Friday, November 13, 2009

Israeli Presidential Conference: Facing Tomorrow

Video is up from the annual Israeli Presidential Conference: 'Facing Tomorrow' which took place in Jerusalem October 20-22. The conference is a sort of a mini-Davos focused on the Middle East, but with a remit well beyond strictly geopolitical matters. See the Facing Tomorrow site. (Unfortunately this site is very poorly set up, badly labeled and very slow.)



The conference is attended by the world's top government, business, and technology leaders, and this year Ray Kurzweil, of 'singularity' fame, gave a keynote.

This info from the kurzweilAI.net site: 'Speaking at the conference's opening plenary Session Kurzweil explored ways of using nanotechnology and other exponentially growing 'information'technologies" to transform the energy and environmental crisis into opportunities for Israel and for the world. In two additional panel discussions, Kurzweil presented his ideas on the future of artificial intelligence and reverse engineering the brain. See thumbnail 5, "Morning Plenary Session," and thumbnail 9 "A Conversation."