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08.30 – 09.00 Accreditation

09.00 – 09.30 Words of welcome

Carolina Tohá

Lawyer at the University of Chile and a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Milan. Dr. Toha was elected Congresswoman of Chile between 2002 and 2009, Minister General Secretariat of the Government of Chile during 2009 and Mayor of Santiago since 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wlu42RGMwo

Francisco Brieva

Electrical Civil Engineer from the University of Chile. Ph.D. in Physics from Oxford University, specializing in Theoretical Nuclear Physics. Dr. Brieva is the current president of CONICYT. He was Dean of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile between 2002 and 2014.

http://www.conicyt.cl/blog/2014/09/doctor-francisco-brieva-es-el-nuevo-presidente-de-conicyt/

Wednesday, 14 January First block, morning 8:30 am – 09:30 am

WELCOME TO THE IV CONGRESS OF THE FUTURE

Ricardo Lagos E.

Lawyer at the University of Chile and graduate in economics from Duke University. He served as President of the Republic of Chile from 2000 to 2006, and is a former Minister of Education and Public Works. Since 2007, he has been Special Envoy on Climate Change for the UN Secretary-General. President of the Foundation “Democracy and Development”. Former teacher and member of the Club of Madrid.

http://www.ricardolagos.org/bio/

Steve Brown

Chief Evangelist and Futurist at Intel Labs, Intel Corporation. Brown is responsible for building and articulating a clear vision of the future of computing. Brown synthesizes social, technological, demographic, market and economic trends and consults with industry experts to understand how technology will shape the future of major industries. He joined Intel in 1985 and holds bachelors and masters degrees in Microelectronic Systems Engineering from Manchester University, England.

http://www.ted.com/watch/ted-institute/ted-intel/steve-brown-why-machines-must-make-us-better-humans

11:00-11:20 Coffee Break

Wednesday, 14 January Second block, morning

9:30 am – 11:00 am OVERCOMING THE PRESENT CIVILIZATION

POWER, A CLICK AWAY

Wednesday, 14 January Thrid block, morning

11:20 am – 1:00 pm

OVERCOMING THE PRESENT CIVILIZATION

Eduardo Bitrán

Engineer, economist, academic, researcher and Chilean politician. He currently serves as Executive Vice-President of CORFO, the National Economic Agency Development. He was Minister of Public Works and Chairman of the National Innovation Council of Chile under the fist President Bachelet’s first government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjqcJqnh5sY

Jeremy Rifkin

Sociologist, economist, social theorist, public speaker, political advisor and American activist. Author of several books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. In 2011, he published the New York Times bestseller “The third industrial revolution”.

https://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_rifkin_on_the_empathic_civilization

Juan Asenjo

President of the Chilean Academy of Sciences and National Science Prize winner (2004). Director of the Centre for Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Chile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojINB92BlG8

Xavier Duportet

Genome architect. He just finished a PhD in Synthetic Biology at MIT and INRIA. He is now the cofounder and CEO of PhageX, a biotech startup developing smart antibiotics to enable a targeted engineering of human microbiome. Laureate of the Worldwide Innovation Challenge, he is now using this technology to eradicate major antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Besides his startup, he is the cofounder and president of Hello Tomorrow, an international non-profit organization to promote technology entrepreneurship, with hubs in more than 80 cities worldwide and organizing one of the largest global startup competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtv3xYJn5pA

Juan Larraín

PhD in Biological Sciences, mention in Cell and Molecular Biology, from Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, U.S. Currently he is Research Vice President at Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTDhLFSkkMU

Written questions from the audience

16:30 – 16:45 Coffee break

PROLONGING LIFE: HOW FAR TO GO?

