Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Wait, What? A Future Technology Forum

Wait, What? A Future Technology Forum

WHAT IS IT? Wait, What? is a forum on future technologies … on their potential to radically change how we live and work, and on the ...
 
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WHAT IS IT?

Wait, What? is a forum on future technologies … on their potential to radically change how we live and work, and on the opportunities and challenges these technologies will raise within the broadly defined domain of national security. Hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and rooted in what's already happening in today's fastest evolving research fields, Wait, What? is designed to be a crucible for generating ideas that can stretch current conceptual horizons and accelerate the development of novel capabilities in the years and decades ahead.

WHO IS IT FOR?

Wait, What? is for forward-thinking scientists, engineers and other innovators interested in thinking interactively about the nature and scope of future technologies, their potential application to tomorrow's technical and societal challenges and the quandaries those applications may themselves engender.

WHY PARTICIPATE?

The boundaries between scientific and technological disciplines such as biology, engineering and data science are fast disappearing, and remarkable insights and capabilities are emerging at those turbulent, transitioning intersections. Many innovators today are taking advantage of this rich intellectual and technical environment to pursue extraordinary new opportunities. Wait, What? will consider current and future advances in the physical and information sciences, engineering and mathematics through the lens of current and future national and global security dynamics, to reveal potentially attractive avenues of technological pursuit and to catalyze non-obvious synergies among participants.

WHY DARPA?

As the federal R&D agency tasked with preventing and fomenting strategic technological surprise, DARPA is committed to envisioning and ultimately shaping new technological trajectories. It does so in part by fostering discussions among leaders on the forward edge of change—to learn from them about emerging technologies worthy of attention or support, and to inspire them to consider applying their expertise to the important and rewarding worlds of public service and national security.

HOW WILL IT WORK?

Wait, What? will be a fast-paced gathering at which world-renowned thinkers and innovators from inside and outside DARPA will offer perspectives on where today's advances are heading. Through a variety of channels, everyone will be encouraged to help extend those ideas further into the future. In addition to plenary sessions focused on topics of broad import and interest, Wait, What? will offer multiple themed breakout sessions, allowing participants to dive more deeply into particular topics. An exhibit area will feature displays describing a selection of DARPA programs that reflect the breadth of the agency's work and range of its performers.

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Videos of the general session and breakout session presentations will be made available on this website. Please reference the Schedule and Breakout Session sections below.

Plenary Speakers

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A photo of Ash Carter. Ashton B. Carter is the 25th Secretary of Defense.
Ash Carter
Ashton B. Carter is the 25th Secretary of Defense
A photo of Gunnar Carlsson. An algebraic topologist developing insights about how to handle and visualize big data. Stanford University.
Gunnar Carlsson
An algebraic topologist developing insights about how to handle and visualize big data
A photo of R. Alta Charo. A leading scholar of the legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies, to consider the ups and downs of the society we technologists seem to be engineering for the future. University of Wisconsin at Madison.
R. Alta Charo
A scholar of the legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies
A photo of Craig Clark. An entrepreneur on the cutting edge of space production and a pioneer of CubeSat technology.
CRAIG CLARK
An entrepreneur on the cutting edge of space production and a pioneer of CubeSat technology
A photo of Karl Deisseroth. A pioneer in optogenetics, which uses light to turn individual neurons on and off at will in a working brain. Stanford University.
Karl Deisseroth
A pioneer in optogenetics, using light to turn individual working neurons on and off at will
A photo of Tom Dietterich. A pathfinding computer scientist applying human intelligence <br />to choices about artificial intelligence.
Tom Dietterich
A pathfinding computer scientist applying human intelligence to choices about artificial intelligence
A photo of Jeff Gore. A physicist discovering the fundamental rules of population dynamics, collapse and tipping points through microbes. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jeff Gore
A physicist discovering the fundamental rules of population dynamics, collapse and tipping points through microbes
A photo of Mark Norell. A leading paleontologist and molecular geneticist shattering preconceptions about dinosaurs. American Museum of Natural History.
Mark Norell
A paleontologist and molecular geneticist shattering preconceptions about dinosaurs
A photo of Ramesh Raskar. A researcher using femtosecond light to see around corners. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ramesh Raskar
A researcher using femtosecond photography to see around corners
A photo of Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. An engineer inventing design tools for the trillion-device future. University of California at Berkeley.
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
An engineer inventing design tools for the trillion-device future
A photo of Zach Serber. An entrepreneur creating materials and chemistries the world has never seen from living cells. Zymergen.
Zach Serber
An entrepreneur engineering living cells to create materials and chemistries the world has never seen
A photo of Lucianne Walkowicz. An astronomer studying stellar influences on planetary habitability. Adler Planetarium, Chicago.
Lucianne Walkowicz
An astronomer with a biologist's bent, studying stellar influences on planetary habitability
A photo of Jun Ye. A physicist herding atoms colder than the coldest spot in the known universe. University of Colorado at Boulder.
Jun Ye
A physicist herding atoms colder than the coldest spot in the known universe

