High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Singularity Summit is the annual conference of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. 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, San Francisco, and New York, respectively. Past speakers have included Nick Bostrom, Peter Norvig, David Chalmers, Stephen Wolfram, Peter Diamandis, Cory Doctorow, Marshall Brain, Max Tegmark, Michael Shermer, and Justin Rattner.