The Great Debates, hosted by Foresight Institute were on Saturday November 19th, 2016 at 1pm.
We’re all seeing impressive developments. But the future is not determined. The ink isn’t dry. What should humanity’s path look like? Foresight is bringing together the brightest minds to fight it out in exciting interactive debates covering critical topics from longevity to crypto-currency, from AI to designer babies, and from new governance to X-risks. Join our roundtable discussions, sample the foods of the future and connect with each other.
Our goal is to engage both the public and industry leaders in important conversations that may otherwise not be had.
The event website: http://foresightday.strikingly.com/
Photos can be accessed on the event Facebook page.
For a quick overview of the event, see Alton Sunās notes.
The Great Debates Videos, etc. (Intro and individual debates on YouTube, transcripts, participants)
Artificial Intelligence For Scientific Progress was the second fast-paced interactive workshop Foresight held in 2016. Invited participants and an excellent selection of accepted applicants met September 30 – October 2, 2016 in Palo Alto, California.
This workshop was targeted at generating new insights, new projects, and new funding for the goal of applying advanced computer science to the challenges of atomic precision. Ben Goertzel as well as several Feynman Prize Winners were amongst the attendees.
White paper, video recap on YouTube
Atomic Precision for Energy Generation, Transmission, and Use Reduction
May 20-22 2016 in Palo Alto, California
This was a highly interactive and stimulating 2-1/2 day invitational meeting focused on long-term prospects for revolutionary advances in energy based on improved precision in our control of matter, and how to speed current research in that direction.
White paper,Ā video recap on YouTube,Ā participants
Foresight co-sponsoredĀ Bench to Market: Idea Evaluation and Commercialization for Product-market FitĀ presented by the The Berkeley Postdoc Entrepreneurship Program, June 25, 2015, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (PDT) Berkeley, California.
May 29-31, 2015, in Palo Alto, California, USA
Video, white paper, participants, etc. ā¦
Sept. 5-7, 2014, in Palo Alto, California, USA
Video, white paper, participants, etc. ā¦
April 16, 2014 April 16, 2014 San Francisco Bay area
Following up theĀ B.R.AI.N.S Immortalist AuditĀ held at theĀ February 2014 Foresight Conference, the B.R.AI.N.S salon on Human Biology and Freedom capped a successful Crowdtilt community fundraising campaign to build a strategic alliance between B.R.AI.N.S., Berkeley BioLabs and Foresight Institute to build an opensource biological parts repository and design and distribute a line of āHow-to Build Biological Machinesā educational kits. The event is described in a Nanodot postĀ Building biological molecular machines as an open source path to advanced nanotechnology.
February 7-9, 2014
Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, Palo Alto
Silicon Valley, California, USA
Conference Wrap-Up, including the B.R.AI.N.S Immortalist Audit ā¦
Conference photos ā¦
For further details on the conference, speakers, and events ā¦
June 25-26, 2011
Mountain View, California
25th Anniversary Reunion Conference Follow-Up (with links to videos)
January 11-13, 2013
Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, Palo Alto, CA USA
2013 Foresight Technical Conference Follow-Up (with links to videos)
For further details on the conference, speakers, and events ā¦
AnĀ archiveĀ lists earlier lectures and events, and includes a list of “Issues and Opportunities”āpromotions and initiatives of Foresight Institute ā from 1997 through 2004.
