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My name is Neil Lee,
I'm Professor of Economic Geography here and I'm delighted to welcome you to what is the final event of this year's LSE Festival.
So our theme for this year's LSE Festival has been visions for the future.
So we've been hosting a series of events looking at threats and opportunities of the near and distant future and what a better world could look like.
We've had some amazing speakers, some fantastic events talking about politics,
inequality, climate, technology, sometimes all of these things within the same presentation.
It's been a really amazing week, but...
If I had one critique of the week, it is that it has been a little bit negative.
It has been a little bit negative.
So one thing which I think we're going to sort of focus on now is we're going to start focusing on something optimistic.
We're going to try and finish the week on an optimistic note.
And to do that,
we have four fantastic panelists who are going to be hopefully saying a little bit about what the future might look like.
So each of our panelists is going to share with us, all of you in the room, and also people.
online, the ideas, inventions, innovations and discoveries that give them optimism for the future.
And hopefully we will come away from this with a little bit of sort of a good, a good feeling.
We won't,