This year, we added a new activity to our methodology where Supermind participants collaborated during online video sessions to develop solutions together,” says Kathleen Kennedy, executive director of the Center for Collective Intelligence, who oversaw the Supermind platform. “Typically, Supermind participants contribute ideas to the platform asynchronously throughout the multi-week exercise.
Synthesizing the results of this exercise, the Supermind Report was published in thematic installments from June to November 2021 and is now released in full for the first time. We believe many of the ideas and strategies presented in this report can help guide our future directions.”ĭuring this sprint, the Supermind identified gaps and innovative solutions across five key technical areas, including the future of scientific research public health preparedness, science and technologies science communication disruptive technologies and flexible and resilient manufacturing, supply, and distribution chains. In the coming years, human civilization faces unprecedented challenges that will require the global life sciences community to innovate, coordinate, and act.
During the invite-only curation exercise that ran for four weeks in May 2021, the Supermind convened using the Center for Collective Intelligence’s software platform and methodology to address a central challenge question: How do we identify and apply the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic to re-imagine the institutions, processes, policies and tools we use across the life sciences to address global health needs for all?ĭavid Sun Kong, director of the Community Biotechnology Initiative within the MIT Media Lab and author of the report, says, “Building upon last year’s effort, we widened the scope of our exploration to think deeply about the future of the entire life sciences ecosystem. The Life Sciences Supermind Report represents 18 months of global collaboration and expert synthesis, applying an accelerated methodology to identify solutions amid the urgency of a pandemic. The work builds on the collaborators’ research from 2020, which focused on pandemic response efforts, to outline the most promising solutions to build health resilience for now and the future. and Canadian life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany - together convened more than 200 thought leaders from around the world to collaboratively capture the disruptions caused by the pandemic, and identify the solutions that will help usher in the future of the life sciences.Ī comprehensive report containing synthesized, data-driven insights from this expert group, known as the “Life Sciences Supermind,” has now been published. To help accelerate that innovation, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma - the U.S. The Covid-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the life science ecosystem, uniting the scientific community with a common purpose and re-imagining pathways to address global health challenges.