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WHY ATTEND

We are living in a time of exponential change.

From geopolitics to genes. Business to behavior. Politics to parenting. Terror. War. Energy. Entertainment. Economics. Cosmos to our tiniest cells. From birth to death itself — we're being changed while we sleep.

The connective thread is science & technology.

Al. Gene editing. Quantum computing. Age reversal. Big Data. Big Tech.

SYNAPSE is a door to the most fascinating & urgent questions of our time. We cannot afford not to understand. engage. celebrate. examine. debate.

SYNAPSE will place science and tech centre square in our lives. Probe its promise & peril. Bring together the most unusual combination of minds.

Technologists. Scientists. Entrepreneurs. Political leaders. Artists. Writers. Directors. Philosophers. Ethicists. Economists. It will not just present the cutting-edge.

It will connect you to it.
This is science & tech as never before.
Intersected with society.

2 days. 40 speakers.
Debate. Dialogue. Discovery.
Concerts. Cocktails. Gala dinners.

A weekend of life-altering perspective.

WHAT TO EXPECT

A weekend of adjectives. Exciting. Jaw dropping. Mind blowing. Thought provoking.

A Nobel Laureate whose Eureka moment enabled the vaccine revolution.

A master actor whose body of work testifies to what machines can’t do. Yet.

A biohacker putting her own body to the test, to turn back the biological clock.

Path-breaking pioneers working at the edge of science and fiction. Technology and policy. Algorithms and philosophy.

Personal stories. Bodies of work. Feats and failures. Arguments and analysis.

On automation anxiety. Bias of bytes. Code of life. The future of democracy, globalisation, and human civilisation. New weapons of war and springboards for social good.

Meet a mesmeric world of dreamers and doers. The intersection of Nature. Humans.Technology.Conversation. Concerts. Cocktails.

If you're curious – or concerned – about the forces shaping the world