Sleep tonight, but i think it will be worth it. The covid19 pandemic has shown the devastating impact can be due to a moderate pandemic. And we can imagine the impact of biological threat here or in the horizons that have more than a 1 fatality rate. The biological threats that are enabled by advances and Synthetic Biology is make possible to design pathogens that are even more severe, even more deadly than what we find in nature and the capabilities are accessible not just to state and biological weapon programs that unfortunately persist today but also to individuals. To help us understand the threat we face and what we can do about them, we are fortunate to have two congressional leaders on National Security issues and the distinguished panel of experts including one of my mentors on the topic for 15 years. Im honored to first welcome that distinguished guests, representative mike turner that represents the tenth Congressional District in southwestern ohio which includes dayton and
Preparedness and emerging bio threats from other nations. Nonstate actors and natural causes. They also talk about the role of government partnerships with the private sector and International Communities as well as intergovernmental coordination. Im the ceo and president of the Rand Corporation a nonprofit and nonpartisan Research Organization committed to the public good. This is my first public event in my new role and i am grateful that its the topic that id lost the most sleep over the last 20 years. I expect i will be losing more sleep tonight, but i think it will be worth it. The covid19 pandemic has shown the devastating impact can be due to a moderate pandemic. And we can imagine the impact of biological threat here or in the horizons that have more than a 1 fatality rate. The biological threats that are enabled by advances and Synthetic Biology is make possible to design pathogens that are even more severe, even more deadly than what we find in nature and the capabilities are
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. Well good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us on this panel and nice to see familiar faces in the audience, andy, nice to see you. Im excited about the Panel Discussion that weve had today because its a very, very timely issue. This is the topic im excited about talking about here is the issue with working families, inflation, and how we can use fin tech to solve some of povertys pressing problems. Working families are facing a time of rising inflation, energy costs and food costs, everything in everyday life. Workers are too often seeing the paychecks lagging behind and businesses are facing a difficult time hiring, as we enter into this time of economic hardship, we know that households will face financial hardships, and we also know that reducing that hardship is going to require policy makers, forProfit Institutions, not for Profit Institutions and everyone in between to come together to explo
Usable. A technique called template protection can ensure that one system biometric information is encrypted such that it cannot be read by another system for example. Someones image obtained from system at a doctor or Psychiatrist Office cannot be linked to the workplace Identity Verification system. Authorities are already working to improve Privacy Protection technologies. The american competes act contains a number of provisions that will future proof the governments definitions and standards for biometric Identification Systems and invest in privacy enhancing technologies. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses as biometrics become more prevalent in our daily lives. The timing of our discussion today is notable. The Supreme Court recently substantially weakened the right to privacy in their overturning of roe v. Wade. Third parties may try to access biometric information to collect the bounties now being offered by some states to enforce their new laws. I watch observed that
Business before it begins. Verizon is the buyer. Call it the oscars of Silicon Valley. Some the biggest names among them gathered to honor achievement in science. First, to the lead. Nearly four months since microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer announced he would be retiring. Bloomberg has reported that they want somebody replaced by the end of year, the chances are dwindling by the day. Qualcomm promoted Steve Mollenkopf to the top job after we reported he was among the top candidates. There is plenty of a buzz about satya nadella. What is going on with the search . Paul kedrosky is a managing partner at sk ventures. He will be with us. It is kind of odd. A strange cross of reality tv and monty python. The whole idea of a short list goes out the window when your talk about microsoft. Everybody is gone. We have a short list. The obvious problem here is anybody with any sort of understanding of technology knows what they are stepping into. They are walking to labor badly broken organization with