Human Augmentation Summit
Early-bird registration ends Sunday, August 17!
Join the largest futuristic builder communities in North America at the MIT Media Lab for a full-day summit exploring the frontiers of human potential!
The Human Augmentation Summit is a gathering of creators - from innovative startups and industry leaders to daring researchers and artists - all shaping the future of the human condition.
The event is organized by the Augmentation Lab, ekkolápto, and Pulse, and features speakers and exhibitors from MIT Media Lab, Wolfram Summer School, The Residency, Infinita City, Prospera, SundAI Club, Æthos, PRISM Collective, Conflux Collective, Akiya Collective, and more.
We will learn about Exponential Visions from Stephen Wolfram, Prof Pat Pataranutaporn and Dr Nataliya Kosmyna (MIT Media Lab), YouTuber Curt Jaimungal (Theories of Everything), longevity influencer Elen Capri (documenting for her Netflix show), Prof Vadim Gladyshev (Harvard Medical School), Micheal Ringer (Life Biosciences), representatives from Foresight Institute and 1517, and many more!
We will also host a panel and exclusive book signing by Ken Liu, the sci-fi author behind Pantheon, a live hypnosis session, and interactive art installations.
Centrally, the Summit features live demos and an exhibition of projects and startups in the human augmentation domain. We cordially invite you to present your personal projects, published research, creative work, or startups at the exhibition.
‼️ Sign up here to exhibit your project or startup (registration closes Sunday, August 17).
Areas of exhibited work include:
🤖 AI & Cognitive Augmentation
🦾 Cyborgism, Sensors & Bio-Interfaces
🧬 Longevity, Genetics, Biotech
🧘 Spiritual, Ethical & Civilizational Frames
🌎 Planetary Intelligence & Complexity
🏛️ Tech Governance
🌀 Consciousness
⏰ Schedule and Speakers
Please find the detailed schedule here.
🚀 Startup, Research, and Art Exhibitors
The exhibition will feature projects from the Augmentation Residency, a 2-month summer hacker house run by the Augmentation Lab (in collaboration with The Residency).
Exhibitors include:
• MuseBio
• Symbiont Labs: Creating Cyborgs
• CLAi: Your Digital Self
• Frontier Tower: Sixteen floors in the heart of San Francisco filled with people advancing deep tech and frontier technologies.
• Dugan Hammock (Wolfram Institute): Aperiodic Tilings, Hyperdimensional Geometry
• Elynne DEC (Wolfram Institute): Creating Art for Robots, Computational Perspectives on Art and Symmetry,
• Eliade Weismann (Qualia Research Institute): Olfactory Augmentation
• Michael Ostroff (Wolfram Institute, MPCR Lab, Ekkolapto): Dimensional Collapsar Theory, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils and Stearic Acid
• Ethan Kuntz
• Daniel Van Zant (Sylvum AI, Ekkolapto): Living Knowledge Engines
• Nicholas DePasquale (Ekkolapto)
• Benjamin Lyons: Mainstream Economics in Unconventional Domains.
• ARVACODE (Ekkolapto)
• Avneesh Verma (University of Toronto)
• Tyler Goldstein: Sentient Singularity Theory