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Brave New Futures: Future of Work

Listen to the final panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on the future of work and featured: * Suhani Jalota, founder of Myna Mahila and founder and leader of the Future of Work for Women Initiative at Stanford University's Hoover Institution * Olubayo Adekanmbi, CEO of Data Science Nigeria and co-founder of EqualyzAI * Moderator: Dean Karlan, Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business, founder and former president of Innovations for Poverty Action, and former Chief Economist for USAID Brave New Futures convened a visionary set of international thinkers to explore how human relationships, information ecosystems, labor, and the planet itself are being reshaped in this moment of uncertainty and possibility. From the power of art for action to the future of work and planetary survival, the symposium envisioned bold new visions for building more just and sustainable global futures. Learn more: https://buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave-new-futures/spring-symposium.html

Brave New Futures: Planetary Futures

Listen to the fourth panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on planetary futures and featured: * ⁠Vanessa Nakate⁠ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Nakate], climate activist, founder of the ⁠Rise Up climate movement⁠ [https://www.unicef.org/goodwill-ambassadors/vanessa-nakate#:~:text=She%20founded%20Rise%20Up%20Movement%20to%20elevate%20the%20voices%20of%20African%20climate%20activists], and author of ⁠A Bigger Picture⁠ [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-bigger-picture-vanessa-nakate] * ⁠David Wallace-Wells⁠ [https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-wallace-wells], writer for ⁠New York Times Opinion⁠ [https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/david-wallace-wells], columnist for ⁠New York Times Magazine⁠ [https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-wallace-wells], and author of ⁠The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming⁠ [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/] * Moderator: ⁠Iza Ding⁠ [https://polisci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/iza-ding.html], Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences  Brave New Futures convened a visionary set of international thinkers to explore how human relationships, information ecosystems, labor, and the planet itself are being reshaped in this moment of uncertainty and possibility. From the power of art for action to the future of work and planetary survival, the symposium envisioned bold new visions for building more just and sustainable global futures. Learn more: https://buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave-new-futures/spring-symposium.html

Brave New Futures: Arts of Social Change

Listen to the third panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on the arts of social change and featured: * Bing Liu [https://www.instagram.com/bingliu89/?hl=en], filmmaker and director of the Emmy- and Oscar-nominated feature documentary Minding the Gap [https://www.mindingthegapfilm.com/] and the newly released feature film Preparation for the Next Life [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparation_for_the_Next_Life_(film)] * Omar Offendum [https://www.instagram.com/offendum/], spoken word poet, rapper, and storyteller * Moderator: Ellen Harvey [https://www.ellenharvey.info/about/], conceptual artist whose recent work includes Utopia Machine [https://www.ellenharvey.info/utopia_machine/] Brave New Futures convened a visionary set of international thinkers to explore how human relationships, information ecosystems, labor, and the planet itself are being reshaped in this moment of uncertainty and possibility. From the power of art for action to the future of work and planetary survival, the symposium envisioned bold new visions for building more just and sustainable global futures. Learn more: https://buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave-new-futures/spring-symposium.html

Brave New Futures: New Media

Listen to the second panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on new media and featured: * Allison Yang [https://www.linkedin.com/in/yangjinggame/], founder and CEO of Reality Reload [https://www.realityreload.com/] * Shuwei Fang [https://shorensteincenter.org/person/shuwei-fang/], Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politic, & Public Policy [https://shorensteincenter.org/] * Moderator: Jeremy Gilbert [https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/directory/faculty/jeremy-gilbert.html], Knight Professor in Digital Media Strategy at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism  Brave New Futures convened a visionary set of international thinkers to explore how human relationships, information ecosystems, labor, and the planet itself are being reshaped in this moment of uncertainty and possibility. From the power of art for action to the future of work and planetary survival, the symposium envisioned bold new visions for building more just and sustainable global futures. Learn more: https://buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave-new-futures/spring-symposium.html

Brave New Futures: Human Relationships

Listen to the first panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on human relationships and featured: * ⁠Qing Wang⁠ [https://www.thisisqing.com/about], co-founder of ⁠The Weirdo Podcast⁠ [https://www.buheshiyi.com/] * ⁠Nataliya Kos’myna⁠ [https://www.media.mit.edu/people/nkosmyna/overview/], research scientist at MIT Media Lab’s ⁠Fluid Interfaces⁠ [https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/fluid-interfaces/overview/] group * Moderator: ⁠Nour Kteily⁠ [https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/academics-research/faculty/kteily_nour/], Kellogg Chair in Enlightened Disagreement, Professor of Management & Organizations, and Founding Co-Director of the ⁠Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement ⁠ [https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/academics-research/litowitz-center-enlightened-disagreement/]at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business Brave New Futures convened a visionary set of international thinkers to explore how human relationships, information ecosystems, labor, and the planet itself are being reshaped in this moment of uncertainty and possibility. From the power of art for action to the future of work and planetary survival, the symposium envisioned bold new visions for building more just and sustainable global futures. Learn more about the event: https://buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave-new-futures/spring-symposium.html