Program

Today, the world is plunged into a large number of bioethical problems caused by difficult to predict events and unexpected consequences of technological solutions. According to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's apt designation, they are called "Black swans". The COVID-19 epidemic is rapidly changing and continues to change human life and death, attitudes to health and values, human rights, the use and dissemination of modern technologies, and management decision-making practices around the world. According to most analysts and scientists, the world has changed so much in the past few months that it will never be the same again.

Main objective of the conference is carrying out an extensive discussion of key problems of bioethics and medical ethics, existential risks, biosecurity and human rights in all countries of the world with the participation of leading scientists and experts in the field of medicine, sciences about life, philosophy, and the law, representatives of different religious and public organizations.

The main topics for discussion:

• Bioethics and the "black swans" of the modern world (e.g. coronavirus, cybersecurity)
• Medical industry in the crisis of the current COVID-19 pandemic
• Xenotransplantational transmission of animal viruses on human beings 
  
• Black markets of medical equipment
  
• Transnational spreading of diseases and the expert role of bioethics boards (perspectives and experiences in different countries)

• Interdisciplinary dialogues on bioethics
  
• Different faces of bioethics (e.g. Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, Russian)
• Teaching bioethics: successes and challenges
• Bioethics and medical deontology: experience and theories
• Ethics and bioethical expertise committees. Ethics of experiments
• Bioethics in the context of end-to-end technologies (e.g. big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, 5G).
• Bioethics and sports
• Biosafety and bio risk the place of bioethics in its provision. Theories of biotechnological conspiracy, bioterrorism and biological weapon.
• Equality and access to health care in a globalizing world
• Existential risks and ethical principles of modern science and technology

List of subjects not the exhaustive: participants are free to choose other subjects for representations.

Final program available here.