CONFERENCE

AGENDA
CURIOUS2018
FUTURE INSIGHT CONFERENCE

JULY 16-18 2018

darmstadtium, DARMSTADT, GERMANY

WWW.CURIOUS2018.COM
CURIOUS2018 IS SPONSORED BY MERCK KGAA, DARMSTADT, GERMANY ON THE OCCASION OF ITS 350TH ANNIVERSARY
 Ulrich Betz (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) Spectrum
OPENING CEREMONY
13.00 David Bull (Moderator)
Welcome
Stefan Oschmann (Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of Merck KGaA,
Introductory Speech
Darmstadt, Germany)
AGENDA DAY ONE
The Merck family owned company Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp Spectrum
13.30
– how to prosper for 350 years and beyond (Chairman of the Executive Board and the Family Board of E. Merck KG)

Blue ocean shift- beyond competing: proven steps to Spectrum

14.15 Renée Mauborgne (INSEAD)
inspire confidence and seize new growth

Spectrum
15.00 From digital life to extending healthy human life Craig Venter (J. Craig Venter Institute)

15.45
Networking Coffee Break & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, E-Poster Session, Curiosity Circle

Joao Monteiro, Victoria Aranda (Nature) Spectrum David Bull Ferrum Tim Appenzeller (AAAS/Science) Titanium
Shinichi Akaike
Nature Roundtable Foresight for visioning (NISTEP)
Stimuli-responsive smart soft Takuzo Aida
science, technology materials fabricated under
16.15 The Future of Medicine Naohiro Shichijo
(University of Tokyo)
and innovation policy nonequilibrated conditions
Don Cleveland (UCSD) (Tokyo University of Technology)

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte (Salk Institute)

Crystal Mackall (Stanford University)
17.00
Bringing new chemistry to life Frances Arnold A new concept for asymmetric Benjamin List
Jennifer Wargo (MD Anderson Cancer Center) (Caltech) lewis acid catalysis (Max-Planck-Institut
Caroline Dive (CRUK, Manchester Institute) für Kohlenforschung)
Carlos Caldas (CRUK, Cambridge Institute)
17.45
David Solit (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) Curiosity driven research: Daniel Zajfman
Nancy Cox (Vanderbilt University) Don‘t predict the future. (Weizmann Institute) Nanomaterials for the life Uli Wiesner
Create it. sciences (Cornell University)
Alan Karthikesalingam (DeepMind Health)

18.30 Networking Night – Dinner, Topical Islands, AI-workshop, Dream Board & Curiosity Ground
The perfect place to meet inspiring people from all over the world and make surprising discoveries in a creative environment.

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 Ulrich Betz (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) Spectrum
AGENDA DAY TWO
08.45 Introductory Comments
David Bull (Moderator)

Spectrum
09.00 Rapid discovery of gene function Bruce Beutler (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

The rise and promise of artificial molecular Spectrum

09.45 Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University)
machines based on the mechanical bond

Spectrum
10.30 Announcement Future Insight Prize Stefan Oschmann (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)

10.45 Networking Coffee Break & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, E-Poster Session, Curiosity Circle

David Bull Spectrum Tim Appenzeller (AAAS/Science) Ferrum Joao Monteiro (Nature) Titanium
Pathology from the molecular Garry Nolan
11.15 scale on up (Stanford University)

Impacting lives through inno- Barcamp Vibrant Digital Barcamp Life Reimagined
vative delivery of global health John Gyapong
12.00 interventions in sub-saharan (University of Health
Africa and Allied Sciences)

12.45 Networking Lunch & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, E-Poster Session, AI Workshop, Curiosity Circle

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 Spectrum
13.45 Introductory Comments David Bull

Spectrum
13.50 tbd Thomas Reiter (ESA Astronaut)
AGENDA DAY TWO
Perspectives in chemistry – from supramolecular Spectrum
14.00 chemistry to adaptive chemistry Jean-Marie Lehn (University of Strasbourg )

Spectrum
Cryo-electron microscopy, and the Joachim Frank (Columbia University)
14.45
transformation of structural biology

