TransVision 2006 - Emerging Technologies of Human Enhancement

Introduction

Since the founding of the World Transhumanist Association in 1998, several affiliated international conferences have been held around the world:

TransVision98, June 5-7: Weesp, The Netherlands, Europe
TransVision99, June 4-6: Stockholm, Sweden, Europe
TransVisionMM, July 15-16: London, England, Europe
TransVision01, June 22-24: Berlin, Germany, Europe
TransVision03, June 27-29: Yale University, USA, North America
TransVision04, August 6-8: University of Toronto, Canada, North America
TransVision05, July 22-24: Caracas, Venezuela, South America

In 2006, the tradition continued:

TransVision06, August 17-19: University of Helsinki, Finland, Europe

This year the theme of the conference was Emerging Technologies of Human Enhancement. We looked at recent and ongoing technological developments and discussed associated ethical and philosophical questions.

TransVision 2006 is over, and was considered wildly successful by most participants. A DVD is being produced which contains videos from all the conference presentations. In the meanwhile, you can find lower-quality videos of the program numbers at this repository. Slides from the presentations can be found here.

TV06 Organizing Committee

Conference Chair: Ari A. Heljakka (CEO, GenMind Ltd)

International Committee

Nick Bostrom, Ph.D. Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University. Director of the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute
Jose Cordeiro, M.Sc & MBA, Millenium Project.
Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D. Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.
James Hughes, Ph.D. Executive director of the WTA.
Bruce J. Klein, Chair, Immortality Institute; Press, Novamente LLC
Giulio Prisco. IEET, FutureTAG Ltd.

The local Finnish Committee included over a dozen members from the Finnish Transhumanist Association.


Introduction Speakers Speaker Abstracts Program Location Virtual Conference	Introduction Since the founding of the World Transhumanist Association in 1998, several affiliated international conferences have been held around the world: TransVision98, June 5-7: Weesp, The Netherlands, Europe TransVision99, June 4-6: Stockholm, Sweden, Europe TransVisionMM, July 15-16: London, England, Europe TransVision01, June 22-24: Berlin, Germany, Europe TransVision03, June 27-29: Yale University, USA, North America TransVision04, August 6-8: University of Toronto, Canada, North America TransVision05, July 22-24: Caracas, Venezuela, South America In 2006, the tradition continued: TransVision06, August 17-19: University of Helsinki, Finland, Europe This year the theme of the conference was Emerging Technologies of Human Enhancement. We looked at recent and ongoing technological developments and discussed associated ethical and philosophical questions. TransVision 2006 is over, and was considered wildly successful by most participants. A DVD is being produced which contains videos from all the conference presentations. In the meanwhile, you can find lower-quality videos of the program numbers at this repository. Slides from the presentations can be found here. TV06 Organizing Committee Conference Chair: Ari A. Heljakka (CEO, GenMind Ltd) International Committee Nick Bostrom, Ph.D. Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University. Director of the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute Jose Cordeiro, M.Sc & MBA, Millenium Project. Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D. Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. James Hughes, Ph.D. Executive director of the WTA. Bruce J. Klein, Chair, Immortality Institute; Press, Novamente LLC Giulio Prisco. IEET, FutureTAG Ltd. The local Finnish Committee included over a dozen members from the Finnish Transhumanist Association.