Wednesday, 14 January First block, Afternoon

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

MACRO TOPIC THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE

Eduardo Frei

Hydraulic Civil Engineer from the University of Chile. Former President of Chile (1994-2000) and Senator of the Republic (2000-2014). He is currently Special and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Chile to the Asia-Pacific and also President of Frei Foundation. One of his main objectives today is the energy sustainability of Chile and Latin America. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Eduardo_Frei_Ruiz-Tagle

Maximo Pacheco

Minister of Energy. Commercial engineer and economist at the University of Chile and member of the Socialist Party (PS). In his professional life, he led major development projects, both in Chile and abroad. From 2004 to 2013, he was Senior Vice President of International Paper (IP ) and also President of the regional unit of the company in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia between 2010 and 2013. http://www.gob.cl/ministros/energia/

Francesco Starace

A graduate in nuclear engineering at the Milan Polytechnic Institute, he joined the Enel Group in 2000, where he performed several management positions, including the office of chief of the "business power" area, the chief of market division, and also the office of general manager and chief executive officer of Enel Green Power until May 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw0JL8hl83M

THE CHALLENGE OF ENERGY COMPANIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Wednesday, 14 January Second block, afternoon

4:45 pm – 6:30 pm

MACRO TOPIC THE CIVILIZATION CROSSROADS FOR THE XXI CENTURY

Adrián Palacios

PhD Neuroscience of the Université Pierre et Marie Paris VI, France. He was a visiting professor at INRIA CORTEX-UHP Nancy 2 and CREA et Ecole Polytechnique, France. Currently a Research Associate at the Institute for Complex Systems of Valparaiso, Chile. http://cinv.uv.cl/apalacios/

Rómulo Fuentes

PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Chile. He conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University in North Carolina between 2006 and 2010. Currently he is a researcher at the Edmond and Lily Safra International Neuroscience Institute of Natal, Brazil. His research area is the electrophysiology of the brain circuits related to motor control. http://www.caras.cl/tag/romulo-fuentes/

Charles Zuker

Researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus, US. Zucker is a member of United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. After more than twenty years at the University of California, San Diego, he began his appointment at Columbia University in 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm3ElZXcIXA

Written questions from the audience

WILL MACHINES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SURPASS US?

Wednesday, 14 January thrid block, afternoon

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

MACRO TOPIC THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE

08.30 – 09.00 Accreditation

President of the Republic. Michelle Bachelet

Pediatrician and Chilean politician, current President of Chile. She served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010, and was re-elected for a second term in December 2013. She was the first president pro tempore of UNASUR, and the founding Executive Director of UN Women, the United Nations agency for gender equality. http://www.gob.cl/presidenta/

Senator Isabel Allende

Chilean Socialist politician and third daughter of former President Salvador Allende. Congresswoman between 1994 and 2010. Currently, she is a Senator for the Atacama Region and Chile’s first female Senate President. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Isabel_Allende_Bussi

President of House of Representatives. Congressman Aldo Cornejo

Politician from the Christian Democracy Party (DC). Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica of Valparaíso, with a degree in Law and Social Sciences. Congressman for the Valparaiso Region, District 13. Current President of the House of Representatives. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Aldo_Cornejo_Gonz%C3%A1lez

President of the Challenges of the Future Commission. Senator Guido Girardi

MD, specialist in pediatrics and epidemiology. Chilean politician activist of the Party for Democracy (PPD). Senator since 2006 for the 7th District of western Santiago, Metropolitan Region. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Guido_Girardi_Lav%C3%ADn

Thursday, 15 January First block, morning

9:00 am – 10:00 am CEREMONY

Alberto Arenas

Minister of Finance of Chile, PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. As Director of Budgets under President Bachelet's first government , he lead the development and implementation of the Chilean Pension System reform. He authored "History of the Chilean Pension Reform. A successful experience of Public Policy in Democracy. 2010” and co-authored more than thirty publications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJRPq6uhHo

Thomas Piketty

French economist specialist in wealth and income inequality, with a statistical and historical approach. Since 2000, he has been Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Author of the bestselling book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century". His work looks at the rate of capital accumulation in relation to economic growth over a two hundred year spread from the nineteenth century to the present. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKsHhXwqDqM

