PLENARY DISCUSSION: PROSPECTS OF THE FUTURE

We, 6 November

17:30 - 19:00

Congress Hall
(Pavilion 7)

Plenary Discussion

The results of the first International Symposium “Inventing the Future” will be summarized at the final plenary session.

Over three days, participants from more than 100 countries will be discussing how to conduct systematic work on designing the future and rekindling public interest in this process.

Scientists and businesspeople, engineers and writers, futurists and government officials, representatives of creative industries, and diplomats will be discussing the value orientations of the future multipolar world.

More than 60 sessions will be held on the sidelines of the forum in the most advanced and dynamic formats: design bureau, foresight, debates, science show, author interviews, strategic sessions, and plenary discussions.

During the final event, symposium moderators and speakers will present three theses on the future in the areas of Society, Science, Technology, Content, Culture, and Diplomacy.

Moderators

Sarah Bils

Co-founder of DD Geopolitics, geopolitical analyst

Danila Medvedev

Futurist, science popularizer, host of “Programs for the Future” show on the “Science 2.0” channel

Speakers

Denis Manturov

First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation

Nikita Pimenov

Journalist and host of the "Good Morning" program on Channel One

Johann Wegmann Peña

Journalist, futurist

Stepan Kalmykov

Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Head of the Chemical Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Pavlos Lagoudakis

Head of the Skoltech Laboratory of Hybrid Photonics, Director of the Skoltech Photonics Center, Senior Vice President for Basic Research at Skoltech

John Molera

Attorney and geopolitical analyst

Elizaveta Likhacheva

Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts