A meeting will be held on the flagship project, 'FuturICT – Participatory Computing for Our Complex World' in March 2012.  This is part of the Flagship event-series organized by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

The FuturICT project is a response to the European Commission’s Flagship Call in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) – Future and Emergent Technologies (FET). It is motivated by recognizing that society and ICT form a tightly coupled system that needs to be considered as a whole, rather than as two separate systems. To this end, FuturICT aims to develop a new science of the co-evolution of ICT with society, building on an integration of expertise from the social sciences, complexity science, and ICT.

The conference aims to inform the Swiss scientific community about the FuturICT project and its possible impacts on different fields.

The organizers welcome scientists of all fields, political decision makers, press representatives and the interested public. The conference will be held in English. Registration for this event is required.

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Programme Information

Chairman: Peter Hedström, Institute for Futures Studies

13:00 Video Projection with Buffet Lunch
14:00 Welcome and Goals (Heinz Gutscher, President SAGW)
14:15 Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich (Presentation of the FuturICT Project)
15:00 Questions/Discussion (Moderation: Peter Hedstöm)
15:15 Alan Kirman, GREQAM (Significance and Perspectives of FuturICT for Economics)
15:35 Andrzej Nowak, University of Warsaw (Significance and Perspectives of FuturICT for the Social Sciences)
15:55 Coffee break
16:30 Michael Batty, University College London (Significance and Perspectives of FuturICT for «Future Cities»)
16:50 Donald Kossmann, ETH Zurich (Significance and Perspectives of FuturICT for Information and Communication Technologies)
17:10 Round table (Expectations, contributions, risks and opportunities; All speakers and Jeroen van den Hoven, TU Delft; Moderation: Peter Hedström)
18:15 Wrap up and fare well (Peter Hedström)
18:30 Aperitif