What year did the annual conference started by, among others, the man who ranked No. 4 on the "Forbes" Midas List of 2014, first start?
Singularity Summit The Singularity Summit is the annual conference of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. It was started in 2006 at Stanford University by Ray Kurzweil, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Peter Thiel, and the subsequent summits in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 have been held in San Francisco, San Jose, New York City, San Francisco, and New York, respectively. Some speakers have included Sebastian Thrun, Rodney Brooks, Barney Pell, Marshall Brain, Justin Rattner, Peter Diamandis, Stephen Wolfram, Gregory Benford, Robin Hanson, Anders Sandberg, Juergen Schmidhuber, Aubrey de Grey, Max Tegmark, and Michael Shermer.
Eric Weisbard Eric Weisbard is an American music critic known for founding the Pop Conference, which is hosted annually by the Museum of Pop Culture (formerly known as the EMP Museum). He also organized the conference for many years. He is also an associate professor of American studies at the University of Alabama, the author of both a 33⅓ book entry about "Use Your Illusion" and the 2014 book "Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music", and a former editor for "Spin". With Craig Marks, he was also the co-editor of the "Spin Alternative Record Guide", and has also written for "the Village Voice". For "Top 40 Democracy", he received the 2015 Woody Guthrie Award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music's United States branch.