Brainstorm tracks of interest

Gary

• Human Organization + Cities overall, but especially…

  • Crypto and Self-Organization for Effective Communities
  • The Art and Science of Popup Villages
    • I would really like the Edge City team itself to be leading the conversation on this globally, and in our Bay Area popup - producing content/presentations on this is also a good forcing function for us to distill whatever we do into a digestible framework that can help us train more popup village operators
  • Creating Scenius Gardens
    • Jimmy Soni - author of PayPal story https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Paypal-Entrepreneurs-Shaped-Silicon/dp/1501197266
    • El Segundo people
    • Lael Alexander (who helped China build Shenzhen)
    • Zach Levi - actor who is obsessed with creating a scenius village near Austin
  • Movement Building
    • One of the effective altruism leaders?
    • Kevin Owocki? Regen movement leader
    • Vincent Weisser? DeSci movement sparker
    • Someone from a16z’s American Dynamism who helped make that a meme?

  Tools for Thought + Bettermend

  • Someone who has gotten adoption of some collective intelligence system for a big network that is greatly additive to the network’s productivity

Timour

• Crypto IRL: Applications & Experiments
  • Track for discussing and incubating ideas about how we can actually use crypto tools in the real world
  • This would likely be part of a broader crypto track
  • People
    • RadicalxChange (Matt Prewitt)
    • Puja Ohlhaver
    • Daimo crew
    • Joey DeBruin
• AI IRL:
  • Something similar here building on top of the last two AI tracks at Zuzalu and ZuConnect respectively.
    • Zuzalu was heavy on AI Safety, foom, x-risk
    • ZuConnect was more about crypto overlap and general applications
    • It would be great to think about where AI is going and actionable things that we can build with it to improve our lives and our communities
  • People
    • Joe Edelman, Oliver Klingefjord, Ellie Hain
    • Saffron Huang, Divya Siddarth
    • Deger Turan
    • Folks from OpenAI, Anthropic
• Other thoughts
  • For tools for thought
    • We should tap John Borthwick from Betaworks. He ran an incubator for tools for thought so they know a lot about it.
    • Sari Azout from Sublime (she’s a friend)

Devon

… I can come up with a bunch more folks beyond those brainstormed in the list below, I maintain a list of people for things just like this! 🙂

• I’m especially excited and well-equipped to run/invite people to Track B: Human Organization + Cities. People I could invite to run sessions:
  • Coby Lefkowitz
  • Ryan Johnson – Culdesac founder
  • Phil Levin – Radish, Culdesac, Embassy, RBG, co-living, LiveWithFriends
  • Jay Graber – BlueSky (a bit out of the theme but maybe still relevant?)
  • Alain Bertaud – author of Order Without Design; in his 80s; worked at the WorldBank for decades working with cities in developing countries to plan for future growth
  • Grant Slatton – thinks a lot about new communities
  • Jerry Brown – former governor of California
• Track D: Hard Tech + Civilizational Infrastructure
  • Zach Dell - home battery idea
  • Maddie Hall – Living Carbon, engineering trees to hold more carbon
  • guy from Joby Aviation, can't remember his name
  • Kyle Vogt – Cruise
  • Sam Zeloof – Atomic Semi
• Track E: Tools for Thought + Movement Building
  • Misha Chellam – runs the Abundance Network

Allison