Steve Buri — President, Discovery Institute The Honorable Lynne Robinson — Mayor, City of Bellevue Matt McIlwain — Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group
Keynote Luncheon
12:15
Revisiting Metcalfe’s Law
Connectivity in the Age of AI
Bob Metcalfe — Inventor of Ethernet and Turing Award Winner Moderated Discussion with George Gilder — Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
Fireside Chat
1PM
Living on the Edge: Lambda and Decentralized AI
Stephen Balaban – CEO, Lambda Labs
2PM
Networking Break
Fireside Chat
2:30
Chat with Wolfram (Via Zoom)
Stephen Wolfram – Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research Moderated Discussion with Bob Metcalfe
Fireside Chat
3:30
Different Approaches to AI in the Enterprise
Archana Vemulapalli — Head of Solutions Architecture, AWS Moderated Discussion with Bryan Mistele — CEO, INRIX
Fireside Chat
4:15
AI for Good: Using AI to Address Complex Global Challenges
Juan Lavista Ferres – Chief Scientist and Lab Director, Microsoft Moderated Discussion with Babak Parviz — Madrona Venture Group
5PM
Adjournment (Dinner on your own)
Thursday, Nov 2
7:30-
Thursday Breakfast (Provided)
Morning Keynote
8:30
The Economics and Future of AI
Andy Kessler — Columnist, The Wall Street Journal Moderated Discussion with George Gilder
Morning Keynote
9AM
Does AI Make Immortality Possible?
Ray Kurzweil – Author, Inventor, Futurist Moderated Discussion with George Gilder
Panel Discussion
10AM
Is Anti-Aging Possible or Even Desirable?
Matt Scholz (Moderator) – CEO, OISIN Biotechnologies Vered Caplan – CEO, Orgenesis Elena Sergeeva – Neuroscientist at Tufts and Harvard, Co-founder of Tiamat Labs
Panel Discussion
10:45
The Quintessential Limits and Possibilities of AI: Three Views
Walter Myers III (Moderator) — Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft William Dembski – Board Member / Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute Robert Marks – Director, Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence George Montañez – Professor of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd
11:30
Networking Break
Keynote Luncheon
NOON
Seeing the World Through New Eyes
Michael Milken – Chairman, Milken Institute and Author of Faster Cures
Panel Discussion
1PM
The Graphene Revolution
Innovation at the Nanoscale
Bret Swanson (Moderator) Ariel Malik – Entrepreneur and Investor Bradley Larschan — CEO, Avadain Inc Kevin Wyss – Chemist at Schlumberger Limited (SLB) George Gilder
2PM
Networking Break
Panel Discussion
2:30
Silicon Valley Decentralized
Following Capital Investment
Cole Smead (Moderator) – CEO, Smead Capital Management Matt McIlwain – Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group Jack Selby – Managing Partner, AZ-VC Matt Nordby – Managing Partner, Flume Ventures
3:30
The Great Debate
American Leadership in Troubled Times
Bruce Chapman (Moderator) — Board Chair, Discovery Institute Newt Gingrich — Former Speaker, United States House of Representatives George Gilder — Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
4:30
Hype and Hyper Speed
Our Journey to Becoming AI-First
Russ Whitman — CSO, Launch Consulting Kevin McCall — Managing Director (AI), Launch Consulting
5PM
Break
6PM
Cocktail Reception
Keynote Dinner
7PM
Life After Capitalism?
Understanding the Information Theory of Economics
John Tamny (Moderator) – Forbes Editor and Author of Popular Economics George Gilder — Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute Dennis Ridley — Professor of Global Logistics, Florida A&M University
Converging Technologies Remaking the World
Cathie Wood — CEO, ARK Invest
8:45
Closing Remarks
Carver Mead — Kyoto Prize Winner (2022)
9PM
Adjournment
Friday, Nov 3
7:30-
Friday Breakfast (Provided)
Panel Discussion
9AM
What are the Implications of an AI Transportation Future?
Bryan Mistele (Moderator) – CEO, INRIX Rich Pople – Director, General Motors AI and ML Center Dorothy Li – Founder, Luminent.ai Mark Masongsong – Co-founder and CEO, UrbanLogiq
10AM
First Freedom: The Dangers of Censorship in the Digital Age
Michael Shellenberger – Author and Founder, Environmental Progress
10:45
Break
11AM
Reasonable Energy
Pragmatic Solutions to Our Energy Needs
Mark Mills (Moderator) – Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute Todd Myers – Director, Center for the Environment, Washington Policy Michael Shellenberger – Author, Apocalypse Never
11:45
Closing Remarks, Conference Wrap-up
Carver Mead George Gilder
12PM
Adjournment
All times, sessions, speakers, and panels are subject to change.
