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.
