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Ray Kurzweil (USA) at Ci2019: The Future of Intelligence, Artificial and Natural

Published 4 nov. 2019

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty year track record of accurate predictions. Called “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes Magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc Magazine, which described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.” PBS selected him as one of the “sixteen revolutionaries who made America.”

Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD Flat Bed Scanner, the first Omni Font Optical Character Recognition, the first Print to Speech reading Machine for the Blind, the first text to Speech Synthesizer, the first Music Synthesizer capable of recreating the Grand Piano and other Orchestral Instruments, and the first commercially marketed large Vocabulary Speech Recognition.

Among Ray’s many honors, he received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music Technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twentym one honorary Doctorates, and honors from three US Presidents.

Ray has written five national best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Near (2005) and How To Create A Mind (2012). He is Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity University and a Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing Machine Intelligence and Natural Language Understanding.

Ci2019 featured over 40 global leaders including Chief Technology Officer of Google Ray Kurzweil (USA), CEO of NESTA Geoff Mulgan CBE (UK), Chief Data and Transformation Officer at DBS Bank Paul Cobban (Singapore), AI Experts Professor Toby Walsh and Liesl Yearsley (USA), Co Founder of Oxford Insights Emma Martinho Truswell (UK), Ethics Leader Professor Simon Longstaff, Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI Professor Kathleen Richardson (UK), Brain Performance Neuroscientist Dr Etienne Van Der Walt (South Africa), Transdisciplinary Behavioural Scientist Dr Richard Claydon (Hong Kong), Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre Carl Smith (UK), Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel AO, Deakin University Vice Chancellor Professor Jane Den Hollander, ATO’s Jane King, Innovation & Science Australia CEO Dr Charles Day, CEDA CEO Melinda Cilento, Jobs for NSW CEO Nicole Cook, Behaviour Innovation Founder & CEO John Pickering, People and Performance Expert Andrew Horsfield, TEDx Melbourne’s Jon Yeo and many more to be announced.

The theme for Creative Innovation 2019 Asia Pacific was “Human Intelligence 2.0 | A Collective Future? How will we manage the transition?” . The event showcased world changing Innovators, Disruptors, Futurists, Scientist, inspired Thinkers and curious Souls gathered together in an Interactive Community. Creative Innovation Global is the premiere Conference for anyone who cares about creativity, innovation, leadership and transformation. Creative Innovation Global delivers world class creative and exponential thinking, innovation leadership and pragmatic solutions. The event offers credible forecasts, strategies and practices to help transform you and prepare the Leadership of Organisations for Disruption in all its forms. A place to imagine the future, inspire your leadership and achieve business success.

Creative Innovation Global has received two Global Awards and numerous Australian Awards winning the title of best corporate event in the world. Creative Universe and Creative Innovation Global have just been ranked among the Top 20 Event Organizers and Agencies from around the world as part of the newly released Eventex All Stars Index https://eventex.co/all-stars/<