Nobel Prize Summit

Our Future, Our Planet

 

The Nobel Prize organisation invited Beatie Wolfe to speak, perform, and show her environmental protest piece ‘From Green To Red’ at its opening session of its inaugural summit following Sir David Attenborough and Al Gore

 

The Program: Opening Morning

Session 1: Main stage only

  • 09:50: Welcome from the three presenting hosts

    • Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director, The Nobel Foundation

    • Marcia McNutt, President, US National Academy of Sciences

    • Johan Rockström, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

  • 10:00: The Perfect Home

    • Sir David Attenborough, broadcaster and biologist

  • 10:30: Our Planet

    • Al Gore, Former US Vice President and Nobel Prize laureate

  • 11:00: Talk, art piece and musical performance

    • Beatie Wolfe, Artist & UN innovation campaign role model

Session 2: Summit divides across four stages

  • 11:20: Dynamic Dialogues

    • Beatie Wolfe joins the ‘technology’ dialogue stage hosted by Nobel Prize laureates Stanley Whittingham and David Gross


Beatie Wolfe’s Session

11:00: Talk, art piece and musical performance

  • Friend and space beaming collaborator Nobel Laureate Robert Wilson introduced Beatie Wolfe onstage for the summit. Following Robert Wilson’s introduction, Beatie gave a short talk about her ‘world first’ formats for art in the digital age and shared her latest innovation ‘From Green to Red’ which visualizes 800,000 years of climate data, taking the audience on a journey through the planet’s timeline, before closing with a live performance


Nobel Prize Channels

Nobel Prize - website (front page)

Nobel Prize - Facebook

 
This desperate world needs your love more than ever
— Beatie Wolfe quoted by Nobel Prize

Session 2: Dynamic Dialogues

11:20 Technology panel

  • Stanley Whittingham, Nobel Prize laureate, Professor of Chemistry, Binghamton University, State University of New York

  • David Gross, Nobel Prize laureate, Chancellor’s Chair Professor of Theoretical Pysics

  • Beatie Wolfe, artist and UN Women campaign role model

  • Ahmad Mobayed, youth leader and co-founder of the Syrican Youth Assembly