Kick-off our global online salon with Jaan Tallinn, founding engineer of Skype

Tomorrow, Monday, March 23 at 9 am PT (6 pm Europe) we’re kicking off the Foresight Sanity Preserver, a global online salon that runs twice a day to allow people from across the world to connect.

Twice a day (9 am PT to allow Europe & co to join and 6 pm PT to allow Asia & co to join) we meet in this free, online Zoom room.

We have an exciting line-up already: Please save the daily schedule.

Tomorrow, March 23 at 9 am PT:
(this is March 23, 6 pm for folks in Europe & co)

We are honored to have Jaan Tallinn join to discuss COVID-19 and its opportunities for Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks.

Jaan Tallinn is a co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk in Cambridge, the Future of Life Institute in Cambridge and a founding engineer of Skype.

A few points we’ll discuss:

1. advocate for countries to establish initiatives addressing major risks like pandemics

2. develop better technical capabilities for global coordination and decision making, e.g. expert networks, prediction markets

3. develop a globally cooperative narrative, e.g. prominent prizes, creative media

After a short interview, you have plenty of time for questions, before we break out into smaller Zoom rooms to make new friends globally over aftershow coffee/drinks.

Tomorrow, March 23, at 6 pm PT:
(this is March 24, 9 am for folks in Hong Kong & co)

We follow suit with the second edition of the salon:

Alex Gladstein, Human Rights Foundation, on Authoritarianism & COVID-19

Matt Bell, Matterport, on Reasons for COVID-19 “Optimism”

Jonathan Cain, Velorum Capital, on The Community Safety Net Fund

This will be lightning talks followed by discussion breakouts.

We hope that in addition to a great intellectual discussion, this will also serve as an opportunity for connection, sharing personally, and making friends globally. Let’s make this a time of more community, not less!

Above is a snapshot of the daily schedule for the next week! Can’t read? That’s because we have a dense line-up already 🙂

Please open the schedule to discover more: bit.ly/sanityschedule

Can you help us create a global community from this crisis?

Please share the schedule and the Facebook event with your community so we can allow people from across the world to connect!
Help us keep this going by applying to speak at a future salon.

We can’t wait to see you up to twice a day in the coming weeks!

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Kick-off our global online salon with Jaan Tallinn, founding engineer of Skype

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