Vision Weekend France 2023 Schedule

Day 1:
FRIDAY: Speaker, Sponsor, Fellow Gatherings

3.00 – 6.00 pm Invited Speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Chateau guest arrival

6.00 – 8.00 pm Invited Speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Sunset reception, intro to the Chateau and Moloch to Xhope exhibition

8.00 – 9.00 Invited Speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Welcome dinner

9.00 – 11.00 Invited speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Tea time by the fire and Kugel Auditorium

Day 2:
SATURDAY: MAIN EVENT TECHNOLOGY DAY @ CHATEAU DU FEY

8.00 – 9.00 Invited Speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Breakfast

9.00 – 10.00 Everyone
Main event arrival with needs and provide prompts to find collaborators across fields

9.45 – 10.00 Everyone
Welcome by Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute

10.00 – 10.40 Salon | Everyone
Longevity Biotech Panel: Alex Fedintsev, Leon Peshkin, Yuri Deigin, Aleksandra Singer

10.00 – 11.50 Unconference | Everyone
Participant Unconference:

• Janine Leger | Community design and the future of pop-up cities
• Peter Hrosso | 4 minutes talk on finding your inner compass
• Esben Kran | Future Worlds with AI and What We Can Do About It
• Fred Jordan | Wetware computer
• Bolek Kerous | Impact of emotional health on longevity
• Thomas Landrain | How to build and manage a 4000 people community to create open source solutions for COVID19, fast!
• Aleksandra Singer | Surrogacy for longevity
• Paul Houston | Personalising integrative health solutions and research

10.40 – 11.20 Salon | Everyone
Molecular Machines Panel: Alexis Courbet, Erik Benson, Stephane Redon, Dean Thomas

11.20 – 11.50 Salon | Everyone
Biotech and Molecular Machines speaker meet and greet

11.50 – 12.40
Lunch

12.40 – 1.00 Salon | Everyone
A Solarpunk Vision from AI, Web3 & BCI: Trent McConaghy

12.40 – 2.50 Unconference | Everyone
Participant Unconference:

• Sudharshan | Silent speech as simple symbiosis
• Philip | Harnessing complexity science and institutional finance to mitigate AI Risk
• Kevin Kiesworo | Optimisation of vascular metabolism for longevity
• Sofya Lebedeva | Molecular Meditations: Biochemistry and Buddhism
• Alexandre Tkatchenko | AI for science: Navigating chemical space
• Lou de Kerhuelvez and Primavera de Filippi | The Emergence of Coordi-Nations

1.00 – 1.40 Salon | Everyone
Neurotech Panel: Anders Sandberg, Bradley Love, Robin Hanson, Brett Kagan

1.40 – 2.20 Salon | Everyone
Intelligent Cooperation Panel: Divya Siddarth, Jonathan Prasserat-Palmbach, Lewis Hammond, Primavera De Filippi, Stuart Armstrong, Trent Mcconaghy

2.20 – 2.50 Salon | Everyone
Neurotech and Intelligent Cooperation speaker meet and greet

2.50 – 3.30
Break

3.30 – 4.10 Salon | Everyone
Space Panel: Andre Losekrug, Michael Gibson, Anders Sandberg, Robin Hanson

3.30 – 5.20 Unconference | Everyone
Participant Unconference

• Bogdan-Ionut Cirstea | Reasons for optimism about superalignment
• Jules Padova | Designing a new political system at the age of AI
• Gordon Glass | Transforming Global Governance for Humanity

4.10 – 4.50 Salon | Everyone
Existential Hope Panel: Danielle Strachman, Patrick Rose, Beatrice Erkers, Christine Kavazanjian

4.50 – 5.20 Salon | Everyone
Space and Existential Hope speaker meet and greet

5.20 – 6.00 Everyone
Molecular machines VR and Brain in a Dish demo
Goodbye: Day pass attendees depart for Joigny dinner

6.00 – 6.30 Invited Speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Change into your sci-fi future outfits

6.30 – 7.30 Invited Speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Biomarker-based longevity self-experiments with SiPhox or Opera

7.30 – 9.00 Invited Speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Existential Hope dinner with Prize award ceremonies

9.00 – 12.00 Invited Speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Afterparty with future portraits, Plantoid interaction art show and creative surprises

Day 3:
SUNDAY: MAIN EVENT EXISTENTIAL HOPE DAY @CHATEAU DU FEY

8.00 – 9.00 Invited Speakers, Sponsors, Foresight fellows
Breakfast

9.00 – 9.30 Everyone
Main event arrival for coffee and connections

Optional meditation with Philip Moreira Tomei

9.30 – 10.30 Salon | Everyone
Longevity | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion

9.30 – 10.30 Middle Salon | Everyone
Molecular Machines | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion

09.30 – 10.30 Atelier | Everyone
Space | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion

9.30 – 10.30 Unconference | Everyone
Participant Unconference:

• Patrick Rose | Serendipity
• Brad Love | How deep learning models and brains converge and diverge

10.30 – 11.30 Salon | Everyone
Intelligent Cooperation | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion

10.30 – 11.30 Middle Salon | Everyone
Neurotech | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion

10.30 – 11.30 Atelier | Everyone
Existential Hope | Speaker-led realpolitik discussion

10.30 – 11.30 Unconference | Everyone
Participant Unconference:

• Robin Hanson | The coming centuries-long innovation pause
• Michael Dubrovsky | Future of home blood testing
• Leon Peshkin | Radically Open Citizen Science of Longevity
• Elli Hain | Values and Wise AI
• Shady ElDamaty | VOLE-based ZK for Private Attestations with NFC credentials
• Nima Ashgary | Data Monopsony & LLMs as Data Blackholes

11.30 – 12.30 Everyone
Closing ceremony: tracks come together to share learnings across domains

12.30 – 1.30 Goodbye Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 Everyone
Afternoon tea and cakes with new friends: plan for flourishing futures in 2024

3.00 Everyone
Departure

The hotel we recommend is Hotel Le Rive Gauche in Joigny.