Where: Cinema Theater, Discovery Square
Description
We are excited to host the 2020 WEP Film Festival, where renowned scientists will introduce and lead discussions for a range of educational documentaries and fictional film screenings related to this year’s theme ‘Personalized Medicine’.
Can you imagine having a sixth sense? As technology adapts, invades or transforms our bodies, our perception of what makes us human changes. An insightful film that introduces us to the first cyborgs, the human creatures that have implanted electronic circuits in them, trying to transcend their biological boundaries. A documentary that makes us rethink what science fiction really means.
Prof. Khaled Salama, co-Chair of WEP, will introduce this film and Dr. Elsa Sotiriadis aka "The Biofuturist" lead the discussion of this screening.
Elsa Sotiriadis
Elsa Sotiriadis is a scientist, former venture capital investor, futurist and science fiction writer (Elsa Solaris). She is interested in fixing the world by hacking the code of life. As a director at a VC firm, she helped invest in, build, and launch 25 pioneering biotech startups to transform industries across food, technology, health, and medicine. During her Ph.D. in Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London, she worked on making DNA nanorobots to stop the growth of cancer cells. Today, as a ‘Bio-Futurist’ she helped an iconic tech company harness digital biology to innovate their flagship product. She has been featured in the BBC’s science fiction show ‘Forest 404’ and took part in a workshop on self-sustaining human life in space at NASA’s Ames Research Centre.
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