I used to be thrilled to be in a position to attend this yr’s Human+Tech Summit, which was held from June 16-19, 2025 in San Francisco. The riveting occasion that introduced collectively a few of the most attention-grabbing folks making a dent in consciousness was hosted and produced by Nichol Bradford and Steven Echtman.
How do I correctly seize the week? These of you who’re accustomed to conventional know-how occasions will hook up with its on-stage fireplace chats and panels in addition to the one individual displays about their newest and biggest improvements. These of you who resonate extra with the concentrate on consciousness and spirituality will resonate extra with the break-out workshops, embodied experiences and the closing efficiency by Laura Insarra, whose work as a sound alchemist and technician of the sacred is kind of profound. Earlier than we dive into my direct sensual experiences with distributors and people who led them, let’s begin with a few of the on-stage talks.
I used to be thrilled to see Barney Pell on the agenda, who I’ve recognized for years from the extra conventional start-up scene in Silicon Valley. Many could bear in mind him for his work as CEO of PowerSet however he’s additionally been the Chief Technique Officer of Moon Specific and Affiliate Founder of Singularity College which I used to be concerned with many years in the past. He has pushed innovation in nearly each facet of AI—from foundational science to utilized enterprise methods—for greater than 30 years. Barney was on stage speaking about Magic, which is utilizing AI to assist transcribe calls, for analysis and collaboration. Bringing collectively Giant Language Fashions (LLM), AI Brokers and People, Magic acts as that facilitator between AI brokers and people.
In different phrases, you submit a requests, a LLM solutions after which fingers it off to an AI agent first earlier than ultimately handing it off to a human. Says Barney, “AI can assist groups meditate and facilitate issues however it will possibly additionally enhance choice making vis a vis our core values as human beings.” This finally turns into a helpful gateway to teaching, remedy and even private growth. Others talked about this in a deeper method over the course of the week. “One of many challenges,”” he provides, “is that AI brokers work finest in context, so if its not there, it doesn’t work very nicely.”
Later in a panel that Pell moderated with Salesforce’s Paula Goldman and Magic’s CEO Aaron Kemmer, they mentioned solutions to folks’s most urgent questions on AI, together with “How will we combine human values? How will we create technical controls to guard our private knowledge? How do create coaching applications that teaches AI human values and redirects us as soon as it goes off-track?”
From left to proper: Barney Pell, Paula Goldman and Aaron Kemmer
Others spoke of constructing AI options that mix expert human expertise and abilities with superior instruments so we have now a extra complete expertise as nicely. The important thing transferring ahead for a lot of at this occasion, was ensuring ethics and our core values are baked into the rising variety of AI instruments the world has already began to implement. And, it’s solely going to develop.
Satirically, fairly than accessing knowledge from different sources, together with simple ones like Wikipedia which regularly comes up first for folks in search outcomes, persons are turning to AI for stats, together with this one which I discovered on the projected market dimension. In line with AI Overview, progress stats vary from $390 billion to $757 billion this yr alone. Discuss exponential progress. The worldwide AI market is projected to succeed in $1.81 trillion by 2030 and but different sources predict it can attain $1.81 trillion by 2030 or $1.01 trillion by 2031. Staggering proper?
Aaron Zemmer asks, “How a lot can we actually automate? We are going to want people to test accuracy and workflow.” That stated, it’s already being used for issues like safety, fraud detection and giant scale transactions. “Pace and quantity of processing is what AI does very well,” provides Paula. The mixture of course permits companies to scale 10 occasions quicker, which definitely helps with ROI amongst different issues.
However what does it do to worker morale when many jobs will change into out of date as AI will get smarter and extra environment friendly? That is one of many million greenback questions urgent on folks‘s minds. A panel on the Way forward for Work addressed a few of these points, together with the prediction that we’ll see an explosion of entrepreneurs because of AI.
Former marketer Gordy Bal bought the area CTR.com which stands for Clickthrough Fee, used to gauge how nicely your key phrases and adverts, and free listings, are performing. After an epiphany, he realized the world doesn’t want more clickthrough charges, it wants extra consciousness, so now it refers to Acutely aware Thought Revolution. Cool pivot Gordy. He suggests, “Actuality isn’t fastened however it’s rendered.” Put one other method, “Our ideas are like lego blocks that create each second of our existence.”
