Famous Geek Picnic will be held in St. Petersburg in June

Subjects Geek Picnic 2017 - "A Beautiful Mind." At the festival you can learn a lot about the development of artificial intelligence technologies, achievements in medicine, neurosciences and augmented and virtual reality.

Scientists from around the world will discuss about whether the modern world is an illusion, is it possible to gain immortality as technology and the combination of the human brain with a computer will enhance our capabilities and whether it is possible to hack the brain to produce information.

To discussion invited renowned scholars and popularizers of science: Alexander Panchin Stanislav Drobyshevskiy, Vitaly Vasjanovich, Almara Guliyev and Alla Zhukova, psychiatrists Ivanchev Ivan and Dmitry Isaev, Alexander Payevsky science journalists, Alexander Sokolov and Asya Kazantsev.

Headlining the first day of Geek Picnic in St. Petersburg will be the English biologist and popularizer of science, Richard Dawkins.

In addition to scientific presentations and discussions, participants of the picnic is waiting for summer entertaining show program. This year will be held a large-scale championship drones appear cosplay zone, fantasy and comic-culture, e-sports, arcade games, as well as the area kibatlona where interactive solutions will be showcased contemporary prosthetics. Geek Picnic - this is not just a festival, but an attempt to create a prototype of the future of the world.

Our goal in this and subsequent years - to form a full-fledged city with the intricacies of the world of streets and thematic spaces. What we are now doing - is the prototype of the festival city of the future.

Burnt Nikolai, the chief ideologist of the project Geek Picnic

On the main stage will surprise the audience research show, cosplay performance diva Plavalaguna, awarding the name Harry Houdini Award from the popular science channel Sci-One and Medical Genetics Center "Genotek", which is awarded for demonstrating paranormal abilities under scientific supplied experiment.

The food court will appreciate the themed dishes: falafel "Chewbacca" superpechenem "Wookiee" drink "Slorm" and sharp burger "restaurant on the edge of the universe."

Come to the Geek Picnic for the bright impressions and the atmosphere of the new reality.

get to geek picnic

Layfhaker - Information Partner Geek Picnic festival.