The Humanity+ at Caltech program will be divided into four main themed sessions. These sessions are:
- Re-Imagining Humans: Mind, Media and Methods
- Radically Increasing the Human Healthspan
- Redefining Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Enhancement and Substrate-Independent Minds
- Business and Economy in the Era of Radical Technomorphosis
A wide range of interesting, professional speakers, from both the for-profit and non-profit worlds, will address each of the four themes.
Friday Afternoon: Early Registration
Saturday:
7:30AM-8:30AM Registration
8:30 AM Chairman’s Intro (Ben Goertzel)
Session 1: Re-Imagining Humans: Mind, Media and Methods
8:45 AM Session Intro by Amy Li
8:50 AM Robert Tercek (General Creativity), “Information + Transformation: How Digital Media Accelerates the Future Evolution of Humanity”
9:35 AM David Levy (Steambot Studio), “Robotic/Fantasy Art, a look at its evolution and social/cultural influence”
9:55 AM J-Walt (Spontaneous Fantasia), “Exploring the Infinite Frontier”
10:15 AM Amy Li (Meidesign), “How Mobile Technology is Transforming the World”
10:40 AM Break
11:10 AM Natasha Vita-More (PhD Researcher, University of Plymouth), “Human Enhancement: Emerging Designs for Wearable Selves”
11:35 AM RU Sirius (Humanity+), “Problems Solved: What’s Next for H+ Magazine”
11:55 AM Michael Masucci (EZTV), “Mediating the Transition- can art minimize a backlash from techno-phobic fundamentalism?”
12:15 PM Panel Discussion
12:45 PM Lunch
Session 2: Radically Increasing the Human Healthspan
2:15 PM Session Intro by Ben Goertzel
2:25 PM Gregory Benford (Genescient Corp.), “Longevity for the Long Term”
3:00 PM Stephen Coles (Gerontology Research Group & UC Irvine), “Is There a Maximum Human Lifespan?”
3:25 PM Michael Rose (UC Irvine), “Building Methuselahs”
4 PM Ben Goertzel (Novamente LLC), “The Holy Trinity of 21st Century Biomedicine: Genomics, AI and Experimental Evolution”
4:15 PM Aubrey de Grey (SENS Foundation), “Strategies for Engineering Negligible Senesence: A Response to the Previous Speakers”
4:30 PM Break
5:00 PM Ryan Bethencourt (PAREXEL), “The Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry”
5:15 PM Parijata Mackey (Acron Cell LLC), TBD
5:30 PM Joseph Jackson (BioCurious), TBD
5:45 PM Panel Discussion
6:15 PM Session end
Dinner at Area Restaurants
Participants will divide into small groups and have dinner at area restaurants, reconvening at Dabney Auditorium at 9PM for the after-party. The after-party is free and open to everyone.
9 PM Doors open for after-party
9:30 PM J-Walt Performance
10 PM After-party begins
Sunday:
7:30 AM Coffee in the lobby
Session 3: Redefining Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Enhancement and Substrate-Independent Minds
8:00 AM Session Intro by Ben Goertzel
8:10 AM TBD
8:25 AM Randal Koene (Halcyon Molecular), “The 25 Watt bio-computer: Lessons for Artificial Human Intelligence and Substrate-Independent Minds”
9 AM Suzanne Gildert (DWave Systems), “Pavlov’s AI: What do superintelligences REALLY want?”
9:20 AM David Hanson (Hanson Robotics), TBD
9:50 AM Geordie Rose (DWave Systems), “Finding the essence of an object using a quantum annealing machine”
10:10 AM Alex Peake (Primer Labs), “Autocatalyzing Intelligence Symbiosis: what happens when artificial intelligence for intelligence amplification drives a 3dfx-like intelligence explosion”
10:30 AM Break
11 AM Adrian Stoica (JPL Robotics), “Speculations on robots, cyborgs and telepresence”
11:30 AM Paul Rosenbloom (University of Southern California), “From Cognitive Architectures to Virtual Humans”
12:00 PM Ben Goertzel (Novamente LLC), “Building Better Minds: A Path to, and Architecture for, Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence”
12:15 PM Moran Cerf (Caltech), “Advanced brain-machine interfaces – Experimental Data and Possibilities”
12:30 PM Panel Discussion
1 PM Lunch
Session 4: Business and Economy in the Era of Radical Technomorphosis
2:15 PM Session Intro by Ben Goertzel
2:25 PM John Hagel (Deloitte), “Harnessing Increasing Technological Progress in Business Performance”
2:55 PM Max More (ManyWorlds, Inc.), “How to Optimize Disorder in Today’s Organizations and Tomorrow’s Corporate Selves”
3:25 PM Alex Backer (ab|inventio), “The Growth, Memory and Democratization of Science”
3:45 PM Patri Friedman (Seasteading Institute), “Lifehacking for Rationalists: Old Ideas + New Technology”
4:05 PM Michael Vassar (Singularity Institute), “Networks, Hierarchies and the Vingean Singularity”
4:30 PM Break
5 PM Gino Yu (Hong Kong PolyU), “Re-Imagining Humans – Using video games to cultivate mind body awareness and natural intelligence”
5:20 PM Tom Munnecke (Stanford Digital Visions), “Accelerating Resilience”
5:40 PM Bryan Bishop (Humanity+), “Personal Manufacturing and the Gada Prize”
6 PM Panel Session
6:30 PM Conference End