Breakout Sessions

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Future Biotech, Future Law Session 1 Video Session 2 Video

A glimpse into the future of global security, rogue technologies, and the law

Hosted by DARPA's Biological Technologies Office (BTO)

Science, Disrupted Session 1 Video Session 2 Video

Beyond the limits of intuition, computation, and measurement

Hosted by DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO)

AI Ascendant Session 1 Video Session 2 Video

Designing AIs to do the right thing

Hosted by DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O)

Technology by the People, for the People Session 1 Video Session 2 Video

Building communities to eliminate barriers to technology

Hosted by DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)

Wrangling Complexity Session 1 Video Session 2 Video

Designing systems that work

Hosted by DARPA's Strategic Technology Office (STO)

Launching New Trajectories in Space Session 1 Video Session 2 Video

New capabilities, new cost curves

Hosted by DARPA's Tactical Technology Office (TTO)

Darpa Demos

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What's in My Network

Two challenges shape our ability to benefit from the continuing information explosion: trusting our information systems and understanding data. DARPA is developing technologies to ensure the integrity of the data upon which critical decisions are made and novel approaches to deriving insights from diverse datasets. Read more...

Across the Spectrum

The electromagnetic spectrum functions as the eyes, ears, and voice of modern society. As the spectrum grows more crowded and as technologies from software-defined radios to advanced cameras become commonplace, DARPA is pursuing new opportunities for innovation. Read more...

Where, When?

DARPA is reaching beyond GPS to establish new and better navigational and timing technologies, driving new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), harnessing the physics of cold atoms and establishing new fix systems. Read more...

Restoring Injured Bodies and Brains

Recent advances in neuroscience, microelectronics and information science are sparking new approaches to restoring lost abilities following brain injury or disease and eventually increasing human performance.
Read more...

Programming the Living World

DARPA is applying tools from data science, computing, automation and miniaturization to accelerate the ability to harness biology's synthetic and functional capabilities. Read more...

Outpacing Infectious Disease

New genetic and immunological technologies are making it possible to detect, diagnose and treat infectious diseases with unprecedented precision and rapidity. Read more...

Robotics Fact vs. Fiction

For decades, we have dreamed of robots that can help people perform tasks beyond the factory floor. Read more...

Enhancing Maritime Agility

DARPA is developing unmanned platforms, distributed sensing systems, and position awareness technology to facilitate access to the vast maritime expanse in all its manifestations. Read more...

Space Under Construction

To maximize capabilities in space, DARPA is developing new approaches to launching satellites on a day's notice and new satellite architectures that change what's possible on orbit. Read more...

The Future of Ground Warfare

DARPA is bringing the digital revolution to close air support and developing a range of squad overmatch capabilities for greater reach, situational awareness and maneuverability. Read more...

E Pluribus Unum

DARPA is developing participatory sensing, swarm robotics and micro self-assembly that could support collective approaches to overcoming challenges in realms as diverse as surveillance, manufacturing and transportation. Read more...

WHY IT MATTERS

Explore the many facets of national security in discussions with people who have served on the front lines to help secure it. Read more...

Schedule

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

10:00 AM Registration Opens Lobby
 
  Welcome to Wait, What? A Future Technology Forum
2:00 PM 2:15 PM
Welcome from the Secretary of Defense video
ASH CARTER
 Ferrara Theatre
2:15 PM 2:45 PM
Changing What's Possible video
ARATI PRABHAKAR, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
2:45 PM 3:15 PM
The Shape of Datavideo
GUNNAR CARLSSON, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
 Ferrara Theatre
3:15 PM 3:20 PM
Reclaiming Your Digital Self video
JOHN LAUNCHBURY, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
3:20 PM 4:05 PM Break
4:05 PM 4:35 PM
Extreme Computational Imaging video
RAMESH RASKAR, MIT
 Ferrara Theatre
4:35 PM 4:40 PM
Not Even Once video
VINCENT TANG, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
4:40 PM 4:45 PM
Outpacing Infectious Disease video
DAN WATTENDORF, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
4:45 PM 5:15 PM
Designing a Million Genomes video
ZACH SERBER, ZYMERGEN
 Ferrara Theatre
5:15 PM 7:45 PM
Reception
DARPA Demos
 Exhibit Hall 1
 

