pathogen evolution
• For anyone working on any aspect of research around COVID-19, whether on the epidemiology, virology, biology, psychology or anything else – and whether you are an academic or a concerned citizen – Iris.ai invites you to join their platform, and your account will then be added to the premium access COVID-19 research group. Their only requirements are that your work is on the current pandemic, and that you allow your findings through Iris.ai to be shared publicly.

 

Innovation & Inspiration

• Canlis restaurant replaces fine dining with burgers and bagels (Seattle Times) – “The game is not over. This thing isn’t done. It’s just that the rules changed,” Mark Canlis said. “We have a choice to lean into the fear or say, ‘No, we got this. We can do this thing.’
• Fellow Robots founder Marco Mascorro experimenting with building ventilators made with off the shelf components (currently educational purposes.)
• CoronavirusTechHandbook.com/Hardware

 

Speaker Slides

• Pandemics and resilient cities – Dr. Robert Muggah
  • Data Visualization
  • WeForum Article
• Slowing contagion – Amory B. Lovins
  • Vitamin C User’s Guide
• Emerging Digital technologies for Epidemic management: obstacles, opportunities and outcomes – Dr. Sonny Kohli
• How crowdsourcing and mobile devices helped to monitor epidemics during the 2014 World Cup and Olympics 2016 – Onicio Leal Neto
• How can you use data to monitor your lifestyle (from food to exercise) to boost your body’s resilience against diseases? – Sabine Seymour
• Leadership in the Time of COVID-19 – Elie Losleben

 

Other

• Q&A with Peter Xing on Opportunities for more automation and remote delivery of goods and services
• Cynefin framework (Catherine Brown reviewed)

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