Surmounting Data Barriers on Global Health Solutions

Around the world, people want to get back to work safely and responsibly. However, strategies for rebooting local, national and global economies are throttled by inadequacies in data and their networks. Marsali Hancock discusses her insights on this important issue.

Ecosystemic Resilience in Uncertain Times

The “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems” webinar series concludes with Martha Russell as she examines how we are interconnected in this networked world and how to orchestrate relational capital and shared vision to create the future we want to live in.

How to Think Like a Civilization

Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of our global institutions, but digital technology also presents us with the means to meet both our current challenges - and to shape a new planetary order. Paul Saffo dives into this complex challenge in the next “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems” webinar.

Can Consistent Trust Decisions Bring People Back to Work?

Bringing people back-to-work is a grand challenge that requires more than wearing masks, and conforming to hygiene, screening, and distancing. A key component of reopening the economy will be more Testing to establish trust and inform safer behaviors. Ajay Madhock looks at this issue in the next “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems” webinar.

Making Context Relevant for Learning Essential Skills for the Workplace

Daily human interactions have a comparable impact on employee productivity and retention. Virtual reality simulations are a powerful modality for developing skilled and effective human-to-human interactions. Mark Atkinson, is CEO of Mursion dives into this topic in the next “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems” webinar.

Enabling The Economy To Reopen

Jump starting the economies around the world is one of the biggest challenges we have today. mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar Ajay Madhok shares his expertise and insights on how to get things moving again.

A Wicked Problem About Thinking: Cognitive Security

Cognitive Security is concerned with protection against malicious online and offline influence at scales ranging from individuals to nation states, and is foundational to national security inclusive of the public and private sectors. From the mediaX webinar series “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems”, Brian Pierce will address this critical issue.

Robotics and AI for COVID Resilience

From the mediaX webinar series “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems”, Neil Jacobstein will cover some of the current uses of AI in addressing COVID-19, focusing on large scale collaborations such as the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance, the Kaggle COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge, and many team efforts to develop drugs and vaccines.

A Pop-up Training Model for Critical Needs

From the mediaX webinar series “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems”, Van Ton-Quinlivan looks at how health care is a prime example of one of the wicked problems faced in education. Even after a training need is identified, it takes time to achieve agreement across stakeholders to identify the curriculum requirements and find resources to satisfy them.