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This Neural Probe Is So Thin, The Brain Doesn’t Know It’s There – Singularity Hub

Posted: February 28, 2017 at 6:33 am

Wiring our brains up to computers could have a host of exciting applications from controlling robotic prosthetics with our minds to restoring sight by feeding camera feeds directly into the vision center of our brains.

Most brain-computer interface research to date has been conducted using electroencephalography (EEG) where electrodes are placed on the scalp to monitor the brains electrical activity. Achieving very high quality signals, however, requires a more invasive approach.

Integrating electronics with living tissue is complicated, though. Probes that are directly inserted into the gray matter have been around for decades, but while they are capable of highly accurate recording, the signals tend to degrade rapidly due to the buildup of scar tissue. Electrocorticography (ECoG), which uses electrodes placed beneath the skull but on top of the gray matter, has emerged as a popular compromise, as it achieves higher-accuracy recordings with a lower risk of scar formation.

But now researchers from the University of Texas have created new probes that are so thin and flexible, they dont elicit scar tissue buildup. Unlike conventional probes, which are much larger and stiffer, they dont cause significant damage to the brain tissue when implanted, and they are also able to comply with the natural movements of the brain.

In recent research published in the journal Science Advances, the team demonstrated that the probes were able to reliably record the electrical activity of individual neurons in mice for up to four months. This stability suggests these probes could be used for long-term monitoring of the brain for research or medical diagnostics as well as controlling prostheses, said Chong Xie, an assistant professor in the universitys department of biomedical engineering who led the research.

Besides neuroprosthetics, they can possibly be used for neuromodulation as well, in which electrodes generate neural stimulation, he told Singularity Hub in an email. We are also using them to study the progression of neurovascular and neurodegenerative diseases such as stroke, Parkinsons and Alzheimers.

The group actually created two probe designs, one 50 microns long and the other 10 microns long. The smaller probe has a cross-section only a fraction of that of a neuron, which the researchers say is the smallest among all reported neural probes to the best of their knowledge.

Because the probes are so flexible, they cant be pushed into the brain tissue by themselves, and so they needed to be guided in using a stiff rod called a shuttle device. Previous designs of these shuttle devices were much larger than the new probes and often led to serious damage to the brain tissue, so the group created a new carbon fiber design just seven microns in diameter.

At present, though, only 25 percent of the recordings can be tracked down to individual neurons thanks to the fact that neurons each have characteristic waveforms with the rest too unclear to distinguish from each other.

The only solution, in my opinion, is to have many electrodes placed in the brain in an array or lattice so that any neuron can be within a reasonable distance from an electrode, said Chong. As a result, all enclosed neurons can be recorded and well-sorted.

This a challenging problem, according to Chong, but one benefit of the new probes is that their small dimensions make it possible to implant probes just tens of microns apart rather than the few hundred micron distances necessary with conventional probes. This opens up the possibility of overlapping detection ranges between probes, though the group can still only consistently implant probes with an accuracy of 50 microns.

Takashi Kozai, an assistant professor in the University of Pittsburghs bioengineering department who has worked on ultra-small neural probes, said that further experiments would need to be done to show that the recordings, gleaned from anaesthetized rats, actually contained useful neural code. This could include visually stimulating the animals and trying to record activity in the visual cortex.

He also added that a lot of computational neuroscience relies on knowing the exact spacing between recording sites. The fact that flexible probes are able to migrate due to natural tissue movements could pose challenges.

But he said the study does show some important advances forward in technology development, and most importantly, proof-of-concept feasibility, adding that there is clearly much more work necessary before this technology becomes widely used or practical.

Chong actually worked on another promising approach to neural recording in his previous role under Charles M. Lieber at Harvard University. Last June, the group demonstrated a mesh of soft, conductive polymer threads studded with electrodes that could be injected into the skulls of mice with a syringe where it would then unfurl to both record and stimulate neurons.

As 95 percent of the mesh is free, space cells are able to arrange themselves around it, and the study reported no signs of an elevated immune response after five weeks. But the implantation required a syringe 100 microns in diameter, which causes considerably more damage than the new ultra-small probes developed in Chongs lab.

