Program Overview

Program

Three days, two parallel tracks, and a tighter editorial center for 2026: Track A focuses on AI, governance, and future economies; Track B focuses on health, biotech, and urban systems.

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Day 1 - October 15

TimeTrack ATrack B
09:30Opening plenary: "Future as a Discipline" - Prof. Maria Martirosyan, PhD
11:00
Adaptive context for public institutions
James ZouKunle Olukotun

Agentic Context Engineering

12:30
Trust, governance, and long-context systems
Maria MartirosyanJames Zou

Agentic Context Engineering

Yerevan resilience briefing
Maria Martirosyan

Yerevan Urban Resilience Brief 2026

14:30
Automation, new tasks, and institutional timing
Daron AcemogluCarl Benedikt Frey

Automation and New Tasks · The future of employment

Electric mobility and metropolitan planning
Marta C. GonzalezPaolo Santi

Planning for Electric Vehicles Coupled with Urban Mobility

16:30Evening plenary: Research methods for governing technological transitions

Day 2 - October 16

TimeTrack ATrack B
09:30Morning keynote: Building usable foresight from live evidence
11:00
Long-horizon assistants, rollout costs, and capability management
James ZouKunle Olukotun

Agentic Context Engineering

Clinical AI: imaging, sepsis, and bedside decision support
Pranav RajpurkarMatthieu KomorowskiLeo Anthony Celi

CheXNet: Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning · Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Clinician

13:00
Labor transitions after automation exposure
Daron AcemogluCarl Benedikt Frey

Automation and New Tasks · The future of employment

Protein language models and translational discovery
Karsten BorgwardtJian Tang

Endowing Protein Language Models with Structural Knowledge · Structure-Informed Protein Language Model

15:30
Public-sector evaluation and institutional trust
Maria MartirosyanJames Zou

Policy workshop

Data infrastructure, model validation, and clinical safety
Leo Anthony CeliMatthieu Komorowski

Clinical systems workshop

18:30Evening showcase: Constructive Futures Lab (live demos)

Day 3 - October 17

TimeTrack ATrack B
10:00
Policy lab: Professions for 2040
Daron AcemogluCarl Benedikt Frey

The future of employment

Mayors panel: Digital twins, EV demand, and metropolitan planning
Marta C. GonzalezPaolo Santi

Planning for Electric Vehicles Coupled with Urban Mobility

11:30
Context memory, world models, and autonomous machine intelligence
James ZouKunle OlukotunYann LeCun

Agentic Context Engineering · A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence

Translational biology after representation learning
Karsten BorgwardtJian Tang

Endowing Protein Language Models with Structural Knowledge

14:00Synthesis plenary: From evidence to declaration - Maria Martirosyan with track rapporteurs
16:00Closing plenary and Yerevan 2026 declaration