Dialogue with Ray Kurzweil

Ray KurzweilSpecial Announcement: Ray Kurzweil will participate remotely via video conference, and field audience questions on Sunday September 9th at 3:45pm. Kurzweil, noted inventor, futurist, and author, is a director of the Singularity Institute and author of the best-selling The Singularity Is Near.

Summit 2007 Speakers

Summit 2007 Ticket Price

The Singularity Summit 2007 charges a token amount of $50 to guarantee your seating for both September 8th and 9th. If there are any seats remaining on the day of the summit, September 8th will be opened to public attendance, first come first served. Purchase tickets online now to guarantee your seating.

Quotes from Prominent Thinkers

If you invent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, so machines can learn, that is worth 10 Microsofts.

— Bill Gates

What is the singularity?

For over a hundred thousand years, the evolved human brain has held a privileged place in the expanse of cognition. Within this century, science may move humanity beyond its boundary of intelligence. This possibility, the singularity, may be a critical event in history, and deserves thoughtful consideration. More

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Speaker Interviews

Podcasts

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Summit Networking

You will have the opportunity to network with the most forward-looking, visionary audience in the Bay Area. You will also have the chance to meet and talk with the Summit 2007 speakers during the three-hour, Saturday night reception.

Summit 2006

The Singularity Summit at Stanford, the first academic symposium focused on the singularity scenario, brought together 1,300 people and 10 speakers to explore the future of human and machine cognition, including Ray Kurzweil, Dr. Douglas R. Hofstadter, and Dr. Sebastian Thrun. Press coverage included a feature article in the San Francisco Chronicle.