The Convergent Innovation Webinar Series features cutting edge science, technology and innovation in agriculture, food, environment, education, medicine and other domains of everyday life where grand challenges lie at the convergence of health and economics. Powered by data science, artificial intelligence, and other digital technologies, this disciplinary knowledge bridges with behavioural, humanities, business, economic, social, engineering, and complexity sciences to accelerate real-world solution at scale, be it in digital or physical contexts. Initiated in the agri-food domain, the series is now encompassing other grand challenges facing modern and traditional economies and societies, such as ensuring lifelong wellness and resilience at both the individual and population levels.听
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Previous Webinars
Filling the gaps of a failing governance system for global sustainability goals: Exploring the role of self-accountability and reflexivity
Presented by Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen
February 20, 2024
Co-Creating Sustainable Cities Using Design to Facilitate Transitions
Presented by听Jotte de Koning
February 7, 2024
Can gamified interventions targeting altered cognitive processes in obesity change food valuation and consumption?
Presented by G茅raldine Coppin &听Hugo Najberg
January 16, 2024
Towards an Ontology of Traceable Impact Management in the Agriculture Food Chain
Presented by Bart Gajderowicz
December 7, 2023
Inventing 鈥淥ne-World鈥� Solutions for Lifelong Wellness and Sustainable Economic Growth
Presented by Mark Schatzker
November 16, 2023
Toward Deforestation Free Commodities: Challenges and opportunities for convergence
Presented by Brian King
October 19, 2023
Challenges and Possibilities Associated with Food Safety Systems and Regional Trade: The Case of Africa
Presented by Lise Korsten
June 27, 2023
On the Challenges and Promises of Promoting Desired Behavior through听the Use of Insights from Behavioral Science
Presented by Yefim Roth
May 11, 2023
Bridging the Rational and Behavioral Worlds: Rationally Inattentive Decision Making and Implications on Business Operations
Tamer Boyaci
Professor of management science and the first holder of the Michael Diek-mann Chair in Management Science at ESMT Berlin
April 19, 2023
Food Integrity: The Socio-technical Interrelationships Between Product, Process, People and Data
Louise Manning
Professor of Sustainable Agri-food Systems at the Lincoln Insti-tute for Agri-food Technology, University of Lincoln
March 30, 2023
Food Safety Management: From Digits to Decision Making for Commercial and Social Progress
Bobby Krishna
Senior Food Safety Specialist at the Food Safety Department of Dubai Municipality
October 13, 2022
Knowledge Graphs in the Field: The Growing Role of Semantic Technologies in the Agri-Food Sector
Aaron Bradley
Knowledge Graph Strategist at Electronic Arts (EA)
June 2, 2022
A sustainability framework and sectoral digitalization: The case of energy
Eugenio Longo
Sustainability Director at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Europe
May 12, 2022
The Periodic Table of Foods Initiative (PTFI): Next-Generation Tools for Innovation and System Level Transformation Toward Health and Economic Convergence
Bruce German
April 27, 2022
Towards AI-driven Food and Nutrition Science and Society: Opportunities and Challenges
Tome Eftimov
Senior Researcher, Computer Systems Department, Jo啪 ef Stefan Institute
March 17, 2022
Digitalizing food supply systems for business and global benefits: reflections on the UK Trusted Bytes project
Steve Brewer
Research and project coordinator at the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT) at the University of Lincoln (UK)
February 23, 2022
Addressing Wicked Problems of Health and Access to Affordable Food/ Medicines/ Healthcare through Open Science Partnerships
Dr. Richard Gold
James 不良研究所 Professor at 不良研究所
November 5, 2021
Canada and the World Net Zero Challenge: Exploring Pathways, Policy development, and Technological Opportunities
Dave Sawyer
August 26, 2021
Technology-enabled disruption and trust in the pandemic era
Building resilience and enhancing transparency in domestic and international innovation supply chain and market ecosystems
Dan Purtell
Group Director of Innovation at the British Standards Institution
May 27, 2021
The Power of the Inconsequential in Opening Pathways to Convergence Economy: Interstitial Spaces and the Genesis of Innovation between Sectors
Dr. Santi Furnari
Professor of Strategy at the Business School of City, University of London
May 11, 2021
Feeding Democracy & Accelerating Convergent Innovation: Technocultural Transitions toward a Semantic Web and Internet of Food
Dr. Matthew Lange
Founder and CEO of the International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics (IC-FOODS)
May 6, 2021
Grocery purchase data using loyalty cards 鈥� a novel method for dietary assessment and personalized feedback听
Dr. Mikael Fogelholm
Professor in Public Health Nutrition at the University of Helsinki
April 14, 2021
Food Entrepreneurs For Scaling Resilient Agriculture Businesses and Digital Empowerment
Real-Life Cases from Africa and Insights for a Post-Covid 19 World Reset to Convergence Economy
Ndidi Nwuneli, MBA
Serial social entrepreneur, Founder of LEAP Africa
March 31, 2021
What Lies Beneath? The Hidden Dimension of Ecosystem Competition
Professor Erkko Autio
Chair in Technology Venturing at Imperial College Business School
March 10, 2021
As businesses and other actors throughout society reorganize their value-creating activities around platforms, the shared digital infrastructure becomes an increasingly important determinant of competitive advantage. Yet, few businesses pay any attention to what I call the 鈥榗ommons ecosystem鈥� game that shapes these infrastructures, and even fewer actively participate in it. I suggest that they ignore this game at their own peril, as digital infrastructures can regulate firm-level competitive advantage. My speech will describe how the commons ecosystem game is played by digital businesses. I describe the operational, community-level, and strategic motivations of playing the commons ecosystem game, and we describe how four commonly used strategic maneuvers 鈥� Scaling, Sponsoring, Shaming, and Scheming 鈥� shape the evolution of commons ecosystems. I conclude by recommending how platform firms and other organizations should strategically integrate commons ecosystems in their game plan and by discussing more general implications of the phenomenon. A panel will follow to build upon this ground breaking management research to advance research and on-the-ground action to fuel food convergence innovation platforms at worldscale for sustainable prosperity and affordable nutrition and health.
