The 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS), jointly organized by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, will be held July 18-20, 2017, on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The GGCS series aims to spark global collaborations that lead to innovative ways of addressing critically important engineering challenges and opportunities and inspiring the next generation of change makers.

Speakers will include:

• Michael Abrash, chief scientist of Oculus
• Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for the United Kingdom
• Jeffrey Dean, Google senior fellow
• Christof Koch, president and CSO of the Allen Institute for Brain -Science
• Rikky Muller, co-founder of Cortera Neurotechnologies and assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley 
• Molly Stevens, professor of biomedical materials and regenerative medicine at Imperial College London

Find out more at www.ggcs2017.org