How Can AI Accelerate Progress in Bioengineering & Healthcare?
The time has come to gather the A team in the San Francisco Bay Area and make the case for techno-optimism around AI.
Someone needs to clearly lay out the many positive ways that Artificial Intelligence could accelerate progress in many fields. Someone needs to figure out the new ways forward that can make the most of this potentially world-changing new tool.
Someone needs to counter the many negative narratives that are building about the dangers of AI, which are leading to widespread fears and calls to constrain what we do at this critical juncture.
We want to do our part to meet those needs and help everyone better understand that there are positive ways forward that could unlock the full potential of AI, and responsibly deal with the risks.
We want to make the case for techno-optimism in this critical year — and so we need you.
Elite Invite to June 12th Event
If we sent you the link to this private page, then you’re invited to join an elite group of many prominent members of the tech and innovation economy in the San Francisco Bay Area region who can help make the case that AI could supercharge efforts to dramatically upgrade healthcare and drive bioengineering towards making a more sustainable world.
Help us build an argument on the evening of June 12th that we humans can move ahead with confidence that we are fully capable of figuring out the new ways forward using AI and also solving the problems that might arise over time.
Some of you will be asked to give 5-minute answers to the question: How can AI accelerate progress in bioengineering and healthcare? But all 250 of the minds we expect to gather might have something to add to the conversation in the formal program that will be videoed as well as the party afterward.
If you don’t need more convincing, then go REGISTER for this free event right now.
At the Shack15 Club in the Ferry Building
The Setting: We will gather in the Shack15 club overlooking the bay in the top floor of the iconic Ferry Building in San Francisco, which is ground zero of the region and for the emerging “Cerebral Valley” of Generative AI startups. The event will roll into more like a party where we can all cross-connect afterward too.
The Organizers: Peter Leyden, a longtime tech optimist who worked with the founders of WIRED and co-authored The Long Boom in the 1990s. He is now the founder of Reinvent Futures and will host and curate this event and the ongoing series The AI Age Begins. The company produced a highly successful similar event series about Gen AI last year called The Great Progression.
Top Tier Speakers Leading the Conversation
The Speakers: We have a terrific group of speakers forming for short 5-minute talks that will stimulate the broader conversation. We always attract a wide range of top-tier speakers to this series (see the adjacent video) and have hosted people like:
Google Brain Cofounder Greg Corrado, Siri Cofounder Adam Cheyer, Coursera Cofounder Daphne Koller, Founder of Rewiring America Saul Griffith, Former Head of the Patent Office Michelle Lee, Tech Guru Kevin Kelly, GenAI founders like May Habib of Writer, elected officials like California State Senator Josh Becker, among many others.
We already have some really terrific thought leaders registered for our June 12th event who will be part of the conversation, including:
Andrew Hessel, a pioneer in synthetic biology and cofounder of the Genome Project-write.
Tom Kalil, CEO of the new Renaissance Philanthropy backed by Eric Schmidt .
Anna Marie Wagner, Head of AI at Ginko Bioworks.
David Ewing Duncan, author to 12 books, including his last with Craig Venter on the ocean’s microbiome, and the previous “Talking to Robots.”
We consider anyone who we invite has something valuable to contribute and we eventually will open up the conversation to all. But to get into this free event you need to REGISTER.
A-List Partners & their Global Networks
The Partners: BCG X, the tech unit of Boston Consulting Group, one of the premier global strategy firms in the world, is the prime partner for the series and will be drawing in top talent from their network that spans throughout the world.
We also have top companies involved in Generative AI as sponsors, who will be bringing their networks to the table as well as resources.
They include Google, Adobe (with their Firefly) the GenAI companies Writer and Radium, as well as the venture firm B Capital.
Media Attraction & Documenting All in Video
The Media: In previous events we have attracted top journalists from Bloomberg, Forbes, The New Yorker, AXIOS and Reuters in the first season of our event series. One of our events provided the lead to the cover story of Businessweek.
We expect similar interest from the media this year too. And we already have had journalists attend from WIRED, The Economist, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and AXIOS, among others.
The Output: We will document the entire program with a sophisticated three-camera shoot and produce videos of the short talks of the speakers open to all on YouTube here. Our host Peter Leyden will write an essay of what we learned free to all in Substack here.
The AI Age Begins ongoing series
The Series: This event is one of six to be held in the 2024 season called The AI Age Begins that will continue to build a more positive narrative around AI. Each subsequent event will look at how AI could accelerate progress in an important field like entertainment & media. Check out The AI Age Begins essay for more.
The Format: We start gathering for drinks and connecting at 5:30 pm after work before the program that goes from 6 pm to 8 pm. We then turn down the lights and turn up the music and roll into more like a party with food and drinks to continue cross-connecting and building relationships.
To get into the club for this free, invite-only event, you do need to REGISTER.
Please Register Here to Join
The details of the next event are squeezed down to the basics just below, and you can jump right into the quick registration process through this link to the Luma event page. Everyone who signs up is initially put on the waiting list but we will move through the VIPs like you relatively quickly.
We do expect this event to max out with a waiting list so if you're interested in being a part of this important initiative and can-do network of tech-optimists building a positive case for Artificial Intelligence then we would appreciate an answer as soon as you can. Register here.
Date: June 12th
Time: 5:15pm
Program: 6 pm - 8 pm
Party: 8 pm -10 pm