Effective Altruism Global Boston 2017 Waymark, CEO Welcome Nathan Labenz leonardykris@live.com 80,000 Hours 80,000 Hours Schedule Saturday, June 3 Hall A Schedule Information Schedule Title | 22.5px | #23252E Section Header | 18px | #4A4A4A Paragraph / Bolded | 9px | #565858 Schedule / Title | 9px | #565858 Navigation / Active | 70% | #0C869B Table / Divider | 360px | #EEEEEE Barcode, Android | 44px | #F3F3F3 Logo, EA | 38px Barcode, iOS | 44px | #C9C9C9 Arranged by Element, Line | 30% | #EEEEEE Element, Outlined | 100% | #EEEEEE Table / Break | Full | #EEEEEE Table / Lunch | 30% | #0C869B Navigation / Inactive | 20% | #0C869B Border | 1px | #EEEEEE Information / Small | 8px | #9B9B9B Schedule / Role | 8px | #0C869B Schedule / Name | 8px | #565858 Paragraph / Regular | 9px | #565858 Navigation | 12px | #FFFFFF Table Header | 9px | #9B9B9B EA Global 2017: Boston 5.00 - 6.00 PM Registration 6.00 - 10.00 PM Opening Session Friday, June 2 Saturday, June 3 Schedule Workshops Information 09.25 - 09.55 AM 09.55 - 10.00 AM 10.00 - 10.30 AM Title * Summary available in Event App Welcome Nathan Labenz CEO, Waymark William MacAskill Associate Professor of Philosophy, Oxford; CEA Timetable Hall D (250 pax) Hall A (150 pax) 11.10 - 11.40 AM 11.40 - 12.10 PM 2.00 - 2.30 PM 80,000 Hours Workshop (Room 309) Check Information Break 10.30 - 11.10 AM Lunch (Check Information) 12.10 - 2.00 PM Neuroscience Progress Adam Marblestone Chief Strategist Officer; Research Scientist, Kernel; MIT Media Lab GiveWell Research Update Chelsea Tabart Research Analyst, GiveWell CRISPR George Church Professor, MIT & Wyss Institute at Harvard University CFAR Duncan Sabien Curriculum Director, CFAR Benjamin Todd CEO and Co-Founder, 80,000 Hours Are we facing a reproducibility crisis and what can we do about it?* James Turitto Head of J-PALʼs Research Transparency and Reproducibility Initiative Speaker Role Speaker Name Title 80,000 hours will be doing 30 mins one-on-one career advice sessions throughout the weekend. Theyʼre aimed at people who especially want to go into our priority areas, such as AI risk research, working in effective altruist organizations, pandemic reduction, quant trading, policy roles, and tech entrepreneurship. Weʼll help you think through which long-term options to aim for, and make introductions to jobs and area experts who can help. The coaching will also be good complement to Ben Toddʼs Advanced career workshop. Unfortunately, we wonʼt have capacity to coach everyone – you need to apply in advance here: http://bit.ly/80kcareercoaching This workshop aims to take you to the cutting edge of our research, and help you work out how you can have the greatest possible positive impact with your career. What weʼll cover: 1. What's the most pressing problem in the world? How our views have changed in the last year. 2. Which careers are highest-impact? 7 options that are better than earning to give. 3. Advanced career strategy - how much to care about career capital, how to predict what you're good at, and how to deal with risk. 4. Working with the community - how being part of a community changes which career is best. The format is short talks and exercises to help you apply the ideas. It's similar to our regular workshop, but with more Q&A. Workshops Information Schedule Career Coaching with 80,000 Hours (Room 109) Advanced Career Workshop with 80,000 Hours (Room 309) 11.10 - 12.10 PM 2.00 - 3.10 PM 3.50 - 4.50 PM 5.20 - 5.50 PM 2.00 - 3.10 PM 3.50 - 4.50 PM 5.20 - 5.50 PM 10.00 - 10.30 AM 11.00 - 12.10 AM 2.00 - 3.10 PM 3.50 - 4.50 PM Saturday, June 3 Saturday, June 3 Sunday, June 4 Peter McIntyre Director of Coaching, 80,000 Hours Benjamin Todd CEO and co-founder, 80,000 Hours Brenton Mayer Co-head of Coaching, 80,000 Hours You have about 80,000 hours in your career. That means your choice of career is one of the most important decisions youʼll ever make. Choose well, and you can help solve the worldʼs most pressing problems, as well as have a more rewarding, interesting life 80,000 Hours was founded in Oxford to help people find fulfilling, high-impact careers. It has done thousands of hours of research into how to choose a career, alongside academics at Oxford, and advises over 1 million online readers each year. Itʼs backed by Y Combinator, and has been featured on the BBC, NPR and Washington Post Accessibility By public transit Take the red line of the subway to the Harvard stop. The Science Center is about a five- minute walk from there. By car There is very little parking near Harvard Square. We recommend taking public transit or a taxi service. Harvard Square Parking Garage 65 JFK Street (at Eliot St.) 617-354-4168 Charles Square Garage (beneath the Charles Hotel) One Bennett Street 617-491-0298 The Science Center has wheelchair-accessible doors with automatic openers on Oxford Street and on the Plaza. All the paths around the building are wheelchair-accessible. The third-floor classrooms and basement-level accessible bathrooms are accessible by elevator. Lunch and Refreshments Hot beverages (coffee and tea) and light refreshments will be served continuously outside