Gina Lucarelli, Team Leader, UN Development Programme Accelerator Lab Network

Maesy Angelina, Social Systems Lead, UN Pulse Lab Jakarta

Claudia Juech, CEO and President, Cloudera Foundation

Gina Lucarelli, Claudia Juech, and Maesy Angelina discuss the unforeseen consequences of innovation, the need to avoid relying on tech as a solution to everything, and the importance of open data to positively impact on the lives of millions of people. In addition, Maesy Angelina shares how exploring the potential and limitations of alternative datasets such as satellite imagery in combination with using social media and on-the-ground activities has improved people’s access to information about air quality in Jakarta.

Imran Khan, Head of Public Engagement, Wellcome Trust

Cath Sleeman, Head of Data Visualisation, Creative Economy & Data Analytics, Nesta

Rosana Ardila, Senior Open Innovation Manager, Mozilla

Federica Cocco, Statistics journalist, Financial Times

Jessica Sena, Software Engineer at Typeform (Growth team), Geochicas member

In this session, our panelists discuss data gaps, biased data, and the link between those issues and collective intelligence - how can collective intelligence approaches address these problems, and how do those gaps inform and influence collective intelligence? Rosana Ardila from Mozilla shares her experience with gaps in voice data for speech recognition, and Jessica Sena from Geochicas talks about how the lack of female contributors on OpenStreetMap has led to maps portraying a skewed picture of reality.

Kadine James, Creative Tech Lead, Hobs3D

Usman Haque, Founding Partner, Umbrellium

Florian Ortkrass, Co-Founder and Co-Director, RANDOM INTERNATIONAL

In this final session, Kadine James, Usman Haque and Florian Ortkrass discuss the infrastructures of participation: How do we best design for participatory processes? The panelists also explore the predictability of human behaviour, our collective inability when it comes to addressing climate change, and why we feel that we have less and less impact, whereas the reality is actually the opposite.

How do you want your future to look like? What shape will it take? What skills do you need to get there? And who do you want to share it with? In this episode, Steve Cross, Maryam Pasha, Kajal Odedra and Tiernan Douieb discuss: How to build your own future (and the resilience to make it happen) Why survival kits are about skills and experiences, and not about rubbing twigs together What’s in their toolkit for the future How to share your ideas to influence others to create a better world.  The team also gives a preview of Nesta’s FutureFest 2020 event, which is happening on Friday, 20th March 2020 at Tobacco Dock in East London. FutureFest 2020: https://www.futurefest.org/futurefest-2020 (promo code tucked inside the episode for £10 off adult tickets) FutureFest Lates: https://www.futurefest.org/lates  Get in touch with Future Curious: [email protected] Future Curious is published by Nesta. Nesta.org.uk @Nesta_UK Presenter: Tiernan Douieb Guests: Dr. Steve Cross, interim co-director, Explorations, Nesta Maryam Pasha - Director and Curator of TEDxLondon and FutureFest 2020 curator Kajal Odedra - Executive Director, Change.org, author of Do Something; activism for everyone + FutureFest 2020 speaker. With thanks to BBC Ideas for the clip of Glamrou. Sound: Sonia Foday Produced by Ann Charles (Sparky Media) and Sarah Reardon and the Nesta team for Nesta.

After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons – essentially mini-brains – Philip Ball began to examine the concepts of identity and consciousness. Inspired by his book How to Grow a Human, this event delves into humanity's deep evolutionary past to look at how complex creatures like us emerged from single-celled life.

This is a conversation guaranteed to challenge preconceptions and values and make us to rethink how we exist in the world.

Are you curious about what our shared future holds? Join us for season 2 of Future Curious from Nesta. In this thought-provoking and chatty podcast, we bring together leading experts and radical thinkers to discuss the big issues that will affect our future, and what we can all do about them. Each week, Future Curious will bring new insights, challenge existing wisdom and explore new thinking into some of the most challenging issues of our time.   We'll be bringing you the first episode of the new season very soon, so subscribe now to hear it first!

Hear from Michael Sanders, Executive Director, What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care and Susannah Hume, Associate Director, What Works at Kings’s College London as they discuss their revolutionary work that is changing the way governments and organisations around the world think.

With alternative visions and possibilities before us, we explore the connection between what the future could look like, and how largely science fiction has contributed to this vision. Through a distinctive mix of installations, talks and debates, FutureFest Lates offers audiences an opportunity to imagine and lay claim to a different vision of what might lie ahead. Recorded at Nesta’s first ‘FutureFest Lates’ event, Nesta’s Nigel Campbell is joined by: Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Theoretical Physics, broadcaster and author of a new science fiction novel, Sunfall Celia Hannon, Nesta’s Director of Futures Find out more on the FutureFest website.

Inventing the Future: can sci-fi predict the shape of things to come?

Listen to this recording from our first FutureFest Late as we were joined by the host of BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific, Jim Al-Khalili and presenter, writer and comedian Timandra Harkness.

At a time of mounting anxiety about the powerful influence that technologists and scientists are exerting over our future, does fiction allow scientists to have a more truthful conversation with the public about charged ethical issues? Or does it just serve as a form of escapism to numb our fears about the future?​​ From dark matter to quantum biology we explore the appeal of science fiction to scientists, and whether it can help us predict the future.

What are FutureFest Lates?

FutureFest Lates offer a taste of Futurefest. Through a distinctive mix of installations, talks and debates, Lates offers audiences an opportunity to imagine and lay claim to a different vision of what might lie ahead.

For more info, see www.futurefest.org/lates

Listen to a recording from our very first FutureFest Late with presenter, writer and comedian Timandra Harkness and BBC broadcaster and physicist Jim Al-Khalili. In this first highlight from the night, Jim Al-Khalili describes an apocalyptic vision of the future from his hard sci-fi novel Sunfall.

What are FutureFest Lates?

FutureFest Lates offer a taste of Futurefest. Through a distinctive mix of installations, talks and debates, Lates offers audiences an opportunity to imagine and lay claim to a different vision of what might lie ahead.

For more info, see https://www.futurefest.org/lates