Foresight Fellow
Vision
Weekends
Foresight Institute's annual member festivals
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 for the conference, unconference, mentorship hours, lab visits, satellite gatherings, cyberfuture dinners, prize awards, tea services, sci-fi costume closets, dance parties, or surprise experiences and explore the following themes with new friends:
- Long-term History & Flourishing Futures
- Longevity, Rejuvenation, Cryonics
- Molecular Machines, Computing, APM
- Neurotech, BCIs & WBEs
- Cryptography, Security & AI
- Energy, Space, Expansion
- Funding, Innovation, Progress
Vision Weekends
France
November
17-19
European edition of the Festival happening at the Chateau du Feÿ 90 minutes outside of Paris, France.
Vision Weekends
US
December
1-3
US edition of the festival happening across iconic Bay Area locations in San Francisco, Redwood City, and the Berkeley Hills.
France Weekend
November 17-19
Immerse yourself into the beautiful atmosphere at Chateau du Feÿ, Villecien, a laboratory for the future disguised as a stunning 17th century castle, 90 minutes outside of Paris. Please find the full schedule below. On the day-time ticket page, you can choose to join for the day activities only, or you can book one of the cozy castle rooms to stay at the Chateau for the evening festivities with our speakers, sponsors, and fellows. As a junior researcher, you can also apply for subsidized day attendance.
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Day 1:
FRIDAY: SPONSOR, PATRON, SPEAKER GATHERINGS
3.00 – 6.00 pm
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Arrival
6.00 – 8.00 pm
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Sunset aperitivos and introductions
8.00 – 9.00
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Welcome dinner
9.00 – 11.00
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Tea time by the fire
Day 2:
SATURDAY: MAIN EVENT TECHNOLOGY DAY @ CHATEAU DU FEY
8.00 – 9.00
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Breakfast
9.00 – 10.00
- Everyone
Main event arrival for coffee & connections: needs & provide prompts to find collaborators across fields
9.30 – 10.00
- Everyone
Welcome by Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute: What to expect from this weekend! Meet our Foresight fellows!
10.00 – 10.45
- Dining Room
- Everyone
Biotech Panel: Alex Fedintsev, Emil Kendziorra, Yuri Deigin, Ela Madej
10.00 – 10.45
- Shop
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
10.45 – 11.30
- Dining Room
- Everyone
Molecular Machines Panel: Alexis Courbet, Erik Benson, Stephane Redon, Lee Cronin
10.45 – 11.30
- Main Salon
- Everyone
Biotech speaker table
10.45 – 11.30
- Shop
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
11.30 – 12.00
- Dining Room
- Everyone
Sponsorship talks
12.00 – 1.00
Lunch
1.00 – 1.45
- Dining Room
- Everyone
Neurotech Panel: Anders Sandberg, Bradley Love, Robin Hanson, Todd Huffman, Brett Kagan
1.00 – 1.45
- Main Salon
- Everyone
Molecular Machines speaker table
1.00 – 1.45
- Shop
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
1.45 – 2.30
- Dining Room
- Everyone
Space: Andre Loesekrug, Stuart Armstrong, Anders Sandberg, Robin Hanson
1.45 – 2.30
- Main Salon
- Everyone
Neurotech speaker table
1.45 – 2.30
- Shop
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
2.30 – 3.30
Break
3.30 – 4.15
- Dining Room
- Everyone
Intelligent Cooperation Panel: Divya Siddarth, Jonathan Prasserat-Palmbach, Lewis Hammond, Primavera De Filippi, Stuart Armstrong, Trent Mcconaghy
3.30 – 4.15
- Main Salon
- Everyone
Space speaker table
3.30 – 4.15
- Shop
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
4.15 – 5.00
- Dining Room
- Everyone
Existential Hope Panel: Danielle Strachman, Patrick Rose, Tammy Winter, Beatrice Erkers , Christine Kavazanjian
4.15 – 5.00
- Main Salon
- Everyone
Intelligent Cooperation speaker table
4.15 – 5.00
- Shop
- Everyone
Tea & Cakes Writing Session
5.00 – 6.00
- Everyone
Goodbye! Day Pass attendees depart for Joigny dinner
6.00 – 7.00
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Drinks, Mingling, Personal Longevity Experiments & Opera Performance
7.00 – 9.00
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Cyberfutures Dinner with Xhope prompts & Prize Award Ceremonies
9.00 – 12.00
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Afterparty with creative surprises & Art Show
Day 3:
SUNDAY: MAIN EVENT EXISTENTIAL HOPE DAY @CHATEAU DU FEY
8.00 – 9.00
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Breakfast
9.00 – 9.30
- Everyone
Main event arrival for coffee & connections: needs & provide prompts to find collaborators across fields
9.30 – 10.30
- Dining Room
- Everyone
Longevity | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
9.30 – 10.30
- Main Salon
- Everyone
Neurotech | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
9.30 – 10.30
- Breakfast Room
- Everyone
Molecular Machines | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
9.30 – 10.30
- Shop
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
10.30 – 11.30
- Dining Room
- Everyone
Intelligent Cooperation | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
10.30 – 11.30
- Main Salon
- Everyone
Space | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
10.30 – 11.30
- Breakfast Room
- Everyone
Existential Hope | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
10.30 – 11.30
- Shop
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
11.30 – 12.30
- Everyone
Tracks come together to share learnings across domains, followed by closing ceremony
12.30 – 1.30
Goodbye Lunch
1.30 – 3.00
- Everyone
Afternoon tea & cake time: end this weekend with new friends, and scheming on what 2023 can bring for flourishing futures
3.00
- Everyone
Departure
US Weekend
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December 1-3
On the US ticket page, you can choose to join for the day activities only, including Saturday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco and Sunday at the Bird House Villa in the Berkeley Hills. Or you can choose to join as a sponsor to attend our various satellite events as well, including a tour of Retro Biosciences, and speaker reception on Friday night, and a breakfast tour at the LongShot Space company on Sunday morning. As a junior researcher, you can also apply for subsidized day attendance.