The Opportunity of a Lifetime: How Cutting-edge Science and Technology Can Improve the Wellbeing of Food
Antonio Tataranni, MD
Global Chief Medical Officer of PepsiCo
January 28, 2021
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Applied Complexity: From Epistemic Drift to Epistemic Shift
William Sutherland, MD
General practice physician
Thursday, July 16
Don鈥檛 Do Brain Surgery When You Get a Headache: Complexity and Multi-Stakeholder Decision Making in the Time of COVID 19
Amalia M. Issa, PhD, MPH
Director of the Personalized Medicine & Targeted Therapeutics Center
Friday, June 19, 2020
World Class Manufacturing Enabled by Industry 4.0
Sasha Ilyukhin
Vice President of Services and Industry 4.0 Solutions for Tetra Pak
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Decentralized brokerage, multi-sectoral platforms, and lasting socio-economic food systems transformation: The catalysis strategy
Atefeh Ramezankhani, PhD
Senior strategy consultant with Deloitte鈥檚 innovation and business design practice
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Using modern standards to build trusted connections to trading partners and consumers
Kevin Dean
Technology Strategist and Supply Chain Consultant, CTO-at-large, P.Eng., MBA
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Transparency and Trust in the Food Chain: The importance of Digitiaton and Convergence to facilitate Society 5.0 goals
John G. Keogh
Founder and principal advisor of Toronto-based Shantalla Inc., a niche advisory and research firm
February 13, 2020
Uberizing Environmental Action
Peter Schelstraete
Co-founder and CEO of Ubuntoo, an Environmental Solutions Platform at the crossroads of AI and Human Expertise
January 23, 2020
Patterns of convergence and divergence within the US Financial Service Sector
Gianvito Lanzolla
Professor of Strategy, Cass Business School, City, University of London
October 15, 2019
From Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 and the Quintuple Innovation Helix Framework 鈥� Theories, Policies and Practices
Dr. Elias G. Carayannis
Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI), Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center, (EURC) at the School of Business of the George Washington University in Washington, DC.
May 22, 2019
Governance Challenges Arising from Distributed Agri-Food Innovation
Dr. Peter W.B. Phillips
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Science and Innovation Policy, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan
April 25, 2019
Eco-innovation for sustainability
Fernando J. Diaz Lopez, Ph.D.
Director, Innovation for Sustainable Development Network; Senior Advisor TNO & Associate Professor Extraordinary in Sustainability Systems at Stellenbosch University
March 20, 2019
Solving Complex Problems
Corey Phelps
Associate Dean of Executive Education, Associate Professor of Strategy, 不良研究所
February 20, 2019
Simulating Senses @ TCS: A confluence of Physics based modelling, Data Science and IT
Principal Scientist & Head, Physical Sciences Research, TCS, Pune, India
February 7, 2019
Chemical Migration from Food Contact Articles
Scientific Challenges, Current Issues and Opportunities for Next-Generation Innovations
Jane Muncke, PhD
Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer at Food Packaging Forum, Zurich, Switzerland
November 29, 2018
Wealth in Health
Manoj Kulkarni
Executive Director at Nielsen
June 1, 2018
Diet and Health: Is there a better model?
J. Bruce German
Professor in Food Science and Technology, Director, Foods for Health Institute, University of California Davis, cofounder Evolve Biosystems
May 10, 2018
Gut Microbiome and Health
Sharmila Mande
PhD, Chief Scientist at TCS Research
March 7, 2018
Unlocking the Nutritional Universe for Food Innovations
Heribert Watzke, PhD
Dr. Phil. Watzke Heribert Consulting
February 28, 2018
Reformulating Foods to Improve Sustainability
Denis Tr茅morin, PAg., MSc
Director of Sustainability at Pulse Canada
February 8, 2018
Digital Transformation of the Customer Experience
Joerg Niessing
Affiliate Professor of Marketing at INSEAD
November 17, 2017
Convergent Innovation in Plant Breeding and Genomics
Maurice Moloney
Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS)听
July 26, 2017
Bolstering Innovation in Value-added Processing of Pulses
Joyce Boye
AAFC
June 27, 2017
The Architecture of Choice
Dilip Soman
University of Toronto
June 15, 2017
Nutritional Superiority and Utilization of Pulses in Products
Jamuna Prakash
IUFoST
May 31, 2017
Tiered Governance of Food Convergent Innovation Platforms
Richard Gold
不良研究所 Law
April 27, 2017
Riding the Digital Dragon
Essential for the Convergence of听Health and听Economics in Food Innovation
Richard Black
Quadrant D Consulting
March 1, 2017
Packaging technologies and value chain concepts to advance value-added pulse-based foods
Claire Koelsch Sand, LLC
March 30, 2017
Bridging Pulse Tradition and Modern Innovation to Accelerate Food Solutions to听Sustainable Development
A Convergent Innovation Research and Action Strategy
Laurette Dube & Vilas Shirhatti
Launch: GLOBAL PULSE DAY -听January 18,听2017
Fast-track the breeding of new varieties using doubled haploidy
Alison Ferrie
National Research Council Canada
February 2, 2017
The CI Webinar was featured in the March, 2017 issue of The Pulse Pod e-Magazine. View Article听
