3 interactive panels on open science role in mitigating global challenges
Why these panels matter
Explore how to bring frontier, high-impact scientific thinking into global leadership spaces
reshaping our ability to anticipate, mitigate, and manage global risks.
Today’s challenges—climate instability, emerging health threats, technological disruption, and geopolitical uncertainty—demand scientific approaches that fundamentally shift how we understand and respond to risk. Transformative science pushes beyond incremental progress: it unlocks new capabilities, reframes old problems, and enables solutions that were previously out of reach.
What happens when quantum technologies revolutionize science and industry the way AI has? The quantum decade could deliver capabilities that help humans manage challenges that depend on highly complex variables, such as climate, biological systems, and secure communications. Join this session to learn more about applications as quantum experts showcase the latest in quantum computing, communications, and sensing.
Today's greatest security threats are often rooted in scientific and technological challenges. This session will debate specific, actionable models for deploying science diplomacy to stabilize volatile regions,enforce the safe and sustainable use of space, and bridge geopolitical divides using anticipatory frameworks. Join high-level diplomats, scientists, and tech leaders to identify concrete policy levers that make science a verifiable tool for conflict prevention and sustainable global security.
The intelligence behind the workshop
The session is informed by GESDA’s anticipatory insight on upcoming scientific and technological breakthroughs with major social impact and strategic relevance.
GESDA’s Science Breakthrough Radar® is an annual publication of the Science Breakthrough Radar®, anticipates emerging scientific domains, and their potential impacts on society over 5-, 10- and 25-year horizons to inform policy and collective action.
The Radar® helps leaders to:
Radar® has already supported key multilateral processes in International Geneva, from a neurotechnology resolution at the Human Rights Council, to the biosecurity implications of synthetic biology, or the applications of quantum algorithms to support the SDGs through the Open Quantum Institute, hosted at CERN.
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