Nobel Prize Summit
Programme
The three day Nobel Prize Summit will bring together Nobel Prize laureates, scientists and industry leaders for talks and expert panel discussions with exclusive material for virtual participants.
All timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and are subject to change.
Watch the full event from 24 May: The Global Conversation
Watch the full event from 25 May: Forum of Experts
Watch the livestream from 26 May: Solution Sessions
24 May - The Global Conversation
Introduction: DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE
09:30 - 10:00 Eastern Daylight time
Morning greeting from the NAS-building in Washington DC. A brief introduction to the day where we meet some of our speakers. ONLINE EXCLUSIVE.
Session 1 - Let History Be Your Guide
10:00 - 11:00 Eastern Daylight Time
Live at Kavli Auditorium - with our on stage host Kelly Stoetzel
We begin with a look back to better understand both our present and our potential future.
OPENING PERFORMANCE written by Smriti Keshari
Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
FISSURES & FRACTURES: TRACING THE FAULT LINES OF MISINFORMATION
Rachel Kuo, Assistant professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nat Kendall-Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, FrameWorks Institute
Session 2 - Making Sense of Misinformation Part 1
11:00 - 12:30 Eastern Daylight Time
We turn our attention to the current landscape as we dig deeper in order to better understand the issues:
IS SEEING BELIEVING?
Live performance by illusionist Eric Mead
THE MISINFORMATION EFFECT
Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished professor, University of California Irvine
SHARING IS CARING: WHAT DRIVES THE SPREAD OF MISINFORMATION?
Gizem Ceylan, Behavioural scientist, Yale University School of Management and the Yale Center for Customer Insights
HEALING OUR TROUBLED INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM
Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations
COMMUNICATING SCIENCE IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD
IN CONVERSATION: Åsa Wikforss, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Stockholm University and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Live from the Studio - Digital Exclusive
12:30 - 14:00 Eastern Daylight Time
Lunch break - and we are live from our studio in NAS-building. A chance to meet some of our speakers close up. What has been said so far and where are we going next.
Session 2 - Making Sense of Misinformation Part 2
14:00 - 15:30 Eastern Daylight Time
Live at Kavli Auditorium
DYNAMIC DIALOGUES featuring short talks from Nobel Prize laureate Martin Chalfie, University Professor, Columbia University, Anita Krishnamurthi, President at the Collective for Youth Empowerment in STEM & Society and Hahrie Han, professor and inaugural Director of Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Provocateurs: Leslie Brooks, Roger Caruth, DeRay McKesson, Sabrina McCormick
I'M NOT AFRAID. YOU'RE AFRAID.
Tristan Harris, Co-founder of Center for Humane Technology
ALL INFORMATION IS LOCAL
PANEL DISCUSSION: Discussants - Flora Rebello Arduini, business and international human rights law expert, Rana Ayyub, investigative journalist, Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation, Maia Mazurkiewicz, Alliance4Europe. Moderated by Finn Myrstad
Session 3 - The Truth is Out There
15:30 - 17:15 Eastern Daylight Time
As the day draws to a close, we consider the many reasons to have hope, with:
THE POWER OF POETRY
Jane Hirshfield and David Hassler, Poets for Science
A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE
IN CONVERSATION: Sheldon Himmelfarb, President and CEO, PeaceTech Lab and Philip Howard, Professor, Oxford University and Director of the Programme on Democracy and Technology
HOPE IN ACTION
Nicole Tisdale, Principal, Advocacy Blueprints and former Director, The White House National Security Council
TRUTH, TRUST & HOPE
PANEL DISCUSSION: Discussants – Nobel Prize laureates Saul Perlmutter, Richard Roberts, and Donna Strickland. Moderated by Sudip Parikh, CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science
CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Nobel Prize laureate Maria Ressa, co-founder and CEO, Rappler
17:15 - 18:00 Eastern Daylight Time
Summary of day one - ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
A summary of the day for our digital audience.
25 May - Forum of Experts
Forum of Experts - Part 1
09:30 - 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time
Plenary session, Auditorium, National Academy of Sciences.
