KEYNOTE PRESENTERS

José Cordeiro (Conference Chair) with Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Engineer, Inventor, and Science Fiction Writer

Video-conference from Colombo, Sri Lanka

(see instructions to connect to streaming server: English – Español)

Gregory Stock Ph.D. Director, UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology and Society Los Angeles, CA, USA	Jan Amkreutz Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Knowledge and Agent Technology University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Fabio Gandour, MD, M.Sc. Director New Technologies, IBM Latin America Research and Development Division. Member of the New York Academy of Science and the IBM Academy of Technology, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Jerry Glenn Director Millennium Project, American Council for the United Nations University Video-conference from Washington, DC, USA (see instructions to connect to streaming server: English – Español)

TRANSHUMANIST PRESENTERS

Nick Bostrom Ph.D. Chair World Transhumanist Association Director, Oxford Future of Humanity Institute Oxford, United Kingdom	Max More Ph.D. Chair Extropy Institute, Director of Content Solutions, ManyWorlds, Inc. Austin, TX, USA

	José Luis Cordeiro, M.Sc. President, World Future Society Venezuela Caracas, Venezuela		James Hughes, Ph.D. Executive Director, World Transhumanist Association Hartford, CT, USA
	Pablo Liendo, M.D. Director, FUNREDES Caracas, Venezuela		Natasha Vita-More, M.Sc. President, Extropy Institute Austin, TX, USA
	Peter Houghton Chairman Artificial Heart Fund Oxford, United Kingdom		Luis M. Carbonell, M.D. President, Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences Academy Caracas, Venezuela
	Alexis Bello, M.D. Director, Hospital de Clínicas Caracas, Venezuela		Raj Bawa, Ph.D. Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and President, Bawa Biotechnology Consulting, LLC Ashburn, VA, USA
	Luis Alberto Machado, L.D. Former Minister of Intelligence Caracas, Venezuela		Anders Sandberg, Ph.D. Chairman, Swedish Transhumanist Association Stockholm, Sweden
	Linda Groff, Ph.D. Professor, Political Science & Future Studies California State University, Carson, CA, USA		Lynn Elen Burton, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Futures Studies, Dept. of Humanities, Simon Fraser University Vancouver, BC, Canada
	Greg Jordan, Ph.D. Research Coordinator, College of Education University of South Florida St. Petersburg, FL, USA		José M. Salgado Project LIFE Founder Los Angeles, CA, USA
	Martine Rothblatt Founder and CEO, United Therapeutics Corp, a biotech and telemedicine company Silver Spring, MD, USA		Mehran Sam, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Scientist Boston, MA, USA
	Edgar W. Swank, M.Sc. President, American Cryonics Society Cupertino, CA, USA		Giulio Prisco, M.Sc. Founder, Spanish Transhumanist Association (FASTRA) Madrid, Spain
	Danila Medvedev, Ph.D. Russian Transhumanist Movement Saint-Petersburg, Russia		Lilia Morales y Mori Mexican Transhumanist Association Cuernavaca, México
	Jorge Berrizbeitia, Eng. President, Information Technology National Center (CNTI) Caracas, Venezuela		An Ravelingien Centre for Environmental Philosophy & Bioethics Ghent University, Belgium
	Jordan Paul Amadio Theoretical biophysicist Princeton University, M.D. candidate Harvard Medical School and MIT, M.B.A. candidate Harvard Business School Cazenovia, NY, USA		Dan Barker Co-president, Freedom From Religion Foundation Madison, WI, USA
	Oscar Saldaña, M.Sc. Gerente General SALHTECH S.A.C. Lima, Peru		Charlie Kam Singer/Songwriter Free-Lance Writer Chicago, IL, USA
	Hernando Ramírez Llinás, M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence El Bosque University Bogotá, Colombia		Gregorio Drayer, Eng. Control Laboratory Physics and Math Division Simón Bolívar University Caracas, Venezuela
	Sami Rozenbaum President, Venezuelan Rational Skeptical Association (AREV) Editorial Coordinator, Lúcido Magazine, Caracas, Venezuela		Paul Meillon Quebec Transhumanist Association Montréal, Québec, Canada
	Miguel Ángel Gutierrez Director, Centro de Globalización y Prospectiva Buenos Aires, Argentina		Luis Gilberto Caraballo, M.Sc. Director, World Future Society Venezuela Caracas, Venezuela
	Guido Núñez Parasite Enzymology Laboratory Los Andes University Mérida, Venezuela		Simon Levy Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia, USA
	Mohan Tikku Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research New Delhi, India		Simon Smith Founder and Editor-in-chief, Betterhumans.com Toronto, Canada
	Jeremy Owen Turner Inter-disciplinary artist, writer, virtual performer and music (audio) composer Victoria, BC, Canada		Giorgio Gaviraghi, MBA Architect, Founder of Mars Society Italy Milan, Italy
	Carlos Parra Bosenberg Colombian Transhumanist Association Bogotá, Colombia		Torsten Nahm German Transhumanist Association University of Bonn, Germany
	Ben Hyink Chair, Transhumanist Student Network Chicago, IL, USA		Greg McMullen MA Candidate, Faculty of Communication and Culture University of Calgary Alberta, Canada
	Jacob Boaz Muoga Programme Director Siym International Mombasa, Kenya		Marcelo Rinesi Mathematician, IT consultant and writer Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Pablo Stafforini Argentine Transhumanist Association Buenos Aires, Argentina		Santiago Ochoa Co-founder, Venezuelan Transhumanist Association Caracas, Venezuela