This month Horasis will host its Global Meeting in Vitória, the state capital of Espírito Santo, Brazil, on October 25-27. It will be the international think-tank’s first summit in South America.
The theme will be on building bridges to the future, and will emphasize the city’s role in serving as a bridge between the North and the South, as well as between the nations of the East and the West.
Horasis Global Meeting, led by Frank-Jürgen Richter, will see several hundred world leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society gather to support sustainable efforts for the city and world.
Sessions on innovation at the conference will include, among others:
Creating the Best Conditions for Venture Capitalists
Many aspects of a new venture have to be assessed before a VC will offer cash – government regulations, the state of the world, and the trajectory of the innovation. What are the optimal conditions, and how can government ministries and the innovators create the best conditions for the VCs? In what aspects should innovators be mentored to get the best deals? Which governments
create good conditions for the VCs?
Realizing Techno-Fantasy through Techno-Realism
Techo-fantasy assumes that science will change the world’s issues – but not enough time is spent on its realization. Most fantastic discoveries never work, and the few that are developed take ages to be usefully scaled. How to recognize the best resource sensitive routes to environmental sustainability and to care more about people? How to make media more responsible about futurism and offer more humanism? And how to persuade capitalism to better support innovation rather than profit?
Understanding and Using AI Models
Emergent AI models are offering deeper support across many occupations, and large language models (LLM) seem to give insights according to business leaders. Critics say these models do not understand deep knowledge. How can we ensure specific domain AI learning is supported? There is good evidence
that precise AI delivers worthy solutions, but will CEOs and regulators support their broader use? Is big tech obfuscating development of precise AI by advancing Cloud AI?
Web 3.0: The Bext Phase of the Internet is Coming
The invention of Web 1.0 in the 1990s led to many advances and permitted individuals to access a world of knowledge. Web 2.0 allowed mobile smartphone users full access to the Internet, and now Web 3.0
will promote decentralization with trustless and permissionless access. How well advanced is the city along Web 3.0 development? What training schemes are in place for greater AI use, greater connectivity
and web ubiquity? What will launch Brazil into Web 3.0 leadership?
Bridging Financial Sources to Aid Startup Funding
It does not matter how one looks at this, nor in what sector – firms have to spend huge sums on data collection, testing and passing regulatory hurdles before a neat innovation comes to market. Is there any way to safely ease this issue? Should some sectors be given special aid – such as vaccine
development, education development, resources recycling? Is profit sharing following a government development grant a good way forward?
