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Science at the US-Africa Leaders Summit, Washington, DC, 12-15 December 2022

ISC and partners will organise a series of side events focussing on the contribution of science to the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit and its outcomes taking place in Washington on 12-15 December 2022. The US-Africa Summit is intended to demonstrate the United States enduring commitment to Africa and underscore the importance of U.S.-Africa relations and increased cooperation on shared global priorities. White House Announcement

                       The programme is in development, so please monitor it for updates

The Summit will build on shared values to better foster new economic engagement; reinforce the U.S.-Africa commitment to democracy and human rights; mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and future pandemics; work collaboratively to strengthen regional and global health; promote food security; advance peace and security; respond to the climate crisis, and amplify diaspora ties.

ISC will organise a series of events designed to highlight the role and contribution of science to the US-Africa relationship under the heading of Science at the US-Africa Leaders Summit 2022. ISC organised a similar series of meetings during the last US-African Leaders Summit, which took place in 2014. The objectives of the meetings will be to highlight the importance of science in Africa, to foster greater collaboration between African nations and the US, and to increase investment in science for Global Health, Digital Transition, Space, Biological Diversity, Education and Skills, among other areas and to support an enabling policy and regulatory environment for science collaboration to flourish between Africa and the US.
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Samuel Adunreke

Innovea Hubs and Innovea Development Foundation
CEO & Executive President
Lagos, Nigeria
Samuel is an impact driven young individual. His eye on excellence has kept him on his guard to create more of his kind.A graduate of Physics Electronics (Options) From The Federal University of Technology, Akure. He is a software developer, During his undergraduate years he represented the University at The IBM sponsored Scientific Computing Context organized by International Collegiate on Computer Programming Contexts ICPC at The National Mathematical Center in Abuja (2013). He joined various extra curricular on-campus activities like ENACTUS FUTA to participate in social and Entrepreneurship Development Activities and events. He interned at Lagos State Radio Service where he got experience on operations of Communications Equipment, Automation, Outside broadcast Van OBC and came with a report on the internship on Telecommunications and Barriers to Digital Broadcasting. (Communications Physics).He carried out his undergraduate research on Environmental Physics by Characterising Ionising Radiation a from Major Waste Sites and Landfills in Akure, Ondo State (Samuel Adunreke, 2014).He is the Founder of Innovea Hubs, a Digital Innovation Lab for collaborative development and SDGs, a member of the Executive Board at Innovea Development Foundation. As a scientist, and a Physicist, he has a basic background in areas of Renewable and Nuclear Energy, Radiation and Health, Telecommunications Physics, Embedded Systems, Computational Physics, IoT, AI and Artificial Neural Networks, Instrumentation, Environment and Health Physics, Radiology, Automation and Circuit Designs.He creates pathways to innovation by simplistic designs and ideas. For this, He founded a non profit organization, Innovea Development Foundation which started as Innovea SDGs Hub social enterprise, for promoting scientific studies and application of natural sciences and research towards development.The Hub brought together young people from different background to carry out social services.Contributing to various reports, policy documents, including the Digital Transformation Pathways, Renewable Energy in Cities Global Status Report. (See https://REN21.net/gsr )Having participated at many International Conferences and the recent UNGA75 and Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Summit, Climate Adaptation Summit, High Level Dialogue on Energy, Food Systems Summit, Abhu-Dhabi Sustainability Week, Climate Ambition Summit, Africa Climate Week 2020, Clean Energy Ministerial etc.As an International Observer/Delegate to The 11th Session of International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA 11A, he witnessed the various global Energy Organizations give interventions on the future of Energy Development. Innovea Development Foundation is also committed to transformative energy and climate actions through different projects like the Energy Compact. He seek among his peers to advance research, science and innovative partnership for enhanced capacities in Energy Transitions, economic development, human capital, social and humanitarian development in Africa and Globally.Over the course of 2020, he and his team participated at The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes UNODC trainings during The Foundaçion Paso's Libre DataJam context on using data and explorative insights to tackle issues of human trafficking and transborder crimes. Followed up to the deployment of The Open data framework on Migration by the Open Migration Framework as a stakeholder. He also joined various training sessions at Harvard Business School Online on The Subject of Energy Within Environmental Constraints, The World Bank Innovate4Climate summit, IFC Sustainability Summit, and followed trainings by The World Bank Group on International Trade (Trade on the Age of Supply Chain Transformation), He joined major civil society organizations in The first Finance in Common Summit held in 2020 and 2021, joined The Global Framework for Refugees and Migrants GRFDT and Asia Migration forum, The Asia Pacific Model United Nations APIMUN 2020 conference.His volunteering experience within the UN spans across the UNMGCY Migra
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