Under the Forum for the Future, a series of lectures entitled "Understanding the Future" will be held once a month.
The topic of interest is the changes that science and technology will bring to mankind in the next 10-30 years, which will stimulate thinking about the future.
The topics cover physics, chemistry, mathematics, life sciences, healthcare, and technology, ranging from artificial intelligence and future computers to Star Trek, genetic recombination, and big data precision medicine.
Based on science popularization and oriented to the society, each lecture is in the scale of about 300 people. The Future Forum also organizes small and private "closed-door cultivation" seminars every quarter, mainly on the hottest, most cutting-edge technology, investment areas, targeted "cultivation" seminar topics.
To forward-looking, inspirational and discursive, including technology, business model and resource integration, etc., to carry out in-depth exploration of the topic, interactive exchanges, collision stimulation, through the depth of production, learning, research and capital docking exchanges, create industry standards, leading the industry's future development direction. The Future Forum will hold an annual meeting every year as a platform for sharing ideas and attracting cutting-edge scientists from all over the world.
With the 100th anniversary of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity in mind, Future Forum held the first annual conference "A New Century of Human Cognition" on January 17, 2016 in Beijing. The conference not only brought together Robin Li, Yang Yuanqing, Ding Jian, Shen Nanpeng, Xu Xiaoping, Zhang Lei and other leaders from the Internet and investment community*** to explore scientific and technological innovation; it also invited Nobel Prize-winning physicist Yang Zhenning, former dean of Peking University's School of Life Sciences Rao Yi, Tsinghua University's vice president and dean of the School of Life Sciences Shi Yigong, director of the Institute of Life Sciences in Beijing, Peter Worden, research director of NASA Ames Research Center, and Peter Worden, director of French research at the French Research Center in Beijing, to share their experiences in the field of human cognition. Peter Worden, Director of Research at NASA Ames Research Center, Cedric Villani, a French mathematician, and other top scientists from home and abroad shared their wisdom. In addition, the annual conference also attracted multinational companies concerned with the development of science and technology career such as Infiniti and KPMG*** to participate with the conference, as well as more than 1,000 people to attend the conference. On January 17, 2016, a private science award "Future Science Award" was formally established in Beijing, which is an unofficial, non-profit, private science award voluntarily funded by the founding members of the Forum for the Future, and directed to invite other individuals and institutions*** to participate in the funding.
Future Science Awards set up the Grand Prize for Life Science and the Grand Prize for Material Science, each with a prize of one million dollars, to be awarded to scientists of Chinese descent who have made significant contributions to mankind in these fields in the previous year with donated funds.