11:20 – 11:40 Coffee break

Thursday, 15 January Second block, morning

10:00 am – 11:20 am FACING INEQUALITY

Fernando Lund

National Prize of Sciences (2001). PhD in Physics, Princeton University, U.S. His line of research focuses on Material physics, especially mechanical properties. http://vimeo.com/98054639

David Cahen

Professor in the Materials and Interfaces department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His main research interests lie in exploring chemical means to control the electronic and optical properties of materials. He is active in finding ways to use scientific research as a bridge between Israelis and Arabs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CStJWOicw

Christian Joachim

First Class Director of Research in the nanoscience group at CEMES/CNRS and Adjunct Professor of Quantum Physics at ISAE, Toulouse, France. He is head of the WPI MANA-NIMS satellite in Toulouse. He coordinated European projects such as Bottom-up Nanomachines, Pico-Inside, and currently AtMol. http://www.canal-u.tv/video/universite_toulouse_ii_le_mirail/atomes_ou_hylemorphisme_christian_joachim.7308

Mauricio Terrones Researcher in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Since 2011, he has been Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=731jVf9VVAc

Written questions from the audience

NEW MATERIALS AND LIFE QUALITY

Thursday, 15 January Thrird block, morning

11:40 am – 2:00 pm

MACRO TOPIC THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE

Senator Jaime Orpis

Chilean Lawyer, politician and militant of the Independent Democrat Union. He was Congressman between 1990 and 2002 (re-elected in 1993 and 1997). Senator of the Region of Tarapaca since 2002. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Jaime_Orpis_Bouchon

Michael Thackeray

Distinguished Fellow and senior scientist in the Electrochemical Energy Storage Department in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory, USA. He has contributed to the discovery of several new battery chemistries and to the design of materials for these systems, several of which have been licensed to industry worldwide. http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/michael-thackeray-on-batteries-after-lithium-ion/

John D. Mcdonald

Director of Technical Strategy and Policy Development for GE Digital Energy. In its thirty-nine years of experience in the electric utility industry, he has developed power application software for both Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Energy Management System and Distribution Management System applications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYFeOwB8ZWs

Written questions from the audience

17:30 – 17:45 Coffee break

ENERGY IN A WORLD WITHOUT OIL

Thursday, 15 January First block, afternoon

3:00 pm – 5:30 pm

MACRO TOPIC THE CIVILIZATION CROSSROADS FOR THE XXI CENTURY

Sebastián Piñera

Chilean businessman and politician who served as President of the Republic of Chile from 2010 to 2014. He graduated as a Commercial Engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and also received a Masters and Doctorate degree from the University of Harvard, US. He was senator for Santiago West between 1990 and 1998. Today, he presides the Futuro Foundation. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Pi%C3%B1era_Echenique

Pedro Cayuqueo

Mapuche journalist, lawyer and activist, and also a Member of the "Luis Millaqueo” Mapuche community. He is the founder and director of Azkintuwe newspaper. He has done internships in communication and indigenous rights at colleges and universities in countries like Denmark, Greenland, Spain, Mexico, Bolivia and Canada. http://voces.latercera.com/autor/pedro-cayuqueo/

Craig Calhoun

American sociologist and an advocate of using social science to address issues of public concern. He became Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2012. He was president of the Council of Social Science Research, University Professor of Social Science at New York University and Director of NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge. http://www.lse.ac.uk/aboutLSE/meetTheDirector/home.aspx

