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Welcome to the 3rd edition of Future Port Prague! See what can happen in one year.

Once artificial intelligence begins to be able to perform not only narrowly focused tasks such as image recognition or speech recognition. It will reach the level of so-called general AI, ie the ability to do everything that we humans and the world will change forever. For the better? Yes, if we do it right, researchers like Shalev believe.

Education as we know it is dead. Lifelong learning is the only option. We’ve all heard this before, but what’s next? Are personal virtual AI teachers, reward systems over blockchain, or brain-computer interfaces answered? And where is the place for teachers and schools?

A classical music piece created using artificial intelligence to complement unfinished works of the world-famous Czech composer, Antonín Dvořák.

Can machines have empathy and express feelings? What does the dawn of digital humans mean for the service industry? And what for human relationships and interaction in general?

Is it possible to talk about privacy in the world with a trillion sensors, tens of thousands of satellites, ubiquitous cameras and machines that recognize us by face and even walking? Where is the line between crime prevention and Big Brother dystopia? These topics will be addressed by the newly appointed CTO, the world leader in cyber security, AVAST, and the globally recognized AI researcher, prof. Michal Pěchouček.

What do you do when you decide to feed a billion people? And how can you have such an idea in the first place? After a traumatic experience in India, AJ, a successful entrepreneur, changed course and made a bold decision – to find an answer to these questions.

Success in business also comes with great responsibility. Andrej Kiska, a man with much experience in business and top politics in an international environment, will focus on the role of leadership in a rapidly changing era and the qualities that leaders of the future should strive for.

What happens when combining autonomous steering, VTOL vehicles with vertical take-off and landing, and hyper-fast trains? How will the ways we live, work and do business change? A panel of international experts will explore the beginning Cambrian explosion of new modes of transport and their impact on everything around us.

What impact will JUST and others seek to turn the food industry upside down with lab-grown meat? Vitor explains how technology makes it possible to grow anything from chicken meat to premium Wagyu beef without killing, antibiotics, most water and CO2. He will also bring Kaiman, the chef, who will prepare chicken nuggets from the lab in front of the audience.

A pioneer of the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR, who warned against the misuse of the invention, is coming to talk about one of the most promising—and challenging—topics of our time: how much humankind should design further evolution of species, including ourselves.