• Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies Conference
• MIT, Boston, MA, USA
• September 25-27, 2007
• Description:
  

  Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies (EmTech) Conference at MIT brings you remarkable technological breakthroughs that will transform the way we live and do business. This unique event brings together business leaders, venture capitalists, senior technologists, and an extraordinary group of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35—the TR35.

  Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies (EmTech) Conference at MIT is an event unlike any other. If you are in charge of the strategic direction of your organization or simply passionate about technology, it’s one you can’t afford to miss. The 7th annual event will be held on the beautiful MIT Campus in Cambridge, MA, on September 25-27, 2007, and will include:

  • Presentations from world-renowned business leaders
  • Showcase and demonstration of emerging technologies from leading companies
  • Breakout sessions focusing on the latest developments in specific areas of technology
  • Unveiling of the 2007 TR35 –the top 35 innovators under the age of 35
  • Unparalleled networking opportunities with the people you need to meet in the technology industry—venture capitalists, innovators and visionaries, corporate leaders, and entrepreneurs

Please see Frontier Channel’s coverage of this event.

• Challenges & Opportunities: The Future of Nano & Bio Technologies - An Interdisciplinary Conference organized by World Care and the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
• Radisson Hotel and Suites, Tucson, AZ, USA
• September 9-13, 2007

Please see Frontier Channel’s coverage of this event.

• Third “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” Conference (SENS3)
• Queens’ College, Cambridge, England
• September 6-10, 2007
• Description:
  

  The purpose of the SENS conference series, like all the SENS initiatives (such as the journal Rejuvenation Research and the Methuselah Mouse Prize), is to expedite the development of truly effective therapies to postpone and treat human aging by tackling it as an engineering problem: not seeking elusive and probably illusory magic bullets, but instead enumerating the accumulating molecular and cellular changes that eventually kill us and identifying ways to repair — reverse — those changes, rather than merely to slow down their further accumulation.

• State of Play V: Building The Global Metaverse
• Singapore
• August 19-22, 2007
• Description:
  

  Organized by Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, New York Law School, Trinity University, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, this pioneering global conference on virtual worlds invites experts across disciplines to discuss the future of cyberspace and the impact of these new immersive, social online environments on education, law, politics and society. The hallmark of the conference is its multi-disciplinary perspective.

  Whether they take the form of games, social spaces, or educational environments, virtual worlds are now truly global in scope. The popularity of virtual worlds in Asia is phenomenal. From Thailand and Malaysia to Indonesia and the Philippines, the Asia Pacific region’s on-line gaming market generated approximately $1.4 billion in annual revenues last year – a figure that is expected to reach $3.6 billion by the end of the decade. Much of this growth will be propelled by 180 million Chinese Internet users, the majority of whom will play on-line games.

Please see Frontier Channel’s coverage of this event.

• The Singularity Summit 2007
• Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA 94123
• September 8-9, 2007, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
• Organizers: the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI)
• August 13, 2007 Press Release: “The Singularity Summit to address promise and peril of advanced AI to future of humanity“
• Description:
  

  “The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence is proud to announce the Singularity Summit 2007, a major two-day event bringing together 15 prominent thinkers to examine a historical moment in humanity’s history – a window of opportunity to shape how we develop advanced artificial intelligence.”

• TransVision 2007 - Transhumanity Saving Humanity: Inner Space to Outer Space
• Chicago Fairmont Hotel, Chicago, IL, USA
• July 23-26, 2007
• Description:
  

  Do you believe that emerging technology will give society the ability to solve the greatest challenges facing humanity? What’s the biggest priority: longevity therapies, sustainable energy, clean water, a restored environment, or space development?

  The World Transhumanist Association is a global non-profit member organization dedicated to the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. The WTA supports the development of and access to new technologies that enable everyone to enjoy better minds, better bodies and better lives. This philosophy would be negligent without considering a better environment and a better planet in which to live. How can we live better than well if we don’t take action now to solve the greatest challenges facing our world?

  Therefore, the theme of TransVision 2007 is: Transhumanity Saving Humanity: Inner Space to Outer Space, and will feature three full days of compelling dialogue with the greatest minds of today about creating the civilizations of tomorrow. TV07 brings extraordinary people from across the globe together with more than 30 distinguished speakers, entertainers and visionaries including: award-winning inventor, futurist, author Raymond Kurzweil; acclaimed longevity scientist, Aubrey de Grey; and Emmy award winning actor, William Shatner.

• Edmonton Aging Symposium
• University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• March 30-31, 2007
• Description:
  

  Leading experts discuss the economics and ethics of the development of advanced technologies able to extend the healthy human lifespan alongside evidence for the existence of these technologies and how to stay healthy today to prepare for the therapies of tomorrow.