Saturday, November 16th
|
| 7:15 AM |
Staff meeting |
| 7:30 AM |
Conference Registration
open till 10:00 AM |
| 8:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:50 AM |
Introduction and Welcome
Ralph C. Merkle, Conference Chair, |
| 9:00 AM |
Alcor at 30: Where Do We Go from Here?
Jerry Lemler
|
| 9:30 AM |
Nanomedicine: impact on
global mortality
Robert Freitas |
| 10:10 AM |
Break |
| 10:40 AM |
The Singularity is Near
Ray Kurzweil |
| 11:20 AM |
Engineering Negligible Senescence
Aubrey de Grey |
| 12:00 Noon |
Lunch |
| 1:30 PM |
Cryonics in the Long View
Gregory Benford |
| 2:10 PM |
Judging Life Extension Technologies
Christine Peterson |
| 2:50 PM |
Mind the Gap: Strategic
Scenario Analysis for Your Second Life
Max More |
| 3:30 PM |
Break |
| 4:00 PM |
Extending Your Healthspan
Now
Kat Cotter |
| 4:40 PM |
Improvements in Rapid Cooling
to Save the Brain
Steve Harris |
| 5:20 PM |
Closing remarks |
| 5:30 PM |
End of Session |
| 5:30 PM |
Alcor membership application
and discussions (informal) |
| 8:00 PM |
Speaker/VIP reception
(invitation only) |
Sunday, November 17th
|
| 8:00 AM |
Staff meeting |
| 8:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:10 AM |
The Affordable Immortal:
How YOU can fund the new science of Biostasis
Rudi Hoffman |
| 8:50 AM |
Opening Remarks
Kat Cotter |
| 9:00 AM |
Keynote: Human Therapeutic
Cloning: Opportunities and Challenges
Michael D. West, President and CEO, Advanced Cell Technology |
| 10:00 AM |
Organ Cryopreservation
Research at 21st Century Medicine
Gregory Fahy |
| 10:40 AM |
Break |
| 11:10 AM |
Issues and Technologies
for Long-Term Tissue Storage
Brian Wowk |
| 11:50 AM |
Prospects for Biological
Immortality
Michael Rose |
| 12:30 AM |
Lunch and Leonard N. Zubkoff Memorial
Award |
| 2:00 PM |
Chipping Away at the Mysteries
of Aging: what you don't eat can't hurt you.
Stephen Spindler |
| 2:40 PM |
A Bridge to a Bridge to
a Bridge
Ray Kurzweil |
| 3:20 PM |
Break |
| 3:50 PM |
Women in Cryonics
Moderator: Kat Cotter
Panelists: Christine Peterson, Natasha Vita-More, Kathy Kriese, Gilda
Cabral
|
| 4:30 PM |
Nanotechnology: the upside
K. Eric Drexler
|
| 5:10 PM |
New Venture Capital Solution For Life Extension
Projects
Dave Kekich
|
| 5:40 PM |
Closing remarks |
Will
Cryonics Work?