Sep 6, 2018   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Technology Showcase During U.N. General Assembly Features Innovations Aimed at Achieving the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals

Gallery Walk provides interactive experience demonstrating how data and innovative technology are empowering the developing world

What: Gallery Walk - Data and Technology: Revolutionizing and Empowering our Developing World Media is invited to cover the interactive event that will demonstrate emerging technologies designed to provide a pathway to achieving the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Attendees will see technology poised to address such global challenges as hunger, children's advocacy, women's rights, and extreme poverty.

Who: Senior officials from the U.N. and national governments; NGOs, civil society organizations.

    --  Jens Wandel, Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Reforms, United
    --  Atefeh Riazi, Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Information Technology
        Officer; Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT),
        United Nations
    --  Martha Helena Lopez, Assistant Secretary-General, Human Resources
        Management; Department of Management, United Nations
    --  Paul S. Lockhart, Colonel U.S. Air Force Retired, NASA Astronaut

Featured presenters include:
UNICEF, U.N. Development Programme, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Food Programme, ANDE, Equal Measures 2030, GroundTruth Global, HealRWorld, Kessler Foundation, One, Path, the Rights Lab, Splash, User1st, Virtue Foundation, PeachTech Labs, WeConnect International

Sponsors: Dun & Bradstreet, Tableau Foundation, Ande.com, User1st, Mr. Habib Paracha, and MasterCard

When: Thursday, September 20, 2018 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Where: Dun & Bradstreet, One Penn Plaza, Floor 41, New York, NY 10119

Why: Effectively harnessing data and implementing technology will be essential as the U.N. strives to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The Gallery Walk: Data and Technology seeks to bring together world leaders, decision-makers, influencers, human rights advocates and technologists to facilitate conversation and demonstrate new solutions to world issues.

To learn more, please visit https://www.gallerywalksdg.org/
RSVPs are required for entrance to the event.

REQUEST FOR MEDIA CREDENTIALS:
Media credentials should be requested in advance by emailing Steven Schwartz at sschwartz@tableau.com. Media credentials permit complimentary admission to the Gallery Walk and are available only to reporters, editors working as reporters, producers, video camera operators, and still photographers who present valid media identification and are pre-approved.

/PRNewswire/ -- Sept. 6, 2018

SOURCE Dun & Bradstreet