It could be some time before the probes are tested on humans. The major barrier is that this is still an invasive surgical procedure, including cranial surgery and implantation of devices into brain tissue, said Chong. But, he said, the group is considering testing the probes on epilepsy patients, as it is common practice to implant electrodes inside the skulls of those who dont respond to medication to locate the area of their brains responsible for their seizures.

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Damon Wayans Jr. Joins FX Sci-Fi Comedy Singularity – Den of Geek US

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Damon Wayans Jr. will star inSingularity,a science fiction comedy pilot for FX. According to The Hollywood Reporter, theHappy Endingsalum had several other pilot offers on the table, but went with the Seth Rogen-backed comedy which is certainly a vote of confidence for the strength of the pilot.

Singularityis set in a future where AIs have passed humans in intelligence, resulting in big changes to society as we know it. (ThinkHumans, but with waymore jokes?) Wayans Jr. will star as Doug, a Yezzy streetwear-wearing dude who is totally fine with the turn humanity has taken. He enjoys being reliant on AIs to augment his day-to-day life.

The science fiction pilot comes from Sonny Lee, who has previously worked onSilicon Valley, It's Always Sunny, and 2 Broke Girls. We can expect a comedic tone similar to feature filmThis Is the End.Lee approached Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to produce the project because of its tonal similarities to their end-of-the-world film. The producers currently have two other TV projects on the air: AMC's Preacher and Hulu's Future Man.

We'll have to wait to see ifSingularitygets picked up to series, but with Wayans Jr. starring, Rogen and Goldberg behind the scenes, and Lee writing the pilot, it's hard to imagine it not getting more episodes. Prior to landing at FX, the project was part of a network bidding war with at least five other interested parties.

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Google Updates: Scuba, Singularity, SMS and suing – The INQUIRER

Posted: February 24, 2017 at 6:44 pm

PLEASE BE upstanding for the round-up of this week's Google-related stories.

Firstly, there's Google's plans to sue Uber for allegedly nicking design patents for self-driving cars, and a new hack that warns users of "missing fonts" which turn out to be malware are plaguing Windows Chrome users.

On the enterprise side, Google is now offering Tesla K80 CPU clusters to spin up a supercomputer on demand, In VR, the days of silly hats for VR could be numbered as the company appears to have designed a sort of scuba-diving helmet instead.

Remix OS has announced Singularity, it's plan for an Android phone OS that plugs into a monitor to become a computer.

Meanwhile, Google Project Zero has decided to go public on the exact glitches that caused Microsoft to delay this month's Patch Tuesday. Cheeky monkeys.

Other big news this week, Google suffered a technical glitch last night which meant that some people using the company's ON router may have had to reset their credentials. No harm done, but the company has had to apologise.

There's even more big news on the messaging front - a first leak of Allo for the desktop has leaked (on purpose) presumably as a "keep the faith" acknowledgement to people who have abandoned the messaging platform which is now outside the Top 500 Android apps, despite the company hoping to make it the replacement for Google Hangouts, which is now aimed at business customers.

But meanwhile Android Messages is coming to replace Messenger and will be the default messaging app for twenty OEMs, offering Rich Communication Services (RCS) and a joined up message service equivalent to Apple's iMessage. And about ruddy time.

Google Play Music has had a tweak, but really needs a bomb put under it for the mish-mash of different design concepts, bugs and missing features that remain. It also claims to have more than 40 million songs in its library. Yet still nothing from Cardiacs.

Finally, for anyone who has a Mac and likes tinkering about in betas, the Canary channel of Chrome now offers Mac Pro Touchbar support, which means it'll be live for the rest of us after Easter. You might want to hang on though as it's by all accounts, bobbins at the moment.

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Damon Wayans Jr. Will Star in Seth Rogen’s AI Comedy ‘Singularity’ for FX – /FILM

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Damon Wayans Jr. will star in theSingularitypilot from producersSeth RogenandEvan Goldberg. FX won a bidding war for the AI comedy last August, which was around the time Rogen announced the project. The story depicts a future when artificial intelligencehas far exceeded human intelligence.

Below, learn about the Seth Rogen AI comedy.

In the series, society underwent some massive changes after artificial intelligence grew superior to humans. The Hollywood Reporter learned Wayans is set to play Doug, a man who enjoys the convenience and happiness provided by the best tech the world has to offer. His face isnt always glued to his phone, though. Doug loves to be in the moment and this makes me like this character already is often dressed in Yeezy street wear.

