Last year in July, these groups of civil society, together with UN AIDS, the International Association of Providers in AIDS Care, and the International AIDS Society, convened a group of 20 of the world's leading HIV scientists, including Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of HIV.Together, those 20 scientists came to look at the evidence around HIV and the criminal law.
So we often convene . We convene annually. We train together. We work with each other.
And in the context of the enormity both of the need and the challenge, this organization, the DLF, will attempt to play a catalytic role. We'll convene . We will advocate. And we will fund critical translational research efforts.
Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white. And they convene parents in all kinds of ways, including lots of parents who are in interracial partnerships or have biracial children to talk
We also hope that individuals who are out and who are formerly incarcerated will continue to work together. So we often convene . We convene annually. We train together.
sets and chemistry sets and kids kit sets of long ago; these are now biotech sets for the kids to make new forms of life in the basement. And then they convene once they're in colleges and form teams they get together and compete at MIT every September at the iGem meetings and what are they up to now, 100 teams from 26 countries. This is an amazing occasion and of course a lot of it is frivolous. Bacteria that do the wave; that smell different in different parts of their cycle of life. But at the same time
Foundation. They host what's called the Global Teacher Prize. And so they convened all of us together in the beautiful city of Dubai to be in a think tank, to improve education, to talk about some of the challenges.
What countries do you see doing really innovative things that we should learn from? President Obama convened on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly Meeting about 50 heads of state back in 2010. Well, he issued a challenge in 2010 and he began the convenings in 2011, to say, let's all do this together.
If we go, we say on our current level on the x, we go up the y-axis to where you have no idea how our solution So they convened a meeting of the minds, the senior executives, they said, how are we going to solve this problem?
But in 1973, I was asked to teach a class in beginning running. And when I convened the class of 22, none of them had been doing any running for at least five years. And so, this was true beginners.
We still have a long way to go. Regional connections-- so not only did we convene all these great agencies in Washington DC at the national level, we also knew that Asian-Americans a lot of times can't go to Washington DC.
It's not like what you've been taught when you were in school, that everything will be a desk and chairs, and everyone will be to themselves. It's actually a space where people convene , and the culture is, we are here to work together collaboratively. We are here to solve world problems.
We had conversation for 2 and 1/2 hours, and all of that. So we then began to convene with people to come out of that .
So my story begins I was born into a convene of witches in a commune in the Haight-Ashbury in 1975. And when I say the convene of witches line on the East coast, people are usually like, what are you talking about? Witches? In San Francisco, people are like, do you know Dave, because I know that he grew up in a-- so I'll throw that out
calendar I use for for all my you know my publicist and my agents and my assistant we all do use Google Calendar as a way to kind of convene um online and and sync everything that works fantastically you have to start doing Hangouts then start doing what Hangouts you can do you can have a video hangout
yes, indeed there was a business here. And what was interesting was that, like, it wasn't just that we attracted people who knew -- like, knew a lot about food, loved cooking and wanted a place to kind of convene with others, but that food bloggers saw us as a complimentary platform for themselves. Like a place where they could draw attention to their work and bring people back to their own sites.
do science, technology, and innovation mean from Africa. I have said that I held-- I convened a meeting at MIT in 2014. I had also organized the previous one in South Africa to recast the idea of laboratory.
in a meaningful way, convene smaller groups.
So I'm going to start to talk about my story. So my story begins I was born into a convene of witches in a commune in the Haight-Ashbury in 1975. And when I say the convene of witches line on the East coast, people are usually like, what are you talking about?
Global threats fund where I'm the chairman and we convened a meeting uh and all the tech companies jumped in to
it's up to the person who's convened that or the entity that's convened that to really guard that safety.
What happened is that the National Cancer Institute convened a blue-ribbon panel that met for six months.
would attract such interest, or whether we would convene a global forum on computers and statistics for humanity.
And a report of our first Invitational meeting is posted there as well. We're an organization that will seek to influence the scientific agenda and help convene the key participants and catalyze key pieces of translational research. We're here today because we're seeking both additional funding and additional collaborators for the journey.
under this program, where we convene .
in fact to be human dinner is fun it is where we convene it's where we coales it's where we become a community and in
And so in April last year, we convened a small team of some very leading scientists
Nothing is required. But he's convened a community of people that he has hand-selected who reflect online entrepreneurship done the way that he
social entrepreneurs. So I also convened , along with some other friends.
In 1954, the big powers convened in Geneva to decide what to do about Indochina.
We want to identify one decision owner before any decision-oriented meeting convenes .
Six months ago, Bill and I convened a group of Indian and Pakistani former foreign ministers,
The public relations agent, a convener.
immigrants, and their three American-born children, who all convene on the family house for one day.
180 day school year. So I asked the superintendent to convene a meeting for me with all the principals and administrators of the San Francisco Unified
And then the third role is-is-is the incredible power that one has in these positions to convene , which again is about bringing smart people --
And so in 2005, the American Institute of Mathematics convened a meeting, gathering all the world's leading experts on this problem.
I am very pleased, for instance, that you have convened here over the lunchtime to be able to access a workshop or a professional development opportunity.
The first day I moved in on the 27th, I convened a meeting of the treasury officials to ask them the pressing question, what's our funding like?
So one of the powerful ways that Von really changed things in her industry is she convened a consortium across her industry.
We had conversation for 2 and 1/2 hours, and all of that. were men also. But it was mostly women that co-convened .
but the one I'm very supportive of is something called the Nuclear Summit, where he convened three times now in his terms in office
The issue of LGBTI rights in Uganda resurfaced one Friday in December when the Ugandan parliament convened an extraordinary session to pass what was then
Why not operate government accordingly as a platform, a convener, a coordinator?
So, to take the aftermath of my Texas story was the Texas legislature convenes that January and the first thing it does, the first thing it does, is restore those kid's health cuts.
assistance, a social media strategy, the presence of pro-bono community spaces where they can convene and build communities.
A CDO could advocate for visibility in spaces-- for instance, finding a place in which a student orgs can come, convene , and do the work that they want to do.
The National Academies of Sciences, one of the most well-respected organizations in the world, convened an expert panel, and they came to this conclusion also.
Sadly, it's virtual. But you guys are doing an amazing job in making it feel very lifelike and as if we've all moved and convened together in one place.
new blockchain lab. And in October, we co-hosted with the World Bank the first ever blockchain summit that they convened on the margins of the World Bank's annual meetings.