<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Panel Discussion Invitation</font></b></span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class="">..........................................................................................</i></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><b class=""><font color="#993300" class="">“Big Data and Sustainable Development"</font></b></i></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><font color="#993300" class=""> </font>……………………………………………………………………………</i></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Calibri" class=""><b class="">Host<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></b></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><b class="">NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><strong class=""><b class=""><font face="Calibri" class="">RSVP</font></b></strong><font color="navy" face="Calibri" class="">: <a href="mailto:events@sustainabilitypractice.net" title="mailto:events@sustainabilitypractice.net" target="_blank" class="" style="color: purple;">events@sustainabilitypractice.net</a> </font></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><p class="" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Date:</b> April 14, 2016<font color="navy" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></font></p><p class="" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Time</b>: 6:00 – 8:00pm <font color="navy" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></font></p><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Venue:</b> NYU Stern Kaufman Management Center, 44 W 4th Street, Room M2-60<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Moderator: </b></span></font><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class="">Vasant Dhar, Professor, NYU Center for Data Science and NYU Stern; Editor-in-Chief, Big Data Journal</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Panelists:</b> Justine Dowden, Data Analyst Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University;</span></font><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">Nicole Barberis, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">Senior Data Scientist, Bloomberg LLP; </span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">Kirk Borne, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(245, 248, 250);">Principal Data Scientist, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(245, 248, 250);">Booz Allen Hamilton, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(245, 248, 250);">PhD Astrophysicist; </span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Louis Coppola, Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Governance & Accountability Institute; </span></div><p class="" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Topic:</b> 'Big Data and Sustainable Development'<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class="" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class="">Big data presents big challenges—and big opportunities. Referring to the seemingly infinite quantity of information now being recorded by recently developed technologies across a multitude of sectors—health care, transportation, finance, marketing, social media, agriculture and education to name a few—this is a time of unprecedented access to large volumes of information about our modern day lives. </font></span></p><p class="" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The great quantity and quality of information that we have at our disposal has the potential to allow us to glean insights about the state of the world in which we live and the demands for the future. </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Public and private sectors and civil society are tapping into these data to design, monitor and evaluate policies. Increasingly, </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); white-space: pre-wrap;">environmental, economic and social data are being leveraged for decision making and companies which provide services to aggregate and analyze these data are at the forefront of a data revolution for sustainable development. </span></span></font></p><p class="" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); white-space: pre-wrap;">As the world decides upon the indicators to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, there is an urgent need to mobilize data to hold governments and decision-makers accountable. </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With dire constraints to finite natural resources, rising populations and levels of inequality, how can we tap into big data to track progress and modify the status quo? </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What kinds of data and analytical tools will be relevant to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda? What trends and practices may be useful and what are the greatest foreseeable obstacles which lie ahead? </span></span></font></p><p class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><b class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">About the Sponsors:</b></p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><b class=""></b></span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="">The <b class="">Sustainability Practice Network</b></span><font class=""><span class=""> <b class="">(SPN)</b> is a New York based inter-disciplinary community of professionals who seek to learn and share knowledge to advance sustainable development across sectors and disciplines. We mobilize our members to practice sustainability in their lives and work. Our mission is to raise awareness of the importance of individual and corporate sustainability and thereby create a more stable and equitable world. </span></font></span></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business</b> </span></span><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">(CSB</b>) mission is to assist current and future business leaders develop the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to address environmental and social challenges, so their business can reduce risk; create competitive advantage; develop innovative services, products, and processes; while building value for society and protecting the planet.</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></span></font></div></div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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