Speakers

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Note: Unless otherwise stated, speakers are expressing their personal views, and aren’t representing organisations with which they are associated.


Indra Adnan

Co-Initiator and Founder, The Alternative UK

Topic: Co-convening regenerative politics


Nafeez Ahmed

Systems theorist, investigative journalist, strategic advisor, Age of Transformation

Topic: Planetary Phase Shift and Civilisation Renewal


James Hughes

Executive Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Topic: Strengthening the technoprogressive current


Pat Kane

Co-Initiator & Editor, The Alternative UK

Topic: Co-convening regenerative politics


Steve Keen

Economist and author, Debunking Economics

Topic: How economists will destroy capitalism


Matteo MacDermant

Researcher and podcaster, Bread and Robots

Topic: Technoprogressive Worldbuilding 101


Paul Mason

Journalist, The New World; Author, “Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future”

Topic: Postcapitalism and Agentic AI


Parmy Olson

Technology Columnist, Bloomberg

Topic: Supremacy: The AI race that is changing the world


Eva Pascoe

Vice Chair, Royal Society of Arts

Topic: The future of commerce and work


Mark Robinson

Senior Science Diplomacy Advisor, Oxford Martin School AI Governance Initiative

Topic: The future International Artificial Intelligence Agency


Marc Roux

President, Technoprog

Topic: Changing human nature or changing human institutions?


Rohit Talwar

Global futurist and publisher, Fast Future

Topic: Society as a Service: The why, by who, and how of networked states and societies


Carissa Véliz

Professor in Philosophy, University of Oxford

Topic: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future


Alex Williams

Political theorist and author

Topic: The paradoxes of contemporary AI capitalism


Eli Zupnick

Communications Strategist, Singularity Communications

Topic: Technoprogressive opportunities: learning from the American situation