COSM 2024 is history. Stay tuned for this year’s agenda.
All times, sessions, speakers, and panels are subject to change.
Thursday, October 31
7:30
Breakfast
8AM
Registration Opens
9AM
A Hallow’s Eve Welcome
Steve Buri — President, Discovery Institute
9:15
Beyond Chips, Silicon, and Data Centers
Will We Be Spooked by the Coming Terahertz Waferscale Paradigm?
George Gilder — Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
Response: Bob Metcalfe — Inventor of Ethernet and Turing Award Winner
10AM
Networking Break
Fireside Chat
10:30
AI and the Cloud
Moderated by Bryan Mistele — CEO, INRIX Swami Sivasubramanian — VP (AI and Data), Amazon Web Services
11AM
The Wild West of Energy
Moderated discussion by Cole Smead, Smead Capital Management
Mark Mills — Distinguished Senior Fellow, TPPF Jonathan Lesser — Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute Kent Walter — Director, Arizona Public Service
NOON
Break
Lunch
12:15
Accelerating the Endless Frontier
Vannevar Bush’s New Architectures for Transforming R&D Spending and Discovering the Next CRISPR
Thomas D. Lehrman — Managing Partner, Teamworthy Ventures
Panel
1PM
Will We Be Haunted by a Non-Hallucinatory AI?
Lloyd Watts — Founder and CEO, Neocortix Andrew Mayne — Founder, Interdimensional AI; Former Researcher, Prompt Engineer at Open AI
1:45
Break
Panel
2PM
The New Web Paradigm: VERSES vs. OpenAI
Moderated discussion by Bob Kelly — Strategic Advisor and Investor
Gabriel Rene (via video conference) – CEO, VERSES Response: Lucius Gregory Meredith – President and CEO, F1r3fly.io and George Gilder
Panel
3PM
It’s Just an Apparition: Unmasking AI Hype
Moderated discussion by Walter Myers – Senior Fellow and Board Member, Discovery Institute
Robert J. Marks – Director, Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence William Dembski – Mathematician and Philosopher George Gilder – Discovery Institute
4PM
Agentic AI — Models are NOT All You Need
Matt McIlwain – Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group
4:30
Break
6PM
Hosted Reception
Panel and Plated Dinner
7PM
The Israel Test and Global Technology Leadership
Moderated by Bruce Chapman – Founder, Discovery Institute
Jonathan Medved – CEO, OurCrowd Jim Tour – Professor and Entrepreneur, Rice University Gilad Garon – CEO, ASOCS George Gilder – Discovery Institute
Friday, Nov 1
7:30-
Friday Breakfast (Provided)
8:30
The Bellevue Miracle: How Our Host City Became a Center of Innovation
Moderated discussion by Steve Buri
Hon. Lynne Robinson — Mayor, City of Bellevue
Panel Discussion
9AM
The Graphene Moment
Moderated discussion by George Gilder
James Tour — T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry Walt de Heer — Physicist and Nanoscience Researcher Michael Walshe — CEO MTM Critical Metals
10AM
Artificial: Cartooning the Past and the Future
Amy Kurzweil (via videoconference) — Cartoonist and Illustrator
10:30
The Increasingly Pressing Matter of Preserving Our Knowledge
Larry Sanger — Ex-Founder of Wikipedia, President of Knowledge Standards Foundation
11AM
The Economy of Superabundance vs. The Network Economy
Gale Pooley, Author and Professor
11:30
Networking Break
Luncheon
NOON
Inflation, Deficits, and Crashes: Three Views on the Economy
Moderated discussion by Jerry Bowyer — Fellow, Center on Wealth & Poverty
Mark Skousen — American Economist John Tamny — Forbes Editor and Author of Popular Economics Stephen Shipman — Investment Portfolio Manager and Securities Analyst
1:30
What Happened to the ACES Revolution?
How Autonomous, Connected, Electric, and Shared Vehicle Technologies Stalled
Bryan Mistele — CEO, INRIX
Panel
2PM
A Celebration of Carver Mead
Introduction by George Gilder
Chris Diorio — CEO, Impinj
2:45
Closing Remarks, Conference Wrap-up
Carver Mead — Kyoyo Prize Winner (2022) George Gilder
