The future can look fairly bleak. Climate catastrophes, new illnesses, crumbling infrastructure, wealth inequality, cyber dangers, geopolitical conflicts, and threats to democracy across the globe are simply among the issues now shaking individuals’s confidence in a greater tomorrow.

But human ingenuity is all the time a trigger for hope, and each technology brings new thinkers, activists, entrepreneurs, and builders to work on the world’s largest challenges.

This 12 months, WIRED will have fun its thirtieth anniversary by showcasing the individuals, platforms, applied sciences, and concepts that encourage us—and, we hope, will encourage you. Join us on December 5 in San Francisco for a thought-provoking program that includes among the most influential individuals in tech, enterprise, science, leisure, and past as we discover expertise’s affect on our previous, current, and future—and dig into options and our optimistic imaginative and prescient for the subsequent 30 years.

What Is It?

LiveWIRED is a one-day, in-person occasion at The Midway in San Francisco. It can be a mixture of audio system, panels, demonstrations, and experiences designed to get you enthusiastic about how we will collectively deal with local weather change and what you are able to do to contribute.

How Do I Attend?

LiveWIRED is a free occasion, however area is proscribed. Apply to attend here, the place you will additionally discover updates on programming bulletins and knowledge on our visitor audio system, panels, and activations, in addition to info on the venue and what to anticipate whenever you arrive.

Who Will Be Speaking?

Steven Amato, founder and CEO, Contend
Jade Raymond, president and founder, Haven Studios
Jaron Lanier, scientist, author, musician; prime unifying scientist of Microsoft
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web; CTO and cofounder, Inrupt
John Bruce, CEO and cofounder, Inrupt
Stephen Curry, CEO, 30 Ink
Suresh Singh, secretary-chairman, 30 Ink
Blitz Bazawule, musician, writer, artist, filmmaker
Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer, Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon
Karen Nyberg, retired NASA astronaut, engineer, and textile artist
Tierra Whack, artist and musician
Tiffany Williams, COO, 30 Ink
Chris Helfrich, CEO, Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation
Erick Peyton, cofounder, co-CEO, and chief artistic officer, Unanimous Media
Jennifer Doudna, biochemist and Nobel Prize–successful coinventor of Crispr expertise
Jared Isaacman, CEO, Shift4 (NYSE:FOUR); commander, Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn
Aparna Nancherla, comic and author
Faye Wattleton, cofounder and EVP, EeroQ
Rachel Kowert, analysis director, Take This
Fei-Fei Li, Sequoia Professor within the Computer Science Department at Stanford University; codirector of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute
Annalee Newitz, journalist, writer, and podcaster
Moriba Jah, cofounder and chief scientist at Privateer Space and Moriba Jah Universal
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, writer
Meredith Whittaker, president, Signal Foundation
Catie Cuan, entrepreneur, engineer, and artist
Reid Hoffman, cofounder, LinkedIn; associate, Greylock
John Hanke, founder and CEO, Niantic
Charlie Jane Anders, author and editor
Joe Atkinson, vice chair, chief merchandise and expertise officer, PwC
Jon Gieselman, president, Expedia Brands, Expedia Group
Matthew Butterick, artist and lawyer