Advances in Health & Medicine
Science and Innovation Management
The Effects of Covid-19
Digital
English
Panel Discussion
Lessons learnt from the 1st Darpa-type challenge launched in Europe
Joint European Disruptive Initiative
| Prof. Thomas Hermans, André Loesekrug-Pietri
The goal of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative is to bring Europe and democracies in a leadership position in breakthrough technologies. It is launching Technology Challenges to push the frontiers of innovation, invent the next big thing, and provide our societies with a decisive competitive advantage, to ensure economic prosperity, strategic autonomy, and democratic resilience. It is the European Darpa.
JEDI is a common good agency with a radical new innovation governance system, a Foundation powered by Europe’s deeptech ecosystem, 4.100 JEDIs in 29 countries. While using Darpa’s methodology based on speed, highest expectations & massive risk-taking, JEDI is driven by European, humanistic values. Convinced that innovation can contribute to common-good, JEDI aims to make a significant contribution to the major societal challenge of our times.
JEDI launched the first Darpa-type Challenge in Europe in May 2020 – the JEDI Billion Molecules against Covid19 GrandChallenge – with an outstanding success so far: 130 teams from the very best institutions in the world participated, an exceptional Scientific Committee has been set-up (including the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine), and an estimated 54 billion molecules have been screened to date.
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Thomas Hermans is professor in Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg and group leader of the Laboratory of Nonequilibrium Complex Systems (www.hermanslab.com).
He received the ERC Starting Grant 2017, Thieme Chemistry Award 2018, Prix Guy Ourisson 2018, and is a Young Scientist at World Economic Forum and the World Laureates Association.
André Loesekrug-Pietri
Joint European Disruptive Initiative
André Loesekrug-Pietri, held leadership positions in private equity, government, industry and as an entrepreneur. Starting as assistant to the CEO of Aerospatiale-Airbus, he then spent 15 years in private equity and venture capital. In 2017, he became Special Advisor to the French Minister of Defence, responsible in particular for technology and innovation. He is the Director of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI), the European Darpa. Graduate from HEC and from Harvard Kennedy School, he attended Sup-Aero aerospace engineering school. Nominated Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, he is a private pilot and Colonel with the French Air Force People’s Reserve @andrepietri and @eurojedi
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Mon | Nov 09, 2020 | 13.00 - 13.50 Europe/Berlin Time
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