Where else would you find the Editor of the Guardian, the Founder of Wikipedia, the President of Tinder and an Oxford Professor?

The Intelligence Squared – Vanity Fair Digital Summit will feature some of the most groundbreaking innovators and influential thinkers in the world of tech: the developers who are transforming our lives at an ever-increasing speed, and the commentators who are helping us to interpret the opportunities and threats we face. 

Highlights include:

Digital pioneers Jimmy Wales, Martha Lane Fox and Alan Rusbridger on the evolution of the internet and the future of education, current affairs and business.

Tinder CEO Sean Rad, Chairman of Tech City UK Joanna Shields, and Jamie Bartlett, who ventured into the murkiest regions of the internet for his book The Dark Net, on how life online is changing our identities.

Google’s Peter Barron and Silicon Valley polemicist Andrew Keen on whether the giant tech companies are a boon or a bane on society.

YouTube phenomenon Jamal Edwards, coding wizard Kathryn Parsons and start-up supremo and No 10 policy adviser Rohan Silva on London’s booming tech economy.

Nick Bostrom, the AI expert described as one of the most important thinkers of our age, Murray Shanahan, professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London, and neuroscientist Daniel Glaser on how we meet the daunting but thrilling challenge of advanced artificial intelligence.

All this, plus freedom of information campaigner Jemima Khan, digital-rights blogger and journalistCory Doctorow, and big data and financial algorithms expert Frank Pasquale.

Cameron/Miliband interrogator extraordinaire Jeremy Paxman rounds the day off, chairing an Intelligence Squared debate The Internet Is a Failed Utopia. Has the dream soured or is the best yet to come?

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COMPETITION: Win 1 x pair of tickets for Digital Summit at the Emmanuel Centre on Thursday 11 June from 14:00. To enter the competition, send an email to bojana@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ box. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: Who asked Ed Miliband if he was alright after the first debate?

A: 1)  Alan Rusbridger 2) Russell Brand 3) Jeremy Paxman