Good morning ladies and gentlemen. My name is Otache Sony Otache. I was born into a family of medics.Everybody in the house where I grew up on the medical line. and they thought that someday I was going to be a doctor or maybe um a medical lab scientist or one of those. But instead, I chose to be a broadcast journalist, an advocate, an activist, and on top of it all, an entertainer, which is what I love the most.And today I am honored to stand before you to share a powerful tool that can disarm insecurity h ...

My first day as an elementary school principal, a young girl with perfectly parted afro puffs ran up to me on the playground and said, "So, you're our new principal?" And when I said yes, she very matterof factly said, "I didn't know black people could be principles." >> Cool. And then she ran off smiling. In that moment, I remember feeling two ways.One, I was so glad she knew now. And two, I was so deeply saddened that she didn't know that before. That defining moment in my educational career is a perfect ...

The year was 1995. I was 14 years old. Nelson Mandela had just been elected as the first democratically elected president of South Africa after 30 years of imprisonment for his fight for freedom. As a South African by descent, I was proud and relieved. At the same time, in my home country of Malawi, we had gone through a series of protests to establish a multi-party system of government after 30 years of dictatorship. It was a time of hope. Perhaps equally importantly, the South African national rugby team ...

First Lady Melania Trump presides over the United Nations Security Council on Monday amid the war in the Middle East calling for peace through education as members consider education, technology, peace, and security. The U.S. war against Iran entered its third day on Monday, with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine vowing to deploy more forces to the region, and casualties growing. Air travel to the Middle East has been severely disrupted by the conflict, with thousands of flights cancelled. For a ...

As the current pace of AI development renders traditional learning models obsolete, the lack of AI skills has become more than a skill gap – it’s an existential disconnect. Tommie’s talk will explain how he redesigns education to mirror tech’s speed, rejuvenating the way we learn by transforming it into a fast-moving consumer good. Tommie is the Founder and CEO of Preface, a leading technology content company that empowers both corporates and individuals to navigate the rapidly evolving tech landscape for s ...

I'm happy to uh have a conversation now with the Dex Hunter Torica and he worked for um Google DeepMind. He was the global coms lead there for quite some time and he took a decision to actually leave the private sector and also join um the public side a couple of months ago and we have him coming in through a call. So he he is and welcome to Berlin, Dexter.How are you. >> Yeah, I'm great. Great to see you.>> Fantastic. Thank you for joining. And uh we know it's we would have loved to have you here in person ...

2,000 years ago, the ancient Greek had a word for a person who steered the ship. Kubernetes, captain, the one in control, the one who holds responsibility. From this word Kubernetes comes cyber.So cyber means control. But today we live in a digital world where most people do not have control, where many leaders and executives do not take enough responsibility and let their ship just sail along until it gets uh attacked by the pirates or lured into a presumably safe harbor or which turns out to be not that s ...

[music] [applause] [cheering] If you can control your attention, you can determine the quality of your life. In 2019, I had my last face-to-face conversation with the man who dedicated his life to the profound importance of that idea. If you're not so sure about your Hungarian [clears throat] or you um just know him as the flow guy, which is fine. Mihi Chick sent me high made it simple. He just welcomed everyone to call him Mike. For 21 years, it was the honor and privilege of my life to have him as my ment ...

The Aliko Dangote Foundation, backed by Africa’s richest person, pledged one trillion naira ($688 million) to support education in Nigeria https://t.co/tHnpyqS6ME ...

529 Account - The earlier the savings in a 529 account begin, the greater the potential for financial growth dedicated to education [1] - A sum of 12128132 represents the monetary value associated with education savings [1]