The single most important new fact about the human condition is that we are now all suddenly connected. Since October 29, 1969 the Internet has reached more than five billion people. This wave of connectivity has had its pathologies, but it has also reversed the growth of extreme poverty. And now the megabit Internet is being upgraded to offer gigabit connectivity. All this happened in just 50 years. Buckle up!

Vint Cerf (Internet evangelist at Google and co-inventor of the Internet, Turing award laureate) and Bob Metcalfe (Internet pioneer, Ethernet inventor, 3Com founder, Turing award laureate) will discuss their vision about Internet architecture and services evolutions, such as (but not limited to) the Digital Object Architecture, Knowledge Robots (in the context of current AI Agents), the Interplanetary Internet, and the general concept of National and International Information Infrastructure. This discussion will conclude with a Q&A session with Bob and Vint.