PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION ONLY
The progress movement has grown a lot in the last few years. We now have progress journals, think tanks, and fellowships. The progress idea has spread and evolved into the “abundance agenda”, “techno-optimism”, “supply-side progressivism”, “American dynamism”. All of us want to see more scientific, technological, and economic progress for the good of humanity, and envision a bold, ambitious, flourishing future. What we haven't had so far is a regular gathering of the community.
Introducing the first annual progress conference:
October 18th - 19th, 2024 at the Lighthaven Campus in Berkeley, California
Meet great people • Catalyze new projects • Share ideas • Be energized & inspired
Our speakers all are inspired to create an ambitious, technologically advanced future—yet they may disagree (sometimes vehemently) about how we get there. They come from a wide range of backgrounds, from academics to company founders to investors, from journalists to YouTubers. They’ll provide thoughtful perspectives about all kinds of ways we can make progress happen—from meta-science to policy reform, from space to AI to biotech to defense and nuclear energy and more.
Patrick Collison Stripe
Julia DeWahl Antares Industries
Virginia Postrel Author, The Future and Its Enemies
Tyler Cowen Mercatus Center
Eli Dourado Abundance Institute
Ben Reinhardt Speculative Technologies
Saloni Dattani Our World in Data & Works in Progress
Steven Pinker Harvard University
More speakers to be added
Spend two days hanging out with others in our community and help shape the progress movement into a cultural force. Whether you identify as a supply-side or abundance progressive, e/acc or EA, whether you come at progress from a classical liberal background or study meta-science, advocate for broad YIMBY or American Dynamism—you are invited to meet each other, share ideas in unconference sessions, and leave energized.
As an event invitee, you’ll join people from a wide range of backgrounds: