Saturday morning

• 09.15: Registration, refreshments, and networking
• 09.40: Welcome from conference chair (David Wood) and session moderator (Dean Bubley)
  
• 09.45: Rohit Talwar, Global Futurist and Founder of Fast Future Research
  – “Driving forces, global challenges and potential disruptions”
  – Slides
• 10.15: Sonia Contera, co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Nanotechnology
  – “Nanotechnology in 2025″
  
• 10.45 Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO Azuri Technologies
  – “(em)Powering Africa”
  – Slides
• 11.15: Break for networking and refreshments
• 11.45: Mark Stevenson, Author: An Optimist’s Tour of the Future
  – “The Shift: Why our systems are failing us and what will replace them”
  
• 12.15: David Levy, President of the International Computer Games Association
  – “Love and sex with robots”
  – Slides
• 12.45: Lunch break (lunch not supplied)

Saturday afternoon

• 14.15: Paul Barnett, Founder & Acting CEO, The Strategic Management Forum
  – “Re-Thinking Strategy: How organisations can thrive during rapid change ahead”
  
• 14.45: Andrew Vladimirov, information security expert and DIY brain hacker
  – “The near future of accessible cognition enhancement and modification”
  – Slides
• 15.15: Break for networking and refreshments
• 15.45: Riva-Melissa Tez, co-Founder, Kardashev Communications
  – “The three obstacles that prevent emerging technologies from fulfilling their potential”
  
• 16.15: Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer and co-Founder, SENS Research Foundation
  – “When the days of aging are clearly numbered, how will humanity react?”
  – Slides
• 16.45: Q&A and day review with panel of speakers
  
• 17.30: End of day

Sunday morning

• 09.15: Registration, refreshments, and networking
  
• 09:40: Welcome from Chair (David Wood)
  
• 09.45: Marco Vega and Peter Brietbart, directors, British Institute of Posthuman Studies
  – “Cultivating the Future: Benevolent Memes and How to Spread Them”
  
• 10.15: Maneesh Juneja, Digital Health Futurist and Health 2.0 London Chapter Leader
  – “Healthcare in the future: will advancing technology make doctors unemployed?”
  – Blogpost
• 10.45: M Amon Twyman, Founder, Zero State and Wave
  – “The Wave of change: Convergent technologies and disruptive trends in 2025″
  – Slides
• 11.15: Break for networking and refreshments
• 11.45: Calum Chace, author of ‘Pandora’s brain’
  – “Minds and AIs: six important questions”
  – Blogpost, Slides
• 12.15: David Pearce, co-Founder, World Transhumanist Association
  – “Hi-tech Jainism: The Molecular Biology of Spiritual Experience”
  – Slides
• 12.45: Lunch break (lunch not supplied)

Sunday afternoon

• 14.15: David Wood, smartphone pioneer and Chair, London Futurists
  – “Predictions, good, bad, and ugly: roadblocks en route to 2025″
  – Slides
• 14.45: Ben McLeish, The Zeitgeist Movement
  – “Updating Technical Values and Hacking Culture-Lag“
  
• 15.15: Break for networking and refreshments
• 15.45: Natasha Vita-More, Chair, Humanity+
  – “Transhumanism: An Iterative Design Challenge”
  
• 16.15: Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
  – “Smarter policy-making through improved collective cognition?”
  – Slides
• 16.45: Q&A and day review with panel of speakers
  
• 17.30: End of conference

Speakers and running order subject to change