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Join Bernie Meyerson, former Chief Innovation Officer at IBM, and Mariette DiChristina, Dean at Boston University, as they explore the top ten technologies set to change our world by 2025. They discuss game-changing innovations like structural battery composites and engineered living therapeutics that could revolutionize healthcare. The duo also dives into the potential of GLP-1s for treating neurodegenerative diseases and the importance of generative watermarking for digital authenticity. Their insights underscore a hopeful future driven by science and collaboration.

Nadya Okamoto launched her nonprofit Period as a teenager at the height of startup mania, hustle culture and girlboss memes. It grew to become one of the largest youth nonprofits in the world, but the fast growth led to burnout and a harsh cost to her well-being. She talks about how she learned to value rest, set boundaries and get 10 hours of sleep a day – and the moment she decided to pass the leadership torch for the organization’s next phase. Her non-profit Period, one that got started distributing menstrual pads to the homeless in San Francisco, and her current startup August, a menstruation care brand, both deal with tackling access to women's health products, health equity and ending period poverty. She discusses the unique challenges leaders face in this space and the boundary pushing ways she leverages social media and grassroots organizing to bridge gaps in awareness and funding and drive positive conversations and change. She also shares her lessons from her work in non-profits, policy work and startups on how any leader can be more accountable to what their organization needs right now. About this episode: August: Period: Related report: Prescription for Change: Policy Recommendations for Women’s Health Research: Blueprint to Close the Women's Health Gap: How to Improve Lives and Economies for All: Related podcasts: 7 women leaders on the books that shaped their lives: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/7-women-leaders-books-recommendations/ Bridging the gap in women's health research, policy and innovation: Kearney https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/paula-bellostas-muguerza-kearney-womens-health/ How bridging design gaps in science and tech can tackle gender bias:  

The Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2025 - AMNC25 - will bring together leaders from government, business and academia, along with innovators and representatives from international organizations, media and civil society. In this special episode produced in collaboration with Caixin Global, World Economic Forum Managing Director Mirek Dusek sets the scene for the 'Summer Davos' in Tianjin, China. And Jen Zhu Scott, founding partner of IN. Capital, gives an insider's view of China and its place in the world. Co-hosted by Li Xin, managing editor of Caixin Global. Catch up on all the action from AMNC25 at and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC25. Links: AMNC25: Caixin Global: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on :  - - : - : - : Join the :