The theme of this year's conference is SINGULARIT: The technological singular-ity. Singularity is a term that has its origin in mathematics: There, it means 'the point where humanity will no longer be able to know what is being calculated'. The past decennia, the term has been used more and more in the world of technology.
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“Everyone takes the limits of his own
vision for the limits of the world”.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
SingularIT takes a look at the future of technology. We aim to educate the audience about how technology and Artificial Intelligence will shape society, education and healthcare. Our speakers range from scientists, entrepeneurs, activists and many more. Each of them will give a talk about how their field will be affected by technology that is smarter than humanity, be it in a positive or negative way. There are two keynotes speakers, in between of which are three parallel tracks of three sessions. You will be able to choose whichever talk you find the most appealing in each sessions.
Grand Technical Challenges | Societal Impact | Experience the Singularity | |
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Kleine Zaal | Grote Zaal | Van Beinum Zaal | |
Robert Belleman | Ashley Burgoyne | Arnoud Visser | |
| 10:00 | Central Opening10:00 - 10:15 | ||
| 10:15 | QuintorKeynote: Introduction to Singularity10:15 - 11:00 | ||
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| 10:45 | |||
| 11:00 | Short break11:00 - 11:15 | ||
| 11:15 | Melanie RiebackThe impact of singularity on cyber security11:15 - 12:15 | Michael LeesUnderstanding the City with Computation11:15 - 12:15 | Cees SnoekVideo Understanding from a Sentence11:15 - 12:15 |
| 11:30 | |||
| 11:45 | |||
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| 12:15 | Lunch break12:15 - 13:15 | ||
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| 13:15 | Jop BriëtQuantum information processing13:15 - 14:15 | PanelDigital Immortality13:15 - 14:15 | Brett ScottFuturistic finance13:15 - 14:15 |
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| 14:30 | Christiaan HenkelThe genomic program14:30 - 15:30 | Richard StallmanShould we have more surveillance than the USSR?14:30 - 15:30 | |
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| 16:00 | Bruce DuncanKeynote: Back up your mind and live forever?16:00 - 17:00 | ||
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| 17:00 | Central Closing17:00 - 17:15 | ||
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Dinner & Drinks |
The conference will be held in Philharmonie Haarlem. It will take place on November 20th, 2018.
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SNIC is an acronym for Stichting Nationaal Informatica congres (foundation national computer science conference). This organisation was established in 2004 with the purpose of stimulating the interest in IT knowledge, IT applications and the business side of it. Every year, a conference with an IT related subject is organised. For each conference one study association is chosen to take care of the organisation. This year, the organisation is in the hands of study assocation via.
Emailcommittee@snic-singular.it
Phone(+31) (020) 525 7880
AddressScience Park 904, Room A0.101098 XH AmsterdamThe Netherlands