Elevating Consciousness at San Francisco’s Human+Tech • We Weblog The World

I used to be thrilled to be ready to attend this 12 months’s Human+Tech Summit, which was held from June 16-19, 2025 in San Francisco. The riveting occasion that introduced collectively a number of the most fascinating 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 expertise occasions will hook up with its on-stage fireplace chats and panels in addition to the one individual shows about their newest and biggest improvements. These of you who resonate extra with the deal with 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 number 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 Categorical and Affiliate Founder of Singularity College which I used to be concerned with many years in the past. He has pushed innovation in virtually each facet of AI—from foundational science to utilized enterprise programs—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 Massive 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 palms it off to an AI agent first earlier than ultimately handing it off to a human. Says Barney, “AI will help groups meditate and facilitate issues however it may well additionally enhance resolution 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 means over the course of the week. “One of many challenges,”” he provides, “is that AI brokers work greatest 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 can we combine human values? How can 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?”

Others spoke of constructing AI options that mix expert human abilities and abilities with superior instruments so we have now a extra complete expertise as nicely. The important thing shifting 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.

Paradoxically, fairly than accessing knowledge from different sources, together with straightforward ones like Wikipedia which regularly comes up first for folks in search outcomes, individuals are turning to AI for stats, together with this one which I discovered on the projected market measurement. Based on AI Overview, progress stats vary from $390 billion to $757 billion this 12 months alone. Speak about exponential progress. The worldwide AI market is projected to succeed in $1.81 trillion by 2030 and but different sources predict it is going to 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 mentioned, it’s already being used for issues like safety, fraud detection and massive scale transactions. “Pace and quantity of processing is what AI does very well,” provides Paula. The mixture of course permits companies to scale 10 instances 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 Charge, 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 mounted but it surely’s rendered.” Put one other means, “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 goal, affect and legacy? Legacy in actuality, Gordy says, is the lasting affect you might have on the world that lives past you. He refers to affect 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 means of consciousness, goal and love. The woke up soul turns into the brand new API. Hear hear.

Dr. Daniel Kraft gave a discuss the way forward for well being and drugs and the way AI will likely 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, but it surely’s not about one expertise however how they arrive collectively, together with AI. There’s an excellent convergence, together with gene remedy, robotic surgical procedure, CRISP, digital actuality, and extra, all of that are the lens through which we will convey 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 individuals are apprehensive about AI changing 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 mentioned, “It’s not about expertise changing human care however collaboration.” Honestly, the long run is already right here as we’ve seen from what’s rising at at numerous innovation labs all over the world and large knowledge will likely be a part of it.

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 data utilizing AI avatars will likely be key – we will’t do the identical measurement matches all technique. We have to transfer from massive knowledge to information after which into utility so it’s helpful.”

He additionally spoke in regards to the significance of crowdsourcing and the way healthcare has change into extra about self-care. In different phrases, individuals are extra empowered to handle their well being proactively at present.

Raiya Form 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 in regards to the universe.”

She introduced three situations 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 might  be the instrument to be the reflection again to our personal selves, to the connection we have already got however have forgotten?” Like others have prompt, AI could possibly be the important thing to bridge the communication and it may well 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 will help us acknowledge species which can be clever, appearing as a human to animal translator, begging the query: What if AI could possibly 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 be capable 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 elemental 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. May we beginning a world that has altruism working hand in hand?

One in every of my favourite audio system Dr. Shamini Jain then joined us to speak in regards to the biofield. After getting the viewers related by means of respiratory and singing, she went into the info. She asserts that our present fashions of drugs fall in need of understanding the depths of our human therapeutic potential. She says, “We’re on the cusp of lastly changing 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 historic ideas of spirituality.”

She has achieved extension analysis in Biofield science and cites peer-reviewed analysis on the inseparable relationship between consciousness and therapeutic in her newest guide Therapeutic Ourselves. In her work, she talks about what placebo analysis can inform us in regards to the energy of consciousness to heal ourselves, whether or not we select medication, surgical procedure, or holistic drugs. Though some nonetheless see it as pseudo science, she suggests in any other case. There’s precise proof from printed peer reviewed analysis that factors to the therapeutic energy of holistic practices resembling yoga, tai chi, meditation, and power therapeutic.

Like Kraft raised, we’re shifting to a self-care mannequin of healthcare. She means that we should overhaul the way in which we take into consideration drugs and our innate potential 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 research 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 enable ourselves to come back into vacancy so every part can join. She ends with saying, “The promise of the biofield is non secular coherence.”

Kelly Noonan Gores joined us on the primary 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 non secular 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 various therapies for the many individuals affected by a wide range of power diseases. It means that by figuring out the emotional roots of sickness, we will faucet into the physique’s revitalizing powers.