Day 1:
FRIDAY: VIP PRE-EVENTS
6.00 – 7.00 pm
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers
Lab Tour of Retro BioSciences
7.00 – 9.00 pm
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers
Speaker Gathering at Sequoia Yacht Club
Day 2:
SATURDAY: MAIN EVENT TECHNOLOGY DAY @ THE INTERNET ARCHIVE, 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco
9.00 – 10.00
- THE INTERNET ARCHIVE
- Everyone
Main event arrival for coffee & connections: needs & provide prompts to find collaborators across fields
10.00 – 10.30
- THE INTERNET ARCHIVE
- Everyone
Welcome by Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute
10.00 – 10.45
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Biotech Panel: Joe Betts-Lacroix, Reason, Sonia Arrison, Sam Rodriques, Vadim Gladyshev, Vittorio Sebastiano
10.00 – 10.45
- Sunday school room
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
10.45 – 11.30
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Molecular Machines Panel: Adam Marblestone, Ben Reinhardt, Hein-Pieter Van Braam, Jacob Swett
10.45 – 11.30
- Downstairs
- Everyone
Biotech speaker tables
10.45 – 11.30
- Sunday school room
- Everyone
Participant unconference
11.30 – 12.00
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Sponsorship Talks with Robert Cargill
12.00 – 1.00
Lunch
1.00 – 1.45
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Neurotech Panel: Bryan Bishop, Chris Eliasmith, David Eagleman, Dana Watt, Ed Boyden, Konrad Kording
1.00 – 1.45
- Downstairs
- Everyone
Molecular Machines speaker tables
1.00 – 1.45
- Sunday school room
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
1.45 – 2.30
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Energy & Space Panel: Avi Loeb, Chris Kemp, Creon Levit, Danielle Fong, Malcolm Handley, Steve Jurvetson, Johan Mathe
1.45 – 2.30
- Downstairs
- Everyone
Neurotech speaker tables
1.45 – 2.30
- Sunday school room
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
2.30 – 3.30
Break
3.30 – 4.15
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Intelligent Cooperation Panel: Allison Duettmann, Michael Andregg, Peter Norvig, Michelle Ritter, Marta Belcher, Abigail Kukura
3.30 – 4.15
- Downstairs
- Everyone
Space speaker tables
3.30 – 4.15
- Sunday school room
- Everyone
Participant Unconference
4.15 – 5.00
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Existential Hope Panel: Christine Peterson, Cee Cee Schnugg, Emilia Javorsky, Jason Crawford, Tom Kalil, Tony Kulesa
4.15 – 5.00
- Downstairs
- Everyone
Intelligent Cooperation speaker tables
4.15 – 5.00
- Sunday school room
- Everyone
Participant unconference
5.00 – 6.00
- Everyone
Socializing, then general attendees depart for self-organized dinners
6.00 – 07.00
- Sunday school room
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers
Personal longevity strategy discussion led by Reason from FightAging
7.00 – 09.00
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers
Cyberfutures dinner with with Xhope prompts & baked delicacies
8.00 – 10.00
- Upstairs
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers
After party with tea service
Day 3:
SUNDAY: MAIN EVENT EXISTENTIAL HOPE DAY @BIRD HOUSE, 11 Drury Court, Berkeley Hills
9.00 – 10.30
- Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, Fellows
Sponsors, Patrons, Speakers, and Fellows meet at LongShot space for a rocket tour and light breakfast
9.30am – 6.00pm
Shuttle services to Bird House
You cannot park at this venue, so please take an Uber or one of the shuttles that run every 15 minutes between the Rockridge BART Plaza, at the corner of College Ave and Keith Ave, and the Bird House, 11 Drury Court, Berkeley Hills
11.00 – 11.30
- Everyone
Everyone arrives via shuttles in the gardens of The Bird House, 11 Drury Court, Berkeley Hills
11.30 – 12.30
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Longevity | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
11.30 – 12.30
- Middle floor
- Everyone
Neurotech | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
11.30 – 12.30
- Basement
- Everyone
Molecular Machines | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
11.30 – 12.30
- Small room
- Everyone
Tea service
12.30 – 1.30
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Intelligent Cooperation | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
