RIYADH — The Future Investment Initiative Institute (FII-I), a new global foundation and the power behind the annual FII conference in Saudi Arabia, has launched its Impact report series which curates the world's brightest ideas that can impact humanity sustainably. Impact's inaugural issue — "Winning the Battle of Disease Together" — focuses on the most promising technologies to prevent and contain future health crises, including outbreak risk software companies such as BlueDot, which was able to detect the outbreak of COVID-19 months before the rest of the world became aware of it. The report also looks at different elements of the COVID-19 crisis across various perspectives — from economic to social, political to academic, cultural to scientific. As well as the crucial importance of collaboration — a core value of FII-I. Richard Attias, CEO of FII-I, commented: "The need to find sustainable, innovative solutions to the threat of pandemic disease has never been more urgent and the global pandemic has shown us that our strength lies in cooperation and shared knowledge. "That's why in our first Impact report we brought together some of the world's brightest minds, including leading experts from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the WHO social science expert group, and Metabiota, which has curated data from over 2,500 epidemics to identify specific risks." Impact also offers concrete, actionable "Call to Impact" recommendations for governments, healthcare officials, investors and the general public. The launch of the Impact report series is just one of many milestones on FII-I's journey to its flagship annual conference in Riyadh on Oct. 28-29, 2020, and beyond. The institute is hosting "Don't Forget Our Planet – Time for a Sustainable Reset," the second event of its virtual series, on June 25th, and a second Impact report focused on sustainability will be published in August.
