Presenters
Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute
Alison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Groups, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees. She shares Foresight’s work with the public, for instance at the Wall Street Journal, SXSW, O’Reilly AI, WEF, The Partnership on AI, Effective Altruism Global, and TEDx. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, co-authored Gaming the Future, and co-initiated The Longevity Prize…
Westley Dang, Principal at Indiebio
Westley is a process-oriented systems thinker, and loves tinkering with productivity tools and workflows. He knows every hotkey for every application and thinks ortholinear keyboards are the bomb dot com. Half way through his grad school career (in neuroscience), he realized that he was more concerned about the looming threat of climate change. Westley volunteered with the Surfrider Foundation San Diego as co-chair for the Rise Above Plastics committee and an Executive Committee member, where he focused on private and legislative efforts to reduce single-use plastic consumption in San Diego...
Summary:
Allison Duettmann, President of Foresight Institute, gave opening remarks along with Westley Dang, Principal at Indiebio. IndieBio, which hosted the Nanotech workshop, invests in human health and planetary health. Upside Meat and The Every Company are two success stories spun out of IndieBio. The workshop presentation process leads to subsequent internal voting using Feynman dollars. These votes distill an informal winner for a small cash bounty to the project with the highest amount of interest.
