Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, political economist, professor, author, and political commentator;

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist;

Larry Summers, Former U. S. Secretary of Treasury, economist, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University

Professor of Harvard University (via live video);

John Markoff, Senior Writer, The New York Times (via live video);

John Wilmoth, Director of the Population Division of the United Nations;

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, legendary IBM technology strategist;

Martin Ford, author of best-selling "Rise of the Robots"(via live video);

Meredith Persily Lamel, President of MPL Partners, LLC, executive coach, consultant, facilitator and instructor;

Scott Von, psychoanalyst, physician, and philosopher, Founding Director of the New Clinic for Integral Medicine & Psychiatry

John Hagel, author, Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge (via live video);

Scott Santens, writer and Founder of the BIG Patreon Creator Pledge;

Lauren Paer, Economist and writer;

Jared Kleinart, co-author, "2 Billion Under 20";

Wendell Wallach, consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics;

Patricia Paul, former union organizer, community organizer, litigator and business founder;

James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies;

Gerald Huff, Principal Software Engineer at Tesla Motors;

Scott Santens, universal basic income champion;

David Nordfors, CEO and co-founder of IIIJ and the co-chair of the i4j (innovation for jobs) - (via live video);

David Autor, co-leader of MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (via live video);

Jim Clark, Founder, The World Technology Network;

– The World Technology Network www.WTN.net ), a community of the world's most innovativeindividuals and organizations in science, technology, and relatedfields, is launching the first World Summit on TechnologicalUnemployment on September 29, 2015, at the Time Life ConferenceCenter in New York City.Accelerating technological unemployment will likely be one of themost challenging societal issues in the 21st Century. Never beforein history are so many industries being simultaneously upended bynew technologies. Though "creative destruction," in which lost jobsare replaced with new ones, will be a factor, our newesttechnologies have the clear potential to eliminate many more jobsthan we create. With technology advancing at a geometric pace,robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D-printing, and otherinnovations with enormous disruptive potential will soon hit themainstream. Billions of people worldwide are currently employed inindustries that will likely be affected—and billions of new entrantsto the workforce will need jobs.While much has been written about the coming collision of rapidlyadvancing technology and an increasingly displaced workforce (arecent Oxford study predicts 47% of US jobs gone from technologywithin two decades), there has been no structured attempt at anylevel of government, academia, or industry to define, address, andeven begin to conceive solutions to what may well be the greatestthreat to our social fabric in the years ahead. Until now.The World Summit on Technological Unemployment is the firsthigh-level forum and workshop for thought leaders across alldisciplines and domains designed to begin the critical task ofconfronting the vast challenges ahead. The goal of the Summit is tocreate a proactive partnership of the brightest minds in academia,government policy, industry, and the media that will construct aframework to define, measure, and ultimately craft solutions to thejobless future that increasingly threatens our global workforce.Thought leaders in academia, government policy, labor, journalismand industry are urged to participate in this seminal event. Ourdistinguished roster thus far includes:

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Our social peace, education system, industrial forecasting, social welfare system, tax policy, geopolitical alignments, and so much more are all at play. Please join us.









General and VIP tickets are available at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-summit-on-technological-unemployment-tickets-16625686877.









A limited number of scholarships are available.









Contact Bruce Berkman for info: bberkman@wtn.net