The Future of Life

9 March 2025
10:00–16:00
Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center
1-1-1, Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama

Our 2025 Nobel Prize Dialogue explored the ways that science and technology, combined with a better understanding of the world around us, might change our lives in the future. In the face of ever more complex challenges facing humanity, and all of life on earth, what can we do to help ensure we move towards the future we actually want?

Featuring Nobel Prize laureates from diverse disciplines in conversation with a wide selection of international and regional experts, the meeting asked what it means to be human, now and in the years to come. Together we investigated how new developments such as artificial intelligence, genetic technologies, quantum computing and the development of sustainable materials can most wisely be harnessed to deliver the maximal benefit to humanity, and the rest of nature with which we share this planet.