12.30 – 1.30
- Middle floor
- Everyone
Space | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
12.30 – 1.30
- Basement
- Everyone
Existential Hope | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion
12.30 – 1.30
- Small room
- Everyone
Tea service
1.30 – 2.30
Lunch with Mark S. Miller fireside chat
2.30 – 3.30
- Everyone
Tracks come together to share learnings across domains, followed by closing ceremony
3.30 – 6.00
- Upstairs
- Everyone
Sunset aperitivos and live performance by Marimba Pacifica
3.30 – 6.00
- Middle floor
- Everyone
Letters to your future self
3.30 – 6.00
- Basement
- Everyone
Science songs with Jun Axup from E11
3.30 – 6.00
- Small room
- Everyone
Tea service
Speaker Profiles
SCSP
US
Convergent Research
US
National University of Singapore
EUROPE
Radical Life Extension group
EUROPE
University of Washington
EUROPE
Hylomatter Labs
US
Foresight Institute
EUROPE
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
US
Harvard University
US
Future of Humanity Institute
EUROPE
EUROPE
Harvard University
US
Foresight Institute
US and EUROPE
Speculative Technologies
US
University College London
EUROPE
Cortical Labs
EUROPE
Nucleostream
US
Boom Capital
US
University of Waterloo
US
Astra
US
Foresight Institute
US
Planet Labs
US
Breakout Ventures
US
LightCell Energy
US
1517 Fund
EUROPE
Neosensory, Inc.
US
University of Glasgow
EUROPE
Agoric
US
Collective Intelligence Project
EUROPE
MIT
US
AltaiPony
EUROPE
Fifty Years
EUROPA
TomorrowBiostasis
US
Future of Life Institute
US
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
EUROPE
Blue Horizon
EUROPE
Harvard University
US
Ramatak Inc.
US
Cortical Labs
US
OpenPhilanthropy
US
Roots of Progress
US
Retro Bio
US
Atmo
US
Imperial College London
EUROPE
Buck Institute for Aging
US
Kording Lab
US
BioAge Labs
US
University of Glasgow
EUROPE
Harvard Medical School
EUROPE
Cooperative AI Foundation
EUROPE
Washington University
US
Strong Atomics
US
Bronic
EUROPE
Agoric
US
Filecoin Foundation
US
TKS
US
Arizona State University
EUROPE
Steel Perlot
US
Intel Labs
US
Halogen Labs
US
Collegiate Propulsive Lander Challenge
US
SPRIN-D
EUROPE
Apple
EUROPE
Google
US
Harvard Berkman Klein Center
EUROPE
XPRIZE
US
FightAging
US
Retro Bio
US
quadraScope
US
George Mason University
EUROPE
Transformative Futures Institute
US
George Mason University
US
Francis Crick Institute
US
Bismark Analysis
US
MIT
US
UC Berkeley
EUROPE
100 Plus Capital
US
OneAngstrom
EUROPE
Future Ventures
US
Future of Humanity Institute
EUROPE
Stripe Press
EUROPE
E11
US and EUROPE
Schmidt Futures
US
Pillar VC
US
Ocean Protocol
EUROPE
Harvard University
US
TruDiagnostics
US
Stanford University
US
Youth Bio
EUROPE
Become a sponsor
As a sponsor, you enable junior applicants to join on a reduced ticket and travel subsidy. Email [email protected] to discuss options, including cryptocurrencies. Foresight Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your donation is tax-deductible in the US as permitted by law.
Bronze
$5,000
- x1 Vision Weekend ticket
- Your logo mentioned in all Vision Weekend communications
- Either, an invitation to a private satellite gathering (Vision Weekend USA), or stay at the castle (Vision Weekend France)
Silver
$10,000
- x1 Vision Weekend ticket
- Your logo mentioned in all Vision Weekend communications
- Either, an invitation to a private satellite gathering (Vision Weekend USA), or stay at the castle (Vision Weekend France)
- Choose a representative to sit on one of our main panels.
Gold
$15,000
- x2 Vision Weekend tickets
- Your logo mentioned in all Vision Weekend communications
- Either, an invitation to a private satellite gathering (Vision Weekend USA), or stay at the castle (Vision Weekend France)
- Tailored presentation spot
- 1:1 networking opportunities as per your request.
Platinum
$20,000
- x4 Vision Weekend tickets
- Your logo mentioned in all Vision Weekend communications
- Either, an invitation to a private satellite gathering (Vision Weekend USA), or stay at the castle (Vision Weekend France)
- x1 Keynote Presentation
- 1:1 networking opportunities/ introductions as per your request.
- You can co-create one focus track of interest with us at Foresight.
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