Reason Events

Reason Goes Hollywood

November 14-15, 2008
Hollywood, California

Please join us for Reason Goes Hollywood, a two-day conference that will be held November 14-15, 2008 at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.  The conference will examine how Hollywood and the media address issues of individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law. We’ll also mark the 40th anniversary of Reason magazine with a gala dinner on the evening of Friday, November 14.

Reason's events feature celebrities, academics, and speakers from a variety of backgrounds. Past conferences have included Drew Carey; Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park, Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller; Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon Smith; Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News, and MTV’s Kurt Loder.

Registration for Reason Goes Hollywood will begin in summer 2008, and the event is open to all.  Sponsorship opportunities are available. If you would like to receive an email when more information about Reason Goes Hollywood is available, please email mtoledo@reason.org.

Convergence 08

November 15-16, 2008
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA

Reason Foundation is pleased to be a cooperating organization for Convergence 08, a special weekend event organized by the Foresight Nanotech Institute and Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence focusing on powerful long-term technologies, especially those in the NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) set of converging advances. The meeting will be held at the Computer History Museum at Mountain View in Silicon Valley.

As the leading nanotech and AI public interest groups, Foresight Nanotech Institute (www.foresight.org) and SIAI (www.singinst.org) attract thought leaders to their conferences, The event will explore what's coming in technology and brainstorm on how to respond in our personal and professional lives. Speakers/participants from previous meetings include: Stewart Brand, Sergey Brin, John Doerr, Eric Drexler, Esther Dyson, Doug Engelbart, Douglas Hofstadter, Bill Joy, Steve Jurvetson, Ray Kurzweil, Peter Norvig, Tim O'Reilly, Paul Saffo, Eric Schmidt, and Stephen Wolfram.

More information on Convergence 08 is available at www.foresight.org and www.singinst.org.

Reason Weekend 2009

April 16 – 19, 2009
Orlando, Florida

Reason Weekend 2009 will be held at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel in Orlando, Florida.  Reason Weekend is an annual event open to members of Reason Foundation’s Torchbearer Society.