2009 HUMANITY+ SUMMIT
Organized by Humanity Plus
December 5-6, 2009
EON Reality Inc.
39 Parker
Irvine, CA 92618 (Get directions)
(949) 460-2000
Humanity will be radically changed by technology in the (possibly quite near) future.
We foresee the feasibility of redesigning the human condition, including such parameters as the inevitability of aging, limitations on human and artificial intellects, unchosen psychology, suffering, and our confinement to the planet earth.
The possibilities are tremendously broad and exciting — and the H+ Summit will provide a venue to discuss them with like-minded individuals, and hear exciting, presentations by the leaders of the ongoing H+ r/evolution.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE…
- Aubrey de Grey: The Singularity and the Methuselarity: similarities and differences
SENS Foundation
- Sonia Arrison: The Politics of Radical Longevity
- Ben Goertzel: A Roadmap Toward Human-Level Artificial General Intelligence
CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC
Director of Research, Singularity Insitute for AI
Research Professor, Xiamen University
- Peter Voss: Real AI for ROI
CEO, Adaptive A.I. Inc
Founder, Smart Action Company LLC
- Monica Anderson: Artificial Intuition as a Prerequisite to AI
Monica Anderson, CEO, Syntience Inc.
- Ramez Naam: Humanity 2020: The Next 10 Years of Human Development
- RU Sirius: From the Cyberpunk to the Transhuman: Can we make H+ hip… and should we?
- Patri Friedman: Seasteading: The Extended Phenotype of Transhumanism
The Seasteading Institute
- Natasha Vita-More: Human Enhancement – Complex Issues
PhD Candidate, Univ. Plymouth, UK
University Lecturer – Media Arts-Design/Theory
Fellow, IEET
Visiting Scholar, 21st Century Medicine
- Ken Hayworth: A Brain Preservation Technology Prize
- Joseph P Jackson: Agalmics 101: Towards the Theory and Practice of Post Scarcity Interaction
- PJ Manney: How Yucky Got Yummy: The Evolution of Empathy in H+ Media
- Tyson Anderson: Problem Solving: DIYbio and Real World Issues
Technology Consultant & Writer
- Edward Miller: Hacking Subjectivity: A Feature Plan for Systems which Don’t Suck
Contributor: Opensim
Contributor: Sirikata
Consultant: Stanford Humanities Lab
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- Bryan Bishop, Ben Lipkowitz: How to make a civilization seed
Bryan Bishop: Automated Design Lab, University of Texas at Austin)
Ben Lipkowitz: Hardware Liberation Front
- Dan Miller: Through The Looking Glass: Simulation, Reality, and Awesum Gamez
- Steve Omohundro, Ph.D.: The Wisdom of the Global Brain
President, Self-Aware Systems
- Christine Peterson: Life Extension: Personal Implementation
Vice President, Foresight Institute
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- Lisa Rein and Bob Dietz: Dr. Timothy Leary’s Mind Mirror
Lisa Rein:
Writer, h+ Magazine
Digital Librarian, The Archives of Dr. Timothy Leary’s Futique Trust
Consultant, Kurzweilai.net
- Kristi Scott: Constructing the future through the cinematic lens of dystopic science fiction futures
REGISTRATION:
The H+ Summit is expected to sell out, so we urge our friends and colleagues to purchase their tickets sooner rather than later. We think people derive the most benefit from new ideas by adopting them sooner, so we are experimenting with a new double incentive: the sooner you buy your tickets, the less expensive your ticket will be, and the more impressive the category listed on your name badge.
We will have six tiers of tickets, starting at $150, and increasing $50 for each tier sold out. Ticket classes will have the following names to indicate how early in the Technology Adoption curve they were purchased.
$150 = Innovators
$200 = Early Adopters
$250 = Chasm
$300 = Early Majority
$350 = Late Majority
$400 = Contributors
The point is clear: if you want to come, buy your tickets sooner rather than later, and save money and get a cooler name on your badge!
PRE-SUMMIT SEMINAR
See http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/bpcs09/ for information about the IEET’s Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar, to be held Friday December 4 2009 in the same venue.
SCHEDULE
9-4 Saturday and Sunday, with an Event Saturday 7-10 pm.
ABOUT THE VENUE
EON Reality 39 Parker, Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92618 Our meeting will be held at EON Reality’s new, state-of-the-art, 18,500-square-foot facility built to showcase 3D visual content management and virtual reality applications. The facility hosts the world’s largest immersive virtual conference room that augments 3D and tele presence, and EON’s augmented reality system that overlays physical information to provide real time 3D guidance & explanation in a mobile, webbed, sensor connected environment.
RECOMMENDED HOTELS
Candlewood Suites – Irvine East
(Located a ten minute, half mile walk from the EON meeting site)
3 S. Pointe Drive, Lake Forest, CA 92630
Front Desk: 1-949-598-9105
Roughly $90 per night.
Each suite has a kitchen complete with a refrigerator/ice maker, microwave, range, and dishwasher.
Includes free Internet access and a 24-hour fitness center.
Doubletree Hotel
(Located a ten minute drive from the EON meeting site)
90 Pacifica, Irvine, CA Tel: 1-949-471-8888
Seven miles south of John Wayne Orange County Airport inside the San Diego (405), Golden State (5), and SH-133 Freeways triangle.
GETTING THERE
By Air: We recommend John Wayne Airport (airport code SNA) or Los Angeles International Airport (airport code LAX) as the nearest and most convenient.
To EON Reality from John Wayne Airport and LAX Please take the 405 South and turn off at Bake Parkway. Turn left and drive over the 405 freeway. Turn left at Irvine Boulevard. Turn right at Parker. We are in the second building to the right. Please see map below for EON Reality’s office location (red star). (John Wayne Airport and LAX are not included in the map.)
To EON Reality from LA going on I5 Please take the I5 South to CA-133N. Turn right onto Irvine Boulevard. Turn left at Parker. We are in the second building to the right. Please see map below for EON Reality’s office location (red star).
DRESS
Whatever.
MORE INFORMATION
Alex Lightman Executive Director, Humanity Plus alex AT innofone.com