Written questions from the audience

Thursday, 15 January Second block, afternoon

5:45pm – 7:45pm

MACRO TOPIC THE CROSSROADS OF POLITICS

THE POWER OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Sergio Bitar Chilean politician and engineer. He was Minister of State under the government of Presidents Salvador Allende, Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet. He served as Senator for the Tarapaca region during eight years. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Sergio_Bitar_Chacra Barry Hughes He is John Evans Professor at the University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies. He is the current director of the Pardee Center for International Futures, a center for long-term, systemic thinking on political, economic, social and environmental issues. http://www.du.edu/korbel/faculty/hughes.html Mathieu Baudin Historian and futurologist. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Desirable Futures, a center which works as a Think and Do Tank, whose mission is to disseminate new knowledge to reintegrate a “long-term perspective” into the decision-making processes and inspire a desirable future. http://www.du.edu/korbel/faculty/hughes.html David Harmon Vice-President of Huawei Technologies Company. He formerly worked in Brussels as a member of the cabinet of the European Commissioner for research, innovation and science until October 2014. http://www.evca.eu/Content/Microsites/smartcapital2011/speakers/profile_harmon.html

Written questions from the audience 11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break

Friday 16 January First block morning

9:30 am – 11:10 am

MACRO TOPIC THE CROSSROADS OF POLITICS

GIVING MEANING AND AFFECTION TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Senator Carolina Goic

Chilean social worker and politician, militant of the Christian Democratic Party. Since 2014 she is senator for the 19th constituency, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region. Between 2006 and 2014, she was a Congresswoman for district 60. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Carolina_Goic_Boroevic

José Francisco Cumsille

A graduate in Statistics from the University of Chile, Master in Biostatistics and Doctor in Public Health, University of North Carolina, US. He is currently Chief of the Inter-American Observatory on Drugs within the Organization of American States (OAS).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBFI0R_uN_Y

Ricardo Uauy

PhD University of Chile. He studied pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard University, Neonatology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He possesses a PhD. in Nutritional Biochemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). National Award for Science and Applied Technology in 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70qNCKWfEHY

Written questions from the audience

FACING THE GREAT SOCIAL SCOURGES

Friday 16 January Second block,

afternoon: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

MACRO TOPIC CITIZENS AT THE CROSSROADS

Senator Francisco Chahuán

Chilean lawyer and politician of Palestinian origin, militant of the National Renewal (RN) party. In 2005, he was elected as Congressman of district 14, Viña del Mar and Concón. In 2010, he became Senator for Valparaiso Coast Region or VI constituency. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Francisco_Chahu%C3%A1n_Chahu%C3%A1n

Guillermo Peñalosa

Executive Director of the Canadian non-profit organization 8-80 Cities for the past eight years. His work is about creating healthy cities and communities for all, regardless of social, economic or ethnic status. Its focus is the design and use of parks and streets and large public places, as well as sustainable mobility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rwE_2Vjjyc

Cameron J. Brooks

Director of Public Sector Solutions for IBM’s newly formed Watson Group, leading the business and go-to-market strategy for Government and Education clients worldwide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_F7fxlilR4

Written questions from the audience

17:00-17:15 Coffee Break

MAJOR CITIES AND FOOD

Friday 16 January First block, afternoon:

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

MACRO TOPIC CITIZENS AT THE CROSSROADS

Gaspar Galaz Academic and researcher of the Institute of Astrophysics. PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Paris. His work in extragalactic astronomy was pioneer in developing methods of spectral classification of galaxies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQQgLnxOnpY

María Teresa Ruiz Chilean astronomer, National Prize for Exact Sciences, professor of the Astronomy Department at University of Chile. President of Chile's Foundation for the Development of Astronomy and Director of the Center for Astrophysics and Related Technologies. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Francisco_Chahu%C3%A1n_Chahu%C3%A1n Paul Davies British physicist and writer. Professor at Arizona State University, where he leads the Institute BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He has held academic positions at University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University, Sydney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTHd9EacC2w

Alejandro Clocchiatti Argentinian astronomer and professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. During the past few years, his line of research has been supernovae. http://www.cata.cl/investigador.php?id=71

David W. Miller Chief Technologist at NASA, US. Professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Miller earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT, and has been a member of its faculty since 1997. http://www.nasa.gov/content/dr-david-w-miller-chief-technologist/#.VJ2vO_-jABg Written question from the audience

