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Vision Weekend general tickets!

General ticket sales for both of our Vision Weekends are available until 30th September – make sure that you don’t miss out on current prices by buying yours today!

Our Vision Weekends are the annual member festivals of Foresight Institute. Held in two countries, over two weekends, you are invited to burst your tech silos, and plan for flourishing long-term futures. Join us in either France, the USA, or both, for lightning talks, networking, mentorship hours, lab visits, satellite gatherings, cyberfuture dinners, prize ceremonies, dance parties, and more. We expect you will generate positive future applications of your favourite technologies, realise their benefits to society, and envision the paths to get there. We can’t wait to see you there. Make sure you get your tickets today!

Themes you’ll explore:

Long-term History & Flourishing Futures
Longevity, Rejuvenation, Cryonics
Molecular Machines, Computing, APM
Neurotech, BCIs & AI
Crypto, DeSci, Computing & AI
Energy, Space, Expansion
Funding, Innovation, Progress

Vision Weekend France will be held from the 17th-19th November, 2023, at Château du Fëy, Burgundy.

We have talented speakers in attendance –

Adrian Matysek, National University of Singapore

Alex Fedintsev, Radical Life Extension group

Alexis Courbet, University of Washington

Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute

Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute

André Loesekrug-Pietri, JEDI

Beatrice Erkers, Foresight Institute

Bradley Love, University College London

Danielle Strachman, 1517 Fund

Divya Siddarth, Collective Intelligence Project

Ekaterina Ilin, AltaiPony

Ela Madej, Fifty Years

Erik Benson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Friederike Grosse-Holz, Blue Horizon

Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Imperial College London

Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow

Lewis Hammond, Cooperative AI Foundation

Mariam Elgabry, Bronic

Michael Matthies, Arizona State University

Patrick Rose, SPRIN-D

Peter Hrosso, Apple

Primavera de Filippi, Harvard Berkman Klein Center

Robin Hanson, George Mason University

Sofya Lebedeva, UC Berkeley

Stephane Redon, OneAngstrom

Stuart Armstrong, Future of Humanity Institute

Tammy Winter, Stripe Press

Todd Huffman, E11

Trent McConaghy, Ocean Protocol

Yuri Deigin, Youth Bio

We have recently released the full agenda along with all the speaker profiles here.

If you would like a fully immersive experience with access to private events, you have the opportunity to stay at Château du Fëy for the entire weekend alongside our speakers and fellows! Choose from a range of beautiful rooms and suites at the heart of the action. Don’t miss your chance: only nine rooms are left, so book yours whilst you still can.

Otherwise, day tickets are available, allowing you access you to our six focus areas and their salons.

Vision Weekend USA is taking place from the 1st – 3rd of December, 2023, at the Internet Archive in San Francisco and the Bird House Villa in the Berkeley Hills.

We have a wide range of inspiring speakers attending Vision Weekend, including –

Abigail Kukura, SCSP

Adam Marblestone, Convergent Research

Avi Loeb, Harvard University

Ben Reinhardt, Speculative Technologies

Bryan Bishop, 10x Management

Cee Cee Schnugg, Boom Capital

Chris Kemp, Astra

Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute

Creon Levit, Planet Labs

Dana Watt, Breakout Ventures

David Eagleman, Stanford

Dean Tribble, Agoric

Ed Boyden, MIT

Emilia Javorsky, Future of Life Institute

Hein-Pieter van Braam, Ramatak Inc.

Hon Weng Chong, Cortical Labs

Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress

Johan Mathe, Atmo

Konrad Kording, Kording Lab

Malcolm Handley, Strong Atomics

Mark Miller, Agoric

Marta Belcher, FileCoin Foundation

Michelle Ritter, Steel Perlot

Reason, FightAging

Robert Cargill, quadraScope

Sam Rodriques, Francis Crick Institute

Sonia Arrison, 100 Plus Capital

Steve Jurvetson, Future Ventures

Todd Huffman, E11

Tom Kalil, Schmidt Futures

Tony Kulesa, Pillar VC

Vittorio Sebastiano, Stanford University

To see the full agenda, and all of our speaker profiles, see here.

For our sponsors, we are hosting satellite events, which include learning how we might add 10 years of human lifespan at Retro Biosciences modular labs, a cyberfutures banquet with interactive technology demos, and a tour of the LongShot rocket lab to learn about how to accelerate space opera futures.

Your sponsorship brings our community together, allowing junior researchers to attend Vision Weekend when they would not have otherwise been able to.

Foresight Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your donation is tax-deductible in the US as permitted by law. Sponsorship also comes with major other perks for you! See below for details.

If you are interested in sponsoring our 2023 Vision Weekends, please reach out to [email protected] today.

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