Sophie Schmidt is the founder & publisher of Rest of World, an award-winning international technology news organization. She has worked in tech and politics in China, the UAE, the UK, South Africa and Myanmar, and previously held comms & policy roles at Uber. She earned an MBA from Stanford and MPA from Harvard. In 2024, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Transforming Urban Cardiovascular Health
At the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit, leaders from across sectors gathered to address one of the most pressing global health challenges: cardiovascular disease in rapidly growing urban environments. In partnership with
