Ray Kurzweil will keynote the World Technology Summit & Awards 2010 conference, “Imagined Worlds, Plausible Futures,” on Nov. 30. Produced by the World Technology Network (WTN), the conference will be held Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, 2010 at the historic Time & Life Building in New York City.

Kurzweil will discuss the impacts of exponential technological growth. KurzweilAI.net is a co-sponsor of the event, and KurzweilAI readers are offered a special discount on Summit registration.

The conference program will include a discussion of the state of U.S. and global energy policy, led by Briane Dumaine, editor-at-large, Fortune; an exploration of plausible futures, with leading science fiction authors and editors; and a scenario planning exercise led by Art Kleiner, editor, Strategy & Business magazine. Other speakers will include David Orell, author, Apollo’s Arrow: The Science of Prediction and the Future of Everything; Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief of MIT’s Technology Review, and Jimmy Wales, co-founder, Wikipedia.