TransVision06 August 17-19, 2006

University of Helsinki, Finland, Europe

http://www.transhumanismi.org/tv06/

The annual TransVision conference brings together leading transhumanist thinkers, technologists, scientists and philosophers from around the world.

This year's conference is held under the theme "Emerging Technologies ofHuman Enhancement".

The conference will be held in Helsinki, Finland, one ofthe world's leading high technology centers. TransVision06 is organized bythe World Transhumanist Association together with the Finnish Transhumanist Association.**

Keynote speakers     * Dr. William Sims Bainbridge  National Science Foundation (USA)     * Dr. Aubrey de Grey           University of Cambridge; IEET

** Other prominent speakers:

  • Prof. Timo Airaksinen        University of Helsinki
  • Dr. Nick Bostrom             Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford; WTA; IEET 
  • Jose Cordeiro                Millennium Project
  • Dr. Ben Goertzel             Noveamente LLC 
  • Dr. James Hughes             WTA; IEET
  • Prof. Hannu Kari             Helsinki University of Technology
  • Giulio Prisco                FutureTAG; WTA; IEET
  • Dr. Richard Sherlock         Utah State University
  • Philippe Van Nedervelde      Foresight Nanotech Institute
  • Natasha Vita-More            Extropy Institute
  • David Wood                   Symbian Inc.

Full list of speakers is available at the conference website.             Early registration open until May 31st!

More information and registration at: http://www.transhumanismi.org/tv06/