The conference will be the first of its kind to cover both the business and technical elements of emerging technology. "Now more than ever, technology has the potential to revolutionize the world as we experience it," said Corey Ganser, CEO of Collective Fruitions. "In order to properly harness emerging technologies for a better future, technical experts must understand the business opportunity of their innovations, while in turn business leaders must have deep knowledge of the mechanics they will bring to market. This conference will bridge this gap with presentations from the foremost minds in both fields." Over the two-day conference, attendees will convene at St. Paul's Union Depot to learn from leaders sharing their expertise on a variety of emerging technologies and concepts, including Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Security, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Biotech.

He notes AI is a hot topic, and because of the existential risks involved, deserves nothing but cautious movement forward. He offers conceptual directives for AI to make it safe based entirely on uncertainty in a machine's objectives. Russell contends, as long as humans have special status in an AI's programming, and all their thinking revolves contextually about how to please humans, the AI should be safe. The audience shifts in their seats a bit when Russell begins by saying the world "Go" champion is an AI. The victorious software, AlphaGo, is Google's Deep Learning bot that has played every great Go player in the world and beaten all.