The "Forbes" Midas list is the annual ranking by "Forbes" magazine of the best dealmakers in high-tech and life science venture capital.
 It uses parameters including the first-day market capitalization of IPOs, and the opinions of a panel of experts.
Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author.
 He was ranked No. 4 on the "Forbes" Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 246 on the "Forbes" 400 in 2016, with a net worth of $2.7 billion.
The Amazing Meeting (TAM), stylized as The Amaz!ng Meeting, was an annual conference that focused on science, skepticism, and critical thinking.
 The conference started in 2003 and was sponsored by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF).
 Perennial speakers included Penn & Teller, Phil Plait, Michael Shermer and James "The Amazing" Randi.
 Speakers at the four-day conference were selected from a variety of disciplines including scientific educators, magicians, and community activists.
 Outside the plenary sessions the conference included workshops, additional panel discussions, music and magic performances and live taping of podcasts including "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe".
 The final Amazing Meeting was held in July 2015.
William E. Ford (born June 18, 1961) is an American businessman.
 He is the CEO of General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm with $19.6 billion in assets as of June 30, 2016.
 The former Morgan Stanley investment banker was ranked by "Forbes" magazine at #5 on the "Midas List" in 2009.
 He lives in New York City.
Kevin Harvey is a founding member of and general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
 He was ranked No. 27 on the 2011 Forbes Midas List and was No. 59 in 2012.
Peter Fenton (born July 1972) is an American venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley.
 He is a general partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm.
 Fenton has steadily worked his way up the Forbes Midas List of the 100 top technology investors, starting at no. 94 in 2007, then rising to no. 62 in 2008 and no. 50 in 2009.
 Fenton was ranked no. 4 when Forbes resumed publishing its Midas List in 2011 and was described as the “most productive venture capitalist on our list.”
 In 2012, Fenton was ranked no. 5 on the Forbes Midas List and was no. 2 in 2015.
Digital Arts and Culture was a conference series that was established by Espen Aarseth in 1998, and was one of the first academic events to gather researchers, practitioners and artists working within the field of digital arts, cultures, aesthetics and design.
 The DAC conference started out as an annual conference, and was held every second year, until 2009.
Anton Levy (born October 18, 1974) is an American businessman.
 He is a Managing Director and head of the Global Internet and Technology sector at General Atlantic, a private equity firm based in New York City, where he has worked since 1998.
 In 2017, Forbes ranked Levy #26 on The Midas List.
Matt Cohler (born March 27, 1977) is an American venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley.
 He worked as Vice President of Product Management for Facebook until June 2008 and is currently a general partner at Benchmark.
 Cohler was named to the 2012 Forbes Midas List of top technology investors.
 Cohler made the Forbes 'America's 40 Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40' list in 2015.
The Singularity Summit is the annual conference of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.
 It was started in 2006 at Stanford University by Ray Kurzweil, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Peter Thiel, and the subsequent summits in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 have been held in San Francisco, San Jose, New York City, San Francisco, and New York, respectively.
 Some speakers have included Sebastian Thrun, Rodney Brooks, Barney Pell, Marshall Brain, Justin Rattner, Peter Diamandis, Stephen Wolfram, Gregory Benford, Robin Hanson, Anders Sandberg, Juergen Schmidhuber, Aubrey de Grey, Max Tegmark, and Michael Shermer.

Question: What year did the annual conference started by, among others, the man who ranked No. 4 on the "Forbes" Midas List of 2014, first start?
Answer: 2006