This recording with Sean Escola is from Vision Weekend UK 2026, held in London in June 2026. View the recording along with the slides on our YouTube channel.

Sean Escola is a computational neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and investor at Columbia University's Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, where he studies circuit models of motor function and learning. He is a co-investigator on one of the largest BRAIN Initiative awards at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and has been actively involved in neuroscience investment.

In this talk, Sean examines the funding landscape for brain science: what existing mechanisms fund well, what they systematically miss, and what structural changes in how we fund and evaluate neuroscience research would be needed to produce the most important breakthroughs. He draws on both his research and his investment experience to make the case for reform. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend, details and upcoming dates are at foresight.org.

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This recording with Dorothy Chou is from Vision Weekend UK 2026, held in London in June 2026. View the recording along with the slides on our YouTube channel.

Dorothy Chou is a tech policy expert and angel investor who previously led the Public Engagement Lab at Google DeepMind. She has backed more than 40 early-stage companies and is an LP in seven venture funds across Europe and the US. Her work has long focused on ethics, accountability, and how incentives inside technology organizations shape what actually gets built.

In this talk, Dorothy examines how hype cycles distort innovation financing. She looks at what kinds of projects attract capital during an AI hype cycle, what genuinely durable innovation requires from funders, and why changing individual funding decisions is not enough without structural reform of the whole innovation pipeline.

If you want to join a future Vision Weekend, details and upcoming dates are at foresight.org.

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This recording with João Pedro de Magalhães is from Vision Weekend UK 2026, held in London in June 2026. View the recording along with the slides on our YouTube channel.

João Pedro de Magalhães is Chair of Molecular Biogerontology at the University of Birmingham, following training at Harvard Medical School. He has published over 100 papers in journals including Science, Nature, and Cell, and maintains some of the most widely used databases in aging research, including GenAge, AnAge, and DrugAge.

In this talk, João argues that aging is not a fixed biological constant and makes the case for a systematic scientific program to understand and intervene in the aging process. He covers the genomic and molecular data on long-lived species, the interventions that appear most promising, and where the field is likely to produce real breakthroughs in the years ahead.

If you want to join a future Vision Weekend, details and upcoming dates are at foresight.org.

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