Thursday, September 10, 2015
7:00 AM 8:15 AM
Continental Breakfast
DARPA Demos
 Exhibit Hall 1
8:30 AM 8:40 AM
Welcome to the Day video
ARATI PRABHAKAR, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
8:40 AM 9:00 AM
New Voices, New Perspectives video
 Ferrara Theatre
9:00 AM 9:30 AM
Smart Software in a World with Risk video
TOM DIETTERICH, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
 Ferrara Theatre
9:30 AM 9:35 AM
Communicative Computers video
PAUL COHEN, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
9:35 AM 10:05 AM
I Am Become Life...video
R. ALTA CHARO, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
 Ferrara Theatre
10:05 AM 10:50 AM Break
10:50 AM 11:20 AM
Design Tools for the Trillion-Device Future video
ALBERTO SANGIOVANNI-VINCENTELLI, UC BERKELEY
 Ferrara Theatre
11:20 AM 11:25 AM
Wrangling Complexity video
NILS SANDELL, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
11:25 AM 11:30 AM
Connect Everything: Spectrum Unbounded video
BILL CHAPPELL, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
11:30 AM 12:00 PM
A Smaller, Faster Future in Space video
CRAIG CLARK, CLYDE SPACE, LTD
 Ferrara Theatre
12:00 PM 12:05 PM
Port of Call at 36,000 Km video
PAM MELROY, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
12:15 PM 2:45 PM
Lunch
DARPA Demos
 Exhibit Hall 1
2:45 PM 4:00 PM
Breakout Session 1
 
Future Biotech, Future Law video
A glimpse into the future of global security,
rogue technologies, and the law
 Room 222
 
Science, Disrupted video
Beyond the limits of intuition, computation, and measurement
 Room 220-221
 
AI Ascendant video
Designing AIs to do the right thing
 Room 230-231
 
Technology by the People, for the People video
Platforms to enhance innovation: Circuits
 Room 228-229
 
Wrangling Complexity video
Designing systems that work
 Room 226-227
 
Launching New Trajectories in Space video
New capabilities, new cost curves
 Room 223
4:00 PM 4:30 PM Break
4:30 PM 5:45 PM
Breakout Session 2
 
Future Biotech, Future Law video
A glimpse into the future of global security,
rogue technologies, and the law
 Room 222
 
Science, Disrupted video
Beyond the limits of intuition, computation, and measurement
 Room 220-221
 
AI Ascendant video
Designing AIs to do the right thing
 Room 230-231
 
Technology by the People, for the People video
Platforms to enhance innovation: Spectrum
 Room 228-229
 
Wrangling Complexity video
Designing systems that work
 Room 226-227
 
Launching New Trajectories in Space video
New capabilities, new cost curves
 Room 223
 

Friday, September 11, 2015
7:00 AM 8:15 AM
Continental Breakfast
DARPA Demos
 Exhibit Hall 1
8:30 AM 8:35 AM
Welcome to the Day
ARATI PRABHAKAR, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
8:35 AM 8:55 AM
9/11 Remembrance video
Reflections from:
Mick Maher
Rich Field
Meredith Saunders
Mark Micire
Victoria Coleman
Ferrara Theatre
8:55 AM 9:45 AM
Are We Alone and Have We Been? video
JEFF GORE, MIT
MARK NORELL, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
LUCIANNE WALKOWICZ, ADLER PLANETARIUM
MODERATOR: GEOFF LING, DARPA
Ferrara Theatre
9:45 AM 10:40 AM Break
10:40 AM 10:45 AM
Interdependencies video
STEFANIE TOMPKINS, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
10:45 AM 11:15 AM
Let There Be Light (and Thus, Time) video
JUN YE, NIST & JILA
 Ferrara Theatre
11:15 AM 11:20 AM
Neurotechnology video
JUSTIN SANCHEZ, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre
11:20 AM 11:50 AM
Lighting the Brain video
KARL DEISSEROTH, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
 Ferrara Theatre
11:50 AM 12:00 PM
Closing video
ARATI PRABHAKAR, DARPA
 Ferrara Theatre

Venue

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The America's Center Convention Complex

701 Convention Plaza
St. Louis, Missouri 63101
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HOTEL INFORMATION

Take advantage of discounted rates at these hotels until August 7, 2015!

Drury Inn & Suites Convention Center

711 North Broadway, St. Louis, MO 63102
1-800-325-0720
Room Rate: $115/night
Group Code: DARPA
Online Reservations: click here

Drury Plaza Hotel at the Arch

2 South 4th Street, St. Louis, MO 63102
1-800-325-0720
Room Rate: $115/night
Group Name: DARPA Technology Forum
Online Reservations: click here

Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark

1 South Broadway Street, St. Louis, MO 63102
314-421-1776
Room Rate: $115/night
Group Name: DARPA Technology Forum
Online Reservations: click here

Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch

315 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, MO 63102
888-421-1442
Room Rate: $115/night
Group Name: DARPA Technology Forum
Online Reservations: click here

Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel

(formerly Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel)
800 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63101
314-621-9600
Single Room Rate: $155/night
Double Room Rate: $165/night
Group Name: DARPA Technology Forum
Online reservations: single rooms, double rooms

St. Louis Union Station Hotel

1820 Market Street, St. Louis, MO 63103
314-802-3452
Room Rate: $115/night
Group Name: DARPA Technology Forum
Online Reservations: click here
Room rates are quoted exclusive of applicable state and local taxes. The discounted rates listed are available on a first-come, first-served basis until August 7, 2015.
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