Agenda

All times, sessions, speakers, and panels are subject to change.

Wednesday, Nov 1

10AM

Registration Opens

2:15

Break

5PM

Adjournment (Dinner on your own)

Thursday, Nov 2

		_{Panel Discussion}
10AM		Is Anti-Aging Possible or Even Desirable?”

		Vered Caplan – CEO, Orgenesis Matt Scholz – CEO, Oisin Biotechnologies Bob Nelsen – Managing Director, Arch Venture Partners (Invited)

10:45

Break

5:15

Break

9PM

Adjournment

Friday, Nov 3

10:45

Break

12PM

Adjournment

		_{Fireside Chat}
1PM		Living on the Edge: Lambda and Decentralized AI

		Stephen Balaban – CEO, Lambda Labs

		_{Fireside Chat}
1:45		Revisiting Metcalfe’s Law
		Connectivity in the Age of AI
		Bob Metcalfe — Inventor of Ethernet and Turing Award Winner Moderated Discussion with George Gilder

		_{Panel Discussion}
2:30		Title to Be Determined (Via Zoom)

		Stephen Wolfram – Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research Moderated Discussion with Bob Metcalfe

		_{Fireside Chat}
3:30		Is the Future of AI Open or Closed (Source)?

		Archana Vemulapalli — Head of Solutions Architecture, AWS Moderated Discussion with Bryan Mistele — CEO, INRIX

		^{Afternoon Keynote}
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

12:00		Welcoming Remarks

		Steve Buri — President, Discovery Institute The Honorable Lynne Robinson — Mayor, City of Bellevue Matt McIlwain — Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group

12:15		Keynote Luncheon The Economics and Future of AI

		Andy Kessler — Columnist, The Wall Street Journal Moderated Discussion with George Gilder — Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute

		_{_{Morning Keynote}}
9AM		Does AI Make Immortality Possible?

		Ray Kurzweil – Author, Inventor, Futurist Moderated Discussion with George Gilder

11AM		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

		_{Keynote Luncheon}
NOON		Is Healthcare in Need of a High-Yield Revolution?

		Michael Milken – Chairman, Milken Institute and Author of Faster Cures

		_{Panel Discussion}
1PM		The Graphene Revolution
		Innovation at the Nanoscale
		George Gilder (Moderator) Ariel Malik – Entrepreneur and Investor Bradley Larschan — CEO, Avadain Inc (Invited) Kevin Wyss – PhD Candidate, Rice University

		_{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

		_{Fireside Chat}
3:30		The China Challenge: Is it Time to Decouple?”

		Kyle Bass – Founder and CIO, Hayman Capital Management

		_{Moderated Discussion}
4:30		Is Life After Capitalism Emergency Socialism?

		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

		_{Evening Keynote}
7PM		Converging Technologies Remaking the World

		Cathie Wood — CEO, ARK Invest

8:30		Closing Remarks

		Carver Mead — Kyoto Prize Winner (2022)

10AM		First Freedom: The Dangers of Censorship in the Digital Age

		Michael Shellenberger – Author and Founder, Environmental Progress

11:45		Closing Remarks, Conference Wrap-up

		Carver Mead — Kyoto Prize Winner (2022) George Gilder

		_{Panel Discussion}
9AM		What are the Implications of an AI Transportation Future?

		Bryan Mistele (Moderator) – CEO, INRIX Michael Wagner – CEO, Edge Case Research Dan Lewis – CEO, Convoy (Invited)

11AM		Green Energy
		Panacea or Fantasy?
		Mark Mills (Moderator) – Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute Todd Myers – Director, Center for the Environment, Washington Policy Michael Shellenberger – Author, Apocalypse Never Jonathan Lesser – Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute