*That looks like a pretty good time, actually. It's got Natalie Jeremijenko, Marco Tempest AND Bjork in it.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-09/12/wired-2013-agenda
WIRED 2013 takes place on 17 and 18 October at London's Tobacco Dock, with pioneering thinkers and prominent global industry figures gathering for a celebration of the people and ideas shaping the WIRED world. Here's what you can expect over the two days of 17-18 October 2013.
The themes that the event will explore are: bringing the next billion online, the brain decoded, the new makers, and the power of the unseen. Speakers include Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjork; Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees; technology pioneer Kevin Ashton, who coined the term "The Internet of Things"; pianist Lang Lang and MIT Media Lab's Rosalind Picard.
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DAY ONE - Thursday 17 October
08.00
Registration & coffee
08.50
WELCOME FROM WIRED
Rupert Turnbull, publisher, Wired Magazine
David Rowan, editor, Wired Magazine
09.05
MEDIA FUTURES
Nick D'Aloisio, Summly/Yahoo!
Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed
Deb Roy, MIT and Twitter
Kevin Ashton, Coined the "Internet of Things"
10.25
HACK YOUR SENSES
David Edwards, Le Laboratoire
Natalie Jeremijenko, Artist/engineer
11.00
MORNING BREAK
11.40
LANG LANG
Pianist and music evangelist
12.05
SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY PRESENTS
Salim Ismail, Singularity University
Kathryn Myronuk, Singularity University
Brad Templeton, Singularity University
13.15: LUNCH
14.20
THE NEW MAKERS
Jack Andraka, Andraka Technologies
Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, Sugru
Carl Bass, Autodesk
Liam Casey, PCH International
15.40
THE BRAIN DECODED
Moran Cerf, Kellogg School of Management and UCLA department of Neurosurgery
Molly Crockett, UCL and University of Oxford
Beau Lotto, UCL
16.45
AFTERNOON BREAK
17.15
TRACKING YOUR SIGNALS
Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Lab
Walter de Brouwer, Scanadu
Nuria Oliver, Telefónica Research
18.15
FINAL SESSION TO BE CONFIRMED
18.30
DAVID ROWAN'S CLOSING REMARKS
18.35 - 22.00
TEST LAB AND LIVE WIRED WITH O2
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DAY TWO - Friday 18 October
08.00
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
08:15
Welcome from David Rowan, editor, Wired Magazine
08:55
BRINGING THE NEXT BILLION ONLINE
Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi Foundation
Suneet Singh Tuli, DataWind
Deepak Ravindran, Innoz
09:55
BUSINESS-MODEL TOOLKIT
Yancey Strickler, Kickstarter
Nicholas Lovell, Author, The Curve
Ellen MacArthur, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
10:55
MORNING BREAK
11:30
THE POWER OF THE UNSEEN
Marco Tempest, MIT Media Lab
Oren Yakobovich, Videre
Jake Davis, Ex-Anonymous, LulzSec
12.30
BEHAVIOUR STUDIES
Carl Djerassi, Stanford University
Linda Stone, Technology philosopher
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, Oxford University
13.25
LUNCH
14:30
INTERLUDE
Evan Grant, Seeper
14:50
BJÖRK
15:25
THE NEW STORYTELLERS
Adam Sadowsky, Syyn Labs
Mike Gunton, BBC Natural History Unit
Joshua Davis, US WIRED and Epic Magazine
16:20
AFTERNOON BREAK
17:00
THE WELLCOME TRUST PRESENTS
Jeremy Farrar, Wellcome Trust
Nazneen Rahman, Institute of Cancer Research
Hadyn Parry, Oxitec
18:00
FINAL SESSION TO BE CONFIRMED
18:40
FINAL WORD WITH DAVID ROWAN
18:45
EVENT END