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Medical Marijuana: Health and (Financial) Wellness
Medical use of cannabis is legal in 28 states and many countries. It also represents a $100 billio
n industry that is expected to employ more than 200,000 people in the U.S. alone by 2020.
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Prescription for Wellness: Extending Our Health Span
The last century has seen advances in life span leading to individual and societal achievements th
at would have been unimaginable to prior generations.
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Health Care in the Digital Age
Mobile, big data, the Internet of Things and social media are leading a revolution that is transfo
rming opportunities in health care and research.
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Cracking the Code of Addiction and Mental Health
The opioid abuse and addiction crisis is the most recent manifestation of the challenges our socie
ty faces in dealing with the deeply intertwined issues of addiction and mental health.
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Hacks on Health Care: How to Make a Vulnerable Industry Cyber-Secure
In this session, our speakers discuss how we can combat the threats to individual privacy and safe
ty that are caused by a lag in data security practices in the healthcare industry, which was the most cyber-attacked sector in 2016.
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Will You Live to a Healthy 100?
Speakers on this panel explore the pioneering discoveries in geroscience that are bringing us clos
er to “hacking the aging code” to lead longer, healthier lives.
Moderator:
Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
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Great Ambition: Islamic Finance Goes Global
Islamic banking, based on religious principles that forbid collecting interest, is one of the fast
est-growing sectors in global finance and one that escaped significant damage during the financial crisis.
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Shaping Digital Finance
This session will examine the trends in digital finance and how technology is reshaping the busine
ss of finance. Potential questions:
Which emerging innovations will have the greatest impact in the shortest period of time?
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Addressing the Urban Housing Crisis
By 2025, 1.6 billion urban residents worldwide will face crowded, inadequate, and substandard hous
ing.
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Rebuilding Housing Finance: The Next Steps
How will housing finance evolve amid regulatory change and the challenges of achieving large-scale
reform legislation?
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