Sentences with phrase «big world problems»

We know that our young people experience anxiety not only about doing well at school but also about an uncertain future in regard to employment and big world problems such as global warming.

More than 1,000 experts (including Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina) have gathered to discuss big world problems such as climate change, poverty, water shortages, energy and innovation.

More than 1000 experts (including Scientific American editor - in - chief Mariette DiChristina) have gathered in Dubai to discuss big world problems such as climate change, poverty, water shortages, energy and innovation.

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The company began, in part, when Herman Hollerith sold his first tabulating machine to the US Census and ever since, its success has been based its ability to develop some of the world's most sophisticated technology to solve big problems.

Marine Debris Tracker allows you to enter the marine debris you find into a global database so we can start to build a bigger picture of this problem around the world.

Alexandra Amouyel is the executive director of MIT's Solve, which aims to assist innovators who are tackling the world's biggest problems.

As part of its 7 Days of Genius Festival, a weeklong series of panel discussions and talks kicking off March 1, New York City's 92nd Street Y is launching its first Genius Startup Competition, a contest that's intended to unearth big ideas that can have a major impact in fields such as education, energy, sustainability, and other industries that are poised to address the world's most pressing problems.

It's a contest designed to put a spotlight on the private sector's freshest and smartest solutions to solving the world's biggest social problems.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

Other companies that said they had been hit by a presumed cyber attack included Russian metal maker Evraz, French construction materials firm Saint Gobain and the world's biggest advertising agency, WPP — though it was not clear if their problems were caused by the same virus.

Branson could spend all of his time on Necker Island, but he's using his billions and voice (he's got over 2 million followers) to try and solve some of the world's biggest problems, like the HIV / AIDS pandemic and global warming.

The big problem with a lot of conventional education programs is that they are not sufficiently preparing people for the real world of work.

PharmaSecure Counterfeit drugs are a big problem in the developing world.

«This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world's biggest problems — the pollution that is causing climate change,» Premier Rachel Notley said as she announced her government's new policy in Edmonton on Sunday.

With the new influx of $ 140 million, Ghodsi and team are hoping to tackle the next big problem in the big data / machine learning / AI world: the lack of trained people.

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'' [T] he biggest problem of success is that the world conspires to stop you doing the thing that you do, because you are successful.

It's a gathering of the biggest names, brightest thinkers and most passionate entrepreneurs working on the world's biggest problems.

Some of the individuals were behind «megagifts» of $ 200 million to $ 2 billion, big checks most often associated with tech - industry tycoons trying to solve the world's biggest problems — from developing world poverty to lack of universal education — in one bank transfer of epic proportions.

Ultimately we want to apply this to big real - world problems.»

However, Astro Teller, X's leader, insists that cybersecurity has been on the backburner for several years at X. Creating research projects to tackle the planet's biggest problems that can be spun into independent companies has always been the goal, not just creating out - of - this world technology for the sake of grabbing headlines.

The fact that so many big companies like Target, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and insurance giant Anthem are being hacked proves that «Cyber security is one of the biggest problems in the world,» Teller said.

There are big problems we need to solve in this world, and we would all be crazy to think it's going to be just a bunch of white dudes who find the solutions.

Now we have the resources to help people across the world solve even bigger and more important problems.»

Problems in China, the world's second largest economy, can crimp global growth, a big concern at a time when weak oil prices and geopolitical concerns are also clouding the outlook.

As one of the largest technology firms in the world, how to maintain sustained growth is now the biggest problem Apple is facing, and the formation of a sound app eco-chain has become a top priority.

But it also corresponds to one of the key messages from previous Global Opportunity Reports: That business leaders embrace the shared value in solving some of the world's biggest problems.

We invest in the best teams, solving the biggest problems in technology hot spots around the world.

About Notion Notion invests in the enterprise tech of the future, in the teams and companies that have what it takes to solve the biggest problems facing the business world, transforming entire industries in the process.

We seek companies that are innovating solutions to make our communities and organizations more resilient while tackling some of the world's biggest energy and climate problems.

If business is to help solve the world's biggest environmental problems, and do so profitably, corporate executives, environmentalists, and politicians will need to innovate and collaborate, think big and act boldly.

Then, in 1996, he decided to leverage his experiences as a founder with multiple successful exits to launch a technology incubator where he could «look for big problems in the world that have technology solutions and test many ideas in parallel.»

So they decided to create Fifty Years to support entrepreneurs solving the world's biggest problems with technology.

It just needs to be presented with big business potentials and the opportunity to solve a big problem in the world.

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is on the forefront of the movement to use food technology and markets to solve some of the world's biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger to antibiotic resistance and the exploitation of billions of animals annually.

«But putting a merchant - branded «one - click» button on their site doesn't solve their online problems,» adding that merchants then have to worry about acquiring users, putting new fraud controls into place and managing authentication at the same level of excellence as the biggest commerce players in the world.

Feb 2014: Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy protection The world's biggest exchange, which at one point controlled 70 % of bitcoin transactions, was plagued with hacks and other problems.

One big problem today is that the world is full of preachers who don't have the guts to tell the truth and just give people their weekly feel good and sent them out into the world just as lost as they ever were.

There is no perfect local church in this world, but that's not the biggest problem.

The UN Environment Program has launched a new campaign that they hope will equip both governments, big businesses and communities to help stem the world's food waste problem.

People are making their lives complicated more than they need to by making world problems their problems; go to some small town and ask farmer's wife what is her biggest worry when she wakes up!!

It's a big old world out their that is full of people who have bigger problems.

The biggest problem with Wallis's blanket denunciations of the world economy and his vague proposals for a «third way» is not that they are out - of - date or leftist but that they hinder the fight against poverty here and abroad in three ways.

Frankly people need to be less offended by every little thing, there's much bigger problems in this world to worry about.

«What do you think is the biggest problem facing the world?»

A big problem with secular humanism is that it attempts to develop a morality based on human reason, only using our understanding of the material world.

No one had any problem contemplating some Big Bang of «happening to come to be» nor, at least in later years, does anyone have severe doubts that, whether with Bang or Whimper, this fragile world of ours could cease to be.

I know that there are bigger problems in the world but I've heard that it's ok since I was a little baby to pray to the Allmighty for things.

The world has a big problem with Christian exclusivism — the belief that there is one God uniquely revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the one way, truth, and life for all people at all times.

Modern western Christians are so infatuated with sin, that we see sin everywhere and believe that our biggest problem in the world is sin and that God is sitting in heaven trying to figure out how to stop us all from sinning.