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Technology for Change Asia
February 27th-28th, 2024
Grand Hyatt Hong Kong

This month, Dr. Michio Kaku, globally-renowned theoretical physicist, futurist, and bestselling author of QUANTUM SUPREMACY: How The Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything, will be keynoting a major conference in Hong Kong — an international financial, economic, and technology hub.

Asia-Pacific has unique challenges but new technologies put resilient economic growth and a more sustainable future within reach. At the 4th annual Technology for Change Asia, attendees will explore how pioneers at the cusp of the technology curve are addressing digital and financial inequality, access to food and education, mitigating climate change, and shaping the future of AI.

Dr. Kaku will speak about the controversy surrounding AI, and also quantum computers. The event is presented by Economist Impact, empowering businesses, governments and foundations to catalyse change and enable progress. LEARN MORE

American theoretical physicist, futurist and author

Michio Kaku (Japanese: カク ミチオ, 加來 道雄, ; born January 24, 1947) is an American physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. For his efforts to bridge science and science fiction, he is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee.

His books Physics of the Impossible (2008), Physics of the Future (2011), The Future of the Mind (2014), and The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything (2021) became New York Times best sellers. Kaku has hosted several television specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel.

Early life and education

Kaku was born in 1947 in San Jose, California. His parents were both second-generation Japanese-Americans. According to Kaku, his grandfather came to the United States to participate in the cleanup operation after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and his father and mother were both born in California. Both his parents were interned in the Tule Lake War Relocation Center during World War II, where they met and where his elder brother was born.

According to Kaku, he was inspired to pursue a career in physics after seeing a photograph of Albert Einstein's desk at the time of his death. Kaku was fascinated to learn that Einstein had been unable to complete his unified field theory and resolved to dedicate his life to solving this theory. For a high school science fair, Kaku built a 2.3 eV “atom smasher” in his parents' garage. Using scrap metal and 2