How Can AI Accelerate Progress in Bioengineering & Healthcare?
If you received the link to this private invite, then that means we want you to register to be part of a Meeting of the Minds that is convening many key networks from the tech & innovation economy of the region to help figure out how AI can accelerate progress in bioengineering & healthcare.
Mission: This is the third event in The AI Age Begins series that is driving an ongoing conversation primarily focused on the positive potential of artificial intelligence in many fields and figuring out how to make the most of its potential. We want to help counter the mounting fears and negative narrative that could undermine the development of this important new general purpose technology.
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 afterward too.
Organizers: Peter Leyden, a longtime tech optimist who worked with the founders of WIRED and coauthored The Long Boom in the 1990s, will host and curate this event and the ongoing series. He now is the founder of Reinvent Futures that produced a highly successful similar event series about Gen AI last year called The Great Progression.
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. We also have top companies involved in AI as sponsors like Google, Adobe, Writer, Radium and B Capital who will be bringing their networks to the table.
Speakers: We have a terrific group of speakers forming for short 5-minute talks that will stimulate the broader conversation. People like Andrew Hessel, a pioneer in synthetic biology, Tom Kalil, CEO of the new Renaissance Philanthropy, Anna Marie Wagner, Head of AI at Ginko Bioworks, and David Ewing Duncan, author to 12 books, including his last with Craig Venter on the ocean’s microbiome, and the previous “Talking to Robots.”
As the word spreads we keep getting people registering for our invite-only event like Michael Koeris, the Director or Biological Technologies Office of DARPA, or Christopher Hernandez, Director Health Innovations Via Engineering at UCSF, or OGs like Barry Merriman, the Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder of Roswell Biotechnologies.
Media: Our events have attracted top journalists from WIRED, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Economist, The LA Times and AXIOS, among others. We expect similar interest from the media for this event and throughout the year too.
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. Leyden will write an essay of what we learned that links to the videos and is free to all in Substack here.
We'd like to have you but we know there will be more people who want to attend than we can accommodate. This event system by default puts everyone on a waiting list that we will monitor and approve over time.
More details on this event & The AI Age Begins
The Series: This event on AI's impact on the world of life sciences 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.
Last Season: The Great Progression season in 2023 (summed up in this video) cracked the Meeting of the Minds model where all 250 people to attend this invite-only event potentially holds some insight into that night’s question and wants to compare notes with their peers. We are led by up to a dozen thought leaders who give short talks before opening up the conversation to all.
The Agenda: We start gathering for drinks and connecting at 5:30 pm after work before the two-part 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 to continue cross-connecting and building relationships.
Your Consent: The formal program will be videoed via 3 cameras so by registering you are giving your consent to possibly capture your image in the backdrop of speakers, and if you speak, know that your insights might be covered by journalists or used in media output of the event.