Hall A. Lunch will take place outside of Science Center (take the exit nearest to the halls) in buffet style, served by Harvard Crimson Catering. All foods catered are vegetarian and vegan friendly. Workshops Information Schedule Getting Around EA Global 2017: San Francisco 3.30 - 5.30 PM Registration 6.00 - 10.00 PM Opening Session Friday, August 11 Friday, August 11 Schedule Workshops Information 3.30 - 5.30 PM 6.00 - 10.00 PM Registration * Summary available in Event App Opening Session Julia Wise Community Liason, CFAR Amy Labenz Director of US Operations and General Counsel, CFAR Timetable Track 1 Theater Welcome Nathan Labenz CEO, Waymark Opening Talk William MacAskill Assiciate professor of philosophy, Oxford University, CFAR What does (and doesnʼt) AI mean for effective altruism? Owen Cotton-Barratt DPhil in mathematics from the University of Oxford Convinced, not convincing Duncan Sabien Curriculum Director, Center for Applied Rationality Registration and Snacks Timetable Track 1 Theater 9.00 - 10.00 AM 10.00 - 10.05 AM 10.05 - 10[30 AM 10.30 - 11.00 AM Saturday, August 12 Break 11.00 - 11.30 AM Saturday, August 12 Schedule Workshops Information 11.30 - 12.10 PM * Summary available in Event App EA in media Julia Galef Co-founder, Center for Applied Rationality EA community building Nick Beckstead Program Officer, Open Philanthropy Project Spencer Greenberg Spencer Greenberg Spark Wave and ClearerThinking.org Desiree Dudley Spencer Greenberg Spark Wave and ClearerThinking.org Logistics at Scale Panel Ruth Grace Wong Site Reliability Engineer, Pinterest Theresa Condor Vice President of Corporate Development, Spire Diane Gillespie Emeritus Professor, The University of Washington Bothell Panel on EAs in entrepreneurship Eric Gastfriend DynamiCare Health, Co- Founder & CEO Bruce Friedrich Executive Director, The Good Food Institute Joan Gass Graduate Business School Student, Stanford GiveWell top charities and incubation grants Catherine Hollander Research Analyst, Outreach Focus, GiveWell Josh Rosenberg Senior Research Analyst, GiveWell Marketing panel Kerry Vaughan Senior Growth Manager, The Centre for Effective Altruism Matthew Johnson Chief Marketing Officer, GiveDirectly Timetable Track 1 Theater 2.00 - 2.50 PM 3.30 - 3.55 PM 3.55 - 4.35 PM Lunch (Check Information) 12.10 - 2.00 PM Break 2.50 - 3.30 PM Saturday, August 12 Schedule Workshops Information * Summary available in Event App Day 1 closing and logistics Lightning talks Holden Karnofsky fireside chat Holden Karnofsky Executive Director, Open Philanthropy Project William MacAskill Associate professor of philosophy, Oxford University, The Centre for Effective Altruism Timetable Track 1 Theater 6.15 - 6.25 PM 5.15 - 6.15 PM Break 4.35 - 5.15 PM Welcome Back Global challenges Kristian Rönn CEO & GCF Researcher, globalchallengesfoundation.org Getting things done panel Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg Operations Manager, The Centre for Effective Altruism Nonhuman rights Lunar colony Will Marshall CEO/Co-Founder, Planet Registration, coffee, and snacks Timetable Track 1 Theater 9.00 - 9.30 AM 9.30 - 9.35 AM 9.35 - 10.00 AM 10.00 - 10.15 AM 10.00 - 10.40 AM Sunday, August 13 Sunday, August 13 Schedule Workshops Information 10.15 - 10.40 AM * Summary available in Event App Moral trade Celebrating failed projects panel Kerry Vaughan Senior Growth Manager, The Centre for Effective Altruism Nathan Labenz CEO, Waymark Open Philanthropy Project on AI safety and Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness Claire Zabel Research Analyst, Open Philanthropy Project Daniel Dewey Program Officer, Open Philanthropy Project Embedding EA thinking in government decisions beyond the OECD Claire Walsh Head of Government Partnership Initiative Elizabeth Edwards Elizabeth Edwards-Appell State Representative, New Hampshire State Legislature Center for Effective Global Action Working in AI Ben Todd: Coordination in the EA movement EAs who entered or left to work in government Timetable Track 1 Theater 11.10 - 12.00 PM 2.00 - 2.25 PM 2.00 - 3.00 PM 2.25 - 2.45 PM 2.45 - 3.10 PM 3.00 - 3.25 PM 3.10 - 3.25 PM Lunch (Check Information) 12.00- 2.00 PM Break 10.40 - 11.10 AM Break 3.25 - 4.00 PM Sunday, August 13 Schedule Workshops Information 4.00 - 4.25 PM 4.00 - 4.30 PM * Summary available in Event App Tom Kalil Tom Kalil Senior Advisor, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Group EA Funds panel Nick Beckstead Program Officer, Open Philanthropy Project Kerry Vaughan Senior Growth Manager, The Centre for Effective Altruism Lewis Bollard Farm Animal Welfare Program Officer, Open Philanthropy Project Animal welfare Lewis Bollard Farm Animal Welfare Program Officer, Open Philanthropy Project Bruce Friedrich fireside chat Bruce Friedrich Executive Director, The Good Food Institute Lightning talks Virtual reality for promoting empathy Katja Grace on AI safety AI safety panel Closing talk Amanda Askell Timetable Track 1 Theater 4.25 - 5.15 PM 4.30 - 5.00 PM 5.00 - 5.15 PM 5.50 - 6.15 PM 5.50 - 6.20 PM 6.15 - 7.00 PM 6.20 - 6.55 PM 7.05 - 7.35 PM Break 5.15 - 5.50 PM Break 7.00 - 7.05 PM