Truth, Trust and Hope

Nobel Prize Summit

Sumi Somaskanda

Sumi Somaskanda is a chief presenter at BBC News. She previously served as a senior presenter and correspondent for DW News, Germany’s international broadcaster.

Sumi Somaskanda is a chief presenter at BBC News. She previously served as a senior presenter and correspondent for DW News, Germany’s international broadcaster. In Washington DC, she covered US politics and current affairs across the country; previously, she worked as a senior presenter for DW News in Berlin for 14 years, covering breaking news and major political events, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the 2020 US presidential elections.

She reported on Germany for various international publications as well, including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, and Newsweek. She served as an editor at the Berlin Policy Journal, Germany’s premiere English-language foreign affairs magazine, and hosted the Berlin-based current affairs podcast Studio Berlin.

She regularly moderated panels and conferences both in Germany and is an alumna of the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship program. In addition to her native English, she speaks fluent German and Spanish, and conversational (Sri Lankan) Tamil.

 

See Sumi Somaskanda at:

  • 24 May - The Global Conversation
  • Introduction: DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: 09:30 - 10:00
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  • Live from the Studio - Digital Exclusive: 12:30 - 14:00
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Summit talks: technology and ethics

I’m not afraid. You’re afraid.

A thought-provoking talk by technology ethicist Tristan Harris, on the race between technology creators and our regulation on AI and our ever-increasing addiction to social media.

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Summit talks: history of disinformation

Manipulating the marginalised.

Watch researcher and scholar Rachel Kuo chart the history of how misinformation and disinformation has been used against the disenfranchised across different racial and religious groups and what we can do collectively to combat it.

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A message from the summit organisers

“I don’t think the truth has ever mattered more”

Watch Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation and Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academy of Sciences, discuss the upcoming Nobel Prize Summit.

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“With the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit we will promote the scientific method, critical thinking, and constructive dialogue.”

Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation and Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academy of Sciences.

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