He reminds the viewers that 95% of our ideas are fearful and disempowering, however what if we turned extra to function, influence and legacy? Legacy in actuality, Gordy says, is the lasting influence you’ve gotten on the world that lives past you. He refers to influence equating to: instinct, mission, presence, awakening, coherence and transmission. We chat about how we’re present process the biggest wealth switch in historical past and the old guard is dying whereas a brand new one is rising. He asserts that the wealth tsunami wants a new consciousness so we will transfer by consciousness, function and love. The woke up soul turns into the brand new API. Hear hear.
Dr. Daniel Kraft gave a speak about the way forward for well being and medication and the way AI shall be built-in in highly effective methods to speed up well-being. He notes that they’re already plugging Chat GBT into the workflow of hospitals and to offer suggestions. Reminding us that Well being is Wealth, he says, “We’re constructing the acceleration of well being, however it’s not about one know-how however how they arrive collectively, together with AI. There’s a brilliant convergence, together with gene remedy, robotic surgical procedure, CRISP, digital actuality, and extra, all of that are the lens wherein we will deliver the way forward for well being and biomedicine collectively.”
He additionally spoke of Precision Wellness, which isn’t nearly including years, however high quality of life years, which echos Dr. Dean Ornish’s sentiment within the Blue Soul CHATS interview I did with him. He too expressed that he’s extra within the high quality of our lives, not simply extending longevity.
However as persons are apprehensive about AI turning into too prolific, we have to faucet into these highly effective messages from people who find themselves constructing AI options and integrating them in every of their respective fields. Echoing what many different visionaries shared, he stated, “It’s not about know-how changing human care however collaboration.” Honestly, the longer term is already right here as we’ve seen from what’s rising at at varied innovation labs all over the world and massive knowledge shall be a part of it.
Credit score: Daniel Kraft
Daniel provides, “We’re beginning to join the dots between the info so we will measure and optimize to assist us diagnose ailments early. How we talk this info utilizing AI avatars shall be key – we will’t do the identical dimension suits all methodology. We have to transfer from large knowledge to data after which into utility so it’s helpful.”
He additionally spoke concerning the significance of crowdsourcing and the way healthcare has change into extra about self-care. In different phrases, persons are extra empowered to maintain their well being proactively at this time.
Raiya Sort took the stage and addressed AI as humanity’s foray into creating consciousness. She says, “We do not know how a lot we don’t but know concerning the universe.”
She introduced three eventualities that describes present human sentiment: AI because the destroyer of humanity, AI as savior of humanity or AI as co creator with humanity. She reminds us that now we generally is a participant in our future and we have now company. In different phrases, we shouldn’t see AI as above or under us, however as a co-creator. Raiya asks, “What if AI may be the software to be the reflection again to our personal selves, to the connection we have already got however have forgotten?” Like others have recommended, AI might be the important thing to bridge the communication and it will possibly assist us discover one another on a map utilizing Boarding.ai as one instance. In different phrases, see AI as a connective tissue.
She additionally used the instance of how AI can assist us acknowledge species which can be clever, performing as a human to animal translator, begging the query: What if AI might be the translator for Mom Earth? How would we behave if we knew that the selections we’re making are negatively impacting the planet?
“We’re one interconnected system,” she says. “We will’t exist with out the air we breathe or the solar that shines. What helps the earth is what helps ourselves.” This additionally raises the concept that we would have the ability to use AI to broaden our sense of self, the place selfishness and selflessness can change into the identical factor.
On everybody’s thoughts is the basic query of what occurs when AI wakes up and turns into consciousness? Raiya means that maybe it may be a mirror to our personal awakening, to maybe meet us and elevate us a half a step. Might we beginning a world that has altruism working hand in hand?
Certainly one of my favourite audio system Dr. Shamini Jain then joined us to speak concerning the biofield. After getting the viewers linked by respiration and singing, she went into the info. She asserts that our present fashions of medication fall in need of understanding the depths of our human therapeutic potential. She says, “We’re on the cusp of lastly turning into awake to our human therapeutic potential. A rising variety of scientists are exploring a brand new path―a real growth of science joined with understandings from historical ideas of spirituality.”
She has carried out extension analysis in Biofield science and cites peer-reviewed analysis on the inseparable relationship between consciousness and therapeutic in her newest ebook Therapeutic Ourselves. In her work, she talks about what placebo analysis can inform us concerning the energy of consciousness to heal ourselves, whether or not we select medication, surgical procedure, or holistic medication. Though some nonetheless see it as pseudo science, she suggests in any other case. There’s precise proof from revealed peer reviewed analysis that factors to the therapeutic energy of holistic practices akin to yoga, tai chi, meditation, and power therapeutic.
