It's time to reset, re-create and collaborate on a new paradigm where Compassion and Kindness are the prevailing norms, one where technology is a tool for making humans more humane and creating an Abundant world for the majority. Join us to turn this vision into reality. Let's look into the'White Mirror' … Inspired by Black Mirror (Netflix series) - 'White Mirror' (holding name while we devise a suitable one) provides an immersive flash forward (glimpse/vision) of our Utopian future. In uncertain times (like now), technological disruption and impactful stories can change our mental worldview - our perceptions and eventually our reality. Black Mirror is a powerful show, depicting a dystopian future caused in part by misused evolving technologies.

According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 4.8 million people have fled Syria alone since the outbreak of civil war in 2011. In 2015, Amnesty International reported that the number of refugees worldwide reached nearly 20 million. When including displacements within countries, the number climbs to 60 million. Such numbers may appear to be a crippling crisis for many governments and NGOs - but they may be an opportunity for businesses and startups. Refugees looking for shelter away from areas of conflict often live in appalling conditions, with minimal access to food, water or healthcare.

Controlling artificial intelligence devices by voice will come soon said AI expert Neil Jacobstein. Artificial intelligence is set to transform the world, the audience at a Christchurch conference on the future was told. Artificial intelligence (AI) "allows us to expand the range of the possible, to do things we never thought we could do before," said Neil Jacobstein who chairs the artificial intelligence and robotics track at Singularity University, a think tank based in California. "AI is not just "faster, better, cheaper, it's different," he said. Students will soon have personalised one-to-one AI tutors that will follow them through formal education and into adult life, he said.

I think it's very relevant that we contribute to the ideas of SingularityU and to the summits and all the workshops that are being organized. It is relevant to explain why we do what we do, via communication media like this YouTube video. My role in SingularityU is to help set up the summits and give presentations at these summits. My field is robotics, I really like to talk about the work I do with my group. I also think that robotics will be a very important development in many aspects of our society.

The theme of the Congress is "Reality Check – Fast-Forward into our Future" and we will be discussing how developments in artificial intelligence (AI) will greatly impact our daily lives and the world's future.