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Carver Mead, computer pioneer and 2022 Kyoto Prize recipient, reflects on COSM 2023, noting the impact one person can have in changing the course of history. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute, leads a discussion with Todd Myers, Director of the Washington Policy Center’s Center for the Environment, and Michael Shellenberger, Author of Apocalypse Never, about reasonable and pragmatic approaches to meeting future energy needs. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Cole Smead, CEO of Smead Capital Management leads a panel discussion with Matt McIlwain, Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group, Jack Selby, Managing Partner of AZ-VC, and Matt Norby, Managing Partner of Flume Ventures about access to capital, what the post-pandemic world looks like for capital management firms, and how artificial intelligence impacts venture capital markets. Learn more about COSM2024 Read More ›

Carver Mead, computer pioneer and 2022 Kyoto Prize recipient, reflects on Day 2 of COSM 2023, touching upon AI as a great tool and the ramifications of quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle on the ability to understand cause and effect. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, reviews trends and investment opportunities in technologies related to public blockchains, multiomic sequencing, energy storage, and robotics, that are tied together by advances in artificial intelligence. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

John Tamny, Forbes Editor and author of Popular Economics, leads a discussion with George Gilder and Dennis Ridley, Professor of Global Logistics at Florida A&M University about the key themes of Gilder’s book Life After Capitalism: wealth is knowledge, growth is learning, information is surprise, and money is time, as well as Gilder’s development of the information theory of economics. Read More ›

Russ Whitman, CEO of Launch Consulting, and Kevin McCall, Managing Director of AI at Launch Consulting, share the struggles and celebrations of their journey in creating and operating an AI-first digital consultancy. Learn more about COSM2024 at cosm.tech.

Bruce Chapman leads a discussion on the threats and opportunities for breakthroughs for American leadership in the future with Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, and George Gilder. They touch on the imminence of a nuclear war, the decay of our institutions, and foreign policy, especially with respect to Israel. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Nannina Gilder leads a panel discussion between Ariel Malik, entrepreneur and investor, Bradley Larschan, CEO of Avadain, and Kevin Wyss, chemist at Schlumberger Limited, on the exciting new developments and applications of graphene — from aviation and space exploration to electronics, renewable energy, and medicine. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Michael Milken, Chairman of the Milken Institute and Author of Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health, argues for the importance of access to capital to the future of telecommunications, bioscience, and medicine. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.