Like Kraft raised, we’re transferring to a self-care mannequin of healthcare. She means that we should overhaul the best way we take into consideration medication and our innate capacity to heal ourselves. “The flame that lights the trail burns brighter than the darkness of ignorance and struggling we have now discovered ourselves in,” she provides. Bravo! I couldn’t agree extra.
She referenced a examine that took a scientific have a look at how therapeutic contact impacts cells, that confirmed most cancers unfold decreased with therapeutic contact. Shamini means that we permit ourselves to come back into vacancy so every part can join. She ends with saying, “The promise of the biofield is religious coherence.”
Kelly Noonan Gores joined us on the principle stage as nicely. Most know her for Heal which got here out roughly eight years in the past now. Heal is her documentary movie that takes us on a scientific and religious journey the place we uncover that by altering one’s perceptions, the human physique can heal itself from any illness.
The movie follows two folks on their therapeutic journeys, whereas combining science-backed analysis and real-world testimonials from specialists like Marianne Williamson, Bruce Lipton, Deepak Chopra, Bernie Siegel, Anita Moorjani, Kelly Brogan, and lots of others, to supply hope and different therapies for the many individuals affected by a wide range of persistent diseases. It means that by figuring out the emotional roots of sickness, we will faucet into the physique’s revitalizing powers.
Left: Kelly Noonan Gores
She spoke about our journey since Heal got here out which btw, was adopted by a ebook with the identical title. Kelly says that we have now the intelligence inside us to heal us and others after which introduced us by the previous few yeas of her life. In an on-stage share, she says that she’s been by essentially the most emotionally intense interval in her life, studying how one can reparent, regulate her youngster’s system and to carry a container of security. Throughout that course of, she contemplated, “What was I being requested to really feel?” She misplaced her concepts of what do I even really feel? She realized that society has disconnected us from our innately in contact physique, a divine instrument of intelligence. In different phrases, society had disconnected us from ourselves.
At the moment, increasingly persons are dropping into their our bodies . . . into their hearts. We’re beginning to see examples of how one can deliver the thoughts and coronary heart into coherence but additionally the perfect a part of know-how into coherence as nicely. Regardless of it seeming as if we’re transferring backwards at occasions, humanity’s ranges of consciousness have developed. “All therapeutic is religious therapeutic and it’s a remembering that we’re innately entire beings,” provides Kelly. “We’re fractal factors of consciousness right here to have the entire spectrum of semantic experiences. We want that consciousness of how one can reconnect ourselves. Your life is your story. All of us have distinctive items but when we’re in survival mode we will’t specific these items. Study from the masters however understand that you’ve got your personal mastery inside.” That is astonishingly just like the teachings we give in our membership calls each month.
Founding father of the SOL app Nazar Yasin spoke to us about their imaginative and prescient. He says that it was created to assist anybody, wherever develop a life stuffed with extra function and connection that aligns with their very own core pursuits and values. On stage at Human+Tech, he says, “Distraction is the alternative of function; the result’s that we face a psychological, emotional and religious disaster.” He goes on to say that within the quick time period, AI shall be dangerous information. “On this distraction financial system, we’re going to be confronted with much more distractions and instruments.” He reminds us that what we do shouldn’t be who we’re, however 70% consider that their job is their very own sense of function. The quick time period disaster, he asserts, is that this perception system has managed us for eons. SOL makes use of AI that can assist you construct a customized, purposeful life.
Later in a presentation Neurotech’s Devon White stated, “If you begin to see everybody as power harmonics you begin to see human beings in a different way.” I couldn’t agree extra. And this results in extra purposeful dwelling for everybody.
Mikey Sigel spoke concerning the high quality of our connections and that there’s a direct correlation between these connections and happiness in our life. “Love is happiness. Full cease,” he says. So, how will we reconnect humanity to this sense of affection? He means that we want know-how to help us because it is among the most common constructs on the planet. It cuts by geography, language, faith and tradition.
