COSM is an exclusive national summit on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it. The mission of the conference is to stimulate debate and deliberation amongst industry leaders on the unities animating these apparently divergent technology areas. Register below for this year’s COSM, November 19-21 at the Hilton Scottsdale Resort & Villas in Arizona.
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Why Attend?
Meet the Future
This is no everyday tech conference. COSM is a sneak peek at the future. Stay ahead, engaging directly with the visionaries shaping the technologies that will define the next decade.
Be In the Know
In a time of rapid change, be equipped to interpret the signals, seize the upside, and navigate what’s next.
Free Your Mind
We gather speakers and panelists who challenge conventional narratives and surface ideas you won’t hear anywhere else.
Network with Technology Peers
Connect around the table and in the COSM Lounge with a rare mix of bold thinkers, top execs, and breakthrough researchers and technologists.
A Taste of COSM
Speakers
Designed by famed technology futurist, George Gilder, COSM boasts an astounding array of speakers. Keynotes have included Peter Thiel, Cathie Wood, Newt Gingrich, Stephen Wolfram, Jim Tour, Kai-Fu Lee, Stephen C. Meyer, Michael Shellenberger, Bob Metcalfe, Eric Schmidt, Ray Kurzweil, Michael Milken, Larry Sanger, and Federico Faggin, among others. Every year, Kyoto Prize winner Carver Mead crowns the discussion with his sage reflections.
Peter Thiel (invited)
Entrepreneur and Investor
Doug Ducey
Former Governor of Arizona
Steve Forbes
Chairman, Forbes Media
George Gilder
Author, Futurist, Venture Capitalist, and Cofounder of Discovery Institute
Jinyoung Englund
Chief Strategy Officer, National Intelligence University
John F. Clauser
Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Prize Winner (2022)
Ari Emanuel
CEO, Endeavor
Eric Schmidt (invited)
CEO, Relativity Space and formerly, Google
Louisa Gilder Marsh
Author, The Age of Entanglement
More Speakers
Robert J. Marks II
Director, Senior Fellow, Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence
Babak Parviz
CEO and Founder, NewDays.ai
Jim Tour
T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and Nano-Engineering
Thomas Lehrman
Managing Partner, Teamworthy Ventures
Cole Smead
CEO and Portfolio Manager, Smead Capital Management
Henry Hager
Managing Director, Waterous Energy Fund
Uli Homann
Corporate VP of Cloud and AI / Microsoft
Bob Kelly
Goldman Sachs Advisor, Board member
Keri Ingraham
Director, American Center for Transforming Education
Jenny Clark
Executive Director, Love Your School
John Tamny
Forbes Editor and Author of Popular Economics
Walter Myers III
Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
Carver Mead
Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology
Steve Ragiel
President, Flash Metals USA
Steve Buri
President, Discovery Institute
Sponsors
Thanks to our sponsors and partners for bringing the good vibrations to Arizona, setting the stage for cosmopolitan and prescient conversations about the shifting sands of technological progress.
Kelly Advisory, Dick and Kristina Greiling, Dan and Cindi Mader,
Walter Myers, Byron and Joanne Nutley