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 Matt McIlwain — Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group
9:15
Beyond Chips, Silicon, and DataCenters
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 Logic of Net-Zero
Moderated discussion by Cole Smead, Smead Capital Management
Bob Metcalfe — Engineer, Entrepreneur, and Professor of Innovation Mark Mills — Distinguished Senior Fellow, TPPF Jonathan Lesser — Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
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 – CEO, VERSES Lucius Gregory Meredith – President and CEO, F1r3fly.io Ben Goertzel – Founder and CEO, SingularityNET
Panel
3PM
It’s Just an Apparition: Unmasking AI Hysteria
Moderated discussion by Walter Myers – Senior Fellow and Board Member, Discovery Institute
Robert J. Marks – Director, Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence George Gilder – Discovery Institute William Dembski – Mathematician and Philosopher
4PM
AI and Your Business
Kirsten Lum — CTO & Lead Scientist, Storytellers.ai
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 George Gilder – Discovery Institute Gilad Garon – CEO, ASOCS
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
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
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 Balaji Srinivasan (virtual), Entrepreneur and Investor
11:30
Networking Break
Luncheon
NOON
Inflation, Deficits, and Crashes: Three Views on the Economy
Moderated discussion by Jerry Bowyer
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
