The last couple of months of organizing the H+ Summit at Harvard University, together with Alex Lightman, Kevin Jain, and all the other collaborators of the conference team, have been very intense. Now that we only have a few days before the event, the smokes starts to clear, and while I am certainly not objective in my opinion, what lays ahead is a fantastic event!

We will have more than 50 speakers talking about Artificial Intelligence, and the Technological Singularity, the Brain, Biotech, Citizen Science, and Education, Entrepreneurship, Longevity, Media&Design, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics and Mathematics, and Robotics...

All the talks, except a couple of keynotes by Stephen Wolfram, and Ray Kurzweil are short, and kept purposfully so, to generate maximum impact.

The sessions after 3-4 speakers are interspersed with Q&As, which will enable the audience to interact with the speakers. Of course during the breaks, and lunch we also expect a lot of networking, impromptu conversations, and serendipitous connections to form!

The intensity of the first day is going to be released by the spontaneous, and fun evening event of H+ Beer, organized by the diybio folks, where, well, at least I assume some beer is going to be had.

The H+ Summit is very affordable, at $300 per ticket, and discounts for students, MIT and Harvard alumni, and friends of Humanity+... but if one cannot make it physically there, the conference is also going to be broadcast live (in a format that is compatible with iPhone and iPad too!), and recorded in HD for subsequent viewing. Also, the slides from the speakers are already online (many if not all of them yet).

I am sure that there will be more that comes up, and that all the enthusiastic participants will be able and tell a lot about the conference with more posts... As far as I am concerned, after trying to survive these last days of craziness of the preparations, I am looking forward to have a great H+ Summit at Harvard!

David Orban
Chairman, Humanity+