How can exponential technology change the human experience?
At Singularity University, we are constantly discussing just how exponential technology is changing our lives. That is, in fact, the community’s main goal: to ensure that governments, organizations, and individuals hold the necessary knowledge and insights to thrive in this changing world.
Driven by this ambition, SingularityU Portugal Summit Cascais will gather the greatest innovative minds of the present in Cascais in order to discuss and explore the paths that can be followed so that such disruptive movements can impact positively on the world.
Vivienne Ming, Divya Chander, and Esther Wojcicki are three speakers whose careers have focused on the human side of technology and how we may deploy it to improve our journey on Earth.
Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, technologist, and entrepreneur who has dedicated her life to maximizing human potential by applying newly emerging technologies. By combining machine learning, neuroscience, and economic research, Ming explores new ways of creating happier, healthier, and more impactful lives. In her talk in Cascais, Vivienne Ming will share stories about her work helping companies realize the full potential of their workforce, computing the economic cost of bias, attacking educational inequality and using neural networks to reunite refugee families.
Also focused on neuroscience and how new technologies are letting us peek inside the human brain is Divya Chander, an anesthesiologist and neuroscientist at Stanford University who specializes in measuring brain activity and depth-of-consciousness in patients using tools like high-frequency EEG technology.
In Cascais, you will be able to explore with Chander how old and new technologies make it possible to read visions and dreams, hack thoughts, and plant false memories. You will also look at how modern medicine and science makes it possible to restore and enhance functions to people who are paralyzed, opening the door to digital and robotic control through the human mind.
From medicine to education, we also have Esther Wojcicki and her moonshots in education. This educator and journalist argues that every child has to reach their fullest potential by being fully engaged and inspired in their learning. This, in her words, is a fundamental shift in the mindset and culture of teaching that should especially be born in mind when approaching the demands of the 21st century.
On stage, Wojcicki will defend how the fundamental shift involves giving students more control and agency in the classroom and placing the teacher in a lateral mentor/coach role instead of serving only as a lecturer.
These are just three of the dozens of experts coming to SingularityU Portugal Summit Cascais on October 8th and 9th. Human-centered discussions won’t be the only focus of the event: Stay tuned to find out about more topics and more speakers.