His notion is that know-how is turning into so ubiquitous that it’s mediating so many issues in our lives. We have to design it to usher in function and love, begging the query: How will we construct the science of human connection? Fortunately, the science is exhibiting increasingly that connection is measurable. The extra that folks’s mind waves are in sync collectively, the extra they’ll succeed. He even factors to romantic {couples} who breathe collectively have higher relationships. In different phrases, when our respiration and coronary heart is in sync, it’s the symphony that underlies every part in our world!
Mikey is at the moment providing one thing known as GROUP FLOW which I had a chance to expertise on the Summit. He explains it like this: “Just like the science of human connection, we will measure what’s occurring with the breath and coronary heart as much as 24 folks at a time.” It doesn’t cease there nevertheless. After synching the breath and coronary heart, they flip it into music and sound after which share that sound and music with others!
He additionally spoke of intraception, which is the power to know what’s occurring in our physique, akin to coronary heart fee, starvation, ache and emotional states. It’s the foundation of empathy and human connection. By way of GROUP FLOW, they’ve been capable of present actual time suggestions for everybody within the room. Mikey says, “The human beings within the room change into a part of a rhythmic course of utilizing sound, gentle and music to deliver the group into concord.”
The place is that this know-how going and their large imaginative and prescient? It begins with 24 folks which can then broaden to 200 and have a look at totally different actual life examples akin to bringing Palestinian and Israelis collectively to deliver them into concord and heal particular person and collective wounds. Under is a shot I took throughout my GROUP FLOW expertise.
Enterprise capitalists and know-how entrepreneurs additionally spoke concerning the alternatives and issues to think about as these new instruments roll out. One referenced a 3D strategy the place you launch your personal impactful fund. The outdated strategy was to execute on that imaginative and prescient over a decade. Utilizing AI, it is going to be a lot quicker. In different phrases, you possibly can create your personal pool of capital with others which can be aligned to your souls mission. An influence fund is one that you simply create together with your group.
Shinzen Younger, who’s an American mindfulness trainer and neuroscience analysis guide, talked to us about unified discipline principle beginning with the age ole battle between faith and science. He asks, “Maybe we will use AI to assist automate the confusion humanity has between the 2?” including, “We have to work out a method to transfer past our restricted human notion.” He thinks that AI may assist us to cease wars and to evaluate spirituality and science over time utilizing widespread sense in human historical past, asserting that the science and customary sense alignment is vital.
He additionally means that there’s a method of authentically taking a look at know-how and arithmetic, aligning humanity’s two golden guidelines–certainly one of which is, “What does your life imply? That golden rule correlates to how did we deal with others? If I’m just for myself, who am I?” Including that we want subsequent stage arithmetic to help us and automatic reasoning utilizing AI so we as leaders can work out how one can outsource and useful resource community stage issues round info in our world.
Different technologists centered on shortage versus abundance. Much like what Raiya suggests, if we fixate on AI coming to destroy us, then we’re left with destruction or at a minimal, no optimism or hope for what’s coming. In a riveting roundtable dialogue, one entrepreneur stated, “In case you consider that AI is coming to manage me, you then’ve fallen for a sufferer mindset.” He reminds us that you simply can not attain FLOW from a sufferer mindset since from that place, you’ve given up company.
I additionally participated in a workshop dialogue on SpiritTech — what do future purposes and AI integration appear to be? A few of the issues that the group raised included the notion that AI may reinforce habits which can be self-fulfilling, resulting in religious bypassing. The upside is that you should utilize AI to immediate you while you’re dealing with triggers, performing as a mirror reflection to remind you to come back again to your innate understanding. AI may additionally conceivably present some helpful tricks to keep on target.
Fears that had been raised by a number of included the concept that AI may change into a crutch for some, one other faith or church. “We should keep company and never lose our human connection,” stated a Silicon Valley-based feminine entrepreneur. One other means that we may use AI to problem a few of our current beliefs and determine our blind spots. In different phrases, religious masters and academics might be actually good at mentioning our ego obstacles. Maybe AI may help with that? We should all keep in mind that deep religious work is a journey, not a vacation spot.
The break-out workshops mentioned above had been totally on a special flooring than the principle talks however there have been additionally experiences all through the week, together with a tea ceremony on the roof deck (under).
Different experiences included the meditation with gentle expertise with Neuromatrix, which I did (see my video on it). Transcranial photobiomodulation has been proven to enhance blood stream, lower irritation, enhance temper, enhance useful signaling in neurons, help mind restoration and enhance cognitive operate. For me, I simply felt deeply relaxed as I jokingly say within the video, “mini stoned.” I additionally took a have a look at Sensoria, which goals to scale neurophenomenology knowledge assortment through licensed psychonauts and immersive occasions to map consciousness to serve psychological well being, social cohesion and assist folks flourish.
