HOVIONE | Conference Factfulness I Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Imagine if all the people in the world lived along one long street. And imagine if all the houses were sorted by income. The poorest to the left. The richest to the right. What would it look like? And where would you live?

Hovione sponsors a conference that will bring new standpoints to some of these questions.

With a keynote speech by Anna Rosling Rönnlund, the co-author of the best-selling book Factfulness, where data and facts are used as key principles to reduce ignorance and amplify reality perspective.

Aimed at students, it will be held in Nova SBE, in Carcavelos.

When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing, how many young women go to school or how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Hans Rosling - a Professor of International Health and a man who can make data sing - together with his two long-time collaborators Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens, and reveals the ten instincts that distort our reality perspectives.

Anna Rosling Rönnlund is one of the co-founders of Gapminder Organization. She collaborated with Hans Rosling in his book Factfulness, alongside Ola Rosling.

Check out Anna’s most recent TED talk.

«One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.»

Bill Gates

«Hans Rosling tells the story of "the secret silent miracle of human progress" as only he can. But "Factfulness" does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.»

Melinda Gates

WHEN / QUANDO: 10 April/Abril 2019, 19h00

WHERE / LOCAL: Nova SBE, Hovione Atrium, Carcavelos

Free entry / Entrada livre

19h00 - Welcome

19h30 - Anna Rosling Rönnlund presents/apresenta Factfulness

20h15 - Q&A

Contents references: www.gapminder.org and www.ted.com