Future Day 2016 - 1st of March - Sydney - Deloitte
Details
Future Day, 1 March, is a global phenomenon. Our goal is to have Future Day adopted as an official holiday by governments on all levels around the world for the global population to consider the future of humanity.
This year, Future Day in Sydney will be celebrated at Deloitte, Level 11, 225 George St, Sydney NSW 2000.
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Schedule:
6:30pm: Arrival, drinks and mingling.
7:00pm: Welcome and Introduction - Peter Xing
7:10pm: The Future of Innovation - Nathan Waters
7:30pm: The Future of Virtual and Augmented Reality - Scott O'Brien
7:50pm: The Future of Neurotechnology - Peter Simpson-Young
8:10pm: The Future of Artificial Intelligence - Peter Xing
8:30pm: Technology: A Double Edged Sword - Shara Evans
8:50pm: Policies for the Future - Dr James Jansson
9:10pm: Panel discussion and Q&A.
9:30pm-10:00pm: Drinks and mingling.
Speakers:
Nathan Waters - Hackagong
Nathan Waters is an entrepreneur, a consultant, a technologist and an event coordinator always looking to combine new technology and people to make the world more awesome. Founder of Hackagong, GongStartups, and the SydEthereum meetup group. http://hackagong.com/
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Scott O'Brien - Augmented Reality Sydney
As an Augmented Reality (AR) pioneer since 2009, Scott has seen AR move from "magic show" to functional use cases. In 2015, Scott built AR into a "whites of the eyes", "handshake conversation", an integral and fun part of daily social habit zones (proxemics). It's human nature with greater imagination, happiness, potential, productivity, truth and loyalty. In 2016, Scott is taking AR to the mainstream. https://www.meetup.com/ar_syd/
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Peter Simpson-Young - Neurotechnologist and Research Officer at MND Australia
Peter Simpson-Young is a graduate in Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Sydney, and studies Health Technology Innovation at the Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney. Peter has worked and experimented with a range of neurotechnologies, such EEG, Brain-Computer-Interfaces (BCIs), and transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) techniques. Neurotechnologies are having a substantial impact on research and treatments for diseases, and are being developed into consumer devices to help those outside the medical setting. Peter will discuss the recent developments in this area, and the future challenges and opportunities these technologies. https://www.mndaust.asn.au/
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Peter Xing - Deloitte and Transhumanism Australia
Peter Xing is a futurist, transhumanist and AI enthusiast. A Client Manager at Deloitte working with applied think tank, Centre for the Edge, Peter is also a Technology Evangelist and co-founder of Transhumanism Australia. http://www.transhumanism.com.au/
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Shara Evans - Market Clarity
Keynote speaker Shara Evans is internationally acknowledged as a cutting edge technology futurist, commentator, strategy advisor and thought leader, as well as the Founder and CEO of Market Clarity, an award-winning technology analyst firm that provides specialised insight, intelligence and advice on all aspects of the telecom and emerging technologies markets. http://marketclarity.com.au/
Recently, Shara was recognised as one of the world’s top female futurists. http://rossdawson.com/articles/list-of-the-worlds-top-female-futurists/#SharaEvans ;
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Dr James Jansson - Science Party
Dr James Jansson is the leader of the Science Party and co-founder of fintech and mediatech startup, ZipSub. He studied mathematics and later teaching at the University of Sydney. He did a short stint teaching in a disadvantaged school in western Sydney. Since then, James has completed his PhD in mathematical modelling of HIV disease progression and epidemiology. http://scienceparty.org.au/
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Apologies:
Meow-Ludo Meow-Meow - BioFoundry
Meow-Ludo Meow-Meow is the founder of BioHackSyd and the co-founder of the BioFoundry, Australia's first community biohacking space. http://foundry.bio/
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Meow was recently accepted into IndieBio, the accelerator in San Francisco for biotech startups! This means that he won't be at Future Day in person but hope we can play a message from him while he's on the way to SF. http://www.indiebio.co/
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Future Day details:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futureday
Twitter: https://twitter.com/futureday
Website: http://future-day.org/
Google+ Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/113593172674200566221
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-7qI6NZpO3uWkIwkSnP0X9vSIEWkX8Qe
This meetup is in conjunction with the Melbourne Future Day 2016 event also on 1st of March, hosted by Adam Ford!
https://www.meetup.com/Science-Technology-and-the-Future/events/228390453/