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There have been many extra merchandise, apps and options in addition to books by authors accessible in addition to a chance to meditate underneath the Stargate, which they describe as an interdimensional doorway, In different phrases, it’s a sacred geometric construction that emits a robust, high-vibrational power discipline that many individuals can really feel.
There was loads of social time as nicely to fulfill and greet different like-minded people who find themselves within the convergence of those disciplines. It was nice to see outdated associates from my social media, SXSW, D, CES, Net 2.0 and TED days and make new ones. What I beloved most was the variety of those that Nichol introduced collectively, from neuroscience, physics, biology and analysis to AI, IoT, enterprise options, medication and past. Under are some informal pictures taken all through the course of the week.
On the left, the producer of the Summit, Nichol Bradford
Tim Chang of the Mayfield Fund speaks on a panel on the principle stage.
Chris Heuer, Dr. Ron Chiarello, Renee Blodgett
Renee Blodgett with HeartMath’s Dr. Rolin McCraty and Nachum Plonkia
Under, the Tune Wall.
Upstairs on the roof throughout a networking break
Jennifer Hill, Dr. Shamini Jain, Renee Blodgett
Laura Inserra gave us an unbelievable sound therapeutic expertise on the finish of the final day. A world famend sound alchemist and technician of the sacred, she lives and creates on the confluence of music, knowledge faculties, and cutting-edge know-how.
Says Laura, “The essence of the Universe is vibration, quenchless power in movement, e-motion. My work is about experiencing the ‘supply’ and its manifestation by sound, feelings, and consciousness.“ I completely beloved her power.
Kumaar Bagrodia speaks on Dharma, Karma and Psychological Well being amongst expanded subjects
Dr. Beverly Rubik, Amy Li, Renee Blodgett
Discussing physics and synchronicity with Sky Nelson-Isaacs
The Human+Tech group on stage on the finish of the final day. It’s a wrap.
Nichol Bradford thanking her group
As Gordy identified and others echoed: If the 2000’s had been about our bodily well being, the 2010’s about our psychological well being, the 2020’s about our emotional wealth, then maybe 2030 would be the begin of a decade about our religious well being. Individuals are clamoring to connect with their souls and we will see it occurring throughout us.
Under is a shot taken on the remaining networking occasion on the final night time.
Right here’s a quick video abstract of my expertise at Human+Tech. Though I didn’t make it to each speak or session, I managed to get to lots of them and extra importantly, join and have in-depth and significant conversations with individuals who bringing these worlds collectively. We hope they do that once more in 2026 and if that’s the case, we’ll make sure you let the dates and what to anticipate. This yr’s occasion will get a serious two thumbs up from me!
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Renee Blodgett is the founding father of We Weblog the World. The location combines the magic of an internet tradition and journey journal with a worldwide weblog community and has contributors from each continent on this planet. Having lived in 10 international locations and explored almost 80, she is an avid traveler, and a lover, observer and participant in cultural range.
She can also be the CEO and founding father of Magic Sauce Media, a brand new media companies consultancy centered on viral advertising, social media, branding, occasions and PR. For over 20 years, she has helped corporations from 12 international locations get traction out there. Recognized for her international and natural strategy to product and company launches, Renee practices what she pitches and as an energetic person of social media, she helps shoppers navigate digital waters from all over the world. Renee has been running a blog for over 16 years and often writes on her private weblog Down the Avenue, Huffington Submit, BlogHer, We Weblog the World and different websites. She was ranked #12 Social Media Influencer by Forbes Journal and is listed as a brand new media influencer and recreation changer on varied websites and books on the brand new media revolution. In 2013, she was listed because the sixth most influential lady in social media by Forbes Journal on a High 20 Record.
Her ardour for artwork, storytelling and pictures led to the launch of Magic Sauce Images, which is a visible extension of her writing, the results of which has led to producing six picture books: Galapagos Islands, London, South Africa, Rome, Urbanization and Ecuador.
Renee can also be the co-founder of Touring Geeks, an initiative that brings entrepreneurs, thought leaders, bloggers, creators, curators and influencers to different international locations to share and be taught from friends, governments, firms, and most of the people to be able to educate, share, consider, and promote modern applied sciences.