15.30 Networking Coffee Break & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, E-Poster Session, Curiosity Circle

Tim Appenzeller (AAAS/Science) Spectrum David Bull Ferrum Joao Monteiro (Nature) Titanium
Science Roundtable: The neglected diseases: Will Peter Hotez Liquid Sunlight Peidong Yang
16.00 Technology Breakthrough a „new world order“ reverse (Baylor College) (University of
of the Year global gains? California, Berkeley)

Friederike Schüür (Cloudera) Jeremy Nicholson Biological variability and Ruedi

Man, Microbes and Systems
Matt Rosseinsky (University of Liverpool) Medicine
(Imperial College London) experimental biology: Threats Aebersold
16.45 and opportunities
Yang Shao-Horn (MIT) (ETH Zurich)
Emmanuelle Charpentier (MPI Infection Biology)
Crystalline sponge method for Makoto Fujita Genome writing Jef Boeke
Christina Smolke (Stanford University) synthetic and natural product (NYU Langone Health)
17.30 Mary Voytek (NASA) studies
(University of Tokyo)

Stefan Oschmann (CEO Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) Christopher Milne (Tufts University) Spectrum
Roundtable: Justin Sanchez (DARPA)
18.15 Lothar H. Wieler (Director Robert Koch Institute)
Future Insight Prize Nadia Tornieporth (CEPI, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness) Sir Michael Jacobs (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust)
Subhanu Saxena (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

Curiosity Night – Dinner, AI-workshop, Gadget Lounge & Curiosity Ground

19.00 We keep moving forward opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious and curiosity keeps leading us down
new paths.

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AGENDA DAY THREE
Ulrich Betz (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) Spectrum
08.45 Introductory Comments
David Bull (Moderator)

Spectrum
08.50 Curious2018 Future Insight - video message Satya Nadella (CEO Microsoft)

Spectrum
09.00 What is happening to chemistry? George Whitesides (Harvard University)

Spectrum
09.45 Taking synthetic biology out of the lab and into your life Justin Sanchez (DARPA)

10.30 Networking Coffee Break & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, E-Poster Session, Curiosity Circle

David Bull Spectrum Jake Yeston (AAAS/Science) Ferrum Joao Monteiro (Nature) Titanium
Cognitive computing Scott Spangler New chemical reactions David MacMillan
11.00 for discovery energized by light (Princeton University)
(IBM Watson Health)

Barcamp Healthy Lives

Cybernics Revolution: Fusion Yoshiyuki Sankai Assembly line synthesis Varinder Aggarwal
11.45 of humans, robots and (Cyberdyne, INC.) creating molecules with (University of Bristol)
information systems tailored shape

12.30 Networking Lunch & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, E-Poster Session, AI Workshop, Curiosity Circle

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AGENDA DAY THREE
Spectrum
13.15 Introductory Comments David Bull

The transformative CRISPR-Cas9 technology: Emmanuelle Charpentier Spectrum

13.30
Origins and applications (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)

David Bull Spectrum Jake Yeston (AAAS/Science) Ferrum Joao Monteiro (Nature) Titanium

Engineered T-cells for cancer Crystal MacKall From diagnosing diseases to Rudi Balling
14.15 therapy (Stanford University) predicting diseases (University of
Luxembourg) Barcamp Materials
Standing on the shoulders of
Mark Davis Building scale & breadth at the Tom Knight and Solutions
15.00 mice: adventures in human (Stanford University) Ginkgo Bioworks Foundry (Ginkgo Bioworks)
immunology

15.45 Networking Coffee Break & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, E-Poster Session, Curiosity Circle

David Bull Spectrum Jake Yeston (AAAS/Science) Ferrum Joao Monteiro (Nature) Titanium
Giving new life to materials Angela Belcher Man, machine, magic Shyam Sankar Magic: Ancient, modern, and future Dean Radin
16.15 for energy, the environment (MIT) (Institute of Noetic
(Palantir Technologies)
and medicine Sciences)

Role of infectious agents in human colon cancer Spectrum

17.00 Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Center)

Spectrum
17.45 Closing comments and outlook Ulrich Betz (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)

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