In-person programme during day 2 by invitation only. Plenary sessions will be streamed live at www.nobelprize.org
WELCOME
Alliance4Europe
WELCOME FROM HOSTS
Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academy of Sciences and Vidar Helgesen, CEO of the Nobel Foundation.
COLLABORATION AMIDST COMPLEXITY
A global information environment that promotes human progress rather than impeding it will require collaboration across disciplines, languages and political cultures. This international panel of leaders will discuss how to achieve it. Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2011; John Momoh, CEO of Nigeria Channels TV; Sanjiv Ahuja, chairman and founder Tillman Global Holdings, Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations.
Moderator: Sheldon Himelfarb, PeaceTech Lab
OVERCOMING HEALTH MISINFORMATION THROUGH BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE
In collaboration with the Mercury Project.
This discussion will be moderated by communicator and policymaker Abdul El-Sayed.
Paul Romer, 2018 economic sciences laureate; Rachel Glennerster, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago and Mercury Project grantee; Eileen O’Connor, Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications and Policy, The Rockefeller Foundation; Sylvie Briand, Director Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, WHO Emergency Programme; Alonzo Plough, VP, Research-Evaluation-Learning and Chief Science Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
TRUTH + TRUST = HOPE?
Tristan Harris, Co-founder, Center of Humane Technology; David MacMillan, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry 2021; Martin Chalfie, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry 2008, chair NAS committee on Human Rights; Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine 1993.
Breakout Sessions
13:00 - 15:30 Eastern Daylight Time
IN-PERSON PROGRAMME AT THE NAS BUILDING
By invitation only, no streaming.
This second day of the summit allows us to address some of the questions posed by our opening agenda in more depth. Many of the speakers from the previous day will step off the stage and take part in smaller breakout sessions, joining an invited audience of researchers, academics and fellow experts to probe more explicitly into the root causes of misinformation, discuss the ways in which various sectors are impacted, and reflect on the necessary next steps that are most likely to lead to genuine change.
Digital Programme
13:00 - 16:00 Eastern Daylight Time
Streamed live at nobelprize.org
REFLECTIONS FROM THE LAST SUMMIT
Carl Folke, trans-disciplinary environmental scientist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Owen Gaffney, Chief Impact Officer, Nobel Prize Outreach.
THOUGHT AND TRUTH UNDER PRESSURE
Åsa Wikfors, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University and Peter Pomerantsev, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics.
TAWAKKOL KARMAN ON MISINIFORMATION
Tawakkol is a Yemeni Nobel Prize laureate, journalist, politician and human rights activist. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011
HOPE IN ACTION: OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATIONS FOR INFORMATION INTEGRITY
A global campaign to discover open-source solutions that are taking action in combating information pollution.
SMITHSONIAN YOUTH PROJECT
The Smithsonian Science Education Center assembled a group of high school students to participate in a 12 week research program on Sustainable Communities.
WIKIMEDIA TRAINING SESSION
In collaboration with Wikimedia.
Editing Wikipedia and Closing Content Gaps Online During this instructional video, viewers will learn to edit and add content to Wikipedia. No prior experience is required. The training is provided by Ariel Cetrone, Institutional Partnerships for Wikimedia DC, an official chapter affiliate of Wikimedia.
Watch the video
Digital Sessions
12:00 - 16:00 Eastern Daylight Time
DELIBERATIVE POLLING EXERCISE
At this Nobel Prize Summit, we invite you to participate in a citizen deliberation. We will run an exercise in large-scale group deliberation to help develop the capacity to democratically vet policy proposals concerning the information landscape. We will together learn about how to shape such deliberations for our larger societies – and also learn some of the issues around current proposed policies regarding online media platforms.
Closing Session
16:00 - 17:00 Eastern Daylight Time
In-person and streamed live at nobelprize.org.
INPUT FROM BREAKOUT SESSIONS
INPUT FROM DELIBERATIVE POLLING EXERCISE
REFLECTIONS ON DAY 1 & 2 – WHAT IS NEXT?
26 May - Solution Sessions
09:00 - 17:00 Eastern Daylight Time
Turn discussions into action with our digital partner events.
Virtual and onsite registrations to our Solution Sessions is now open.
