Building Your Digital Twin | Roger Highfield and Peter Coveney | Talks at Google

Authors Roger Highfield and Peter Coveney discuss their book "Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life", a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings.
These virtual copies will usher in a new era of personalized medicine, one in which your digital twin can help predict your risk of disease, participate in virtual drug trials, shed light on the diet and lifestyle changes that are best for you, and help identify therapies to enhance your well-being and extend your lifespan.
Get the book here: goo.gle/40ExUxy.
Roger Highfield is the Science Director of the Science Museum Group, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a visiting professor of public engagement at the Dunn School, University of Oxford and Department of Chemistry at University College London, and a member of the UKRI-Medical Research Council. He was the Science Editor of “The Daily Telegraph” for two decades and the Editor of “New Scientist” between 2008 and 2011.
Peter V. Coveney is a professor in Physical Chemistry at University College London (UCL), Director of the Centre for Computational Science (CCS) and is an Associate Director in the Centre of Advanced Research Computing. He is a Professor in Applied High Performance Computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and Professor Adjunct at Yale University School of Medicine (USA). Coveney chaired the UK Collaborative Computational Projects Steering Panel (2005-15) and has served on programme committees of many conferences, including the 2002 Nobel Symposium on Self-Organisation. He has previously published more than 500 scientific papers and co-authored widely acclaimed books such as “The Arrow of Time” and “Frontiers of Complexity”, both with Roger Highfield. Coveney was a founding member of the UK Government’s E-Infrastructure Leadership Council and worked in the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology on Data, Algorithms and Modelling which led to the creation of the London-based Turing Institute.
Moderated by Matt Bongiovi.
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