On May 17th you'll have "Permission To Explore" critical thinking, personalized coaching, decision making, algorithmic discovery, learning, creativity, wellness, crowdsourcing and scaling. Speakers, presentations, panels and prototypes will unpack the concepts, present recent research, and explore the future of augmenting personal intelligence – with applications to learning, business and entertainment.

Knowing how to learn quickly is a competitive advantage in the knowledge economy. The organizations that will prevail in the current transformation are those whose employees can learn fastest and make the best decisions. At all ages, learning readiness is influenced by technological familiarity and fluency. Our hope for solving the seemingly intractable global problems includes an optimistic outlook on the partnership between artificial intelligence and human intelligence – person by person.

Nobel Prize Laureate and Award winning educator, Carl Wieman, will discuss insights from his Activity Based Learning program.

The conference features additional Stanford Faculty, Roy Pea, Ashish Goel, Susan Athey, James Fishkin, Candace Thille, Maneesh Agrawala and Anthony Wagner. You'll also hear from leading executives at Konica Minolta, Cigna, Cisco, Fujitsu and Xerox.

A.I. Expert Neil Jacobstein and VR Expert Andrew Wasserman will speak on the importance of these technologies in this new frontier. Active Learning expert, Esther Wojcicki will also present along with Staff Attorney at Disability Rights Advocates, Haben Girma and Catalin Voss, the founder of Sension an expression recognition software used in education and for developing a Google Glass app to aid people with Autism.