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Millennium Technology Prize Forum 2024

Intelligence at a Crossroads: Machines or Humans?

Intelligence at a crossroads: machines or humans?

Rapid advances in technology have the potential to transform our lives and world beyond imagination. New disruptions create new opportunities and new challenges. But how to make best use of technology without losing control?

The Millennium Technology Prize Forum will delve into these themes at Dipoli in Espoo, Finland on 30 October 2024. The Forum brings prominent international speakers to Finland, including Amandeep Singh Gill, the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology; Peter Skillman, Global Head of Design at Philips; and Malte Lohan, Director General of Orgalim, European technology industry association. The Forum will be hosted by renowned technology journalist Jason Palmer of The Economist.

The each session of the Forum will be streamed globally on Yle Areena.

Time: 30 October 2024 at 9:00-15:00
Place: Dipoli, Espoo, Finland
On site by invitation only. Stream available globally,
direct links to each session below the program.

wednesday 30 October 2024

TimePROGRAM
08:30Doors open, coffee and networking
09:00 – 09:30Opening keynotes Amandeep Singh Gill & Malte Lohan
09:30 – 10:00UTOPIA OR DYSTOPIA?

What can we learn from science fiction that explores the incredible potential of technology? Is the technology of the real world leading us towards a utopia – or a dystopia?

Dialogue keynote Jason Palmer & Harri Junttila
10:00 –10:30BREAK
10.30 – 11:30RADICAL TECHNOLOGIES

What are the emerging technologies that will define our future? From artificial intelligence to advanced biotech to quantum computing, what tools do we have at our disposal to reach a utopia?

Keynote speaker Karl Deisseroth

Panel discussion Karl Deisseroth, Thierry Klein, Sabrina Maniscalco
11:30 – 12:00Millennium Young Scientist Contest

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12:00 –13:30LUNCH
13:30 – 14:40HUMANS IN CHARGE

How can we foster trust in technology? How can we ensure that humanity is able to control the technology it creates?

Keynote speaker Abeba Birhane

Panel discussion Abeba Birhane, Minna Ruckenstein, Peter Skillman
14:40 – 15:00Closing remarks, results of Millennium Young Scientist Contest
15:00End of Forum

Watch the session: Utopia or dystopia?

Watch the session: Radical Technologies

Watch the session: Humans in charge

Speakers

Senior Advisor in AI Accountability 

Abeba Birhane

Mozilla Foundation and Trinity College Dublin

Bio & more

D.H. Chen Professor

Karl Deisseroth

Stanford University

Bio & more

Under-Secretary-General

Amandeep Singh Gill

UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology

Bio & more

Editor in Chief

Harri Junttila

Alma Business Media

Bio & more

President

Thierry E. Klein

Nokia Bell Labs Solutions Research

Bio & more

Director General

Malte Lohan

Orgalim (Europe’s Technology Industries)

Bio & more

Professor

Sabrina Maniscalco

Quantum Information, Computing and Logic, University of Helsinki

Bio & more

Professor

Minna Ruckenstein

University of Helsinki

Bio & more

Global Head of Design

Peter Skillman

Philips

Bio & more

Host of the event

Jason Palmer

Jason Palmer, host of our Millennium Forums 2021 and 2022, returns to be your guide to the programme. 

Palmer hosts “The Intelligence”, a daily news podcast published by The Economist since 2019. He began his work for The Economist in 2014 as a science and technology correspondent. Before that, he was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT and a science and technology reporter at the BBC. He has a doctorate from Imperial College London and is a former physicist who specialized in high-power laser development and ultrafast spectroscopy.

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