{"id":824,"date":"2010-04-18T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:14:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:14:05","slug":"hplussummit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/hplussummit","title":{"rendered":"Ray Kurzweil to keynote \u201cH+ Summit @ Harvard \u2014 The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With our growing resources, the Lifeboat Foundation has teamed with the Singularity Hub<\/a> as Media Sponsors<\/a> for the 2010 Humanity+ Summit. If you have suggestions on future events that we should sponsor, please contact partnerships@lifeboat.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"The summer 2010 \u201cHumanity+ @ Harvard \u2014 The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist<\/a>\u201d conference is being held, after the inaugural conference in Los Angeles in December 2009, on the East Coast, at Harvard University\u2019s prestigious Science Hall on June 12\u201313. Futurist, inventor, and author of the NYT bestselling book \u201cThe Singularity Is Near\u201d<\/a>, Ray Kurzweil<\/a> is going to be keynote speaker of the conference.<\/p>\n

\"\"Also speaking at the H+ Summit @ Harvard is Aubrey de Grey<\/a>, a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation<\/a>, a California-based charity dedicated to combating the aging process. His talk, \u201cHype and anti-hype in academic biogerontology research: a call to action\u201d, will analyze the interplay of over-pessimistic and over-optimistic positions with regards of research and development of cures, and propose solutions to alleviate the negative effects of both.<\/p>\n

The theme is \u201cThe Rise Of The Citizen Scientist\u201d, as illustrated in his talk by Alex Lightman, Executive Director of Humanity+<\/a>:
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\u201cKnowledge may be expanding exponentially, but the current rate of civilizational learning and institutional upgrading is still far too slow in the century of peak oil, peak uranium, and \u2018peak everything\u2019. Humanity needs to gather vastly more data as part of ever larger and more widespread scientific experiments, and make science and technology flourish in streets, fields, and homes as well as in university and corporate laboratories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Humanity+ Summit @ Harvard is an unmissable event for everyone who is interested in the evolution of the rapidly changing human condition, and the impact of accelerating technological change on the daily lives of individuals, and on our society as a whole. Tickets start at only $150<\/a>, with an additional 50% discount for students registering with the coupon STUDENTDISCOUNT (valid student ID required at the time of admission).<\/p>\n

With over 40 speakers, and 50 sessions in two jam packed days, the attendees, and the speakers will have many opportunities to interact, and discuss, complementing the conference with the necessary networking component.<\/p>\n

Other speakers already listed on the H+ Summit program<\/a> page include:<\/p>\n