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Hey, I’m going to Web Summit in Lisbon next week. Not sure if they’re still selling tickets, but it’s a 70,000-people conference and the list of speakers is impressive: https://websummit.com/speakers
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This is pretty speculative and off-the-cuff, but I'm wondering if Worldcon would qualify. Iir the one I went to several years ago had at least one panel on serious concrete risks, and it seems to be selected to contain many people who think about the future frequently and seriously.
i've been considering it also actually! thank you for recommendation :)
No problem! To be clear I only went once, years ago, so I might try to talk to someone who has been more recently too if you consider it.