PREVIOUS EVENT
Frontiers Forum Live 2023
Montreux, Switzerland and virtually
26-29 April 2023
The 2023 edition of Frontiers Forum Live united researchers, innovators, and influencers in a common mission to accelerate the global transition to open science and mobilize solutions for critical challenges – with the most urgent being to reach net-zero carbon to prevent climate disaster.
With the aim of facilitating collaborations and partnerships to help catalyze transformational change and build a brighter future, the multidisciplinary program highlighted the accelerator effect of open science, celebrated solutions to the climate crisis and other critical challenges, and fostered multidisciplinary dialogs and discussions across all areas of science and policy.
Keynote speakers
Keynote talks from Frontiers CEO and co-founder Dr Kamila Markram as well as iconic representatives of biodiversity, sustainability, and climate change reinforced the central role of science in restoring planetary health. And a new challenge was identified: the potential of AI to disrupt human civilization.
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Kamila Markram
Co-founder & CEO
Frontiers -
Jane Goodall
Founder
Jane Goodall Institute, UK -
Ban Ki-moon
Eighth Secretary-General
United Nations, South Korea -
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian and author
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel -
Johan Rockström
Director
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany -
Al Gore
Vice President
and Nobel Laureate
USA
Frontiers Planet Prize
Twenty outstanding scientists were recognized for their research to keep us safe within our planet’s boundaries in the inaugural Frontiers Planet Prize awards ceremony, which took place as part of Frontiers Forum Live. Four International Champions were also announced, sharing the prize of 3 million Swiss francs to support their continuing research into the vital effort of stabilizing our planet’s ecosystem.
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Paul Behrens
International Champion
Leiden University, the Netherlands -
Mark New
International Champion
University of Cape Town, South Africa -
Carlos Peres
International Champion
University of East Anglia, UK -
Baojing Gu
International Champion
Zhejiang University, China -
Mary Scholes
Professor of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Science talks
Talks from science leaders further showcased humanity’s ability to understand and conquer different health challenges by working collaboratively across all levels of society.
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Cynthia Kenyon
Vice President of Aging Research
Calico Life Sciences, USA -
Rudolf Jaenisch
Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA -
Britt Wray
Lead, Special Initiative in Climate and Mental Health
Stanford University, USA -
Kevin Esvelt
Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA -
Seth Berkley
Chief Executive Officer
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Switzerland
Community Summit
The Frontiers Community Summit highlighted the accelerator effect of open science – and the critical need for quality, to ensure society is enabled by science and can take the right decisions. Frontiers’ publishing and technology experts provided an update on the global transition to open science – and demonstrated Frontiers’ laser focus on quality across all stages of the publishing process.
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Kamila Markram
Co-founder & CEO
Frontiers -
Fred Fenter
Chief Executive Editor
Frontiers -
Mirjam Eckert
Chief Publishing Officer
Frontiers -
Daniel Petrariu
Chief Technology Officer
Frontiers -
Dimitri Christodoulou
Director of Publishing Operations
Frontiers -
Laure Sonnier
Executive Editor, Frontiers in Science
Frontiers