KEYNOTE PRESENTERS

 

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

Engineer, Inventor, and Science Fiction Writer

Video-conference from Colombo, Sri Lanka

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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

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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