GEEK PICNIC in Moscow

GEEK PICNIC in Moscow
The timing of the festival:
11-12 - August 2018
The venue of the festival:
Moscow, Kolomenskoye
A visa is required:
for citizens of Russia is required

At the festival, the main issue will be the New Evolution of Man. Through the prism of the topics discussed will be disclosed to rapid technological (and even sensitive) human development, the future is the development of forms, and the place of man in it is. And whether a person place in the future at all?.. All of this is Human Evolution. All this Geek Picnic 2018.

The Advisory Council are recognized experts in their fields, luminaries of science, public life and progress. Key speakers of Geek Picnic in 2018, are the people for lectures which should come to the festival. From Russia or from abroad – they will be in Moscow and St Petersburg, and every visitor will be able to see, hear and feel their ideas.

The Main Stage

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Michael Shermer, James Barratt, and many others. Simple words about artificial intelligence, the mysteries of the brain and a lot of live music — the legendary Freestyler from Bomfunk MC's, sci-fi group, Kim and Buran, and indie-pop. Bonus show Overlocker from the team OCLab.ru

Lecture Human Evolution

The main theme of Geek Picnic 2018. Biological or digital immortality/ Where are we going? Alexander Panchin, Oksana Zinchenko, Alexander Smith and others talk about mutations, the digital generation gap, neuromarketing.

Lecture Hall Space

Anton Gromov on the future rocket — the SpaceX Falcon 9, Ilya Ovchinnikov on spacecraft, Anna Gryadunova about 3D bioprinting on the Ground and in space, and Cosmoball from the skeptics Society, Comviction and Komakino are in the area Space Geek Picnic. In conjunction with the Museum of Cosmonautics.

Lecture Sci Fi Universe

Open the curtain of science fiction together with science fiction. How to start writing fiction? Promising if book blogging? What will happen to the direction of Sci-fi? All the answers — on creative workshops, organized by publishing house EKSMO.

Perfomance Lab

Area art Geek Picnic in 2018 is a laboratory study of possible and impossible future that coexist with each other. Participants can expect 6 performance-laboratories and 5 works in the format of drifting performance.

Blockchain Picnic

The insight into the world of cryptoanalysis and ICO. The digital economy packaged in lectures, discussions and presentations. Interesting experience for dedicated and a great start for beginners.

The General partner of the track company Bitfury has prepared many interesting activities.

Honor Cup

11 and 12 August in Moscow will host the finals of the large-scale Hearthstone tournament — Honor Cup! The winner of the tournament will receive a fully paid trip to China and phone Honor 10 — the same phone will receive the second and third place. This same model will be the final!

Synthesarium

This year the festival Geek Picnic Synthesarium by MusicMag takes under his total control all that is connected with latest developments and trends in the field of generation of sound and its transformation into music.

Workshops and Edutainment

Interactive workshops for adults and children. The robot with their hands or nanotechnology ice — cream- from theory to implementation of crazy ideas. Simulator, school drones of the Moscow aviation Institute, the art of science from Rifma with challenging puzzles and games for all ages and a great area Science for Kids

Fan Zone

Fiction, comics, old school - everything that can relate to favorite fandom. Here how to find favorite characters and expect that they will find you first.

The details in the VC: https://vk.com/geekpicnic

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