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Shannon Spanhake
Institute of Telecommunications & IT, University of California

Shannon Spanhake was recently named Grace Hopper's 'Top 100 Women Innovating Science and Technology'. She is the Inventor and Principle Investigator of a technology to intelligently monitor air quality via a mobile phone. She serves as counsel to the both the Dept. of Energy and the Ministry of Health, Housing, and the Environment in the City of Lima, Peru, in addition to co-defining the objectives of the Digital Community@SG initiative with the Infocomm Development Agency of Singapore. Spanhake is a post-doctoral researcher at The California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), part of the University of California, San Diego and has a background in engineering, urban environmental studies, and fine art. She also has comprehensive experience in the non-profit sector, working with various NGOs that focus on environmental/technological/social monitoring, remediation, and projection, and her most recent work is as co-author of a signed ecological agreement between the State of California and the City of Lima, Peru.


11.45am-12pm, Friday 2 May



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