She spoke about our journey since Heal got here out which btw, was adopted by a guide with the identical title. Kelly says that we have now the intelligence inside us to heal us and others after which introduced us by means of the previous couple of yeas of her life. In an on-stage share, she says that she’s been by means of probably the most emotionally intense interval in her life, studying how you can reparent, regulate her little one’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 individuals are dropping into their our bodies . . . into their hearts. We’re beginning to see examples of how you can convey the thoughts and coronary heart into coherence but additionally the most effective a part of expertise into coherence as nicely. Regardless of it seeming as if we’re shifting backwards at instances, humanity’s ranges of consciousness have developed. “All therapeutic is non secular therapeutic and it’s a remembering that we’re innately complete beings,” provides Kelly. “We’re fractal factors of consciousness right here to have the entire spectrum of semantic experiences. We’d like that consciousness of how you can reconnect ourselves. Your life is your story. All of us have distinctive items but when we’re in survival mode we will’t categorical these items. Study from the masters however notice that you’ve your individual 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, anyplace develop a life full of extra goal and connection that aligns with their very own core pursuits and values. On stage at Human+Tech, he says, “Distraction is the other of goal; the result’s that we face a psychological, emotional and non secular disaster.” He goes on to say that within the quick time period, AI will likely be dangerous information. “On this distraction economic 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 goal. The quick time period disaster, he asserts, is that this perception system has managed us for eons. SOL makes use of AI that will help you construct a personalised, purposeful life.

Later in a presentation Neurotech’s Devon White mentioned, “Whenever you begin to see everybody as power harmonics you begin to see human beings in another way.” I couldn’t agree extra. And this results in extra purposeful dwelling for everybody.

Mikey Sigel spoke in regards to 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 can we reconnect humanity to this sense of affection? He means that we’d like expertise to help us because it is among the most common constructs on the planet. It cuts by means of geography, language, faith and tradition.

His notion is that expertise is changing into so ubiquitous that it’s mediating so many issues in our lives. We have to design it to herald goal and love, begging the query: How can we construct the science of human connection? Fortunately, the science is exhibiting increasingly that connection is measurable. The extra that individuals’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 respiratory 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 possibility to expertise on the Summit. He explains it like this: “Just like the science of human connection, we will measure what’s taking place 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 taking place in our physique, resembling coronary heart charge, starvation, ache and emotional states. It’s the basis of empathy and human connection. Via 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, mild and music to convey the group into concord.”

The place is that this expertise going and their massive imaginative and prescient? It begins with 24 folks which can then broaden to 200 and have a look at totally different actual life examples resembling bringing Palestinian and Israelis collectively to convey them into concord and heal particular person and collective wounds. Under is a shot I took throughout my GROUP FLOW expertise.

Enterprise capitalists and expertise entrepreneurs additionally spoke in regards to the alternatives and issues to think about as these new instruments roll out. One referenced a 3D strategy the place you launch your individual impactful fund. The outdated strategy was to execute on that imaginative and prescient over a decade. Utilizing AI, will probably be a lot quicker. In different phrases, you may create your individual pool of capital with others which can be aligned to your souls mission. An affect fund is one that you just create along with your group.

Shinzen Younger, who’s an American mindfulness trainer and neuroscience analysis marketing consultant, talked to us about unified subject idea beginning with the age ole struggle 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 determine a option to transfer past our restricted human notion.” He thinks that AI might 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 means of authentically expertise and arithmetic, aligning humanity’s two golden guidelines–one in all 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’d like subsequent degree arithmetic to help us and automatic reasoning utilizing AI so we as leaders can determine how you can outsource and useful resource community degree issues round data in our world.

Different technologists targeted 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 mentioned, “In the event you consider that AI is coming to regulate me, you then’ve fallen for a sufferer mindset.” He reminds us that you just can’t 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 functions and AI integration appear like? Among the issues that the group raised included the notion that AI might reinforce habits which can be self-fulfilling, resulting in non secular bypassing. The upside is that you should use AI to immediate you while you’re dealing with triggers, appearing as a mirror reflection to remind you to come back again to your innate understanding. AI might additionally conceivably present some helpful tricks to keep on target.

Fears that had been raised by a number of included the concept that AI might change into a crutch for some, one other faith or church. “We should keep company and never lose our human connection,” mentioned a Silicon Valley-based feminine entrepreneur. One other means that we might use AI to problem a few of our present beliefs and determine our blind spots. In different phrases, non secular masters and lecturers might be actually good at declaring our ego obstacles. Maybe AI might help with that? We should all do not forget that deep non secular work is a journey, not a vacation spot.

The break-out workshops mentioned above had been totally on a distinct ground than the primary 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 mild expertise with Neuromatrix, which I did (see my video on it). Transcranial photobiomodulation has been proven to enhance blood circulate, lower irritation, enhance temper,  improve useful signaling in neurons, help mind restoration and enhance cognitive perform. 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 obtainable in addition to a possibility to meditate underneath the Stargate, which they describe as an interdimensional doorway, In different phrases, it’s a sacred geometric construction that emits a strong, high-vibrational power subject 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, Internet 2.0 and TED days and make new ones. What I cherished most was the range of those who Nichol introduced collectively, from neuroscience, physics, biology and analysis to AI, IoT, enterprise options, drugs and past. Under are some informal pictures taken all through the course of the week.

Under, the Music Wall.

Laura Inserra gave us an unimaginable 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 colleges, and cutting-edge expertise.

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 means of sound, feelings, and consciousness.“ I completely cherished her power.

The Human+Tech group on stage on the finish of the final day. It’s a wrap.

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 non secular well being. Individuals are clamoring to connect with their souls and we will see it taking place throughout us.

Under is a shot taken on the closing networking celebration on the final evening.

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 a lot 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 be sure you let you realize the dates and what to anticipate. This 12 months’s occasion will get a serious two thumbs up from me!

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