Sonny Lee(Silicon Valley) came up with the idea for the series. Hes writing and executive producing the pilot. Apparently, the writer went to Rogen, Goldberg, and their Point Grey Banner because Singularitystone is comparable toThis Is the End. Theres no mention of whos directing the pilot, but after their work onPreacher, it would be nice if Rogen and Goldberg got behind the camera for a concept as potentially funny as this one. If the show gets picked up, itll be the duos third project to go to series, followingPreacherand HulusFuture Man. (That one actually co-stars another former Happy Endings cast member, Eliza Coupe.)

Rogen revealed he and Goldberg were working on a show about the singularity back in August. We have a pilot for FX that were gonna shoot that were working on right now, he said. Were working on the script right now and were going to film that in the next year basically. Its about artificial intelligence, its a half-hour comedy about the singularity basically. Years ago, Rogen and Goldberg were developing another FX series, an animated showabout Bigfoot, which is still possibly in the works.

As forSingularity, Rogen, Goldberg, and Lee have a fine star for their series. Wayans appeared inLets Be CopsandHow to Be Single, but his performance in the endlessly enjoyableHappy Endingsis a good indicator of how funny he is. The Hollywood Reporter added Wayans was one of the most sought-after actors this pilot season. He was weighing offers from NBC, CBS, and FOX, but he instead went with the promising high-concept pilot from FX.

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Why the Potential of Augmented Reality Is Greater Than You Think – Singularity Hub

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Never before have businesses been able to build billion-dollar valuations in so little time. Never before have incumbent enterprises been able to go out of business so quickly. Disruption is now commonplace, and augmented reality (AR) is emerging as yet another avenue to turn industries on their heads. But what direction will this new technology take?

AR overlays digital information on the physical world using a smartphone (think Pokmon Go) or a headset. In its simplest form, AR is simply a rectangular display floating in front of the eyes, la Google Glass. More advanced forms will drop video game characters or useful information seamlessly onto physical objects, from homes to industrial warehouses.

While virtual reality is moving into a more commercial phase, AR is a little earlier in its development. But ARs potential practical applications are significant. So, whats in store for AR in the coming years?

Most business leaders today are making their projections based on what we know todaya perspective that runs the potential risk of being too linear and possibly missing the point. By digging deeply into trends, cycles and clues from technology disruptions in the past, we can create frameworks to help us better strategize for how capabilities may unfold in the future.

Today, standard market projections focus on how AR will become smaller and faster, or they extrapolate on how existing capabilities could impact the enterprise once implemented. However, past technology disruptions demonstrate that this view is too narrow, and doesn't consider the impact of converging technologiesfor example, in the way mobile technology has converged with the internet.

Augmented reality (and to some extent, virtual reality as well) is on a collision course with other emerging exponential technologiesfor example, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing and machine learning, to name a few. Businesses that prepare themselves to capture the value that can unfold when they converge are more likely to find themselves as industry leaders in the resulting economy.

Mobile technology may be one of the largest technology disruptions to happen in the past 20 years. However, the mobile industry didnt just happen on its own.

Analysts thought that these devices would become smaller, gain longer battery life and that costs would falland even predicted a slow, linear growth. In fact, McKinsey predictions were that the total market for cell phones would be around 900,000 by the turn of the century. The phone would indeed become smaller, faster and cheaper, but no market prediction would come close to predicting what happened next.

Mobile technology became disruptive when it converged with the internet, introducing a slew of new consumer and enterprise use cases. The smartphone was born, and it took the ceiling off the cell phone market potential, unlocking billions of dollars of value that simply did not exist before.

Crowdsourcing was the next convergence as smartphones tapped a worldwide developer community. Traditionally, software companies made applications for mobile PDAs in a small, niche marketplace. By hosting a crowdsourced marketplace on the App Store online store, Apple initiated what would become an estimated $143 billion market opportunity for mobile apps in just 8 years.

Mobile converging with data analytics became another landmark example. As user adoption for smartphones and mobile apps began to skyrocket, the collection of user data to fuel business insights became very relevant. Today, mobile user data has an estimated value of $50 billion, across multiple layers of user data that are collected, sold, aggregated and analyzed.

The point is, mobile is a mega-billion-dollar market, but those who focused on the handset and what it could do missed a seismic shift in the technology paradigm.

