It started as an experiment..... What would happen if we brought 100 of the most brilliant people in the world together? People from all sectors, all backgrounds, of all ages and from all continents - a super diverse group. And what if we removed them from technology and put them on a ship to explore the world and the biggest challenges of our time together for four days - undisturbed? And what if we challenged them to identify the 15 biggest questions of our time - because without the right questions we can never find the right answer.... Whatever topic they discussed, it all boiled down to one question - the most important question of our time: How do we make people care? Magic happens when the right people meet, but in a silo based world that happens too rarely. It started as an experiment. Now it's continuing!

A Founder Astronaut with Virgin Galactic, Loretta Whitesides is slated to be one of the first women to look down on our home planet during their suborbital spaceflights from 2019. Loretta has been to the bottom of the ocean with Titanic Director James Cameron, worked in the Canadian Arctic on plants that can grow in extreme conditions, and done over 80 weightless flights. Loretta shares about her own journey to prepare for her first flight into space and how we can all use the space perspective to bring out the best in us. She also shows pictures of Spaceport America, Spaceship Two and her time floating weightless in a 727. Enjoy her story telling and sharing of what the future of exploration looks like.

What is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything? With a talk entitled “The Architect’s Guide to the Galaxy”, it might just be that Bjarke Ingels will try to answer this stupendously huge question, at least from an architectural perspective… From the new generation of architects who are shaping the world as we know it today, there is perhaps no bigger rockstar than this Danish wunderkind, with projects as diverse as the new World Trade Towers, the Googleplex, the Hyperloop and a community on Mars! In 2016 Times Magazine named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us, bringing change to our world at a faster pace than we've ever seen before. The futurists seems to be splitting into two camps: Those who preach utter doom and destruction, and those who sell glory and abundance. While new technologies inspire ambitious hopes, they also stoke existential fears. How do we adapt in an era of rapid technological change? Can and should progress be slowed down? Samantha Stein is currently the Director of Special Projects and Startup Battlefield Editor for TechCrunch. She looks at emerging tech globally and selects the companies most likely to produce tomorrow's exits. She is also a WEF Global Shaper and Media Leader.

Humans have always been evolving with our materials. Accessing oil and plastic ushered in the current level, but at a price. What is the next material that can take us further? Would it solve our problems? We’ll hear more about a new groundbreaking material: Graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms combined in a hexagonal structure, 200 times stronger than steel, 100 times more conductive than copper, and extremely flexible:

14 years ago, the cost of a human genome was around 100 million dollars. Today it is at 1000 dollars, and the implications are staggering: Will we have designer babies? Eradicate health issues? What if you could change your genetic future? With a genetic health compass, would you take the necessary precautions to avoid health complications? And where are we heading with respect to using brainwaves to control our applications directly? Will we see a full integration of man and machine in the near future? Olivier Oullier, PhD, is President of EMOTIV, offering unique solutions in behavioral and neuroscientific data. Olivier has held distinguished positions in the World Economic Forum, Professorship of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at Aix-Marseille University and Director of the Neuroscience and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic Analyses of the Prime Minister of France.

Prince EA is a spoken words artist, poet and filmmaker with almost two billion views of his videos all over the globe. He started out as a rapper, but in 2014 he shifted from music to creating motivational and inspirational spoken word film and content on topics such as sustainability, education, work-life balance, race and spirituality. Prince EA has been featured on Oprah Winfrey, Queen Latifah Show and MTV – as well as in leading publications around the world. With his productions he manages to make complex topics engaging and understandable to all.

Jonah Nolan, the creator of the popular HBO series Westworld, meets rockstar architect Bjarke Ingels face-to-face. What could possibly go wrong? We can at least expect a great conversation about man, machine, design, groundbreaking projects, and possibly some good, old-fashioned shenanigans!