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

— Bill Gates

Day One

8:00 AM	Doors Open
9:00 AM	Welcome: The Singularity Summit to Address Advanced AI
9:05 AM	Keynote: Rodney Brooks, MIT Panasonic Professor of Robotics
9:45 AM	Singularity Intro: Eliezer Yudkowsky, SIAI Co-Founder & Research Fellow
10:10 AM	Break
10:40 AM	Session I: What are the Pathways and Major Challenges? Barney Pell, Powerset Co-Founder & CEO Wendell Wallach, Lecturer at Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics Sam Adams, IBM Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research
12:30 PM	Lunch
1:25 PM	Lunch: Special Presentation by Artificial Development
2:00 PM	The Metaverse: Jamais Cascio, IEET Fellow
2:25 PM	Session II: What are the Potential Benefits and Implications? Stephen M. Omohundro, Self-Aware Systems Founder & President Peter Voss, Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Founder & CEO Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital Management Founder & President
4:15 PM	Break
4:45 PM	Session III: How Far are We from Advanced AI? Neil Jacobstein, Teknowledge Chairman & CEO Paul Saffo, Consulting Professor at Stanford University Ben Goertzel, SIAI Director of Research & Novamente CEO
6:35 PM	Break
7:00 PM	Reception
9:30 PM	Reception Ends

Day One

8:00 AM	Doors Open
9:00 AM	Keynote: Peter Norvig, Google Director of Research
9:40 AM	Break
10:10 AM	Session IV: What Risks May We Face? Eliezer Yudkowsky, SIAI Co-Founder & Research Fellow J. Storrs Hall, Scientist & Author of Beyond AI Charles L. Harper, Jr., John Templeton Foundation Senior VP
12:00 PM	Lunch
12:50 PM	Lunch: Special Presentation by X PRIZE Foundation
1:30 PM	Presentation by Steve Jurvetson
1:55 PM	Session V: What Should We Do to Prepare? Christine Peterson, Foresight Nanotech Institute VP James Hughes, IEET Executive Director Joined by Stephen Omohundro, Barney Pell, and Peter Thiel
3:20 PM	Break
3:45 PM	Live Videoconference: Dialogue with Ray Kurzweil
4:25 PM	Closing Q&A
5:30 PM	Singularity Summit Ends