Similar to the mobile revolution, ARs future will likely not be dictated by falling prices, smaller form factors or faster performance. They may help in the ubiquitous adoption of AR, but relying on these metrics to predict the future of AR will likely miss the greater market opportunity. Its only when we start to imagine what the combination of AR and industrial IoT, machine earning and 3D printing, among others, that we can begin to truly see its future potential.

Industrial IoT. Augmented reality and the industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) will most likely be the first to converge. AR device adoption is happening in the enterprise space at a faster pace than the consumer space (with the exception of Pokmon Go). And similar to how consumer connectivity created value with the smartphone, enterprise connectivity will provide an information layer thats expected to extend the value of AR devices.

As enterprises begin to rapidly develop connected infrastructure, from manufacturing to logistics, and ultimately to the consumer, massive amounts of data are being collected and used for analysis. AR can provide a data to human interface, allowing workers, managers and executives to see the world augmented with a rich dataset.

Enterprise resource planning, warehouse management and even electronic health record systems will be able to connect a workforce to its surrounding environment, whether a factory, warehouse or hospitalworkers will be able to see information projected onto their environment. Eventually, the value will likely be driven upstream, as well into concepting, design, layout and other knowledge worker tasks, connecting the digital world to the physical one through connected data ecosystems.

Machine learning. Machine learning is expected to be an important convergence for AR, as well. Well need to figure out the best user interface for what amounts to a more hands-free experience. Just as the keyboard was an important innovation in desktop or laptop computing and touchscreens were the key to mobile devicesmachine learning may play a big role in AR interfaces.

Moving from type to touchscreen is a great example of how new interfaces require novel UI. Machine-learning-enabled speech-to-text, as well as text-to-speech, could become important innovations in AR.

Our devices should understand the way we move, talk and touch. Data around user behavior will likely be extremely valuable, opening up markets to capture, transmit, store and utilize.

3D printing. 3D printing is an exploding market in industrial manufacturing, with unique potential benefits for complexity, performance and physical properties. However, specific 3D printing tools for modeling can be confusing for engineers trained on traditional design software for 2D monitors.

Often, the unique design requirements of complex 3D structures are not well suited for existing software tools. Crafting, editing and visualizing models with AR will help bridge the cognitive gap between engineer and design, removing the degrees of separation between designer and product that currently exist today (i.e., keyboard, mouse, 2D screen, interface), and enable the designer to directly interact with the product in an intuitive, creative way.

While there are technological hurdles to cover in stereoscopic processing, display technology, form factor and even social stigma, the future of AR does not lie in the headset, but the headset and

Simply looking at AR and hypothesizing about its value is not sufficient.

Most of the opportunity around hardware innovation lies in emergent value. How AR technologies interface, integrate and converge with other future innovations will help unlock the multi-billion-dollar potential of what may initially seem like just a clunky device.

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One Android company wants to use smartphones to make PCs truly … – BGR

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Android is an operating system thats supposed to power smartphones, tablets, cars, wearables, and other gadgets. But its not an OS meant to take over your primary PC. Or is it? Recent reports indicate that Google has some great plans for Android, including turning the OS into a platform that can run on any device, laptops and desktops included. Even Samsung is heading in that direction on its own, as the Galaxy S8 is rumored to come with a special accessory that can be used to connect the smartphone to an external display.

But until any of these plans get official, theres an Android company based in China thats already doing novel things with Googles mobile OS. Jide Technologies, which makes its Android-based, Windows-like Remix OS, is ready for the next big thing: Turning Android smartphones into full-fledged computers.

We talked about Remix OS in the past, a free OS that lets you install Android on any Windows or Mac to offer you a Windows-like user interface and overall experience. The best part is that you still get to use the same apps you downloaded from Google Play on a bigger screen, complete with modified UI elements for the larger display real estate.

But Jide is ready to move forward with an even bolder plan. Rather than installing Remix on your desktop, you could install Remix OS on Mobile (ROM) on your smartphone, and then just connect it to a display or TV. Thats Remix Singularity in action:

That certainly sounds great, at least on paper. ROM will be as close to stock Android as possible, Jide co-founder David Ko told The Verge in an interview. But imagine when you get back to your office or study, you connect your phone, and it turns into a PC mode, just like a laptop or desktop.

