INNOVATION&EQUITY21

BREAKING THE BILLION DOLLAR BARRIER

JANUARY 15, 2022 THE BIRTHDAY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

181 SECOND STREET San Francisco, CA 94158

ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDING OF THE JOURNAL OF BLACK INNOVATION

THE 21ST ANNUAL 50 MOST IMPORTANT AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN TECHNOLOGY gather with the 50 MOST IMPORTANT AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN INFRASTRUCTURE and BLACKBIO100 to address the globe’s most pressing issues.

From Managing Cyberrisk to Defeating the Pandemic and Bringing Equity to Infrastructure, these honorees are key decisionmakers on the shape of the future

Journal Publisher John William Templeton gives a important paper on From Freedman’s Hospitals to Omicron: Health Care Policy and African-Americans

Gregory Robinson, Program Director, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Science Mission Directorate

The Virginia Union and Howard University alumnus is among ten NASA leaders among the 21st annual 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology and gives the Roy L. Clay Technology Pinnacle presentation at 11:30 a.m. The entire program will be webcast on ReUNION: Education-Arts-Heritage for subscribing schools.

Also, among the 50 Most are

Vanessa Wyche, Johnson Space Center

Marcus Watkins, JPL

Dr. Christyl Johnson, Goddard Space Center

Kelvin Manning, Kennedy Space Center

Barbara L. Brown Kennedy Space Center

Tamiko Fletcher, Kennedy Space Center

Karla Smith Jackson, Assistant Administrator

Gen. Lester Lyles

Clayton Turner, Langley Space Center

Dr. Aida Habtezion, Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Aida Habtezion is a tenured Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology & Hepatology) and faculty in the Immunology PhD program and Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection at Stanford University. Dr. Habtezion is the endowed Ballinger-Swindells Family Scholar, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine and member of the Stanford Pancreas Cancer Research Group, Stanford Diabetes Research Center, Stanford Neuroscience Institute, Stanford Bio-X, Stanford maternal & Child Health Research Institute and a fellow of the Stanford Chemistry, Engineering & Medicine for Human Health (ChEM-H). She is currently on leave from Stanford University and serving as the Chief Medical Officer and Head of Worldwide Medical & Safety at Pfizer Inc.

Event Schedule

Breaking the Billion Dollar Barrier is the mission of the new Dr. T. Nathanile Burbridge Center for Inclusive Innovation, developing large scale global enterprises that anchjor communities across the Diaspora.

0945 AM

Welcome

Dr. Charles Steele, President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference

10:00 AM

Managing CyberRisk

Robert Pittman, CISO, San Bernardino County, CA
Jerry Davis, CISO,, PGE
Kwame Fields, CISO, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Angelo Riddick, New York State CIO

10:45 AM

Defeating the Pandemic

Drs. Eddilisa and Marcus Martin, 2M Clinical
Colleen Payne Nabors, MCI Diagnostics
Gerald Commissiong, CEO, Todos Medical USA

11:30 PM

Roy L. Clay Sr. Technology Pinnacle Awards

Gregory Robinson, Director James Webb Space Telescope, NASA Science Mission Directorate

Noon

Where We Are?

Yolanda Richardson, Secretary, California Government Operations Aency

01:00 PM

Meaningful Engagement in Infrastructure

Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi, COO, 3Degrees Group
Wayne Perry, Chairman/CEO, Cornerstone Concilium Raymond J. Tompkins, African-American Community Health Equity Council

02:00 PM

The Year of Woodson: Preservation of Black Heritage

John William Templeton, California African-American Freedom Trail

03:00 PM

Structural Global Health Equity

Dr. Cynthia Warrick President, Stillman College

Robert Pittman is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for San Bernardino County (County), the nation’s largest geographic local government in the nation. Additionally, he has authored the series of Information Security Management Handbook, 6th Edition, where his chapters were published in Volumes 4, 5, 6, and 7 by Auerbach Publications, a division of Taylor & Francis Group LLC. Furthermore, he’s a frequent speaker and presenter including keynote, and served on many national advisory boards and committees. Most notably he served as a two-term elected Board member with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This Board comprised of fifteen (15) members across the nation are voted by his peers. In addition, he is one of the pioneers and an active member since 2001 for the California Counties Information Systems Director’s Association (CCISDA) Information Security Council (formerly known as Information Security Forum).

Wayne Perry

Chairman, CEO, Cornerstone Concilium

Derek Peterson

CEO, Soter Technologies Inc.

Dr. Cynthia Warrick

President, Stillman College

Drs. Eddilisa and Marcus Martin

Founders, 2M Reserach

Innovation&Equity since 1998

Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame members Roy L. Clay Sr. and the late Dr. Frank S. Greene inspired the first 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology and we continue to honor those Freedom Riders of the Cutting Edge who came to the Bay Area in the 1950s to launch our modern technology era. With more than 562,000 African-American technologists following in their footsteps, Innovation&Equity drives them to create large-scale venture and publicly-funded enterprises as Clay and Greene have done.

One of their contemporaries was Dr. T. Nathaniel Burbridge, first Black tenured medical faculty in California who was also leader of the United San Francisco Freedom Movement during the 1960s. Innovation&Equity launches a schedule of year-round scientific programming through the Burbridge Center for Inclusive Innovation.