INHABITING THE UNIVERSE: OUR EVOLUTIONARY CONTINUITY

Friday 16 January Second block, afternoon

5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

MACRO TOPIC THE CROSSROADS OF OUR PLANET

Senator Alfonso de Urresti

Chilean Lawyer and Socialist politician. Currently Senator for the District 16, Los Rios. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Alfonso_De_Urresti_Longton

Jane Lubchenco

Ukrainian-American environmental scientist and marine ecologist. In 2009, she became the first woman to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Her research interests include biodiversity, climate change, sustainability science, and the state of the oceans. She has received numerous awards, including eight honoris degrees, including one from Princeton University, U.S.A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MthFCBCaAX8

Patricio Bernal

Former Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanography Commission of UNESCO between 1998 and 2009. Since 2010, he is a member of the UN Group of Experts for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment. Coordinator of IUCN High Seas Initiatives, IUCN Global Marine and Polar programme. http://www.i-marine.eu/Content/About.aspx?id=8a4fc231-aa74-4c56-94f4-38a755fd0706&li=0

Written question from the audience

GLOBAL WARMING: IS IT CONTROLLABLE?

Saturday, 17 January First block, morning 9:00 am – 10:30 am

MACRO TOPIC THE CROSSROADS OF OUR PLANET

Claudio Gómez

Director of the National Museum of Natural History.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iim4iX5fCtI

Michel Brunet

French paleontologist currently recognized as a paleoanthropologist, and professor at the Collège de France. In 2001, Brunet announced the discovery in Central Africa of the skull and jaw remains of a late Miocene hominid named Toumaï. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er-HV5qOY8I

Richard Fariña

Uruguayan Paleontologist. Author of "Megafauna, giant beasts of Pleistocene South America", "Only Ten Thousand Years Ago" and “Megafauna for children”. He is currently working at Arroyo of the Biscayne, a site with evidence of human presence dated to the high age of 30,000 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxxD3D0xFvw

Written questions from the audience

12:30 – 12:45 Coffee break

ARE WE FACING A SIXTH EXTINCTION?

Saturday 17 January Second block, morning

10:30 am – 12:30 pm

MACRO TOPIC THE CROSSROADS OF OUR PLANET

Senador Guido Girardi President of the Commission on Future Challenges. http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Guido_Girardi_Lav%C3%ADn Ennio Vivaldi Rector of the University of Chile since June 2014. It is a surgeon and professor at the University of Chile. His area of research is sleep physiology, expertise developed in the Harvard-MIT joint program http://www.uchile.cl/portal/presentacion/historia/rectores-de-la-u-de-chile/102233/ennio-vivaldi-vejar-2014-a-la-fecha Raúl Zurita Chilean poet, National Prize for Literature in 2000. His work is marked by the Chilean military dictatorship in the seventies, regime under which he was detained and tortured. He was Cultural Attaché in Rome in 1990. He has been a visiting professor at Tufts University, California State University and he currently teaches at Diego Portales University. http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-3669.html Ignacio Sánchez Chilean doctor. He is currently Chancellor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, a position he assumed the March 24, 2010. He is also professor, surgeon and pediatrician Catholic University, a specialist in respiratory diseases of children by the University of Manitoba, Canada. http://www.uc.cl/es/la-universidad/autoridades/395-rector Walter Veltroni Political, journalist and writer. He was one of the drivers of change in the Italian Communist Party to transform the Democratic Left Party. In 1998, he was Vice President of the Council of Ministers under Romano Prodi's government and head of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. He was mayor of Rome between 2001 and 2008. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Veltroni

Written questions from the audience

GOVERNING THE FUTURE

Saturday 17 January Third block, morning 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm

MACRO TOPIC CLOSURE OF THE IV CONGRESS OF THE FUTURE: The crossroads of ideas