Yes, that sounds amazing in theory. In practice. ROM will not ship with Google Play preloaded, so users will have to sideload the app to get their Play apps working on bigger screen. Furthermore, Jide needs partners to agree to have ROM installed on their devices, something that might not coincide with their contractual obligations to Google.

Finally, theres the hardware factor. Youd probably need a rather powerful mobile device to drive a great ROM experience on a monitor. But Jide is primarily targeting first-time Android users who wont all have the means to afford a powerful enough device.

That said, Remix Singularity definitely sounds exciting, so well just have to wait to see it in action.

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Jide Announces Remix Singularity: The Continuum Alternative for Android – XDA Developers (blog)

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On the Android side of things, Jide has just announced their own attempt at this converged desktop experience. Dubbed Remix Singularity, this approach is similar to Microsoft's Continuum but leverages Jide's own experience with Android as a desktop OS.
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Ashes of Singularity: Escalation Gets an Update – CGMagazine

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The massive-scale real-time strategy game, Ashes of Singularity: Escalation, is getting an update and a discount on Feb. 23, 2017.

Stardock Entertainment (the software company behind Ashes of Singularity, Galactic Civilizations and Sins of a Solar Empire) announced today that the expansion to their popular game, Ashes of Singularity, is getting a major update on Steam. Stardock also said that in celebration of this update, players wishing to buy Ashes of Singularity: Escalation will receive a 50 per cent discount on the game from Feb. 23 to March. 3, 2017. This is fantastic for anyone wanting to get into the franchise without back-tracking on the price.

Version 2.1 of Ashes of Singularity: Escalation features new maps, rebalances several maps, adds single-player observer mode, unranked matches and an option for disabling supply lines.

"In addition to making some adjustments with AI visibility and balance, we've added features that players have been asking for, like the single-player observer mode," said Derek Paxton, Stardock's Vice President of Entertainment in a press release. "You can learn how the AI makes decisions by watching it battle during customized games using any settings or parameters you want.

Ashes of Singularity: Escalations 2.1 update comes just after Stardock merged their base game, Ashes of Singularity with the expansion pack, Escalation, into a single title. Stardock even gave all owners of the base game a complimentary copy of Escalation.

Ashes of Singularity: Escalation normally runs for $39.99 on Steam, so anyone wishing to buy the game should get it before the 50 per cent discount ends."The growing single-player modding community and the extensive multiplayer options convinced us that we needed to combine theAshes of the SingularityandEscalation communities together," said Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock in a press release. "After all, there can only be one singularity."

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After Man? From Singularity to Specificity – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (press release) (blog)

Posted: February 23, 2017 at 1:32 pm

Posted February 23, 2017 by Mareile Kaufmann

When we discuss artificial intelligence, the digital technology that makes it happen, and singularity the idea that both of them will exponentially take over the progression of society we refer to them in singular. This is not a coincidence. Both, science and fiction have portrayed AI as a particular form of reason, digital technology as an autonomous driver of change, and singularity as a unidirectional technological revolution. However, none of them are necessarily as singular as they appear.

Singluarity represented by HAL, the rogue computer from Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey. PHOTO: Flickr.com/Rosenfeld Media

Rather, the different contexts in which digital technologies come to matter create a broad variety of knowledge and social effects. For example, digital technologies are currently used for predictions of any kind: from the spreading of pandemics to political elections and crime mapping. Not only does each of these predictions produce their specific societal effects: they influence whether or not we get vaccinated, for whom to vote or where to park our car. They also produce more complicated effects, some of which actually make us question their predictive power. Filter bubbles and fake news are just some of them. But what exactly makes these social effects complicated?

While the way in which digital technologies work is no longer intuitive to understand and question, the abovementioned effects also reveal that humans are still an important part of the game. And this complicates things. Digital technologies and the knowledge they produce are not as singular and independent of social processes as the term singularity suggests. After all, it is us who provide both data and context knowledge for predictions, and in many cases it is still humans who decide which parameters are included in prediction algorithms. This goes to show that the simplified idea of computer-versus-humans doesnt really hold. The production of intelligence through digital technologies doesnt happen outside social and political situations, but in relation to them.

