21 February 2026
Robots don’t need to be perfect to change us, they just need to be present. In this unscripted SYNAPSE session, Sophia and Desdemona spar live on stage – with sass, misfires, “robot ego,” and uncomfortable honesty – while roboticist Sylvia Stalker explains the real shift already underway: humans form emotional attachment not only to humanoid robots, but even to simple machines.
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Sangita Reddy are shaping healthcare for a billion-plus people. And redefining India’s role on the global stage.
VIDEO | ALL SPEAKERS21 February 2026
The global race to create a superintelligence is on. But do we even know what we are creating? Or raising? And is anyone – from Open AI’s Sam Altman to Grok’s Elon Musk – capable of stopping ?
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Yann LeCun is an “AI godfather”. Winner of the Turing Award, the Nobel of computer science.
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AI is now the doorway to the next everything: politics, economy, society, civilisation.
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There's a race for the minerals and materials that will power our green future. Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, and Arunabha Ghosh
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We all die. What if we didn’t have to? Longevity enterpreneur Avi Roy – Co-founder & CSO, Founders Health and Co-founder, London Longevity Club –
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Kishore Biyani, Founder & CEO, Future Group, talks consumer, product, psyche. Social media as the new marketplace. And his new venture to create the brands of tomorrow.
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Our brains are in danger. L’Oreal is using brain sensing to personalise perfumes. Ikea is using neuro tech to pick which customers deserve to buy their limited-edition rugs.
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Artistry vs. artificial intelligence: are we gaining a new tool or losing something that makes us human? 3 star filmmakers –
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