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Beyond Imagination.
Powered by Innovation.

SYNAPSE — The platform where science, AI, and visionary thinking converge to create tomorrow's reality.

Shaping The Future of Science, Technology and Society

Rapid & Profound Transformation

This is a period of rapid and profound transformation across disciplines, geographies and generations. Advances in science and technology are reshaping how we live, work and engage with the world around us.

Rapid & Profound Transformation

Breakthrough Innovations

From artificial intelligence to gene editing, quantum computing to climate innovation — the implications of these advancements are vast and urgent.

Breakthrough Innovations

About SYNAPSE

SYNAPSE is powered by the Shiv Nadar Foundation to foster meaningful dialogue at the intersection of science, technology and society. It brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to examine the most critical developments of our time.

About SYNAPSE

Thought Leaders United

From researchers, entrepreneurs, ethicists, artists, economists and public leaders — the entire gamut of disciplines come together to explore how science and technology are shaping our shared future.

Thought Leaders United

Our Mission & Purpose

SYNAPSE fosters public understanding of science and technology, promotes interdisciplinary thinking, and explores innovation's opportunities and challenges through diverse, outcome-driven dialogues.

Our Mission & Purpose

A Two-Day Immersive Event

SYNAPSE offers a dynamic program featuring keynote dialogues, panel discussions and immersive experiences that delve into some of the most critical ideas shaping our world today.

A Two-Day Immersive Event

Pioneers Who Shaped The Dialogue

A 3 billion piece gene puzzle

A 60,000-year-old finger fragment

Listen to a Sherlock Holmes science unravel ancient DNA.

And present surprising discoveries abot the Indian family tree

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David
Reich
Ancient DNA Detective

I dream of the day i am as autonomous as a human

New intelligence Emergent life?

Or just mime morionette?

Meet a social robot training humans to relate to machines

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Sophia
Robot
World's First Digital Citizen

Consider: DNA as Data Storage

New biofuels.

Mosquitoes without malaria

New life form not found in Nature.

Meet a legend geneticist rewriting the limit of life, science and medicine

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George
Church
Father of Gene Editing

The real question is not What AI can do but What it Should Do.

New powers.

New risks.

A World first law.

Meet a data scientist leading the UN's charge to build a harness of AI.

And align it with humanity

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Carme
Artigas
UN's Guardian of AI

We have become Godlike but without 10 Commandments

Does AI has answers for an era fast, fused. And on Fire?

An ace trendspotter on why politics needs science.

And vice versa

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Thomas
Friedman
2 time Pulitzer Prize Winner

If machines will walk amoung us, how should we parent them?

Meet the creator of Sophia, world's 1st robot citizen.

And join the deeo debate on the ype, hope, and risks of embodied AI

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David
Hanson
Inventor of New Race

Protein errors cause disease.

We knew only o.1% errors.

Now, we know 90%

Hear Google DeepMind's VP on the spectacular stoey of protein prediction.

And how it can save bees. Destroy plastic. And cure Parkinson's

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Pushmeet
Kholi
AI Boundary Breaker

Imagine.

Bosses mapping your mood.

States hacking your mind.

Listen to a frontier ethicist on why we need neurolaws.

And the freedom to be human

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Nita
Farahany
Anti Brain Tracking Ethicist

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