The Singularity Summit (SS08)
Saturday, October 25, 9am-5pm
Montgomery Theater, San Jose, CA
SS08 Emerging Tech Workshop
Friday, October 24, 9am-4pm
The Tech Museum, San Jose, CA (Details below)
The Singularity Summit Program
- 9:00 am
- Welcome
- 9:05 am
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- Conversation:
- Vernor Vinge and Bob Pisani
- 9:35 am
- Nova Spivack
- 9:55 am
- Esther Dyson
- 10:15 am
- James Miller
- 10:40 am
- Morning Break
- 10:55 am
- Justin Rattner
- 11:25 am
- Eric Baum
- 11:45 am
- Dharmendra Modha
- 12:05 pm
- Ben Goertzel
- 12:30 pm
- Lunch
- 2:05 pm
- Marshall Brain
- 2:25 pm
- Cynthia Breazeal
- 2:45 am
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- Conversation:
- IEEE Spectrum Singularity Report
- 3:30 pm
- Afternoon Break
- 3:50 pm
- Pete Estep
- 4:10 pm
- Neil Gershenfeld
- 4:30 pm
- Peter Diamandis
- 5:00 pm
- Ray Kurzweil
- 5:35 pm
- Closing
- 6:00 pm
- Summit Ends
The Singularity Summit Speakers
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- Eric Baum
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Founder, Baum Research
What Is Thought?, Eric's Site
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- Marshall Brain
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Founder, How Stuff Works
Robotic Nation
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- Cynthia Breazeal
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Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Leonardo, Kismet, Cynthia's Site
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- Peter Diamandis
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Founder, Chair and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation
Peter's Blog
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- Esther Dyson
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Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist
EDventure Holdings, Esther's Blog
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- Pete Estep
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Co-Founder, Chair and CSO, Innerspace Foundation
Pete's Wikipedia Bio
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- Neil Gershenfeld
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Director, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
Neil's Site, Fab, Two Paths to the Singularity
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- Ben Goertzel
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Director of Research, Singularity Institute
Open Cognition Project (OpenCog)
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- John Horgan
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Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology
John's Site
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- Ray Kurzweil
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Founder and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies
The Singularity Is Near, Ray's Site
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- James Miller
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Associate Professor of Economics, Smith College
The Singular Sensation, James' Blog
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- Dharmendra Modha
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Manager, Cognitive Computing, IBM Almaden Research Center
Dharmendra's Site
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- Bob Pisani
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Reporter, CNBC
Bob's Site
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- Justin Rattner
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VP and CTO, Intel
Justin's Wikipedia Bio
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- Nova Spivack
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Founder and CEO, Radar Networks
Nova's Blog
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- Vernor Vinge
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Science Fiction Author
Vernor's Wikipedia Bio
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- Glen Zorpette
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Executive Editor, IEEE Spectrum
Waiting for the Rapture
Workshop
The Singularity Institute and SciVestor are partnering to present an intensive one-day workshop, preceding the
Singularity Summit, on emerging technologies that will change the world. Registration is limited to 50 participants.
The day's agenda includes:
Opening Keynote
Jonas Lamis, SciVestor Executive Director – Surfing the Tsunami: Catching the coming waves of technology breakthroughs.
Semantic Web and the Roadmap to AI
Powerset, Twine and Freebase may be the "holy trinity" of the Semantic Web, but over the next year a new crop of entries will emerge, each with a powerful set of opportunities. Josh Dilworth from Porter Novelli will moderate a discussion with Venturebeat's semantic technology reporter Chris Morrison and three of the most promising startups in this space today. We will bridge the work of companies in alpha and beta today with Singularity concepts of the more distant future.
The Business of Robotics
The robotics industry is beginning to show signs of explosive growth. Medical robots are saving lives, autonomous vehicles are moving out of the garage, and a little robot vacuum cleaner is changing an industry. Now there are big and small players circling the robotics software space. Join us for a lively discussion with key startups about the future of robotic technologies.
Nanotechnology, Today and Tomorrow
Andrew Braswell from iNano Capital Markets is coordinating an enlightening panel on the business of nanotechnology. His panelists include executives from some of the fastest growing nano-focused companies today, as well as technologists working on nanotech discoveries that may dramatically alter established marketplaces.
Closing Keynote
Jamais Cascio, Writer and tech futurist, Worldchanging.org Cofounder, Openthefuture.com Founder

