On stages worldwide
From the TED mainstage to COP28, from Les Utopiales to the Paris Peace Forum — selected international talks, festivals, residencies and conversations since 2021.
Harvard CES / EdUHK 2nd Symposium
Invited speaker, listed with Hong Kong Metropolitan University.
AI Journey International Conference
Spoke as President of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association; AI 2041 cited in official records.
Singapore Writers Festival
Opening-weekend session on how imagination shapes possible futures.
Bangkok Climate Action Week
In Search of Hope-Full Futures — sharing climate imaginaries from the novel Ocean Break.
re:publica 25
Fireside chat: Is Reality Outpacing Fiction? — on sci-fi, AI and acceleration between China and Europe.
The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology
Antikythera × MIT Architecture × Berggruen Arts & Culture symposium and journal launch.
The Good Robot Podcast
On the feedback loop between tech innovation and science fiction.
Antikythera — Synthetic Intelligence Studio
Month-long research studio on Cognitive Infrastructures, a Berggruen Institute program on the philosophy of technology.
COP28
Spoke at the UN Climate Change Conference side programs on climate imagination.
Frankfurt Book Fair
Exploring Our Near Future and Shared Concerns, in dialogue with Xiang Biao; part of a European book tour.
Festival di Internazionale
Interviewed at the international journalism and ideas festival.
Triennale Milano — This Topic
The Future of AI — public dialogue with Massimo Chiriatti.
Friends of Europe — State of Europe
Contributed The Dao of Imagination to the festival of politics and ideas roundtable.
Infinite Loops Podcast
On AI 2041, science fiction, futurity and the social impact of technology.
Asia Society — AI and the Arts
Dramatic Changes and Impacts — panel with Lisa SoYoung Park, Johnny Poon and others.
Stanford University — Center for East Asian Studies
From Waste Tide to AI 2041: A Journey into Hidden Realities and Beyond.
Les Utopiales
Invited guest at Europe's largest SF festival, presenting L'île de Silicium and AI 2041.
7th EU-China International Literary Festival
Visions for Our Future — dialogue with German author Frank Schätzing.
Pro Helvetia — Writer in Residence
Literary residency with the Swiss Arts Council.
Cornell University — East Asia Program
2041: How Chinese Sci-Fi Imagines Our Future, with Andrea Bachner and Anindita Banerjee.
SCI-Arc — Futurist-in-Residence
2022 Futurist-in-Residence at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, within Views of Planet City.
Hong Kong International Literary Festival
Featured author and speaker at HKILF 2021.
SOSV Climate Tech Summit
On climate fiction and how to avoid dystopian futures.
University of Helsinki / TaRC
Waste Tide and Beyond — literary event with English Q&A.
TED Membership Event
Visions for the Future — in conversation with Kai-Fu Lee on AI 2041.
TED — A Sci-Fi Vision of Life in 2041
Mainstage TED talk on how speculative storytelling can steer our AI future.
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