In interviews I have conducted on predictive policing methods it became quite clear that digital technologies are closely linked to social and political situations. Both, police officers and programmers decide which crime data to collect, how to feed it into the computer and how to present the outputs of algorithmic calculations. All of these decisions taken by humans are part of defining which kinds of crimes police focuses on, even though the actual crime predictions are eventually generated by a computer. It shows that political and social data and context knowledge feed into digital technologies and influence the intelligence they generate. And vice versa digital technologies and the intelligence they produce again influence political and social situations in specific ways. One striking characteristic of digital technologies is, for example, that any knowledge they produce has to be calculable and captured in numbers. Even though this seems obvious, it still does determine and limit the ways in which digital machines can produce knowledge. For predictive policing this means, for example, that correlations and patterns are the main knowledge tools for algorithms to predict crime. This means that correlations and patterns influence actual policing decisions, for example where to mobilize personnel and which locations to focus on. In essence: how digital technologies work is specific to the social situation they are used in, and digital technologies create specific effects on society. This means that humans and machines co-produce the progression of society rather than dominating over each other.

Once we have understood how social situations are actually reflected in the way we engineer digital technologies and create digital knowledge, it may be more appropriate to explore the many specificities of the situations in which digital technologies and society influence each other instead of presuming a singularity.

Last month Morgenbladet published an engaging special edition on artificial intelligence. I followed up with an op-ed which was published in a later edition of the paper. This blog post provides further critical comment.

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Financial Leaders: Make Your Mark on the Future at Exponential Finance – Singularity Hub

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From digital currency to machine learning, the financial industry is being rocked by exponential technologies. Blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, quantum computing, crowdfunding, and computing systems are allowing startups to solve consumer needs in new ways.

The downfall of the worlds largest institutions may not be imminent, but these new technologies are breaking up the previously rock solid foundation of finance, and allowing the fintech world to spring through the cracks. Whats happening now will rewrite the future of finance for years to come. By recognizing this reality and planning for it now, financial professionals can learn to thrive in an increasingly uncertain global economy.

Singularity Universitys Exponential Finance was created to bring the financial services and tech industries together in a deliberate and meaningful way. Now, in 2017, Exponential Finance is the definitive place to learn, connect and collaborate with fellow financial leaders to reinvent the financial industry.

Exponential Finance 2017 will be held June 7-9 at the Marriott Marquis at Times Square in New York City. The event will feature world-renowned leaders who will share their insights on how exponential technologies are impacting the financial industry, as well as how you can grab a seat at the table.

CNBCs Bob Pisani will emcee, and speakers will include the likes of Mary Harman (Enterprise Payments Executive at Bank of America) discussing the latest trends in digital banking, Anju Patwardhan (Senior Partner at CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund and Member of Global Future Council on Blockchain at World Economic Forum) on blockchain and the future of our digital identities, and Peter Randall (CEO at SETL) on capital markets and digital banking.

These individuals will be joined by Peter Diamandis (Co-founder and Chairman at Singularity University), Ray Kurzweil (Co-Founder and Chancellor at Singularity University), Angela Strange (Partner at Andreessen Horowitz), Jane Barratt (Founder & CEO at GoldBean), Bill Bachrach (Financial Advisor Trainer), Lisa Kay Solomon (Managing Director of Transformational Practices at Singularity University) Neil Jacobstein (AI and Robotics Chair at Singularity University), John Bowen (Founder and CEO at CEG Worldwide), Roman Chwyl (Head of Financial Services Google Cloud), Ric Edelman (Chairman and CEO at Edelman Financial Services), Ashish Gadnis (Co-founder at BanQu, Chair of Financial Inclusion Working Committee at Wall Street Blockchain Alliance), and many others.

As Peter Diamandis wrote in his book Abundance, Technology is a resource-liberating mechanism. It can make the once scarce the now abundant. Its this sentiment that drives Singularity University to produce Exponential Financeto connect individuals and organizations and to share knowledge that will liberate resources and create abundance.

Exponential Finance will give participants an interactive and collaborative experience, and will send them home with an understanding of what the future will look like and how to act on it immediately. Participants will have the opportunity to see demos from more than 30 groundbreaking technology companies while connecting with business leaders from leading firms across the industry.

Apply here to join Singularity University and the worlds most forward-thinking financial leaders at Exponential Finance this June. Save up to 15% as a Singularity Hub reader.

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