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Wednesday, 14 January
First block, morning
8:30 am – 09:30 am
WELCOME TO THE IV CONGRESS OF THE FUTURE
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-deconicyt/
Wednesday, 14 January
Second block, morning
9:30 am – 11:00 am
OVERCOMING THE PRESENT CIVILIZATION
POWER, A CLICK AWAY
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-betterhumans
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
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
Wednesday, 14 January
First block, Afternoon
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
MACRO TOPIC
THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE
PROLONGING LIFE: HOW FAR TO GO?
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
Wednesday, 14 January
Second block, afternoon
4:45 pm – 6:30 pm
MACRO TOPIC
THE CIVILIZATION CROSSROADS FOR THE XXI CENTURY
THE CHALLENGE OF ENERGY COMPANIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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 AsiaPacific 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_RuizTagle
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
Wednesday, 14 January
thrid block, afternoon
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
MACRO TOPIC
THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE
WILL MACHINES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SURPASS US?
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
Thursday, 15 January
First block, morning
9:00 am – 10:00 am
CEREMONY
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
Second block, morning
10:00 am – 11:20 am
FACING INEQUALITY
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
Thrird block, morning
11:40 am – 2:00 pm
MACRO TOPIC
THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE
NEW MATERIALS AND LIFE QUALITY
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.canalu.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
Thursday, 15 January
First block, afternoon
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
MACRO TOPIC
THE CIVILIZATION CROSSROADS FOR THE XXI CENTURY
ENERGY IN A WORLD WITHOUT OIL
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-thackerayon-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
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
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
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
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
Second block,
afternoon:
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
MACRO TOPIC
CITIZENS AT THE CROSSROADS
FACING THE GREAT SOCIAL SCOURGES
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
Friday 16 January
First block, afternoon:
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
MACRO TOPIC
CITIZENS AT THE CROSSROADS
MAJOR CITIES AND FOOD
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-tomarket 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
Friday 16 January
Second block, afternoon
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
MACRO TOPIC
THE CROSSROADS OF OUR PLANET
INHABITING THE UNIVERSE: OUR EVOLUTIONARY CONTINUITY
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-chieftechnologist/#.VJ2vO_-jABg
Written question from the audience
Saturday, 17 January
First block, morning
9:00 am – 10:30 am
MACRO TOPIC
THE CROSSROADS OF OUR PLANET
GLOBAL WARMING: IS IT CONTROLLABLE?
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-aa74-4c56-94f438a755fd0706&li=0
Written question from the audience
Saturday 17 January
Second block, morning
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
MACRO TOPIC
THE CROSSROADS OF OUR PLANET
ARE WE FACING A SIXTH EXTINCTION?
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
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
GOVERNING THE FUTURE
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-vejar2014-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/395rector
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