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. Save the date for this year’s COSM, November 18-20 at the Westin Kierland in Scottsdale, Arizona. Subscribe for updates.
An Invitation from George Gilder
As Albert Einstein famously warned in an Oxford speech in 1933, “Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards to reality.” COSM 2026 is a gathering grounded in reality — yet open to the fullest horizons of human purpose, creativity, and innovation.
The future meets here. Come join us.
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
2026 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.
George Gilder
Author, Futurist, Venture Capitalist, and Cofounder of Discovery Institute
Joshua Achiam
Chief Futurist, OpenAI
Pat Gelsing
Former CEO, Intel
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Professor of Technology and Innovation, Arizona State University and Former Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation
Sandra Watson
President & CEO, Arizona Commerce Authority
John Tamny
Forbes Editor and Author of The Debt Delusion
Rolf Harms
CVP, AI Strategy, Microsoft
Gaurav Suri
Neuroscientist; Author, The Emergent Mind
Touraj Parang
President & COO, Serve Robotics
More Speakers
Thomas Lehrman
Managing Partner, Teamworthy Ventures
David Margines
Product Management Director, Waymo
Robert J. Marks II
Director, Senior Fellow, Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence
Cole Smead
CEO and Portfolio Manager, Smead Capital Management
Jay Richards
Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute and Director, DeVos Center at Heritage Foundation
Henry Hager
Managing Director, Waterous Energy Fund
Bob Metcalfe
Inventor of Ethernet and Turing Award Winner (2022)
Carver Mead
Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology
David Bahnsen
Managing Partner & CIO, The Bahnsen Group
Jonathan Hurst
Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer, Agility Robotics
Amar Bhide
Professor of Health Policy, Columbia University Medical
Bruce Chapman
Founder and Board Chair, Discovery Institute
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, Dan and Cindi Mader, Byron and Joanne Nutley,
Billy Rose Foundation, Dick and Kristina Greiling, Richard and Pat Lawson, Walter and Tammy Myers