The Future of Humans
11:30 AM – Doors Open: Light Lunch
Arts Offering – Images: Five Years of Arc
12:30 PM – Summit Opens
Welcome – David Ewing Duncan, Journalist and Curator of Arc
Sponsor Welcome – Julia Angeles, Investment Manager, Baillie Gifford
Set-Up Talk: “Wither Humans?” – David Ewing Duncan, Journalist and Curator of Arc
12:45 PM – POD I: Human Possibilities
Arc Fusion Talk – Ana Maiques, CEO, Neuroelectrics
Arc Fusion Talk – David Liu, Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Panel – Moderator – Rodrigo Martinez, Chief Marketing and Design Officer, Veritas Genetics
1:35 PM – POD II: AI and Robots
Arc Fusion Talk – Rana el Kaliouby, CEO and Co-Founder, Affectiva; former Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
Arc Fusion Talk – Dina Katabi, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Panel – Moderator – Christian Bailey, Founder and Chief Scientist, Curated Innovation
2:20 – Film: The Lyme Trials (Trailer), Directed by Lindsay Keys – Presented by FiRE Films
2:30 PM – BREAK
3:00 PM – POD III: BioHacking Humans
Arc Fusion Talk – Robert Green, Geneticist and Physician at Harvard Medical School
Arc Fusion Talk – Alexis Borisy, Third Rock Ventures
Panel – Moderator – Luba Greenwood, Lecturer, Harvard University, formerly Strategic Business Development and Corporate Ventures at Verily
3:45 PM – Fireside Chat: Innovating for a Future We’d Like to See
Seema Kumar, Vice President of Innovation, Global Health and Policy Communication at Johnson & Johnson
Gillian Sandler, Managing Partner, Galapont
Interviewer – Mary Alice Miller, Associate Editor, Vanity Fair
4:25 PM – Arts – Andrei Codrescu, Author and Poet, NPR Commentator
4:40 PM – Voices from the Future
Nabiha Saklayen, CEO and Co-Founder of Cellino
Agnieszka Czechowicz, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University; pediatric hematologist/oncologist
Cheng Zhang, Head of Clover Therapeutics
5:00 PM – Interlude: The Politics of Healthcare
Jamie Heywood, Co-Founder, PatientsLikeMe
5:10 PM – POD IV: Where Will Humans Be in 25-50 Years and Beyond?
Arc Fusion Talk – Safi Bahcall, Author of Loonshots; Co-Founder, Synta Pharmaceuticals
Arc Fusion Talk – George Church, Geneticist, Harvard Medical School
Panel – Moderator – Chris Coburn, Chief Innovation Officer, Partners Healthcare System
5:55 PM – Wrap-Up: Rodrigo Martinez, Chief Marketing and Design Officer, Veritas Genetics and Luba Greenwood, Lecturer, Harvard University, formerly Strategic Business Development and Corporate Ventures at Verily
6:05 PM – Thank You: David Ewing Duncan, Journalist and Curator of Arc
6:10 PM – Reception: Future Fusion
7:15 PM – Summit Close
New England Conservatory
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
290 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
The Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre is a multi-purpose theater space, with options for proscenium, thrust, or in-the-round seating and an optional orchestra pit – a rarity in black box theaters. The space is equipped with a pipe grid over the entire space and includes an extensive inventory of theatrical lighting instruments. This space is ideal for concerts, theater, opera, multi-media presentations, and art installations.
