History of ICISTS Conferences
ICISTS 2019
ART OF SCIENCE : EXPRESSION
SUBTOPICS
The Canvas
The Palette
NOTABLE SPEAKERS
Jaejun Yu
Jaeweon Cho
Jung-Hyun Kim
Alvaro Cassinelli
Woonam Kim
Mimi Son & Elliot Woods
ICISTS 2018
PRESENCE OF THE WALl: cONSTRAINT OR CONTROL
Subtopics
Constraint: Spatial-Time Limit
Constraint: Urban problems
Control: Entertainment Content
Control: Business Intelligence
Notable Speakers
Des Freedman
Michael Ludden
Sven Kreiss
Wilneida Negron
ICISTS 2017
DRAW THE WEB: INTERACTIONS IN SOCIETY
Subtopics
Settlement: Reaching a Solid Stage
Movement: Changes through A.I.
Inequality: Where to Go on the Uneven Web
Notable Speakers
Scott Amyx
Jonathan D. Gosier
Nigel Parker
ICISTS 2016
Beyond the center
SUBTOPICS
Fintech: Unbunlding of Services
Healthcare: Creation of Needs
Global Treaty: Disparity of Technology
NOTABLE SPEAKERS
Dennis Hong
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA
Director of RoMeLa: Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory
Dor Konforty
Founder and CEO of Synereo
Founder and Chief Production Officer of Unicoin
Marzena J. Rostek
Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
ICISTS-KAIST 2015
shaping the future
SUBTOPICS
Robotics
Medicine
Science Communication
NOTABLE SPEAKERS
Alan Irwin
Professor of the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School
Member of Strategy Advisory Board for the Global Food Security
Peter J. Tonellato
Director of the Laboratory for Personalized Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Vitalik Buterin
Inventor of Ethereum and Founder of the Ethereum Project
Co-founder of the Bitcoin Magazine
Wendell Wallach
Lecturer at the Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Scholar at the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University
ICISTS-KAIST 2014
Does Science Lead Progress?
Subtopics
Privacy and Cyber Surveillance
Algorithm World
Sustainability and Environment
Privatization of Life
Commercialization of Science
The GMO Debate
Science for Equality
Our Images of Science
Notable Speakers
Langdon Winner
Thomas Phelan Endowed Chair of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephen Hilgartner
Chair of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University
Kee Chang Kim
Director of Open Net Korea
Nick Perkins
Director of SciDev.Net
ICISTS-KAIST 2013
The Perfect Alliance:
Coexistence for Human Society
Subtopics
New Values
Synergetic Resolution
Essential Communication
Notable Speakers
David Christian
President of the International Big History Association
Gretchen Kalonji
Assistant Director-General at UNESCO
Sheila Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School
Walter Bender
Former Executive Director of MIT Media Lab
ICISTS-KAIST 2012
Age of Integration:
Beyond the Borders of Knowledge
Subtopics
Science X Arts
Natural Science X Social Science
Science Technology X Human Society
Notable Speakers
Do Yeon Kim
Chairman of National Science & Technology Commission
Hee Sup Shin
Director-General at Center for Neural Science at Korea Institute of Science and Technology
So Young Roh
Director of Art Center Nabi
S. Shyam Sudar
Founding Director of the Media Effects Research Lab at Penn State University
ICISTS-KAIST 2011
Metamorphosis:
The Future of Human Society
in the Information Era
Subtopics
Digital Sensibility
Social Web Revolution
New Flow of Society led by Information Technology
Notable Speakers
Amber Case
Cyborg Anthropologist & UX Designer at Vertigo
Kil Nam Chon
Professor of Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University
Donald Norman
Former Vice-President of Apple
Don Marinelli
Executive Producer of Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University
ICISTS-KAIST 2010
Designing the Future
through Science and Technology
Workshops
Ubitopia
Sustainable Energy
Space Engineering
Notable Speakers
Jung Uck Seo
Former Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic of Korea
Jamie Brown
Head of Secretariat at UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Alliance
ICISTS-KAIST 2009
Powered by diversity, Harnessed by unity
Workshops
Climate Change
Human-Computer Interaction
Nano Clinic
Notable Speakers
Chan Mo Park
Chief Director of National Research Foundation of Korea
Ray Hammond
Futurist, Technology Analyst, Lecturer and Novelist
ICISTS-KAIST 2008
Powered by diversity, Harnessed by unity
Workshops
Human-Robot Symbiotic Society
Neo-Brain Science
Traffimatics
Notable Speakers
Myung Ja Kim
Former Minister of the Ministry of Environment of Republic of Korea
Jim Dator
Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies at University of Hawaii
ICISTS-KAIST 2007
Design for the Future:
Promising Fields of Science and Technology
Workshops
Media Revolution
Dreams of Life Extension
Utopia, Dreams Come True
Notable Speakers
Kun Mo Chung
President of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology
Zang Hee Cho
Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at Gachon University
Peter Rogers
Professor of Environmental Engineering and City Planning at Harvard University
ICISTS-KAIST 2006
The First Step to the Future Leader
Workshops
Culture Technology
Nano Technology
Future Automobile
Notable Speakers
Jae Woong Lee
Director of the Daum Communications
Don Marinelli
Executive Producer of Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University
Seung Taik Yang
Former Minister of Ministry of Information and Communication of Republic of Korea
ICISTS-KAIST 2005
Designs for the Future:
Promising Fields of Science & Technology
Workshops
Online Culture
Paradigm Shift in Biotechnology
The Next Generation Life Style
Notable Speakers
Seung Soo Han
56th General Assembly Chair of the United Nations
Jang Wook Lee
Director-General of the World Health Organization
Robert Laughlin
Nobel Laureate in Physics, Former President of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology