The Singularity Summit Program

Day 1

7:00 AM Registration and Catered Breakfast
8:00 AM Nathan Labenz: Welcome
8:30 AM Ray Kurzweil: “From Eliza to Watson to Passing the Turing Test”
9:30 AM Stephen Badylak: “Regenerative Medicine: Possibilities and Potential”
10:00 AM Sonia Arrison: “100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith”
10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:45 AM Peter Thiel: “Back to the Future”
11:30 AM James McLurkin: “The Future of Robotics is Swarms: Why a Thousand Robots are Better Than One”
12:00 PM Michael Shermer: “Social Singularity: Transitioning from Civilization 1.0 to 2.0”
12:45 PM Catered Lunch by Chef Kwame Onwuachi
2:15 PM Jason Silva: “'The Undivided Mind' — Science and Imagination”
2:45 PM Stephen Wolfram: “Computation and the Future of Mankind”
3:30 PM Dmitry Itskov: “Project 'Immortality 2045' -- Russian Experience"
4:00 PM Christof Koch: “The Neurobiology and Mathematics of Consciousness”
5:00 PM Coffee Break
5:45 PM Eliezer Yudkowsky: “Open Problems in Friendly Artificial Intelligence”
6:15 PM Max Tegmark: “The Future of Life: a Cosmic Perspective”
7:00 PM Closing

Day 2

7:00 AMCatered Breakfast
8:00 AM Alexander Wissner-Gross: “Planetary-Scale Intelligence”
8:30 AMSharon Bertsch McGrayne: “A History of Bayes' Theorem”
9:00 AM David Brin: “So you want to make gods. Now why would that bother anybody?”
9:30 AM Coffee Break
10:00 AM Tyler Cowen: “The Great Stagnation”
10:45 AM Tyler Cowen & Michael Vassar Debate The Great Stagnation
11:15 AM John Mauldin: “The Endgame Meets The Millennium Wave — Why the Economic Crisis will be History as We Create the Future”
11:45 AM Riley Crane: “Rethinking Communication”
12:30 PM Catered Lunch by Chef Kwame Onwuachi
2:00 PM Dileep George and Scott Brown: “From Planes to Brains: Building AI the Wright Way”
2:30 PM Jaan Tallinn: “Balancing the Trichotomy: Individual vs. Society vs. Universe”
3:00 PM David Ferrucci: “Watson AI Perceptions”
3:30 PM Dan Cerutti: “Commercializing Watson”
4:00 PM Ken Jennings: “The Human Brain in Jeopardy: Computers That 'Think'”
5:00 PM Closing

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