8:30am – 9:45am

Registration Open

10:00am – 10:30am

Prelude To The Future
Amy Webb (Future Today Institute) and Asha Curran (92Y)

10:30am – 11:30am

The Future of Biohacking
In the near-future, we will edit animals, produce…and even people. We may live for 150 years (or more). How will altering life change the way we live?

• Esther Dyson (Way To Wellville and philanthropist)
• Neville Sanjana (New York Genome Center)
• Todd Kuiken (Synthetic Biology Project)
• Scott Fahrenkrug (Recombinetics)
• Amy Webb (FTI)

11:30am – 12:00pm

Keynote Conversation: Paola Antonelli (MoMA) and Tony Dunne (Dunne & Raby)
Dunne & Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies. In this keynote conversation, MoMA’s Paola Antonelli and Tony Dunne will debate and discuss how can we apply design fiction and speculative design principles to our thinking about the future.

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Hands-On Activities

• Build a Bot Workshop
• Virtual Reality Arcade
• IBM Watson Experience
• Futuristic Foods
• Bookstore and book signings
• Phone Home to the Future

2:00pm – 3:00pm

The Future of the First Amendment
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, we learned about the rise of fake news on social networks–and how algorithms might have influenced the outcome. What does that mean for us in the present? In the longer term: is the speech of a chatbot protected? What happens in the future when our smart machines start behaving badly?

• Jay Stanley (ACLU)
• Jack Balkin (Yale Law School)
• Judith Miller (Fox News, Manhattan Institute)
• Meredith Broussard (NYU)

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Day One Coda: What we’ve learned, what we have yet to learn, and what we’re doing tomorrow.

4:00pm – 7:00pm

Drinks With Scientists (various locations throughout NYC)

8:30am – 9:45am

Registration Open

10:00am – 10:15am

Day Two Prelude
Amy Webb (Future Today Institute) and Asha Curran (92Y)

10:15 – 11:00am

Keynote: Dr. Rob High (IBM Watson Chief Technology Officer)
Is it dangerous for us not to work alongside artificially intelligent machines? Will include a Q&A facilitated by Amy Webb (FTI).

11:00am – 12:00pm

The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Within five years, AI will be part of everything we do. But should we really trust in the machines?

• Rob High (CTO, IBM Watson)
• Bob Mankoff (cartoon editor, New Yorker)
• Jessi Hempel (Backchannel)
• Francesca Rossi (IBM Watson)
• Matt Chessen (U.S. Department of State)

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Hands-On Activities

• Build a Bot Workshop
• Virtual Reality Arcade
• IBM Watson Experience
• Futuristic Foods
• Bookstore and book signings
• Phone Home to the Future

2:00pm – 3:00pm

The Future of Digital Frailty
Humanity has never recorded as much of its history as we are right now, today. Most of it is in social networks. How will future historians look back on this moment in time?

• Manoush Zomorodi (Host, Note to Self)
• Jon Ronson (Author)
• Douglas Rushkoff (Author and Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

The Future of Techno-Governing
The Bill of Rights was written 227 years ago: before computers, cars and code. What responsibility does our current government have to our future selves?

• Stacey Dixon (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity – IARPA)
• Rush Holt (CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• Frances Colon (U.S. Department of State)
• David Litt (Head Writer and Producer, Funny or Die)
• Amy Webb (FTI)

4:00pm – 4:30pm

Keynote: Karen Rommelfanger (Emory University’s Neuroethics Program at the Center for Ethics)
Scientists are connecting brains to machines…they’ve also started wiring humans to each other. What happens when humans are connected directly to machines that will assist us with everything, including transferring our thoughts to each other? In the future, what will it mean to be “human?”

4:30pm – 5:00pm

Epilogue: The Future History of You
Amy Webb (Future Today Institute) and Asha Curran (92Y)